Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Sporting KC - Minnesota United!
The visiting Minnesota United played their last game only four days ago, a Major League Soccer match.
Sporting KC form and stats
2-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Sporting KC so far this season.
In their previous game, the manager P. Vermes led his Sporting KC to a defeat in the Major League Soccer match away at Houston Dynamo. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Children's Mercy Park. Before that, Sporting KC drew at home versus Dallas.
The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Sporting KC's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played six games, won four matches, drawn zero and lost two.
Goals decide football matches and Sporting KC are scoring many of them at home; 11 on target from 5 league matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Sporting KC with 10 goals conceded in these matches.
Minnesota United form and stats
As the visiting team in Major League Soccer matches, Minnesota United, who have the most points (11) away in Major League Soccer, have produced an overall stat of 3-2-2 so far. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Minnesota's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Impressive finishing from Kevin Molino (2) and Mason Toye secured the home win 3-2 against Dallas in their previous game. Before that, Minnesota secured a home win against Real Salt Lake with the score 4-0.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Minnesota when being an outsider away as they are today, we find one match with the visitors losing one time, drawing zero and winning zero games.
The travelling fans enjoy Minnesota's attacking play in away games, having scored 13 goals in 7 league matches away. Minnesota's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 12 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Minnesota United - Sporting KC 1-2 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Sporting KC wins - draws - Minnesota United wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Lod 5 goals |  K. Molino 5 goals |   A. Pulido Izaguirre 4 goals |
Sporting KC missing players
Minnesota United missing players
| Sporting KC | Minnesota United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 21 | 11 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 19 | 27 |
| 18 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 17 | 21 |
| 92% | 83% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 90% | 92% |
| 92% | 83% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 90% | 92% |
| 67% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 80% | 85% |
| 42% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 60% | 62% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 23% |
| 75% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 80% | 77% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 10% | 15% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 15% |
| 6.6 | 8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5.6 | 5.4 |
| 3.2 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| 1.7 | 1.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 187 | 117 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 141 | 184 |
| 55 | 33 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 52 | 66 |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 37% | 41% |
- Kalsdorf has the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Regionalliga: Mitte
- Sporting KC have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Sporting KC have won significantly more corners at home than 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 | Minnesota United | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 17 |
| 2 | Sporting KC | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| 3 | Seattle Sounders | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | LA Galaxy | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 14 |
| 5 | Portland Timbers | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | -2 | 14 |
| 6 | Houston Dynamo | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Real Salt Lake | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 14 |
| 8 | Los Angeles FC | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | -1 | 12 |
| 9 | Dallas | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 10 | Colorado Rapids | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 10 |
| 11 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -8 | 9 |
| 12 | SJ Earthquakes | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -5 | 9 |