The guesting St. Louis City team are probably favourites at Sporting KC, as the visitors hold a 18 point advantage from their 26 league games this season.
- Sporting KC have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Major League Soccer
- St. Louis City have the most scored goals (52) in Major League Soccer
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Major League Soccer.
Sporting KC form and stats
Sporting KC have collected 20 points from their Major League Soccer home games so far after 6-2-5.
Sporting KC's previous game was also played at home, ending 3-0 versus SJ Earthquakes (placed 8th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Sweet to taste a league victory after three games without. Sporting KC's victory against SJ Earthquakes could easily have been with a bigger margin than 3-0 as they hit the posts three times. Midfield player Radoja got a match rating of 8.41 in that game, the max score being 10. Radoja signed up for two assists, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 61 successful passes (of 64 total).
Before that match, a defeat in the away fixture against Toluca in the Leagues Cup. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sporting KC handle that role? We have found 20 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 12 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats.
Observe: 9 of the most recent 12 league matches from this football club have had at least one goal from each team.
Sporting KC have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Children's Mercy Park with 23 goals in 13 league matches. Sporting KC have conceded 15 in these home matches. When Sporting KC hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Colorado Rapids, LA Galaxy, Austin and Portland Timbers), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.
St. Louis City form and stats
5-1-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for St. Louis City, who have the most scored goals (52) in Major League Soccer, in their Major League Soccer matches away. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as St. Louis City have lost on their last two travels.
Impressive finishing from Markanich and Þórisson secured the home win 2-1 against Dallas in their previous game. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Carnell when Þórisson scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 46th minute. Midfielder Löwen was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.12. Löwen served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times.
A 1-2 defeat away at Orlando City before that.Louis are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.
Observe that 8 of this team's 10 latest league matches have ended with three or more goals.
The visiting St. Louis City have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 15 goals from 12 games. St. Louis City's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 19 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
This duo faced each other earlier this season: St. Louis City - Sporting KC 4-0. Vassilev loves to meet Sporting KC and have scored 2 goals in these encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Pulido Izaguirre 10 goals |   N. Gioacchini 10 goals |  D. Salloi 6 goals |
Sporting KC missing players
St. Louis City missing players
| Sporting KC | St. Louis City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 26 | 13 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 26 |
| 7 | 6 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 34 | 23 | 2 | Scored | S | 6 | 15 | 52 |
| 36 | 15 | 6 | Conceded | C | 4 | 19 | 33 |
| 88% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 77% | 77% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 88% |
| 65% | 69% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 73% |
| 27% | 31% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 25% | 35% |
| 12% | 23% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 8% | 12% |
| 54% | 46% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 54% |
| 23% | 31% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 27% |
| 35% | 31% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 19% |
| 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
| 3.8 | 3.6 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.8 | 5.3 |
| 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.7 | 2.4 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 13.2 | 14.8 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.3 | 11.9 | 14 |
| 4.8 | 5.4 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.3 | 5.3 |
| 27% | 33% | 18% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 29% | 38% |
| 11.4 | 10.2 | 9.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.3 | 12.8 | 12.3 |
| 4.3 | 3.8 | 5.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.5 | 5 |
- Sporting KC have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting KC have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Major League Soccer
- St. Louis City have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6) in Major League Soccer
- St. Louis City have the most scored goals (52) in Major League Soccer
- St. Louis City have the most scored goals in the second half (29) in Major League Soccer
- St. Louis City have the the best goal difference (+19) in Major League Soccer
- St. Louis City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | St. Louis City | 26 | 15 | 2 | 9 | 52 | 33 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 37 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 19 | 47 |
| 2 | Los Angeles FC | 25 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 39 | 27 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 12 | 40 |
| 3 | Seattle Sounders | 27 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 32 | 27 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 5 | 40 |
| 4 | Houston Dynamo | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 36 | 31 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 23 | 5 | 38 |
| 5 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 42 | 35 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 37 |
| 6 | Real Salt Lake | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 39 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 19 | -3 | 37 |
| 7 | Minnesota United | 25 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 32 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 35 |
| 8 | SJ Earthquakes | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 31 | 35 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 23 | -4 | 35 |
| 9 | Dallas | 25 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 18 | -1 | 33 |
| 10 | Austin | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 36 | 41 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 28 | -5 | 32 |
| 11 | Sporting KC | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 34 | 36 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 21 | -2 | 29 |
| 12 | Portland Timbers | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 30 | 42 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 26 | -12 | 29 |
| 13 | LA Galaxy | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 31 | 39 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 24 | -8 | 28 |
| 14 | Colorado Rapids | 25 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 37 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 27 | -21 | 19 |
