Sporting Kansas City will face St. Louis City in Sunday’s big MLS fixture.
Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Sporting Kansas City v St. Louis City game (plus the best game odds).
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Sporting Kansas City
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Sporting Kansas City will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 2-1 MLS defeat in their last game at the hands of FC Dallas.
In that game, Sporting Kansas City managed 62% possession and 13 shots at goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Sporting Kansas City was Dániel Sallói (32'). On the other side, FC Dallas got 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Luciano Acosta (37') and Léo Chú (39') scored for FC Dallas.
It has been seldom in recent times where Sporting Kansas City haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Sporting Kansas City have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 14 goals on the way. Historical results aside, we must now wait to see whether the trend might be replicated in this upcoming game.
St. Louis City
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After tasting defeat last time out to Austin FC in MLS competition, St. Louis City will be hoping to turn things around here.
In that match, St. Louis City had 65% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Austin FC had 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Myrto Uzuni (33') scored for Austin FC.
For 5 of the prior 6 clashes featuring St. Louis City, a relatively low number of goals have been scored between them and their opposition. The overall average goals scored per game during that spell works out to just 1, with the average goals for St. Louis City standing at 0.67.
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Head to head
If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 01/10/2023, there has been little to separate the clubs with Sporting Kansas City winning 2 of those games, St. Louis City 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.
There were also goals galore in those games, with 25 in all at an average of 4.17 goals per meeting.
The last league fixture featuring the two was MLS match day 45 on 29/09/2024 which finished with the scoreline of St. Louis City 3-1 Sporting Kansas City.
In that match, St. Louis City had 47% possession and 14 shots at goal with 4 on target. The goalscorers were Cedric Teuchert (33'), Rasmus Alm (54') and Eduard Löwen (75').
On the other side, Sporting Kansas City had 18 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Stephen Afrifa (63') was the scorer.
The referee was Guido Gonzales Jr.
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Team News: Sporting Kansas City
Joaquín Fernández (Back problems) and Andrew Brody (unknown injury) will be missing for Sporting Kansas City manager Peter Vermes.
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Prediction
Our assessment here is that St. Louis City will need to put in a solid display to register a score against this Sporting Kansas City team who we think should emerge victorious.
Therefore, we predict a hard-fought 1-0 winning score for Sporting Kansas City at the end of this one.
Let’s see how it plays out.
Victor Martins,
08:03 04/04/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
🏟️ Team Focus:
Sporting Kansas City
Formed: 1995
Stadium: Children's Mercy Park (18,491)
Captain: Erik Thommy
Chairman: Jake Reid
Manager: Peter Vermes
Competitions: MLS (Parent), MLS (Western Conference)