Sporting Kansas City welcomes Real Salt Lake to Children's Mercy Park for this MLS match. Sporting Kansas City enters as the outsider with a 33% winning probability, while Real Salt Lake is viewed as the slight favourite.
Current Form - Sporting Kansas City
Sporting Kansas City is 15th in the Western Conference with 22 points. Following a 0-4 loss away at Nashville SC, the team has recorded one win, one draw, and three losses in their last five matches and is currently on a three-match winless run.
Current Form - Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake sits 11th in the Western Conference with 33 points. After a 1-1 draw at home against the San Jose Earthquakes, the club holds a record of one win, one draw, and three losses in their last five matches and is currently on a 12-match winless run away from home.
Head-to-Head Record
Real Salt Lake won 3-1 at home earlier this season, marking the most recent of these five meetings that have produced an average of 3.4 goals per meeting and seen Sporting Kansas City record one draw and four losses. Real Salt Lake have won their last two meetings against Sporting Kansas City, going back to September 2025. Real Salt Lake are unbeaten against Sporting Kansas City since May 2024, a run of four wins and one draw.
Key Players to Watch and Missing Players
Andre Luiz has seven goals and one assist at an average rating of 7.5 for Sporting Kansas City, having scored in four of his last five matches with an 8.0 average rating. Stephen Afrifa has contributed three goals and three assists, while Lasse Johnsen is sidelined with a hamstring injury.
For Real Salt Lake, Sergi Solans has 11 goals and three assists at an average rating of 6.7, and Juan Sanabria has one goal and five assists. Luc De Fougerolles is out with an injury, and Diego Luna is sidelined with a knee injury.
Key Numbers
↔️ Red cards: Sporting Kansas City 3 vs Real Salt Lake 1
Sporting Kansas City
ℹ️ Offsides: 1.1 per match (2nd fewest)
ℹ️ Shots off target: 4.1 per match (3rd fewest)
Real Salt Lake
ℹ️ Interceptions: 11.4 per match (2nd most)
ℹ️ Shots inside the box: 7.4 per match (3rd fewest)
Betting Insights
Bookmakers offer a 66% chance that both teams find the net in this match. The over/under market sets the line at 2.5 goals, with a 64% probability of exceeding that total.
Goals implied by the odds: 3.3
These figures come from the pre-match odds two days before kickoff.
This content was generated using AI.
