Real Salt Lake vs Sporting Kansas City Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Real Salt Lake

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Real Salt Lake fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 1-2 MLS victory versus Minnesota United.

In that match, Real Salt Lake had 45% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Real Salt Lake was Julio (31', 41'). Minnesota United got 23 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Lod (86') scored for Minnesota United.

It’s been seldom in recent times where Real Salt Lake have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Claret and Cobalt have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 8 goals in the process. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, however.

Sporting Kansas City

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In their previous game, Sporting Kansas City drew 1-1 in the MLS tie with Orlando City.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City managed 40% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Sporting Kansas City was Busio (45'). At the other end, Orlando City got 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Nani (78') scored for Orlando City.

Throughout their six previous matches, Peter Vermes's Sporting Kansas City have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 9 times thus giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.5.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 11/11/2018 tells us that Real Salt Lake have won 2 of them and Sporting Kansas City 4, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

A combined total of 17 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 6 of them for Claret and Cobalt and 11 coming from SKC. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The last league fixture between the two was MLS match day 25 on 08/11/2020 when the final score was Real Salt Lake 0-2 Sporting Kansas City.

In that match, Real Salt Lake managed 54% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

Sporting Kansas City had 12 shots at goal with 6 on target. Shelton (45') and Hurtado (48') scored.

The match was refereed by Kevin Stott.

📰 Team News: Real Salt Lake

Real Salt Lake boss Freddy Juarez has no fitness concerns whatsoever before this clash thanks to a fully healthy squad available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Sporting Kansas City

Sporting KC boss Peter Vermes has not got a full squad to pick from. Tim Melia (Brustverletzung), Ilie Sánchez (Back trouble), Brooks Thompson (Back trouble) and Graham Zusi (Foot Injury) are those who can’t be considered.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake are both capable of scoring here.

Let’s see how it plays out, but a draw is looking likely to us. Our tip is therefore for a score draw when all is said and done.

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Victor Martins, 23:15 26/04/2021