Portland Timbers 0-1 Real Salt Lake — Result, Statistics & Match Review — USA - Major League, 17 Jul 2025

📅17/07/2025 · 🕒05:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 2-1
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
41%
2.18
Draw
26%
3.54
Away
33%
2.72
Under/Over 2.5
Under
47%
2.38
Over
53%
1.52
Both Teams to Score
Yes Pick
54%
1.46
No
46%
2.51
Total Goals
0-1
25%
4.93
2-3
40%
1.95
4-5
24%
2.71
6+
11%
6.93
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
25%
1/2
8%
1/X
6%
X/1
9%
X/2
15%
X/X
11%
2/1
7%
2/2
10%
2/X
9%
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
BTTS Yes — 54%
Fair price · no betting value
Every market fairly priced — no value edge at these odds. Our Pick = the most likely outcome, not a value bet.
STRENGTH BTTS Yes — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Selection The Market
41%
Home Win
42%
-0.8pp
26%
Draw
25%
+0.7pp
33%
Away Win
33%
+0.2pp
47%
Under 2.5
38%
+8.8pp
53%
Over 2.5
62%
-8.8pp
54%
BTTS Yes
64%
-10.4pp
46%
BTTS No
36%
+10.4pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — the market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Portland Timbers The Market 46%
Head to Head
AWAY Real Salt Lake The Market 37%
+4% / +17% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +0% / -1%
1.53/1.43 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.24/1.39
+21% / -5% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -28% / +11%
49% Ball Possession 51%
13 Total Shots 14
5 Shots on Target 5
4 Corners 6
344 · 80% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 366 · 80%
27.0 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 22.4
17.7 Crosses 18.8
2.3 Yellow Cards 2.3
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Portland Timbers
2W-3D-1L
AWAY Real Salt Lake
1.83 Avg Goals (FT) 1.33
0.97 xG 1.06
46% Ball Possession 54%
13 Total Shots 14
5 Shots on Target 4
4 Corners 4
328 Passes 387
80% Pass Accuracy 83%
24 Box Touches 19
14 Crosses 18
3 Yellow Cards 2
15.05.2025 Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake 0-0 HT 0-0 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers ABD
22.09.2024 Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake 3-3 HT 2-0 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers ABD
14.07.2024 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers 3-0 HT 1-0 Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake ABD
31.08.2023 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers 2-1 HT 1-0 Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake ABD
18.05.2023 Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake 0-0 HT 0-0 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers ABD
11.05.2023 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers 3-4 HT 1-2 Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake ABDK
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Portland Timbers
0-1
AWAY Real Salt Lake
0.95 xG 0.88
44% Ball Possession 56%
12 Total Shots 10
1 Shots on Target 4
9 Corners 2
317 Passes 476
79% Pass Accuracy 86%
27 Box Touches 21
29 Crosses 7
1 Yellow Cards 4
POST-MATCH Portland Timbers vs Real Salt Lake
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Real Salt Lake nicked a narrow win over Portland Timbers 1-0 away from home. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

Our pre-match lean was Portland Timbers at 41%, but a lead that slim is closer to a coin-flip than a call — and it fell the other way.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 53% and both teams to score was close to even at 54%.

On the day, Portland Timbers had 44% of the ball to Real Salt Lake's 56%, shots finished 12-10, expected goals 0.95 to 0.88.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Portland Timbers had the better of it with 2 wins, 3 drawn. Those games averaged 1.83 goals for Portland Timbers and 1.33 for Real Salt Lake.

What was the final score of Portland Timbers vs Real Salt Lake?

Portland Timbers 0-1 Real Salt Lake in the USA - Major League on 17/07/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Portland Timbers vs Real Salt Lake?

Before kick-off our model rated a Portland Timbers win the most likely single outcome at about 41%, with the full match-result split Portland Timbers 41%, draw 26%, Real Salt Lake 33%. The final score 0-1 went against our main leads this time — single matches are noisy by nature; our accuracy is measured across thousands of predictions, not one result.

✗ Match Result (Portland Timbers) ✗ Over 2.5 ✗ BTTS Yes
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