New England are stalking the top league places while Sporting KC are more nervous about staying out of trouble and relegation. Who will get the points?
- New England have not yet lost a game at home.
- Sporting KC have yet to win a game.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Sporting KC have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 2-0-7 (win-draw-loss) from nine matches.
It's quite the trip for Sporting KC when visiting New England as the cities are 2200 kilometers apart.
Both participants have had time to rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's hope for an animated fixture!
New England form and stats
The story so far in the Major League Soccer for New England at their home stadium (Gillette Stadium) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats.
England travelled for their previous game, a trip to Columbus Crew that ended 1-1. The New England goalkeeper Petrović was crucial in the match against Columbus Crew last time out, making six saves. Romney, defender, was given a rating of 7.84/10 in that game, top of the team. Romney won 5 of 9 duels.
Before that, New England had a home game versus Montreal Impact which ended with a victory 4-0.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does New England handle that role? We have found 9 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Hartford Athletic are coming to town in three days.
The England manager Arena has got the team scoring with 9 from 4 home games in the league. New England have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {1 goals}.
Sporting KC form and stats
0 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Sporting KC playing as the away team in the Major League Soccer this season.
Sporting KC are looking to quickly end their 355 minutes long goal drought in the Major League Soccer.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Sporting KC, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-3 versus SJ Earthquakes. Russell, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 6.9. Russell hit the woodwork once and hit two key passes.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Colorado Rapids.Sporting KC are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 3 draws and 11 defeats. From a total of 18 matches.
After this away game Sporting KC return home for a US Open Cup game against Tulsa Athletics. That game is only three sleeps after this.
There's been a serious shortage of goals from Sporting KC's away games in the league this season with only {1 goals} from 5 matches. Sporting KC have conceded 6 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
New England have put together a sequence of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (3-1-0) when facing Sporting KC.The matches between these sides have sometimes been aggressive, having seen 6 red cards from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Gil de Pareja Vicent 2 goals |  G. Bou 2 goals |  D. Borrero Caicedo 2 goals |
New England missing players
Sporting KC missing players
| New England | Sporting KC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 13 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 11 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 60% | 62% |
| 75% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 40% | 38% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 38% |
| 25% | 25% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| 50% | 75% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 38% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 80% | 75% |
| 4.5 | 4 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 6.6 | 6.6 |
| 6.4 | 5.5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
| 1 | 0.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.9 | 13 | 19 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12.2 | 14.5 |
| 5.1 | 5.5 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 5.1 |
| 32% | 41% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 4% | 5% |
| 14.4 | 11.8 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 11.8 | 11 |
| 5.4 | 3.2 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.2 | 4 |
- New England have not yet lost a game at home.
- New England have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- New England have scored in all their home matches so far.
- New England have scored more than double the goals of Sporting KC.
- New England haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sporting KC have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Sporting KC have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sporting KC have yet to win a 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 | New England | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
| 2 | Cincinnati | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 17 |
| 3 | Atlanta United | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 15 |
| 4 | Columbus Crew | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 14 |
| 5 | New York City | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 6 | Nashville SC | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | Orlando City | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 8 | Chicago Fire | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 9 | Toronto | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 10 | Philadelphia Union | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -1 | 8 |
| 11 | New York RB | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 8 |
| 12 | DC United | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 8 |
| 13 | Inter Miami | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 14 | Charlotte | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -7 | 6 |
| 15 | Montreal Impact | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 | -14 | 3 |
