Portland Timbers vs Sporting Kansas City Live Stream, Predictions (May 11)

📏 Form Guide

Portland Timbers

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Portland Timbers, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 2-3 US Open Cup success versus Tacoma Defiance.

For Portland Timbers, the goalscorers were Zac McGraw (33') and Kevin Kelsy (90'). Osaze De Rosario (48') was the scorer 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 game following a 1-0 MLS win against Los Angeles Galaxy in their previous fixture.

In that game, Sporting Kansas City managed 29% possession and 0 shots at goal with 0 of them on target. On the other side, LA Galaxy got 11 attempts on goal with 1 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

Looking at their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 21/08/2022 shows that Portland Timbers have won 3 of these and Sporting Kansas City 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 26 overall at an average of 4.33 goals per match.

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

On that day, Sporting Kansas City managed 46% possession and 9 shots at goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Shapi Suleymanov (16'), Dejan Joveljić (33') and Jansen Miller (54' Own goal).

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

The match was refereed by Pierre-Luc Lauziere.

📋 Team News: Portland Timbers

In all likelihood, The Timbers should use the 4-2-3-1 system, utilising Maxime Crépeau, Juan Mosquera, Finn Surman, Kamal Miller, Claudio Bravo, Joao Ortiz, David Ayala, Santiago Moreno, David Costa, Antony and Felipe Mora.

ℹ️ Team News: Sporting Kansas City

It’s our belief that SKC appear most likely to utilise a 4-5-1 formation, settling for John Pulskamp, Andrew Brody, Jansen Miller, Robert Voloder, Logan Ndenbe, 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.

📖 ⚽️ What are the best odds for this match?

In terms of the bookies’ odds on the 90 minute result market, putting your money on Portland Timbers is best priced at 1.75, backing the draw is 3.9 & staking on the winner to be Sporting Kansas City is 4.33. They are the top bets being offered at the current time.

Victor Martins, 13:01 08/05/2025