Sporting Kansas City II vs Birmingham Legion: Match guide and preview

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Thu 02.September
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Children's Mercy Park (18467 seats)

Sporting Kansas City II delivered a 0-0 scoreline facing Memphis 901 in their previous fixture, a match to keep in mind. Next is this fierce Birmingham Legion team.

Insights:
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the most conceded goals (43) in USL Championship
  • Birmingham Legion have the fewest conceded goals (22) in USL Championship

It's no vacation for neither Kansas nor Birmingham Legion 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.

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Sporting Kansas City II form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the USL Championship this season. Sporting Kansas City II have only managed 1 win, 4 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Children's Mercy Park. Kansas are slowly digging their own grave here at Children's Mercy Park with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Tulsa Roughnecks match.

The home supporters saw a 0-0 draw versus Memphis 901 in the USL Championship last time out and are looking for a win here.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Indy Eleven that ended 1-1.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Kansas, as the USL Championship home game vs OKC Energy is only three days away.

Sporting Kansas City II has scored 12 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 21 goals have been conceded.

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Birmingham Legion form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the fewest conceded goals (22) in USL Championship, on their USL Championship travels is 5 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Birmingham Legion had fun at their own home (Children's Mercy Park) last time out, beating Louisville City 2-1. J. Williams and N. Brett scored. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager T. Soehn when J. Williams scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Tulsa Roughnecks.

Birmingham have another game away from home in just three nights, a USL Championship fixture vs Memphis 901. A hard calendar for them!

Birmingham have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 10 league away games 11 goals have been scored. Birmingham have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

These opponents have fought before this season: Birmingham Legion - Kansas 4-2. Previous three meetings between these contenders: Sporting Kansas City II won one, Birmingham Legion triumphed in one and we saw one draw. two games with more than 2,5 goals, one match with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Birmingham LegionN. Brett
N. Brett
12 goals
Sporting Kansas City IIE. Mushagalusa
E. Mushagalusa
6 goals
Birmingham LegionJ. Flemmings
J. Flemmings
5 goals

Sporting Kansas City II missing players

Birmingham Legion missing players

Sporting Kansas City II Birmingham Legion
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 2 Played P 2 10 20
3 1 0 Won W 1 5 11
7 4 0 Drew D 1 2 3
12 6 2 Lost L 0 3 6
25 12 3 Scored S 2 11 27
43 21 6 Conceded C 1 11 22
86% 82% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
77% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 70% 65%
55% 64% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 50%
41% 36% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 20%
32% 27% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
64% 73% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 60% 60%
18% 18% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 30% 25%
32% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 10% 15%
 
5.5 6.8 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 1.5 4.6
5.8 4.5 8 Corners against (avg) C A 5 9.4 5.6
2.2 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.7 2.7
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.2 13 6 Shots (avg) S ( 15.5 10.3 9.9
3.2 4.2 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 4.2 3.9
36% 26% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 18% 26% 35%
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Birmingham Legion have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Birmingham Legion have the fewest conceded goals (11) away in USL Championship
  • Birmingham Legion have the fewest conceded goals (22) in USL Championship
  • Birmingham Legion have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (13) in USL Championship
  • Birmingham Legion have the fewest matches over the total-line (5) in USL Championship
  • Birmingham Legion have the fewest scored goals (11) away in USL Championship
  • Birmingham Legion have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in USL Championship
  • Birmingham Legion have the most points (17) away in USL Championship
  • Birmingham Legion have the most points from losing position (8) in USL Championship
  • Birmingham Legion have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Birmingham Legion haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sporting Kansas City II have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the fewest points (7) at home in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the most conceded goals (21) at home in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the most conceded goals (43) in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the most conceded goals in the second half (28) in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the the worst goal difference (-18) in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the the worst goal difference (-9) at home in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sporting Kansas City II is in the worst form (0-2-4)

  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 20 12 4 4 40 23 12 9 2 1 27 11 8 3 2 3 13 12 17 40
2 Birmingham Legion 20 11 3 6 27 22 10 6 1 3 16 11 10 5 2 3 11 11 5 36
3 Tulsa Roughnecks 20 10 1 9 33 34 9 6 0 3 20 15 11 4 1 6 13 19 -1 31
4 OKC Energy 21 6 8 7 23 24 11 3 5 3 11 10 10 3 3 4 12 14 -1 26
5 Indy Eleven 20 7 5 8 25 30 10 3 2 5 10 11 10 4 3 3 15 19 -5 26
6 Atlanta United II 22 6 7 9 36 36 12 4 5 3 24 16 10 2 2 6 12 20 0 25
7 Memphis 901 18 5 7 6 18 23 6 2 2 2 6 6 12 3 5 4 12 17 -5 22
8 Sporting Kansas City II 22 3 7 12 25 43 11 1 4 6 12 21 11 2 3 6 13 22 -18 16

Read more about USL Championship

The USL Championship, formerly known as United Soccer League (USL) is the second level of league football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. The USL Championship has 36 teams divided into two conference, Eastern and Western. Nearly half the teams are reserve teams/affiliates of the biggest US clubs.