📊 Form Guide
Sporting Kansas City WLLLLL 🔻
Sporting Kansas City will be wanting a better result here after a 3-0 MLS loss in their previous game against Minnesota United.
In that game, Sporting Kansas City had 48% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. On the other side, Minnesota United had 14 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Anthony Markanich (25', 63') and Joaquin Pereyra (59') scored for Minnesota United.
At least three goals per game have been seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Sporting Kansas City have participated. Opposing sides scored 15 of them in this period while Sporting Kansas City totted up 7.
Houston Dynamo WDLWLL
After tasting defeat last time out to San Diego FC in MLS action, Houston Dynamo will be hoping to turn things around here.
In that match, Houston Dynamo managed 34% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Houston Dynamo, the scorers were Andrade (15') and Santos (87'). San Diego FC had 15 shots at goal with 6 on target. Anders Dreyer (53', 89'), Luca de la Torre (85') and Amahl Pellegrino (103') scored for San Diego FC.
The numbers tell their own story, and Houston Dynamo have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 12 goals overall. In defence, Houston Dynamo have been far from perfect. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, of course.
👥 Head to head
If we look at their past head to head meetings going back to 09/07/2023, there has been little to separate the clubs with Sporting Kansas City winning 2 of those games, Houston Dynamo 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.
A total of 17 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 9 of them for SKC and 8 coming from Orange Crush. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.
The previous league clash between these clubs was MLS match day 25 on 01/06/2025 when it finished Houston Dynamo 1-3 Sporting Kansas City.
In that game, Houston Dynamo had 58% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 9 on target. The scorer was Sebastian Kowalczyk (13').
Sporting Kansas City had 13 shots on goal with 4 on target. Dejan Joveljić (45', 52') and Santiago Muñóz (88') scored.
The referee was Jair Marrufo.
🗞️ Team News: Sporting Kansas City
The Sporting Kansas City manager Kerry Zavagnin doesn’t have any fitness worries at all coming into this match thanks to a completely healthy squad to choose from.
It seems likely that SKC look set to opt for a 5-3-2 formation this time and select John Pulskamp, Jake Davis, Ian James, Alan Montes, Robert Voloder, Logan Ndenbe, Memo Rodríguez, Nemanja Radoja, Zorhan Bassong, Mason Toye and Dejan Joveljić.
📰 Team News: Houston Dynamo
Due to a fully healthy group to choose from, the Houston Dynamo boss Ben Olsen has no fitness concerns at all before this match.
We are inclined to think that Orange Crush seem most likely to make use of a 4-4-2 lineup, starting the game with Jonathan Bond, Griffin Dorsey, Antônio Carlos, Pablo Ortiz, Felipe Andrade, Duane Holmes, Artur, Junior Urso, Lawrence Ennali, Ondrej Lingr and Ezequiel Ponce.
✨ Prediction
Our assessment is that Houston Dynamo and Sporting Kansas City could both end up scoring at least one each in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating the two teams.
We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square with both teams likely to score. We’re therefore seeing a very even match with a 2-2 score draw at the end of the match.
Peter Guest, 00:01 19/10/2025