A crucial fixture in NWSL as both teams are battling for the top spots. With San Diego Wave W in 2nd position and Kansas City located at 3rd, this has all the looks of an exciting battle. Read on to learn more!
- San Diego Wave W have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Kansas City is in the best form (4-2-0) in NWSL
It's no vacation for neither Diego nor Kansas City as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
San Diego Wave W form and stats
3-3-1 (win-draw-lost) are the NWSL numbers at home for San Diego Wave W so far this season.
The San Diego Wave W fans got no joy from their last match, also played here at Torero Stadium: A 1-2 defeat against Kansas City (placed 3rd).
In the game before, an away victory match versus Chicago Red Stars W with a 1-0 scoreline.Diego have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Torero Stadium with 12 goals in 7 league matches.
Kansas City form and stats
Playing away, Kansas City have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the NWSL this season. Kansas City have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Two away games in a row for Kansas, whose coach Potter could celebrate last time after the win against San Diego Wave W.
Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Orlando Pride.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 Kansas City playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 2 away wins, 0 draws and 2 home wins.
9 goals have been conceded by Kansas City in these games.
Head 2 Head
This was the result when the squads met earlier this season; Diego - Kansas City 1-2. San Diego Wave W-Kansas City H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: San Diego Wave W zero wins, Kansas City one win, one draw. two of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). One of the stars has been Morgan with 2 goals scored against Kansas City in these 2 games.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Morgan 11 goals |  K. Hamilton 4 goals | C. Kizer 4 goals |
San Diego Wave W missing players
Kansas City missing players
| San Diego Wave W | Kansas City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 21 | 12 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 16 |
| 13 | 7 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 9 | 17 |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 57% | 57% |
| 53% | 71% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 57% | 50% |
| 20% | 29% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 47% | 71% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 43% | 43% |
| 40% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 29% |
| 20% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 43% | 29% |
| 5.6 | 6.4 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 4.1 | 4.4 |
| 4.9 | 4.7 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 4 | 4.6 |
| 1 | 0.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.6 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.9 | 11.6 | 19 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.5 | 8.6 | 8.6 |
| 4.5 | 5.3 | 11 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 29% | 32% | 18% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 25% | 25% |
| 9 | 7.9 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 11.7 | 9.7 |
| 3.8 | 3.6 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 10 | 6.4 | 4.9 |
- Kansas City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Kansas City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Kansas City is in the best form (4-2-0) in NWSL
- San Diego Wave W have played more matches over 2,5 goals 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 | Portland Thorns W | 14 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 34 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 20 | 25 |
| 2 | San Diego Wave W | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 25 |
| 3 | Kansas City | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 22 |
| 4 | Houston Dash W | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
| 5 | OL Reign W | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 21 |
| 6 | Chicago Red Stars W | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 20 |
| 7 | Angel City W | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 17 |
| 8 | Orlando Pride | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | -14 | 14 |
| 9 | Racing Louisville | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -6 | 13 |
| 10 | Washington Spirit W | 15 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -4 | 12 |
| 11 | Sky Blue W | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -14 | 12 |
| 12 | North Carolina Courage W | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 12 | -2 | 10 |
