Seattle Sounders vs Sporting KC

Seattle Sounders and Sporting Kansas City go head-to-head in a mouth-watering Major League Soccer encounter at the famous Lumen Field.

Seattle Sounders were pegged back late in a 1-1 home draw with Los Angeles last time out, seeing their two-game winning MLS streak run out of the window. Level on points with eighth-placed Vancouver Whitecaps, the ‘Sounders’ can ill-afford another slip-up if they are to retain the final playoff spot. Luckily for the man in charge, Brian Schmetzer, his men have won three of their last four home league outings (D1), averaging three goals per triumph. Against this backdrop, since a 3-1 win in September 2018, they’ve lost three consecutive home league H2Hs, conceding an average of 2.66 goals per game. An abysmal return of one clean sheet from nine domestic home matches in 2022 suggests another leaky affair is on the cards.

On the other hand, Sporting Kansas City come into this matchday in a confident mood following a 6-0 demolition of lower-league outfit Union Omaha in the US Open Cup. However, things look different in MLS. The visitors were winless in three successive games (D1, L2) before pulling off a hard-fought 2-1 away win over Nashville last time out. Indeed, that victory snapped Sporting KC’s disastrous eight-game winless away start to the new MLS campaign (D2, L6). But the ‘Wizards’ have yet to keep a clean sheet on the road this term, conceding an alarming average of 2.33 goals per MLS trip.