Sporting Kansas City vs Real Salt Lake Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Sporting Kansas City

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Sporting Kansas City, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 3-1 MLS Cup Playoffs success vs Vancouver Whitecaps.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City had 37% possession and 12 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. For Sporting Kansas City, the goalscorers were Shelton (17'), Isimat-Mirin (45') and Zusi (58'). At the other end, Vancouver Whitecaps had 6 shots on goal with 4 on target. Dájome (39') scored for Vancouver Whitecaps.

It’s not been often in recent games that Sporting Kansas City have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Sporting Kansas City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 8 goals along the way. Let’s see whether or not that trend will be sustained here.

Real Salt Lake

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In their last fixture, Real Salt Lake drew 0-0 in the MLS Cup Playoffs match with Seattle Sounders FC.

In that match, Real Salt Lake managed 38% possession and 0 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target. At the other end, Seattle Sounders FC had 21 attempts at goal with 3 on target. After a tense 6-5 penalty shootout, Real Salt Lake were victorious.

During their six previous matches, Pablo Mastroeni's Real Salt Lake have turned their attacks into goals a total of 7 times, yielding them the goals scored per game average of 1.17.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings dating back to 11/08/2019, there has been little to separate the clubs with Sporting Kansas City winning 3 of those games, Real Salt Lake 3 and 0 being draws in regulation time.

14 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 8 of them for SKC and 6 belonging to Claret and Cobalt. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The last league game featuring these sides was MLS match day 46 on 07/11/2021 when the final score was Sporting Kansas City 0-1 Real Salt Lake.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City managed 54% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target.

Real Salt Lake had 15 shots at goal with 3 on target. Kreilach (95') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Ted Unkel.

📋 Team News: Sporting Kansas City

The Sporting Kansas City boss Peter Vermes has zero fitness concerns to speak of coming into this clash with a fully healthy group available for selection.

📰 Team News: Real Salt Lake

Due to a fully healthy group ready to go, the Real Salt Lake boss Pablo Mastroeni has zero fitness worries whatsoever before this clash.

💡 Prediction

Sporting Kansas City should dominate possession and create several successful chances.

In contrast, Real Salt Lake will be up against it to score a goal of their own although we do think that they will probably end up managing to get on the scoresheet as well here.

Accordingly, we see a comfortable 3-1 winning margin for Sporting Kansas City at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 01:09 25/11/2021