Sporting Kansas City vs Austin FC Prediction & Betting Tips - Major League Soccer

Prediction published on 10/06/2021, 12:44  by Daniel Ngulu | Modified on 10/06/2021 at 12:46 in Major League Soccer Predictions

Sporting Kansas City are enjoying fine form and will be looking to bag three more points when they play host to struggling Austin. The two sides playing in the Western Conference are separated by nine points ahead of their Saturday clash, Sporting KC with 16 points in second place, ahead of 11th placed Austin who have seven points. No team has a better run in the last three matches in the Western Conference than Sporting KC. They have three straight wins heading to this game, and were it not for the away loss to Houston Dynamo, they’d be on five straight wins. They have scored two or more goals in the four wins they’ve managed in the last five matches and failed to score completely in just one game. However, they have only one clean sheet in their last five matches. Sporting KC got their revenge over Dynamo in their last game and with a run of five unbeaten matches at home, they will be confident against Austin. They’ve won four and drawn one of their last five home league matches.

Austin managed to stop the three-game losing run they had ahead of their last game, putting up a strong showing to draw 0-0 with Western Conference leaders Seattle Sounders. While they avoided defeat for the first time in four matches, that was the third straight game they failed to score. Thrice in their seven matches so far, Austin have conceded twice, while they have just two clean sheets. Only two of their opening seven matches have produced over 2.5 goals so far. Diego Fagundez is the team’s lead scorer with two goals so far; he has failed to score in the last four matches, and in that run, the team has managed just one goal.