Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sporting KC & Houston Dynamo face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the US Open Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Houston Dynamo, who are travelling more than 1100 kilometers to play this game.
It's no vacation for neither Sporting KC nor Houston Dynamo 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.
Sporting KC form and stats
Sporting KC travelled for their previous game, a trip to SJ Earthquakes that ended 1-1. Midfielder Duke was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.65 (out of ten) in that game. Duke hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Ahead of that match, Sporting KC won a home game hosting Colorado Rapids (2-1).The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Sporting KC have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 16 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 4 and lost 4.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Vancouver Whitecaps are coming to town in three days.
Sporting KC have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and three practice matches played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Sporting KC scored 4 goals and let in 5 goals during these three games.
Houston Dynamo form and stats
It's the second away game in a row for Houston, but there's smiles all around after the 3-0 victory versus LA Galaxy last time out. Goalkeeper Clark was absolutely vital in the Houston Dynamo victory against LA Galaxy, making six saves. The attacker Ferreira got a match rating of 9.21 in that game. Ferreira scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times.
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Seattle Sounders.We have checked recent matches where Houston Dynamo have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 16 games were 2 victories, 4 draws and 10 defeats.
The schedule is very tough for Houston now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Major League Soccer game at Real Salt Lake is waiting in only three days.
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Houston Dynamo have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats from five fixtures.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sporting KC six wins, one draw and Houston Dynamo three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Quintero Villalba 5 goals |  C. Ferreira Vidal 5 goals |   J. Russell 4 goals |
Sporting KC missing players
Houston Dynamo missing players
| Sporting KC | Houston Dynamo | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 12 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 11 | ||
| 29 | 19 | Scored | S | 15 | 30 | ||
| 41 | 13 | Conceded | C | 16 | 34 | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 16% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 8% | ||
| 64% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 36% | ||
| 3.7 | 4.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.9 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.3 | 6 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.3 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | ||
| 10.4 | 11.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.6 | 11.6 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 4.2 | ||
| 37% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 25% | ||
| 11.4 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.5 | 13 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 4.9 | ||
