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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 07.November
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Children's Mercy Park (18467 seats)

There is optimism in Sporting KC so far this season, with their 2nd spot in the Major League Soccer table and hosting Real Salt Lake (who are in 8th).

Insights:
  • Sporting KC have the most scored goals (58) in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the most matches over the total-line (20) in Major League Soccer

It's no vacation for neither Sporting KC nor Real Salt Lake as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

Real Salt Lake have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1700 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Sporting KC form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Children's Mercy Park as Sporting KC have scored 32 goals to get 32 points from 16 games. The overall stats in the Major League Soccer are 9-5-2 (wins-draws-losses). The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Children's Mercy Park.

Sporting KC faced defeat in their previous match, away at Austin (1-3). The striker Johnny Russell was announced as "man of the match" for Sporting KC with a rating of 7.6/10. Russell scored one goal and hit one key pass.

Prior to that, an away loss at Minnesota United.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Sporting KC's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played ten games, won seven matches, drawn zero and lost three.

The Sporting KC manager P. Vermes has got the team scoring with 32 from 16 home games in the league. Sporting KC's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Real Salt Lake form and stats

Real Salt Lake have only collected 14 points from their away games in the Major League Soccer, after 4-2-10 (16 played).

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Major League Soccer home defeat versus Portland Timbers with 1-3 on the scoreboard. Attacker Albert Rusnák got a player rating of 8.44 in the game. "Man of the match" Rusnák scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 70 successful passes (of 73 total).

The game before that, was lost at home, a 3-4 defeat against SJ Earthquakes.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Salt playing away, we found nine games. Results were two away wins, three draws and four home wins.

Salt are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 24 times in 16 away games so far. Salt have conceded 33 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Real Salt Lake - Sporting KC 3-1 was the score in these contenders' latest head-to-head fixture, played this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - three - four (Sporting KC wins - draws - Real Salt Lake wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Sporting KCD. Salloi
D. Salloi
16 goals
Sporting KCJ. Russell
J. Russell
15 goals
Real Salt LakeD. Kreilach
D. Kreilach
15 goals

Sporting KC missing players

Real Salt Lake missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Sporting KC Real Salt Lake
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
33 16 3 Played P 4 16 33
17 9 3 Won W 0 4 13
7 5 0 Drew D 0 2 6
9 2 0 Lost L 4 10 14
58 32 9 Scored S 5 24 54
39 16 0 Conceded C 13 33 54
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 94%
91% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 81% 79%
64% 56% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 81% 73%
33% 25% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 44% 42%
9% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 31% 21%
70% 75% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 73%
24% 25% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 18%
12% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 19% 15%
 
6.2 7.9 7 Corners for (avg) C F 8.2 5.2 5
3.7 2.8 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.2 7.2 6.5
1.5 1.1 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 2.6 2.1
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
13.5 17.4 15.7 Shots (avg) S ( 15.8 12.8 13.4
5 6.2 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.8 4.8 4.8
35% 32% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 26% 31% 34%
 
11.9 10.2 9.7 Shots against (avg) S A 15.2 18.3 14.9
3.6 2.8 1.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.8 6.3 4.6
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • All of Sporting KC's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Real Salt Lake have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Real Salt Lake have the fewest matches under the total-line (9) in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the most matches over the total-line (20) in Major League Soccer
  • Sporting KC have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Sporting KC have the most scored goals (58) in Major League Soccer
  • Sporting KC have the most scored goals in the first half (27) in Major League Soccer
  • Sporting KC have the the best goal difference (+16) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Sporting KC have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Sporting KC have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sporting KC haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Seattle Sounders 33 17 8 8 52 32 17 8 5 4 28 15 16 9 3 4 24 17 20 59
2 Sporting KC 33 17 7 9 58 39 16 9 5 2 32 16 17 8 2 7 26 23 19 58
3 Colorado Rapids 33 16 10 7 46 33 16 8 7 1 26 12 17 8 3 6 20 21 13 58
4 Portland Timbers 33 16 4 13 53 52 16 10 2 4 32 22 17 6 2 9 21 30 1 52
5 Minnesota United 33 13 9 11 39 41 17 10 3 4 24 14 16 3 6 7 15 27 -2 48
6 Vancouver Whitecaps 33 12 12 9 44 44 16 10 2 4 24 16 17 2 10 5 20 28 0 48
7 LA Galaxy 33 13 8 12 47 51 16 8 4 4 26 19 17 5 4 8 21 32 -4 47
8 Real Salt Lake 33 13 6 14 54 54 17 9 4 4 30 21 16 4 2 10 24 33 0 45
9 Los Angeles FC 33 12 9 12 51 46 17 8 6 3 34 23 16 4 3 9 17 23 5 45
10 SJ Earthquakes 33 10 10 13 45 53 16 5 4 7 24 23 17 5 6 6 21 30 -8 40
11 Dallas 33 7 11 15 46 55 17 5 7 5 25 21 16 2 4 10 21 34 -9 32
12 Austin 33 9 4 20 35 53 17 7 2 8 27 25 16 2 2 12 8 28 -18 31
13 Houston Dynamo 34 6 12 16 36 54 17 6 6 5 21 22 17 0 6 11 15 32 -18 30

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Seattle Sounders 33 17 8 8 52 32 17 8 5 4 28 15 16 9 3 4 24 17 20 59
2 Sporting KC 33 17 7 9 58 39 16 9 5 2 32 16 17 8 2 7 26 23 19 58
3 Colorado Rapids 33 16 10 7 46 33 16 8 7 1 26 12 17 8 3 6 20 21 13 58
4 Portland Timbers 33 16 4 13 53 52 16 10 2 4 32 22 17 6 2 9 21 30 1 52
5 Minnesota United 33 13 9 11 39 41 17 10 3 4 24 14 16 3 6 7 15 27 -2 48
6 Vancouver Whitecaps 33 12 12 9 44 44 16 10 2 4 24 16 17 2 10 5 20 28 0 48
7 LA Galaxy 33 13 8 12 47 51 16 8 4 4 26 19 17 5 4 8 21 32 -4 47
8 Real Salt Lake 33 13 6 14 54 54 17 9 4 4 30 21 16 4 2 10 24 33 0 45
9 Los Angeles FC 33 12 9 12 51 46 17 8 6 3 34 23 16 4 3 9 17 23 5 45
10 SJ Earthquakes 33 10 10 13 45 53 16 5 4 7 24 23 17 5 6 6 21 30 -8 40
11 Dallas 33 7 11 15 46 55 17 5 7 5 25 21 16 2 4 10 21 34 -9 32
12 Austin 33 9 4 20 35 53 17 7 2 8 27 25 16 2 2 12 8 28 -18 31
13 Houston Dynamo 34 6 12 16 36 54 17 6 6 5 21 22 17 0 6 11 15 32 -18 30

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