Week 26 MLS picks

Written By The North End Pod

When the dust settled in the midweek we came away with a minuscule profit at the books. If you’re a regular here you know “we accept all profits”, so we’ll take it and look ahead to another full weekend of MLS action.

The official league injury report for Saturday’s games came out Friday afternoon, let’s dive into the Week 26 picks.

Pick’Em Entry of the week

Unfortunately, Underdog Fantasy has decided to exit the MLS prop pick’em market at this time. So we’re going to pick things back up on PrizePicks for the time being. If you want to play along with us, you can sign up for PrizePicks through this link.

Back-to-back pick’em misses are never fun, but we’re undeterred as always and back with another two-pick for our MLS weekend. This pair of fantasy score props are set too low for the roles that each of these guys play for their respective clubs. Ashley Westwood is suspended again for this weekend, putting even more responsibility on Biel’s shoulder’s to orchestrate the Charlotte attack, while Ojeda’s ramp up to full fitness saw him start on Wednesday for the first time since May 23rd.

Using the standard payout selection on PrizePicks this two-pick entry will payout a prize of 3.0x your entry fee if successful.

Results

Last Week: -1.0 U

Season: +1.13 U

Week 26 Picks

Colorado Rapids To Win + LAG/SEA U 4.5

Parlay +104

It’s a weekend full of parlays for us in The North End. We’ll start with the Colorado Rapids, who we just got an up-close look at on Wednesday here in Austin. The Rapids are certainly not title contenders in their current form, but they have been stellar at home and reportedly will see the debut of Morgan Whittaker in this match. Colorado has won all five home fixtures since the return from the World Cup break while not conceding in that sample. Montreal on the other hand will arrive shorthanded to the Rocky Mountains on Saturday without Matty Longstaff, Dani Pereira and Brayan Vera. We’ll take the home side to win.

With the juice a little high for our taste, we’ll pair Rapids to win with the under the alternate total of 4.5 in LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders. This is a storied rivalry, but one that hasn’t seen five or more goals scored in 11 straight meetings dating back to August 2022. These two teams have also scored five or more goals in seven of the 51 all-time games between them. This pairing gives us a nice even money parlay.

Inter Miami O 1.5 + Houston Dynamo O 0.5

Parlay +100

Speaking of even money parlays, here’s another one! Inter Miami is hosting Nashville SC in a battle of the Eastern Conference’s top two teams on Saturday night and we’re going to back Messi and Co. to score at least two goals in this one. Miami has averaged 2.46 goals per game this season and recorded two or more goals in 17 of their 24 league matches in 2026. Now, Nashville does have the toughest defense in MLS at present and did hold Miami to a single goal in Nashville last month in Messi’s first game back from his extended World Cup break that was interrupted and extended by the death of his father. But these two teams met five times last year and Miami scored twice in four of them, racking up a total of 15 goals across that set of fixtures. So we’ll take them to hit the back of the net twice on Saturday night.

Heavy juice comes along with a prop like that, so we’ll pair it with one that carries even more and take the Orange team to score once against San Jose. The Dynamo have scored at least one goal in 18 of their 24 league games, though we should note that they just recorded a 0-0 home draw against the Quakes in late August. Prior to that match however, the Dynamo had scored at least one goal against San Jose in ten straight meetings. The Earthquakes do have three home clean sheets in 2026, but they came in the team’s first four home games of the season. Pairing Houston to score with Miami to bag two brings us right to even money.

LAFC to Win + Vancouver Whitecaps To Win

Parlay +107 (2U)

Final pairing for us this match day is a simple favorites parlay. LAFC is in Kansas to take on Sporting on Saturday evening and are strong favorites to continue their domination in this head-to-head series. The Black and Gold haven’t lost to SKC since August 2021 and they’ve outright won nine of the 11 games between the two since. Sporting KC’s extensive injury report on top of their general lack of talent makes this an easy first leg.

But the second leg is an easier selection as Austin FC visits the first place Vancouver Whitecaps. ATX has never won at BC Place and that’s not even factoring in the talent disparity between these two clubs at present. The ‘Caps are the largest favorites on this MLS slate and it’s not close. An Austin result here would be shocking, so we’ll pair these two favorites together and slap an extra unit on this bad boy to close out our MLS weekend.

Goal Scorers

Every week we’ll pick a few of our favorite goal scoring options in the betting market. Here are the Week 26 shouts.

  • German Berterame +220

  • Santiago Rodriguez +215

  • Breel Embolo +200

  • Kristoffer Velde +255

  • Kelvin Yeboah +195

  • Morgan Whittaker +175

  • Dejan Joveljic +150

  • Hirving Lozano +220

  • Mateusz Bogusz +295

  • Peyton Miller +425

  • Philip Zinckernagel +235

  • Przemyslaw Placheta +1000

To Score Two Or More Goals

  • Dejan Joveljic +850 (0.5 U)

To Score Or Assist

  • Allan Saint-Maximin +160

  • Miguel Almiron +165

  • Sanitago Moreno +100

  • Nico Fernandez Mercau +140

  • Eduard Lowen +160

  • Jack Harrison +230

  • Facundo Torres +295

  • Cavan Sullivan +180

To Score Or Assist Two Or More Goals

  • Miguel Almiron +1100

  • Santiago Moreno +550

  • Nico Fernandez Mercau +850

  • Eduard Lowen +1100

  • Jack Harrison +1700

  • Cavan Sullivan +1200

Results

Last Week: +0.3 U

2026 Season: +6.15 U

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