The visiting Sporting KC side should be favourites in this visit to Houston Dynamo, as the away team holds a 4 point advantage from their 13 league games this season.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Houston Dynamo form and stats
When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Houston Dynamo have managed 2 wins, 3 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 5 games.
An away draw last time out for Houston, facing Nashville SC in a game that ended 1-1. Heartbreak before that as Houston Dynamo lost 0-4 at Chicago Fire's place.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Dallas are coming to town in four days.
The Houston fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 8 goals in 5 league matches. From these home matches, Houston have conceded only 4 goals.
Sporting KC form and stats
The visitors are W3-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer.
Sporting KC failed to get anything from their last game, a Major League Soccer home match vs Orlando City that ended with defeat 1-2. Preceding that, the 2-3 home loss versus Dallas.
Sporting KC are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 5 away games so far. Sporting KC have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Houston - Sporting KC 2-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Houston victories, two draws and four Sporting KC wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Houston Dynamo missing players
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| Houston Dynamo | Sporting KC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 21 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 25 |
| 24 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 23 |
| 93% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 93% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 87% |
| 64% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 40% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 71% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 83% | 73% |
| 14% | 40% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 27% |
| 21% | 20% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 198 | 77 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 11 | 70 | 247 |
| 69 | 32 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 22 | 69 |
| 30% | 25% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 75% | 45% | 36% |
- All of Sporting KC's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Houston Dynamo have not yet lost a game at home.
- Sporting KC have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Sporting KC haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 21 |
| 2 | Portland Timbers | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 21 |
| 3 | Sporting KC | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 4 | Dallas | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 |
| 5 | Colorado Rapids | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 19 |
| 6 | Los Angeles FC | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 31 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 | Minnesota United | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 3 | 18 |
| 8 | Real Salt Lake | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -2 | 17 |
| 9 | Houston Dynamo | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 21 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 20 | -3 | 16 |
| 10 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 16 | -13 | 15 |
| 11 | LA Galaxy | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 15 |
| 12 | SJ Earthquakes | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 38 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 23 | -21 | 11 |