St. Louis City vs Seattle Sounders FC, MLS 2025 REGULAR SEASON

Refresh

MLS · 2025

St. Louis City

1 – 0

Full Time

Seattle Sounders FC

Sun 16 Mar 2025 · 00:30 UTC Citypark HT 45' · FT 45'

Y 14' Jackson Ragen

Y 45' Jesus Ferreira

Y 64' Obed Vargas

Henry Kessler 71' Y

Simon Becher 81' Y

Y 83' Alex Roldan

Overview

Match Preview

St. Louis City vs Seattle Sounders FC — MLS at Citypark.

St. Louis City 26 games · 44 pts (2026/26)
Seattle Sounders FC 26 games · 35 pts (2026/26)

Standings

#	Team	P	Pts
1	Nashville SC	27	60
2	Internacional CF Miami	27	46
3	New England Revolution	27	46
4	Charlotte FC	27	43
5	Chicago Fire FC	26	42
6	Philadelphia Union	27	39
7	Orlando City SC	27	34
8	New York City FC	27	33
9	FC Cincinnati	26	33
10	New York Red Bulls	26	33
11	D.C. United SC	26	30
12	Columbus Crew SC	27	29
13	Toronto FC	27	29
14	Atlanta United FC	27	27
15	Montreal Impact FC	27	24
16	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	26	50
17	FC Dallas	27	47
18	San Jose Earthquakes	27	45
19	St. Louis City	26	44
20	Houston Dynamo	27	44
21	Los Angeles FC	28	41
22	Colorado Rapids SC	27	36
23	Los Angeles Galaxy	28	36
24	Seattle Sounders FC	26	35
25	San Diego FC	27	32
26	Portland Timbers	27	32
27	Real Salt Lake	27	32
28	Austin FC	27	31
29	Minnesota United FC	27	29
30	Sporting Kansas City	26	21

Head-to-Head

St. Louis City 8 games · Avg 2.8 goals Seattle Sounders FC

Last 5 meetings

2025-03-16 St. Louis City 1–0 Seattle Sounders FC 2024-07-18 Seattle Sounders FC 2–0 St. Louis City 2024-05-26 St. Louis City 1–2 Seattle Sounders FC 2023-10-22 St. Louis City 0–2 Seattle Sounders FC 2023-04-09 Seattle Sounders FC 3–0 St. Louis City

Recent Form

St. Louis City

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
16 Mar	Seattle Sounders FC	H	1–0	W
09 Mar	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	3–0	W
02 Mar	San Diego FC	A	0–0	D
23 Feb	Colorado Rapids SC	H	0–0	D
20 Oct	Minnesota United FC	A	1–4	L
06 Oct	Houston Dynamo	H	3–0	W

Seattle Sounders FC

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
16 Mar	St. Louis City	A	0–1	L
08 Mar	Los Angeles FC	H	5–2	W
01 Mar	Real Salt Lake	A	0–2	L
23 Feb	Charlotte FC	H	2–2	D
20 Oct	Portland Timbers	H	1–1	D
06 Oct	Colorado Rapids SC	A	1–0	W

Season Stats

St. Louis City		Seattle Sounders FC
#19	Position	#24
44	Points	35
26	Played	26
12 / 8 / 6	W / D / L	9 / 8 / 9
45	Scored	33
36	Conceded	34
+9	GD	-1
1.69	PPG	1.35
46%	Win %	35%

Key Stats

38% Both Teams to Score
H2H (8 games)

50% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history

12% Clean Sheets
St. Louis City this season

27% Clean Sheets
Seattle Sounders FC this season

St. Louis City are 19th (44 pts). Seattle Sounders FC are 24th (35 pts).

Goal Timing (This Season)

St. Louis City

0-15

4/3

16-30

7/2

31-45

9/3

46-60

8/5

61-75

6/5

76+

6/10

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Seattle Sounders FC

0-15

3/2

16-30

5/6

31-45

3/5

46-60

5/4

61-75

1/3

76+

11/12

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Top Scorers (This Season)

