Portland Timbers vs Sporting Kansas City Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Portland Timbers

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Portland Timbers will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-0 Open Cup loss in their previous game against Los Angeles FC.

Under three goals per game were scored during 5 of the last 6 meetings where Portland Timbers have been participants. With regard to the goal split in that period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 7 while Portland Timbers managed a tally of 4.

Sporting Kansas City

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Sporting Kansas City come into this game after a 4-2 Open Cup win with the defeat of FC Dallas in their last fixture.

In the course of their six latest matches, Peter Vermes's Sporting Kansas City have managed to stick the ball in the net 7 times, earning them a goals per game average of 1.17.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 26/11/2018 shows that Portland Timbers have won 3 of them & Sporting Kansas City 0, with the number of drawn results standing at 3.

A combined total of 17 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 10 for The Timbers and 7 created by SKC. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The previous league game between the two was MLS match day 27 on 19/08/2021 and the score finished Sporting Kansas City 1-1 Portland Timbers.

On that occasion, Sporting Kansas City had 69% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Dániel Sallói (92').

For their opponents, Portland Timbers got 8 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Felipe Mora (17') was the scorer.

The referee was Ismail Elfath.

📰 Team News: Portland Timbers

Diego Gutiérrez (Foot surgery) and Felipe Mora (Knee Surgery) are not available for Portland Timbers gaffer Giovanni Savarese.

We are thinking that The Timbers could go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game with David Bingham, Pablo Bonilla, Larrys Mabiala, Dario Zuparic, Justin Rasmussen, Cristhian Paredes, Eryk Williamson, Santiago Moreno, Yimmy Chara, Marvin Loría and Jaroslaw Niezgoda.

🗞️ Team News: Sporting Kansas City

Sporting Kansas City manager Peter Vermes has a number of players out of action. Alan Pulido (Knee Surgery) and Gadi Kinda (Knee Surgery) can’t be considered.

We believe SKC seem likely to play in a 4-3-3 lineup, settling for Tim Melia, Cameron Duke, Kortne Thompson-Ford, Robert Voloder, Logan Ndenbe, Roger Espinoza, Oriol Rosell, Remi Walter, Johnny Russell, Khiry Shelton and Dániel Sallói.

🔮 Prediction

Sporting Kansas City certainly have the ability to find the net against this Portland Timbers team, however that probably won’t quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

Our tip is for a close game with a 2-1 advantage for Portland Timbers after the 90. It really should be an interesting one.

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Renata Leite, 00:31 11/05/2022