MLS: Nashville SC vs. LA Galaxy Preview, Odds, Prediction

The LA Galaxy will visit Nashville SC this weekend in an MLS Western Conference matchup. While the team from LA sits on the verge of the playoffs, the hosts are currently fourth in the conference, playing very efficient and appealing football. Just a few expected to see SC this high, yet Hany Mukhtar and the crew are doing well. Mukhtar is the MLS top scorer and one of the best players in the league now. As for the Galaxy, they have to snap out and start winning, otherwise, Greg Vanney’s crew won’t reach the playoffs.

Preview

Nashville (-110) has four straight wins, and they dominated in each one of them. SC scored 14 goals during this span and, on the other hand allowed just one, which tells enough about the ruthless power this team has displayed over the recent few weeks. In all four games they would score at least three goals.

The series started with a win over Dallas at home, 4-0, then on the road in Vancouver, 0-3, and ended with back-to-back victories at home over Colorado, 4-1 and Austin, 3-0.

Mukhtar has 21 goals and 11 assists, and he is the top player in this crew. He has been clinical since the season started, but not just that, because the German assists and sets up goals for his teammates frequently as well.

LA Galaxy (+300) has three draws over the previous four games, the most recent at home to Sporting Kansas City, 2-2. That one was because of Chicharito, who missed a penalty in the last moments of the event, wasting a chance to complete a hat-trick and push his team closer to the playoffs.

The thing with the Galaxy right now is that they have three points fewer than Portland Timbers, who are in the playoff spot, yet they played two games fewer than they did.

The efficiency of LA Galaxy’s games is extreme. The last six events were all with at least three goals, and only one during that span didn’t see four or more scores. Also, in all of those contests, both teams have netted. The Galaxy delivered two goals in each of those events.

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Leal and Loba were out against Austin. The first will be back because he served a yellow-card suspension, and the second one probably won’t due to his injury.

Perez and Villafana are out for a long time for Galaxy, and they won’t play on Saturday night too.

Head to Head

The first meeting of the year took place in April in Los Angeles. The hosts won that one by a minimal result, 1-0. Dejan Joveljic scored the only goal four minutes before the end of the regulations.

Prediction

These two units have been very effective and efficient in the last month or so; therefore we expect to see fireworks at Geodis Park on Saturday night. Three goals are a minimum here, with the current odds on that sitting at -160, and when we add both teams to score to that, the odds are going up to -135, which is an excellent bargain for us.

Pick: Both teams to score -135