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The market rates St Louis City at 63%, so we are 10 points lower than the price implies.
Our own numbers, from the goal rates the model fits for each side.
Our score is the one that fits the goals we expect, so it is not always the biggest percentage above: the single likeliest score is usually a low scoring draw, and even that lands only about 12% of the time. This is the model's working, not a tip. The bets it leads to are above.
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St Louis City
Form comparisonLos Angeles Galaxy
Where those opponents sat in the table: strong means they averaged roughly the top 40%, weak roughly the bottom 40%, mixed in between.
Opposition faced: St Louis City mixed, Los Angeles Galaxy mixedThe form score weights every result and every goal by where the opponent sat in the table, so five wins over the bottom of the table score below five over the top.
- 23 Jul 2026Los Angeles Galaxy1-3St. Louis City
- 11 Feb 2026Los Angeles Galaxy3-0St. Louis City
- 14 Jun 2025St. Louis City3-3Los Angeles Galaxy
- 09 Mar 2025Los Angeles Galaxy0-3St. Louis City
- 01 Sept 2024St. Louis City2-1Los Angeles Galaxy
- 30 Sept 2026vsNew York Red Bulls0-3W
- 20 Sept 2026vsToronto FC3-1W
- 17 Sept 2026vsColorado Rapids0-3W
- 13 Sept 2026vsMinnesota United FC4-2W
- 10 Sept 2026vsPortland Timbers2-2D
- 27 Sept 2026vsColorado Rapids3-2W
- 20 Sept 2026vsMinnesota United FC2-3W
- 13 Sept 2026vsSeattle Sounders1-1D
- 10 Sept 2026vsVancouver Whitecaps3-0L
- 06 Sept 2026vsNew England Revolution2-1W
St Louis City vs Los Angeles Galaxy: form and season numbers
St Louis City take a form score of 9.1 out of 10 into this MLS fixture, against 4.6 for Los Angeles Galaxy. St Louis City have 4 wins and 1 draw in their last 5, while Los Angeles Galaxy have 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in theirs. Across the season St Louis City average 2.7 goals scored and 1.2 conceded per game, Los Angeles Galaxy 1.3 and 1.5. St Louis City have kept a clean sheet in 20% of their matches this season, Los Angeles Galaxy in 20%. In their last 10 meetings St Louis City have won 4, drawn 4 and lost 2. St Louis City sit 2nd on 47 points, Los Angeles Galaxy 9th on 36.
Form, head-to-head and season statistics are free to read. The model's predictions for this fixture are in the cards above.
St Louis City vs Los Angeles Galaxy prediction: form gap meets goals galore
St Louis City arrive in second place on 47 points, 11 clear of a Los Angeles Galaxy side down in 9th on 36, and the gap in form is just as stark. St Louis City's last 10 reads W7 D3 L0 with 27 scored and only 12 conceded, a run built on scoring in all 10 and keeping clean sheets in 2 of them. That is an excellent run by any measure, and it has come against a spread of opponents including a 3-1 win away to Vancouver Whitecaps, the division's current pace-setters, on 6 September.
Los Angeles Galaxy's record over the same stretch is patchy by comparison: W4 D3 L3, 13 scored and 15 conceded, with clean sheets in only 2 of 10 and three blanks including a 0-3 defeat away to Vancouver Whitecaps on 10 September and a 0-1 loss at Houston Dynamo on 16 August. There have been bright spots, a 3-2 win at home to Colorado Rapids on 27 September and a 3-2 away success at Minnesota United FC on 20 September among them, but the defensive concession of 44 goals in 28 league matches and a minus 7 goal difference point to a side that leaks chances as readily as it creates them. Season figures back that up: Los Angeles Galaxy generate more shots per game than St Louis City, 13 to 11.1, but their expected goals mark of 1.17 trails St Louis City's 1.45, and they have failed to score in 30 percent of matches in their sample against St Louis City's 0 percent.
History between these two sides favours the hosts too. Of the 5 itemised meetings, St Louis City have won 3, including a 3-1 away success on 23 July 2026 and a 3-0 away win on 9 March 2025, while Los Angeles Galaxy's one victory in that set came 3-0 on 11 February 2026. The sides also drew 3-3 on 14 June 2025, part of a pattern across all 10 meetings that has produced 3.9 goals per game, both teams scoring in 8 of 10 and over 2.5 goals in 9 of 10. Whatever the head to head says about outright winners, it says even more clearly that this fixture does not stay goalless.
St Louis City's defensive record of 1.33 goals conceded per game in league play looks considerably tighter than Los Angeles Galaxy's 1.57, and with the table gap, the form gap and the head to head goal trend all pointing the same direction, the platform for a home win built on goals at both ends is strong. The market makes Los Angeles Galaxy a slight favourite regardless, which hints at a tighter contest than the numbers alone suggest, but given St Louis City's unbeaten run of 10 without defeat and a head to head history that rarely stays under 3 goals, the likeliest shape is an open, high-scoring game in which St Louis City's superior scoring and defensive figures give them the edge.
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