Real Salt Lake vs. Vancouver Whitecaps: How to watch, TV channel, streaming, kick-off time, odds, player props, head-to-head stats and team news

It's an early-season Western Conference clash in British Colombia as the Vancouver Whitecaps host Real Salt Lake.

The Whitecaps are undefeated through three matches, sitting in second on seven points from two wins and a draw, and they hold a game in hand on all but two teams in the conference.

RSL has had a mixed start to the season, falling to Lionel Messi's Inter Miami to open the season before drawing St. Louis City 1-1, crushing Los Angeles FC 3-0 in a snowstorm, then losing to the Colorado Rapids 2-1 to enter their fourth match in eighth place with four points.

How to watch Real Salt Lake vs. Vancouver Whitecaps, TV channel and streaming

Real Salt Lake vs. Vancouver Whitecaps will stream exclusively on Apple TV. It is one of the weekend's free-to-watch games, meaning viewers do not need an MLS Season Pass subscription.

Real Salt Lake vs. Vancouver Whitecaps kick-off time, date and venue

Real Salt Lake vs. Vancouver Whitecaps is scheduled to kick-off at 7:30 PM ET/5:30 PM MT/4:30 PM PT on Saturday, March 23, with the game to be played at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Real Salt Lake vs. Vancouver Whitecaps stats and head-to-head record

• Vancouver's six goals this season is the fifth-most in the Western Conference; Real Salt Lake's five goals is tied for the sixth-most.
• The Whitecaps have conceded the joint-fewest goals in MLS with two allowed, while Real Salt Lake's five conceded goals is tied for the sixth-fewest in the Western Conference.
• Salt Lake has the second-best expected goals differential in the conference at +1.7; Vancouver's is an even 0.0.
• Through their four matches so far, RSL have averaged 56.8 percent of possession - the third-most in MLS - while Vancouver has averaged the third-lowest percent of possession in the league at 43.7 percent.
• Six different players have scored Vancouver's six goals, while Cristian Arango and Carlos Gomez have each scored two of Real Salt Lake's five goals.
• Both teams' goalkeepers are among the best shot-stoppers in the league: Salt Lake's Zac MacMath has saved 2.4 more goals than expected based on post-shot expected goals (expected goals that also accounts for the quality of a shot on target, not just the location where a shot came from) minus goals allowed, and the Whitecaps' Yohei Takaoka has saved 1.9 more goals than expected.

Real Salt Lake	13 wins
Draw	5 ties
Vancouver Whitecaps	13 wins

Real Salt Lake vs. Vancouver Whitecaps odds

Real Salt Lake	+320 ML
Tie	+260 ML
Vancouver Whitecaps	-125 ML

Real Salt Lake vs. Vancouver Whitecaps player props

Anytime Goalscorer

Brian White (Vancouver Whitecaps)	+150
Ryan Gauld (Vancouver Whitecaps)	+175
Damir Kreilach (Vancouver Whitecaps)	+187
Cristian Arango (Real Salt Lake)	+240
Anderson Julio (Real Salt Lake)	+350
Matt Crooks (Real Salt Lake)	+350

Real Salt Lake team news

Justen Glad - hamstring, questionable; Kevin Bonilla - knee, out; Zack Farnsworth - shoulder, out; Pablo Ruiz - knee, out

Vancouver Whitecaps team news

Sam Adekugbe - knee, out

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Odds mentioned in this article were correct at the time of writing and are subject to change.