The visiting Sporting KC side should be favourites in this visit to Real Salt Lake, as the away team holds a 14 point advantage from their 20 league games this season.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
It's quite the trip for Sporting KC when visiting Salt as the cities are 1700 kilometers apart.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
4 victories, 4 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Real Salt Lake have to build on here at Rio Tinto Stadium in the Major League Soccer.
Salt lost their last game at LA Galaxy (placed 11th) after a 1-2 scoreline. A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at SJ Earthquakes.
Real Salt Lake are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 14 goals in 12 games. Salt's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Sporting KC form and stats
5-2-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sporting KC, who have the fewest conceded goals (9) away in Major League Soccer, in their Major League Soccer matches away.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Sporting KC goalkeeper Tim Melia is eager to challenge this, with his 180 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Sporting KC play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Cincinnati. A home win before that, celebrating 4-0 vs Colorado Rapids.
World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager P. Vermes when Roger Espinoza scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 46th minute.
Sporting KC are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 14 times in 9 away games so far. As opposed to that, Sporting KC have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Salt - Sporting KC 0-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Salt wins - draws - Sporting KC wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Kreilach 9 goals |   A. Pulido Izaguirre 7 goals |  J. Russell 6 goals |
Real Salt Lake missing players
Sporting KC missing players
| Real Salt Lake | Sporting KC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 12 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 22 |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 27 | 14 | 8 | Scored | S | 4 | 15 | 37 |
| 38 | 16 | 6 | Conceded | C | 4 | 12 | 28 |
| 82% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 82% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 77% |
| 59% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | 64% |
| 32% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 30% | 36% |
| 18% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 50% | 42% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 70% | 64% |
| 32% | 42% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 32% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 10% | 9% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4 | 2.7 | 3.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 1.9 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 272 | 162 | 43 | Total Shots | T S | 36 | 117 | 334 |
| 81 | 45 | 15 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 37 | 102 |
| 33% | 31% | 53% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 41% | 36% |
- Real Salt Lake has the fewest scored goals in the first half (7) in Major League Soccer
- Sporting KC has the fewest conceded goals (9) away in Major League Soccer
- Sporting KC has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (13) in Major League Soccer
- 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 | Portland Timbers | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 45 | 33 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 16 | 12 | 38 |
| 2 | Sporting KC | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 36 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 36 |
| 3 | Seattle Sounders | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 39 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 35 |
| 4 | Los Angeles FC | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 44 | 35 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 38 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 9 | 31 |
| 5 | Dallas | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 27 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 31 |
| 6 | Minnesota United | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 31 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 30 |
| 7 | SJ Earthquakes | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 31 | 45 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 29 | -14 | 27 |
| 8 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 22 | 8 | 0 | 14 | 24 | 44 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 24 | -20 | 24 |
| 9 | Colorado Rapids | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 29 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 22 |
| 10 | Real Salt Lake | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 25 | 33 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 17 | -8 | 22 |
| 11 | LA Galaxy | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 26 | 42 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 20 | -16 | 21 |
| 12 | Houston Dynamo | 22 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 29 | 38 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 28 | -9 | 21 |