Sporting Kansas City vs Real Salt Lake Prediction: Don't get your hopes up on Salt Lake

Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake will go head-to-head for the first time this season at the Children's Mercy Park. 

Sporting Kansas City have not had the best experience so far and their results are not pretty. They only managed to get 1 win in 5 games. While Real Salt Lake had a better record coming into this game, even though it's far from excellent. 

According to current rankings, Sporting Kansas City ranks 13th on the western conference table with 14 points in 18 games while Real Salt Lake tops the table with 34 points. 

Sporting Kansas City will head to the Children's Mercy Park to take on Real Salt Lake. They've not had the prettiest run in the last couple of games and a win in this game would be a huge relief for the team. Sporting Kansas City lost their last game and in their last 5 games, they won 1 and lost the other 4 matches. 

Sporting Kansas City was defeated 4-2 by LA Galaxy away from home. LA Galaxy were 2-goals up by the 54th minute and by the 66th minute Stephen Afrifa pulled one goal back for Sporting Kansas City. LA Galaxy restored their lead in the 75th minute, and once again Sporting Kansas pulled another goal back with another goal by Robert Castellanos. But they were far from pulling off a draw as LA Galaxy scored the 4th goal in the 90+2 minute.

A summary of Sporting Kansas City's game by numbers was:- 49% possession, 5 big chances, 4 corner kicks and 4 shots on target.

Real Salt Lake are not playing their best football at the moment and they have not been for a while despite maintaining their spot on the top of the table.

 They have had inconsistent results especially and in their last 5 games, they had 2 wins and 3 draws. Real Salt Lake are also currently unbeaten in 14 league games in a row. 

In Real Salt Lake's last game against CF Montreal, they played a goalless draw. Real Salt Lake dominated the game but they failed to threaten the Montreal defense and the result was a scoreless game. 

A summary of Real Salt Lake's stats was:- 60% possession, 1 big chance, 7 corner kicks and 6 shots on target. 

According to the h2h, in the last 20 meetings Real Salt Lake won 9 games while Sporting Kansas City won 6 and 5 games ended as a draw.

Match Facts:-

Sporting Kansas is without a clean sheet in the last 5 meetings 

4/5 meetings ended with more than 2.5 goals

Sporting Kansas scored first in 5/7 meetings 

8/8 meetings ended with less than 10.5 corners

Real Salt Lake are by far the better team in this game. However, they haven't been as consistent as they would have hoped. They played a draw in their last game despite winning big in the game before that. So it's a bit tough backing them to win this game outright. 

• Real Salt Lake Win or Draw and Under 4.5 Goals at 1.78 Odds
• Both Teams to Score No at 2.34 Odds
• Under 10 Corners at 1.90 Odds