Delightful dogfight as daring Sporting KC duel with determined Colorado Rapids

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 09.April
Match begins: 00:30 (UTC)
Venue: Children's Mercy Park (18467 seats)

Fixate on their own game plan or focus more on the opposition? Both Sporting KC and Colorado Rapids should try something more fresh than in earlier matches. Learn more!

Insights:
  • Sporting KC have the fewest scored goals in the second half (0) in Major League Soccer
  • Colorado Rapids have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Major League Soccer

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Colorado Rapids, who are travelling more than 900 kilometers to play this game.

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!

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Sporting KC form and stats

Sporting KC have collected 1 point from their Major League Soccer home games so far after 0-1-1.

The home team returns to Children's Mercy Park after drawing with Philadelphia Union on their last time out; the game ended 0-0. The goalie Melia was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.31 out of ten. Melia topped it up with a clean sheet.

Ahead of that match, Sporting KC lost 1-4 at home to Seattle Sounders.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Sporting KC matches with similar probabilities have ended with 5 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats (from 7 games).

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Sporting KC at home in the league. 1 on target and 4 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

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Colorado Rapids form and stats

Still no away game victory in the Major League Soccer for Colorado Rapids with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts.

Colorado's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Los Angeles FC that finished 0-0. Ronan got a match rating of 8.05 in that game, top player of the team. Ronan hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 50 successful passes (of 54 total).

A 1-1 draw at Austin's stadium before that.

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 Colorado Rapids playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 0 away wins, 1 draw and 3 home wins.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Colorado Rapids's away games in the league this season with only {1 goals} from 3 matches.

Head 2 Head

This isn't the first time these teams face each other this season, as the fixture list show this recent match: Colorado Rapids - Sporting KC 0-0. Sporting KC-Colorado Rapids H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Sporting KC four wins, Colorado Rapids one win, five draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The matches between these sides have sometimes been hostile, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

Sporting KCD. Salloi
D. Salloi
1 goals
Sporting KCW. Agade
W. Agade
1 goals
Colorado RapidsC. Bassett
C. Bassett
1 goals

Sporting KC missing players

Colorado Rapids missing players

Sporting KC Colorado Rapids
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 2 1 Played P 0 3 6
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
3 1 1 Drew D 0 1 3
3 1 0 Lost L 0 2 3
2 1 0 Scored S 0 1 2
7 4 0 Conceded C 0 6 8
50% 50% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 67%
33% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 50%
33% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 33%
17% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 17%
17% 50% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 33%
50% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 33%
67% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 67% 67%
 
7 6 9 Corners for (avg) C F 0 6.7 5.5
3.3 3.5 4 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4.7 4.5
1.2 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.3 2.2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.8 18.5 30 Shots (avg) S ( 0 11 12
6 7 11 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.3 3.5
6% 7% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 10% 10%
 
11.7 10.5 8 Shots against (avg) S A 0 12 12.3
4 4.5 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 5.3 5.2
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Colorado Rapids have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Colorado Rapids have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Major League Soccer
  • Colorado Rapids have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Colorado Rapids have yet to win a game.
  • Sporting KC have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Sporting KC have the fewest scored goals in the second half (0) in Major League Soccer
  • Sporting KC have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • 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 Saint Louis City 6 5 0 1 15 5 3 2 0 1 6 2 3 3 0 0 9 3 10 15
2 Seattle Sounders 6 3 2 1 10 2 3 2 1 0 6 0 3 1 1 1 4 2 8 11
3 Los Angeles FC 5 3 2 0 9 3 3 3 0 0 9 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 6 11
4 Minnesota United 5 3 2 0 6 3 2 0 2 0 2 2 3 3 0 0 4 1 3 11
5 SJ Earthquakes 6 3 1 2 6 7 4 3 1 0 5 2 2 0 0 2 1 5 -1 10
6 Dallas 6 2 2 2 8 7 4 2 1 1 6 4 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 8
7 Austin 5 2 1 2 6 7 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 1 0 1 2 3 -1 7
8 Vancouver Whitecaps 6 1 3 2 10 7 3 1 1 1 7 3 3 0 2 1 3 4 3 6
9 Houston Dynamo 5 2 0 3 5 7 2 2 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 3 2 7 -2 6
10 Portland Timbers 6 1 2 3 6 11 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 0 1 2 4 9 -5 5
11 LA Galaxy 5 0 4 1 2 4 2 0 2 0 1 1 3 0 2 1 1 3 -2 4
12 Sporting KC 6 0 3 3 2 7 2 0 1 1 1 4 4 0 2 2 1 3 -5 3
13 Colorado Rapids 6 0 3 3 2 8 3 0 2 1 1 2 3 0 1 2 1 6 -6 3
14 Real Salt Lake 5 1 0 4 3 13 2 0 0 2 1 6 3 1 0 2 2 7 -10 3

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Major League Soccer (often known simply as MLS) is the top level of football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. MLS has 24 teams divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western. Each team play 34 fixtures to decide a league table champion. The top fourteen teams then compete in playoff to crown a MLS Cup champion.