All good things must come to an end, and we believe that the climate in Salt Lake City will make it difficult for the visitors to press as often as they like.
RSL should be well rested and might find it a little easier to get through a solid backline who are missing another key centre-back in Hiebert.
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Real Salt Lake win with a probability of 67.74%. A draw had a probability of 18.1% and a win for St Louis City had a probability of 14.19%.
The most likely scoreline for a Real Salt Lake win was 2-0 with a probability of 9.93%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 2-1 (9.7%) and 1-0 (8.5%). The likeliest drawn scoreline was 1-1 (8.3%), while for a St Louis City win it was 1-2 (4.05%). The actual scoreline of 0-4 was predicted with a 0.1% likelihood.