MLS 2022 Week 7 | MLS Betting Tips

Finally a DC game I get to write about! Both these teams started out with two wins and have more or less stumbled since then. Austin had a nice win last week over a Minnesota we like alot, but that was at Q2 stadium in front of the home fans. Now they go on the road to a DC team that was off last week. DC has had Chris Durkin and Taxi Fountas to this roster in recent weeks. Durkin is a former DC academy player who returned to the club after a few years in Europe. Taxi on the other hand, who should make his debut off the bench in this game, is the club’s highest paid player. It will likely take a few weeks to really get everybody going, but even money (1.99) at home, with a week of rest, for a team that likes to press, against a good not great opponent is a decent shout. Over 2.5 goals is also a nice shout at 1.78 as DC are very aggressive and Austin has the quality to make them pay when they overextend.

Remember what we said about the Red Bulls, they are a young team that has shown promising signs, but with so little veteran leadership they will be inconsistent at times. A team as good as Dallas is really nice to get such a high number on (4.33) That gives us implied odds of 23% on a Dallas win, I would put that number closer to 30% or so. Arriola should be good to go, so Dallas should be at full strength. Same thing is true for the Red Bulls with early MVP candidate Frankie Amaya back from suspension. Additionally, New York does not have a victory at home yet this season.

Cincinnati has signed a ball winning midfielder from Turkey who is supposed to be very talented. However, until he gets integrated into the team We continue to see value on the over in Cincy games. Their 6 games have seen 22 total goals scored, partially due to Cincinnati’s dangerous attack, but mostly due to their porous defence. They go up against an Atlanta team that has seen similar offence in their games, 16 goals were scored in the first 4 games before back to back 1-0 results in the last two games. Luiz Araujo is expected to be available off the bench which would be a gigantic help to this offence which is suddenly stagnant. Over 2.5 has really nice value in this game at 1.71 but even over 3.5 (2.68) and over 4.5 (4.87) are probably not bad shouts.

Nashville is incredibly impressive so far this season. They open a brand new stadium (which looks absolutely sweet by the way, check it out if you haven’t seen it) on May 1st which means they have 2 more road games on this massive 8 game road trip to start the season. They have one of the top defenses in the league, conceding only 1 goal per game in 6 road games so far. They go up against San Jose, a team that typically gives up a ton of goals and scores a ton of goals. It’s a fabulously interesting clash of styles. I expect Nashville to win 1 or 2 nothing but this game could also get completely out of hand if San Jose scores early and it could be 3-3, I have no idea. I put this as the bonus game because it should be great entertainment even though I don’t see a ton of value on any of the lines. This could also be Mattias Almeyda’s final game in charge of San Jose as Chivas just fired their manager and Almeyda is the top name on their list. He wants to leave San Jose and San Jose want him gone, but they can’t afford (or won’t pay) the buyout of his contract, Chivas may be just what both sides want.