Sporting Kansas City vs San Jose Earthquakes Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Sporting Kansas City

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Sporting Kansas City are hoping to win again following a 0-2 MLS success versus Real Salt Lake.

In that game, Sporting Kansas City managed 46% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Sporting Kansas City, goals were scored by Shelton (45') and Hurtado (48'). At the other end, Real Salt Lake got 9 shots at goal with 3 on target.

Their more recent scorelines show that not much more can be done by the Sporting Kansas City rearguard. SKC have given the opposition little, with the tally of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their previous six matches standing at 4. Historical results aside, we’ll just have to find out if the trend will be maintained in this upcoming match.

San Jose Earthquakes

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After a loss in their previous game against Seattle Sounders FC in MLS action, San Jose Earthquakes and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, San Jose Earthquakes managed 43% possession and 5 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for San Jose Earthquakes was López (57', 80' Own goal). For their opponents, Seattle Sounders FC had 10 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Lodeiro (52'), Ruidíaz (54') and Morris (74') scored for Seattle Sounders FC.

During their 6 previous matches, Matías Almeyda's San Jose Earthquakes have converted 11 times, giving them a goals per game average of 1.83.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head to head clashes dating back to 19/03/2017 tells us that Sporting Kansas City have won 4 of these games & San Jose Earthquakes 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 22 in all at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was MLS match day 31 on 18/08/2019 when the final score was Sporting Kansas City 2-1 San Jose Earthquakes.

On that occasion, Sporting Kansas City managed 42% possession and 19 shots at goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Feilhaber (50') and Smith (76').

San Jose Earthquakes had 25 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Wondolowski (25') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Drew Fischer.

📰 Team News: Sporting Kansas City

Sporting Kansas City boss Peter Vermes will be thankful to have no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash thanks to a fully healthy group to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: San Jose Earthquakes

Due to a fully injury-free squad available to choose from, San Jose Earthquakes boss Matías Almeyda does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this match.

💡 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Sporting Kansas City will, in all likelihood, see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

In contrast, San Jose Earthquakes could well find it tough getting on the scoresheet although we do think that they will probably end up converting at least once as well.

Our selection here is for a pretty comfortable 3-1 win for Sporting Kansas City after 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 11:17 18/11/2020