Delightful dogfight as daring Sporting KC duels with determined Seattle Sounders

Sporting KC and Seattle Sounders should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

Seattle Sounders play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Seattle Sounders when playing on grass are 10 wins, 5 draws and 15 defeats from 30 matches. They have scored 34 goals and conceded 48 times in these games. It's quite the trip for Seattle Sounders when visiting Sporting KC as the cities are 2900 kilometers apart.

Sporting KC form and stats

When playing at home, Sporting KC have managed 2 wins, 3 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 6 games.

The home supporters saw a 1-1 draw versus Vancouver Whitecaps in the Major League Soccer last time out and are looking for a win here. Prior to that, an away loss at DC United.

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 4 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats (from five games).

The match schedule is unforgiving for Sporting KC as they have a new game in only three days, a Major League Soccer match thankfully also at home. LA Galaxy are visiting.

Sporting KC are showing their attacking force in their home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (16 goals in 6 games). With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Sporting KC defense is not exactly impregnable. 11 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Seattle Sounders form and stats

1 win, 3 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Seattle Sounders playing as the away team this season. Seattle Sounders has drawn their two previous away games.

Seattle Sounders are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Philadelphia Union. Before that, Seattle Sounders secured a home win against Orlando City with the score 2-1.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Seattle Sounders when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing 2 times, drawing 2 and winning 0 games.

Seattle Sounders find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 6 goals from 5 away fixtures. 7 goals have been conceded by Seattle Sounders in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 4 - 3 - 3 (Sporting KC wins - draws - Seattle Sounders wins). As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

K. Németh 7 goals / 1 assists

F. Gutiérrez 4 goals

J. Russell 4 goals / 3 assists

Sporting KC missing players

Seattle Sounders missing players