Sporting Kansas City vs Real Salt Lake Live Stream, Predictions (Jun 29)

📏 Form Guide

Sporting Kansas City

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Sporting Kansas City will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 2-4 MLS defeat last time out to FC Dallas.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City managed 52% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. For Sporting Kansas City, the goalscorers were Shapi Suleymanov (8') and Santiago Muñóz (90'). On the other side, FC Dallas got 10 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Petar Musa (11'), Luciano Acosta (59', 82') and Bernard Kamungo (69') scored for FC Dallas.

Fixtures involving Sporting Kansas City have often been entertaining encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum total of 24 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 4 goals per game) with 11 of those coming from Sporting Kansas City. Let’s find out if that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

Real Salt Lake

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Real Salt Lake head into the game following a 2-0 MLS win over D.C. United in their last fixture.

In that match, Real Salt Lake managed 56% possession and 20 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For Real Salt Lake, goals were scored by Johnny Russell (23') and Zavier Gozo (77'). D.C. United got 8 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

For 5 of the past 6 games involving Real Salt Lake, a relatively low number of goals have been scored between them and their opponents. The overall average number of goals per game during that spell is just 2, with the number of goals averaged by Claret and Cobalt equalling 0.83.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 26/03/2022 tells us that Sporting Kansas City have won 2 of them & Real Salt Lake 3, with the number of drawn results being 1.

A total of 21 goals were produced between them in this period, with 9 of them for SKC and 12 being from Claret and Cobalt. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The previous league fixture between these sides was MLS match day 27 on 20/06/2024 when it finished Sporting Kansas City 3-4 Real Salt Lake.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City had 57% possession and 27 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. The goals were scored by Stephen Afrifa (28') and William Agada (70', 95').

For their opponents, Real Salt Lake had 14 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. Andrés Gómez (14', 51'), Anderson Julio (33') and Matt Crooks (84') scored.

The match was refereed by Mark Allatin.

📰 Team News: Sporting Kansas City

Dany Rosero (Ankle injury), Robert Voloder (Broken collarbone) and Nemanja Radoja (Hamstring injury) are not available for Sporting Kansas City gaffer Kerry Zavagnin.

🗞️ Team News: Real Salt Lake

Real Salt Lake boss Pablo Mastroeni has a number of players out of action. Matthew Bell (Muscle injury), Emeka Eneli (Foot injury), Javain Brown (unknown injury) and Zac MacMath (Back problems) can’t be considered.

✨ Prediction

Our assessment is that Sporting Kansas City can and should be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

However, Real Salt Lake are also probably going to find it difficult getting on the scoresheet but we can see them hitting back at some stage here.

Our selection here is for a comfortable 3-1 winning margin for Sporting Kansas City at the end of the 90 minutes.

📖 ⚽️ What are the best odds for the game?

In terms of the bookies’ odds on the 90 minute result market, the win for Sporting Kansas City is best priced at 2, going for a draw is 3.4 and putting your money on a win for Real Salt Lake gets you 3.5. They are the best bets being offered at the moment.

Peter Guest, 14:00 25/06/2025