📊 Form Guide

Portland Timbers

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Portland Timbers fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 2-3 US Open Cup triumph over Tacoma Defiance.

For Portland Timbers, the scorers were Zac McGraw (33') and Kevin Kelsy (90'). Osaze De Rosario (48') scored for Tacoma Defiance.

Fixtures featuring Portland Timbers have tended to be lively ones lately with high scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum of 23 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 12 of these being chalked up by Portland Timbers. Such a pattern might not be continued into this next game, however.

Sporting Kansas City

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Sporting Kansas City will go into the encounter after a 1-0 MLS win over Los Angeles Galaxy in their previous fixture.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City managed 29% possession and 0 shots at goal with 0 of them on target. LA Galaxy got 11 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Maya Yoshida (13' Own goal) scored for Los Angeles Galaxy.

In their previous 6 clashes, Sporting Kansas City have bagged a total of 12 goals. Sporting Kansas City have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. During that period, their defenders have seen 11 goals go into their own net.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 21/08/2022 shows that Portland Timbers have won 3 of these & Sporting Kansas City 2, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 26 in all which averages out at 4.33 goals per match.

The last league meeting between these sides was MLS match day 12 on 13/04/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Sporting Kansas City 2-4 Portland Timbers.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City managed 46% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Shapi Suleymanov (16'), Dejan Joveljić (33') and Jansen Miller (54' Own goal).

Portland Timbers had 14 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. David Ayala (10') and Kevin Kelsy (26', 49') scored.

The referee was Pierre-Luc Lauziere.

📋 Team News: Portland Timbers

It looks as if The Timbers should kick off with a 4-2-3-1 formation this time, utilising Maxime Crépeau, Eric Miller, Kamal Miller, Dario Zuparic, Claudio Bravo, Joao Ortiz, Cristhian Paredes, Ariel Lassiter, Omir Fernandez, Ian Smith and Kevin Kelsy.

ℹ️ Team News: Sporting Kansas City

From our viewpoint, SKC could decide to begin the game with a 4-5-1 system, giving starts to John Pulskamp, Andrew Brody, Jansen Miller, Robert Voloder, Tim Leibold, M. Suleymanov, Manu García, Jacob Bartlett, Nemanja Radoja, Dániel Sallói and Dejan Joveljić.

💡 Prediction

It looks to us like Sporting Kansas City will do well to be putting goals past a Portland Timbers team who will likely own this match if all goes as we expect it to.

We are predicting a very comprehensive 3-0 margin for Portland Timbers after 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 02:02 11/05/2025