📏 Form Guide

Sporting Kansas City

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Sporting Kansas City will be hoping for a better result following the 2-1 MLS losing effort in their last game against FC Cincinatti.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City had 46% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Sporting Kansas City was Zorhan Bassong (89'). FC Cincinnati got 15 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Kévin Denkey (43', 78') scored for FC Cincinatti.

Fixtures with Sporting Kansas City have usually been entertaining ones of late with high scoring being a real hallmark. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum of 24 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 4 goals per game) with 11 of these coming from Sporting Kansas City.

Los Angeles Galaxy

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Portland Timbers in MLS competition, Los Angeles Galaxy and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Los Angeles Galaxy managed 54% possession and 16 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Los Angeles Galaxy, the goalscorers were Christian Ramirez (67') and Marco Reus (69'). Portland Timbers had 11 attempts at goal with 6 on target. David Pereira da Costa (38'), Santiago Moreno (53'), Kevin Kelsy (63') and Jonathan Rodríguez (76') scored for Portland Timbers.

The stats don’t lie, and Los Angeles Galaxy have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 11 goals overall. In defence, Los Angeles Galaxy could really do with shoring things up. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend can be sustained into this next match.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes dating back to 07/08/2022 shows us that Sporting Kansas City have won 1 of these games and Los Angeles Galaxy 2, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 25 overall at an average of 4.17 goals per match.

The last league encounter between the two was MLS match day 26 on 16/06/2024 when the final score was Los Angeles Galaxy 4-2 Sporting Kansas City.

In that game, Los Angeles Galaxy had 50% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 10 of them on target. The scorers were Dejan Joveljić (40'), Gabriel Pec (54'), Joseph Paintsil (75') and Miguel Berry (92').

Sporting Kansas City got 20 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Stephen Afrifa (66') and Robert Castellanos (81') scored.

The match was refereed by Chris Penso.

🗞️ Team News: Sporting Kansas City

It’s our opinion that SKC will probably opt for a 4-3-3 formation featuring John Pulskamp, Andrew Brody, Jansen Miller, Robert Voloder, Logan Ndenbe, Manu García, Jacob Bartlett, Nemanja Radoja, M. Suleymanov, Dejan Joveljić and Dániel Sallói.

📰 Team News: Los Angeles Galaxy

Los Angeles Galaxy manager Greg Vanney has to choose a team with limited availability. Mauricio Cuevas (Muscle injury), Riqui Puig (Cruciate ligament tear), Maya Yoshida (Muscle injury) and Marco Reus (Knee injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We are inclined to think that The Galactics might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting John McCarthy, Miki Yamane, Carlos Garcés, Zanka, John Nelson, Isaiah Parente, Edwin Cerrillo, Gabriel Pec, Diego Fagundez, Joseph Paintsil and Christian Ramirez.

🧠 Prediction

It seems to us that Los Angeles Galaxy could really find it hard to find the net against a Sporting Kansas City lineup who should be able to fashion the chances to find the net multiple times while not conceding.

We’re tipping a comprehensive 3-0 winning scoreline for Sporting Kansas City at full-time.

Andre Moura, 22:00 04/05/2025