Minnesota United vs Sporting Kansas City Prediction & Betting Tips - Major League Soccer

Prediction published on 10/07/2022, 04:36  by Ioannis in Major League Soccer Predictions

Minnesota host Sporting Kansas at the Allianz Field in a game between two teams who might be far away from each other in the standings, yet are both in good form coming into this fixture. The hosts made it three wins in three after their away win in Canada against Vancouver. Conceding in the 66th minute, they managed to pull an impressive late comeback scoring three goals and adding the Canadian side to their recent hit list, after pulling off impressive wins against Salt Lake and the LA Galaxy in their previous two. The Minnesota outfit’s games tend to be entertaining of late. They have scored three goals in each of their past three games, while they have also conceded in all of their last fourteen. Consequently, all six of their most recent games featured Over 2.5 goals and both teams scoring, while this trend has also been confirmed in three of their last four at the Allianz Field.

However, they are not equally efficient in front of their own fans, gathering just fourteen points from their nine home games, which is the third worst record in the MLS Western Conference. Despite Sporting Kansas occupying the penultimate place in the standings, they are a team on the rise in recent fixtures. They managed to pull off an impressive away victory against Montreal, in what was their third win in five games, after also dismantling Union Omaha for the Cup and beating Nashville away. They are not doing extremely well on the road however, with their wins against Montreal and Nashville being the only ones in a negative streak of fifteen winless away games. What is more, they currently possess the worst away defence of the conference, conceding a staggering twenty-five goals in their eleven games played so far, having just kept one away clean sheet in their last nineteen. With regards to recent tradition against Minnesota, they have won just one of their last seven away meetings, yet have managed to score six of them, picking up draws in three occasions.