Sporting Kansas City vs Seattle Sounders Match Analysis and Prediction

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MLS Western Conference table toppers Sporting Kansas City and Seattle Sounders will take on each other at Children’s Mercy Park on 27^th of September 2021 at 02:00 EAT.

These two teams have only one point difference with Kansas City on top with 46 points while Seattle Sounders have 45 points in the second place.

Sporting Kansas City prepares for this match following 4-0 MLS triumph against Minnesota United. In that match, they had 64% possession, 12 with eight of them on target and goals were scored by Shelton (14′), Sallói (36′), Russell (45′) and Duke (52′). Minnesota United got 36% possession and 10 shots with none of them on target.

Seattle Sounders FC will be aiming to improve their results here coming from a narrow 0-1 MLS defeat to Salt Lake. In that game, they had 56% possession and nine shots with two of them on target. For their opponents, Real Salt Lake got 16 shots with five on target and a goal scored by Kreilach (48′).

Peter Vermes’s side won two matches, lost one and drawn in three out of their six previous matches while Brian Schmetzer’s on the other hand won four and lost two out of their previous six matches.

Sporting Kansas City vs Seattle Sounders head to head

This will be their 27th overall meeting. Seattle Sounders are the slight favorites in head-to-head encounters, having recorded 12 victories so far; Sporting Kansas City have grabbed triumph 10 times to and the remaining five matches e ended draws.

Seattle 1-3 Kansas City 26/07/21
Seattle 2-3 Kansas City 05/08/19
Kansas City 3-2 Seattle 27/05/19
Seattle 3-1 Kansas City 01/09/18
Kansas City 2-2 Seattle 15/04/18

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Kansas City 4-0 Minnesota
Kansas City 2-0 Chicago
Los Angeles 4-0 Kansas City
Kansas City 1-1 Colorado
Minnesota 0-0 Kansas City

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Seattle 2-3 Leon
Salt Lake 1-0 Seattle
Seattle 1-0 Santos Laguna
Seattle 1-0 Minnesota
Seattle 0-2 Portland

Sporting Kansas City team news

Alan Pulido and Remi Walter did not feature in KC’s last game due to injury and might not be availalable for this match too, Jaylin Lindsey is ruled out with an injury and Felipe Hernandez won’t feature in the game due to personal reasons.