About Match
31 points for Portland Timbers (7th), 37 for St. Louis City (5th): a 6-point gap. Portland Timbers's recent output lags their position: 16th on form over five rounds while 7th in the table. Scoring rates set the scale: Portland Timbers 1.91 scored and 1.87 conceded per game, St. Louis City 1.57 and 1.35, with the league averaging 1.6. Three points here take St. Louis City to 40 and up to 4th, assuming other results stand.
St. Louis City have not lost in 14 games, having scored in 14 consecutive games.
The sides have met 6 times in the GioScore results database: 2 wins for Portland Timbers, 2 draws and 2 for St. Louis City, at 3.33 goals per meeting. Only 33% of these meetings ended in a home win. History points to goals: 83% of the meetings had three or more, and both sides scored in 83%.
The match takes place at Providence Park (capacity 25,218).