There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with Louisville City leading Sporting Kansas City II by 16 points.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a USL Championship game only three days ago. That game was also an away game, at Indy Eleven. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Louisville City form and stats
Louisville City, who have the most scored goals (26) in USL Championship, have played 10 USL Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 6-1-3 (wins-draws-losses). Louisville haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Sporting Kansas City II, 65 days ago. After failing to beat Indy Eleven here at Lynn Family Stadium, Louisville has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with five wins in a row.
It's back home for Louisville, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Saint Louis FC away with the result 1-0. Ahead of that match, Louisville won a home game hosting Memphis 901 (4-1).
The Louisville fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 18 goals in 10 league matches. From these home matches, Louisville have conceded only 9 goals.
Sporting Kansas City II form and stats
There's been little loot from Sporting Kansas City II's travels as they have only collected 13 points from 13 away games in the USL Championship. Sporting Kansas City II, who have the most conceded goals (28) in USL Championship, only have 4 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 1 draw.
It's the second away game in a row for Kansas, but there's smiles all around after the 2-1 victory versus Indy Eleven (placed 2nd) in the USL Championship last time out. Prior to that match, the Kansas manager P. Corradi Nagamura faced defeat when travelling to Austin Bold and losing 0-4.
B. Sparks came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Indy Eleven last time out, making the manager P. Corradi Nagamura feel like a tactical genius. The end of the last match, against Indy Eleven, was very satisfying as B. Sparks scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
Kansas are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 16 away goals from 13 games (in the league). The Sporting Kansas City II manager P. Corradi Nagamura has some worries about the defense as 26 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Louisville - Sporting Kansas City II 4-1 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Louisville City four wins, zero draws and Sporting Kansas City II two victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Lancaster 9 goals |  W. Harris 8 goals |  C. Bone 5 goals |
Louisville City missing players
Sporting Kansas City II missing players
| Louisville City | Sporting Kansas City II | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 13 | 15 |
| 10 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 8 | 9 |
| 26 | 18 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 16 | 20 |
| 11 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 26 | 28 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 70% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 85% | 87% |
| 40% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 77% | 80% |
| 27% | 30% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 38% | 33% |
| 13% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 23% | 20% |
| 47% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 77% | 73% |
| 47% | 40% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | 13% |
| 7% | 10% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 15% | 13% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 164 | 127 | 26 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 89 | 94 |
| 60 | 43 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 33 | 37 |
| 43% | 42% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 48% | 51% |
- Louisville City has the fewest conceded goals (11) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the fewest scored goals in the second half (9) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most clean sheets (4) at home in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most clean sheets (7) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most matches under the total-line (9) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most points (19) at home in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most scored goals (18) at home in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most scored goals (26) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most scored goals in the first half (17) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the the best goal difference (+15) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the the best goal difference (+9) at home in USL Championship
- Louisville City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Louisville City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Louisville City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Louisville City is in the best form (5-1-0)
- Sporting Kansas City II has the fewest matches under the total-line (3) in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II has the most conceded goals (26) away in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II has the most conceded goals (28) in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II has the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II has the most conceded goals in the second half (17) in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II has the most dropped points from leading position (8) in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II has the most matches over the total-line (11) in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II has the most scored goals (16) away in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II has the the worst goal difference (-10) away in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II has the the worst goal difference (-8) in USL Championship
- Sporting Kansas City II 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 | Louisville City | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 32 |
| 2 | Indy Eleven | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 23 |
| 3 | Saint Louis FC | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| 4 | Sporting Kansas City II | 15 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 26 | -8 | 16 |