St. Louis City

Rafael Navarro	13 G	3 A
Simon Becher	8 G	4 A
Marcel Hartel	6 G	3 A

Seattle Sounders FC

Dejan Joveljic	11 G	1 A
Paul Rothrock	5 G	1 A

Events

Match Events

0' The wait is over. Seattle Sounders FC get us underway at Citypark.
5' will be watching from the dugout nervously. His St. Louis City side need to improve if they are to claim all three points.
10' While there is no rush on the pitch, let’s have a look at some stats. Joakim Nilsson made 255 appearances and scored 7 goals. He is very likely to score a goal today.
14' Seattle Sounders FC receives a card for a hard tackle on 14.
15' What a strike from Eduard Lowen! The score is 1-0.
20' Seattle Sounders FC has dominated the recent head-to-head record, winning 2 of the last 2 meetings.
25' St. Louis City are deployed in a today, looking to exploit space against Seattle Sounders FC's shape.
30' Both keepers have barely been tested. St. Louis City and Seattle Sounders FC are cancelling each other out in the centre of the park.
35' Seattle Sounders FC come into this ranked in Array. They desperately need points to push themselves up the standings.
40' Seattle Sounders FC started playing very sharply right from the kick off. However, it slowed down the tempo rapidly by 40.
45' Jesus Ferreira catches the referee's attention in entirely the wrong way. card on 45.
50' St. Louis City currently sit in the Array table. A result here could be decisive in the race for the top positions.
55' Matchday of the Array and both teams know exactly what is at stake tonight.
60' Tomas Ostrak has been one of the livelier players on the pitch with 1 goals to his name this season.
62' The supporters are chanting for Simon Becher. He replaces Cedric Teuchert on 62 minute.
63' The crowd applauds Jannes-Kilian Horn as he leaves the pitch. Joshua Yaro steps in for St. Louis City.
64' Seattle Sounders FC player sees a card in front of him.
64' Fresh legs for Seattle Sounders FC! Danny Musovski comes on to replace Jesus Ferreira.
67' A tactical swap from St. Louis City — Tomas Ostrak on, Tomas Totland off on 67 minutes.
71' It’s gonna be a card for Henry Kessler.
76' Both teams are passing the ball around with high level of urgency. Seattle Sounders FC needs to do something about it to get closer to the goal.
79' Seattle Sounders FC make a change. Cristian Roldan trudges off to be replaced by Danny Leyva on 79 minutes.
80' Kalani Kossa-Rienzi has so much to prove this time. He replaces Paul Rothrock on 80 minute.
81' A meaty challenge results in booking for Simon Becher on 81.
83' The referee shows Seattle Sounders FC player a card on 83.
88' Albert Rusnak has certainly something to prove this evening. He made 22 appearances with only 3 goals this season.
90' Joakim Nilsson gets the nod from St. Louis City. He replaces Akil Watts and will look to change the dynamic.
Both sets of fans can go home satisfied — a 1-0 draw is a fair result on the day.

Lineups

St. Louis City Lineups

Starting XI

Bench

32
Timo Baumgartl
27
Alfredo Morales ↑ 62'
9
Klauss
4
Joakim Nilsson ↑ 90'
7
Tomas Ostrak ↑ 67'
11
Simon Becher ↑ 62'
15
Joshua Yaro ↑ 63'
12
Celio Pompeu
31
Christian Olivares

Coach Olof Mellberg

Seattle Sounders FC Lineups

Starting XI

11
Albert Rusnak
9
Jesus Ferreira ↓ Danny Musovski 64'
24
Stefan Frei
7
Cristian Roldan ↓ Danny Leyva 79'
5
Nouhou Tolo
16
Alex Roldan
15
Jon Bell
18
Obed Vargas
25
Jackson Ragen
14
Paul Rothrock ↓ Kalani Kossa-Rienzi 80'
93
Georgi Minoungou

Bench

Coach Brian Schmetzer

H2H

H2H Top Scorers

Player	Goals
Albert Rusnak	3
Eduard Lowen	2
Cristian Roldan	2
Jordan Morris	1
Kyle Hiebert	1
Tomas Totland	1
Jon Bell	1
Tim Parker	1

Head to Head

St. Louis City Form

2025-03-16 St. Louis City 1–0 Seattle Sounders FC W 2025-03-09 Los Angeles Galaxy 0–3 St. Louis City W 2025-03-02 San Diego FC 0–0 St. Louis City D 2025-02-23 St. Louis City 0–0 Colorado Rapids SC D 2024-10-20 Minnesota United FC 4–1 St. Louis City L 2024-10-06 St. Louis City 3–0 Houston Dynamo W

Seattle Sounders FC Form

2025-03-16 St. Louis City 1–0 Seattle Sounders FC L 2025-03-08 Seattle Sounders FC 5–2 Los Angeles FC W 2025-03-01 Real Salt Lake 2–0 Seattle Sounders FC L 2025-02-23 Seattle Sounders FC 2–2 Charlotte FC D 2024-10-20 Seattle Sounders FC 1–1 Portland Timbers D 2024-10-06 Colorado Rapids SC 0–1 Seattle Sounders FC W

Predictions

Prediction accuracy

3 / 4

1.25 St. Louis City xG

Expected Goals

Dixon-Coles · Bivariate Poisson · Neg. Binomial · Elo

0.92 Seattle Sounders FC xG

I would bet for: St. Louis City or Draw 74% + Under 2.5 goals 63%

Match Result

✓ Correct

St. Louis City44% Draw30% Seattle Sounders FC26%

Actual: St. Louis City win

Both Teams to Score

✓ Correct

Yes44% 0% No56%

Avg goals/match: 2.17

Actual: No — clean sheet

Over / Under Goals

✓ O/U 2.5

Line	Over	Under
± 0.5	86%	14%
± 1.5	64%	36%
± 2.5	37%	63%
± 3.5	18%	82%
± 4.5	8%	92%

Double Chance

St. Louis City or Draw

74%

Draw or Seattle Sounders FC

56%

St. Louis City or Seattle Sounders FC

70%

Half-Time Result

✗ Wrong

St. Louis City29% Draw52% Seattle Sounders FC19%

Actual: St. Louis City win at HT

Correct Score

✓ In top 12

1 – 1

14%

0 – 0

13.7%

1 – 0

Actual

0 – 1

9.2%

2 – 0

8.6%

2 – 1

1 – 2

5.8%

0 – 2

4.6%

2 – 2

3.8%

3 – 0

3.5%

3 – 1

3.4%

1 – 3

1.8%

Asian Handicap — St. Louis City

Handicap	St. Louis City covers	Push	Seattle Sounders FC covers
-2.5	7%	—	93%
-2	7%	13%	81%
-1.5	19%	—	81%
-1	19%	23%	58%
-0.5	42%	—	58%
+0.5	74%	—	26%
+1	74%	16%	9%
+1.5	91%	—	9%
+2	91%	7%	2%
+2.5	98%	—	2%

Clean Sheet

St. Louis City keeps clean sheet

40% ✗

Seattle Sounders FC keeps clean sheet

29% ✓

Predictions are statistical estimates based on season form, H2H history, and a Poisson model. Not financial advice.