Soccer Betting Odds have the game as a pick’em and the over/under total at 2.5.

The Sounders are opening their third season in MLS and have had great success for an expansion team. And the fans have followed, with the Sounders leading the MLS in attendance in their first two seasons.

Seattle has also made the MLS playoffs both seasons, and has won the Lamar Hunt U.S Open Cup the past two seasons qualifying them for the CONCACAF Champions Cup where they play not only North American football clubs, but also teams from Central America and the Caribbean.

This season, the Sounders are aiming to not just make the MLS playoffs, but win the MLS cup.

Last year, the Sounders finished the season with 10 wins in their last 15 matches to make the MLS playoffs, but were knocked out in the conference semifinals by the Galaxy.

LA looks solid again this season, with one key departure and addition. Striker Edson Buddle is no longer with the team as he signed to play with FC Inglostadt 04 of the Second German League in January.  The Galaxy replaced him with former Aston Villa and New York Red Bull star striker Juan Pablo Angel in the offseason.

The Galaxy won the 2010 Supporters Shield as the top finisher in the MLS, return with other notable players such as Omar Gonzalez, David Beckham and Landon Donavan.

In the last several weeks, New York has made some major headlines across the MLS and the entire global soccer world by signing Thierry Henry and Rafael Marquez. It was an interesting move to bring these two players from Barcelona F.C. to an American club.

Henry is one of the greatest French strikers of all time, while Marquez is the star of the Mexican national team. These two international stars promise to fill up the new Red Bull Arena almost to capacity. It is expected that more than 20,000 fans will show up at Red Bull Arena to watch Henry’s and Marquez’s second home game appearances. All of this talk about the new arrivals has overshadowed Red Bulls true star, Juan Pablo Angel. In fact, Angel has proved his striking abilities this season once again by scoring more than 10 goals in less than 20 games so far.

The clash of Los Angeles and New York will be a fight between the league’s best teams. The Galaxy come in with the best MLS record so far, while the Red Bulls are the second best in the Eastern conference. There are plenty of expectations on Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle to lead Los Angeles to a victory against New York. However, the question remains can the Galaxy handle the pressure of facing some of the biggest names in MLS?

In years past, the off-season has always been a time of problems and uncertainty for this soccer team. However, they finally seem to have reached a point of stability in their team’s roster.

There have only been five players total that are not coming back to the Galaxy after last season. One of the Los Angeles Galaxy’s veterans, Alan Gordon, talked about the coming together of their soccer team. He said that he felt relieved that there were not a lot of offseason changes because now they are all familiar with each others style of play, and have created quite a bit of chemistry. He said that they are off to a faster start, and now it’s just about getting back into shape. He talked about how other good soccer teams have remained good because they have kept their nucleus together and not made a ton of changes. If what he says is correct then the Galaxy should be ready to roll come next season and be even bettor for some online betting action.

The coach of the team made a lot of changes when he first arrived, and helped the Galaxy to reach the playoffs again after five years of lackluster performance. If the team continues to play together and get comfortable with each other, there is no telling what they can do this coming year.