Soccer betting preview: Kansas City welcomes San Diego Wave W in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: USA NWSL
Competition: Sun 14.May
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Children's Mercy Park (18467 seats)

Kansas City want to fill the stadium for this match despite that the season has been rough so far with 6 points and a 10th place in the NWSL table. Visiting San Diego Wave W own 5th place with 9 pts.

Insights:
  • Kansas City have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in NWSL
  • San Diego Wave W have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.

Kansas City and San Diego Wave W 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.

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Kansas City form and stats

Kansas City have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the NWSL. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.

No payout for Kansas City in their previous match, an away game at Angel City W that ended in defeat 2-3.

Before that, Kansas had a home game versus Sky Blue W which ended with a victory 2-0.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Kansas City have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 8 matches with the results: Won 6, drawn 0 and lost 2.

Kansas City are traveling soon after this match as the Nwsl Challenge Cup Women match at Racing Louisville awaits in three days.

Kansas have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Children's Mercy Park with 5 goals in 3 league matches. Kansas City have conceded 4 in these home matches.

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San Diego Wave W form and stats

Things could have gone better for San Diego Wave W in their NWSL away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right.

San Diego Wave W are travelling again after losing away to Washington Spirit W in their previous match (1-3).

Preceding that, the 1-3 home loss versus Orlando Pride.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with San Diego Wave W playing away and similar expectations, we found 5 relevant matches. Results were 3 San Diego Wave W wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.

4 goals have been conceded by Diego in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last two meetings: one - one - zero (Kansas City wins - draws - San Diego Wave W wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Morgan with 2 goals scored against Kansas City in these 2 games.

Top Goalscorers

San Diego Wave WA. Morgan
A. Morgan
4 goals
Kansas CityC. Kizer
C. Kizer
3 goals

Kansas City missing players

San Diego Wave W missing players

Kansas City San Diego Wave W
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 3 0 Played P 0 3 6
2 2 0 Won W 0 1 3
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
4 1 0 Lost L 0 2 3
9 5 0 Scored S 0 3 10
12 4 0 Conceded C 0 4 10
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
83% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 83%
50% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 67%
50% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 67%
50% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
50% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 67%
33% 67% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 17%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 17%
 
3.2 1 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3 4.2
3.7 4.7 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.7 6
0.5 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.3 1.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.2 7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 8.7 10.3
3.7 2.3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.3 4.2
41% 71% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 40%
 
11 11 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 16.7 14.3
4.5 3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 5.7 5.3
Key stats in NWSL this season:
  • All of Kansas City's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Kansas City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Kansas City have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in NWSL
  • Kansas City have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Kansas City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • San Diego Wave W have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • San Diego Wave W have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • San Diego Wave W haven’t played a single 0-0 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 Washington Spirit W 7 4 3 0 10 5 3 2 1 0 4 1 4 2 2 0 6 4 5 15
2 OL Reign W 6 4 1 1 12 5 3 3 0 0 8 2 3 1 1 1 4 3 7 13
3 Portland Thorns W 7 3 3 1 18 10 4 2 2 0 10 4 3 1 1 1 8 6 8 12
4 Sky Blue W 6 4 0 2 7 6 2 1 0 1 1 2 4 3 0 1 6 4 1 12
5 San Diego Wave W 6 3 0 3 10 10 3 2 0 1 7 6 3 1 0 2 3 4 0 9
6 Houston Dash W 7 2 3 2 5 6 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 1 2 1 3 4 -1 9
7 Angel City W 7 2 2 3 11 13 5 1 1 3 6 9 2 1 1 0 5 4 -2 8
8 Racing Louisville 7 1 4 2 9 9 3 1 2 0 7 4 4 0 2 2 2 5 0 7
9 North Carolina Courage W 6 2 1 3 7 9 3 1 1 1 5 5 3 1 0 2 2 4 -2 7
10 Kansas City 6 2 0 4 9 12 3 2 0 1 5 4 3 0 0 3 4 8 -3 6
11 Orlando Pride 6 2 0 4 5 11 3 1 0 2 2 4 3 1 0 2 3 7 -6 6
12 Chicago Red Stars W 7 1 1 5 11 18 4 1 1 2 7 7 3 0 0 3 4 11 -7 4