Houston Dynamo vs Sporting Kansas City Prediction & Betting Tips

Contrasting form lines

Houston have won 11 of their last 20 matches and lost just three, conceding only 15 goals in that spell. That's a tidy defensive record for a team playing week in, week out.

Houston Dynamo: 20 completed matches; Sporting Kansas City: 20 completed matches.

Houston Dynamo

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

15% 3 / 20

Scored

29

Conceded

15

Difference

+14

Sporting Kansas City

20 matches

Win

20% 4 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

70% 14 / 20

Scored

23

Conceded

52

Difference

-29

Sporting Kansas City's away sample tells a different story. Four wins from 20, 14 defeats, and 52 goals conceded. That's a lot of goals being shipped on the road.

The gap between these two runs of form is about as wide as it gets in this league right now.

Recent meetings lean one way

These two met as recently as August, and Houston won 2-0 away at Kansas City's own ground. There's also a 0-0 draw from last October in the recent sequence, so it hasn't always been one-sided.

Go back further and the head-to-head record is mixed across venues and seasons, which is normal for a rivalry with this many fixtures. What stands out is how comfortably Houston have handled the more recent encounters.

A big gap in the table

Houston sit second with 44 points from 26 games. Kansas City are down in 15th with just 18 points from 25 games played.

That's not a marginal difference. It lines up with what we're seeing in the recent form and head-to-head numbers too.

Fitness concerns on both sides

Guilherme has been Houston's main attacking outlet, with 14 goals and six assists in 25 appearances, so his involvement matters. Felipe Andrade is listed as questionable with a thigh problem, and Houston are also without a handful of players through injury or international duty.

Houston Dynamo:

Best scorers:

Guilherme - 14

Best assist providers:

Guilherme - 6

Penalty cards:

A. Bouzat x 1 x 3

Felipe Andrade x 8

Injury list:

Felipe Andrade

N. Quinones

M. Arana

J. Maurer

A. Resch

L. Foster

M. Saracchi

Sporting Kansas City:

Penalty cards:

M. Mosquera x 1 x 3

Injury list:

S. Afrifa

Z. Bassong

O. Blorian

Capita

J. Davis

Diego Borges

I. James

Kansas City have their own list of questionable and missing players, including a few with hamstring and muscle issues. Given how stretched their squad already looks in the table, further absences don't help their cause.

Neither side is at full strength, but Kansas City have less depth to absorb it.