📊 Form Guide

Sporting Kansas City

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Sporting Kansas City are hoping to win again following the 2-0 MLS victory over St. Louis City.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City had 51% possession and 11 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. The only player to score for Sporting Kansas City was Dejan Joveljić (71', 88'). St. Louis City had 11 shots on goal with 4 on target.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Sporting Kansas City have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Sporting Kansas City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 11 goals during that time.

Portland Timbers

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In their previous fixture, Portland Timbers drew 0-0 in the MLS match with Austin FC.

In that game, Portland Timbers managed 56% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 6 on target. On the other side, Austin FC got 11 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

A series of accomplished performances by the Portland Timbers defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their past 6 clashes combined. In that time, their forwards have scored 8. That trend won’t necessarily be sustained into this next game, of course.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 15/05/2022 shows us that Sporting Kansas City have won 2 of them & Portland Timbers 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 29 overall which averages out at 4.83 goals per meeting.

The last league fixture between these sides was MLS match day 21 on 26/05/2024 and the score finished Portland Timbers 2-1 Sporting Kansas City.

On that day, Portland Timbers had 43% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The goalscorers were Felipe Mora (51') and Evander (79').

Sporting Kansas City had 6 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Memo Rodríguez (62') was the scorer.

The referee was Drew Fischer.

📰 Team News: Sporting Kansas City

Joaquín Fernández (Back problems) and Andrew Brody (unknown injury) won’t be able to feature for Sporting Kansas City .

ℹ️ Team News: Portland Timbers

In an otherwise healthy squad, there is only the lone fitness worry for the Portland Timbers gaffer Phil Neville to be concerned about. Jonathan Rodríguez (Knee injury) won’t be in action.

✨ Prediction

We’re of the view that Portland Timbers will need to apply a lot of pressure to breach the defence of this Sporting Kansas City lineup who we think should win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We’re therefore predicting a very competitive game with a 1-0 win for Sporting Kansas City when the referee blows for full-time.

Expecting it to be tight.

Victor Martins, 18:00 13/04/2025