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While most European leagues play a cup of trophies during the week, American Major League Soccer have four knockout matches to the 2017 Playoffs. The fourth place finishes at the Western Conference after the regular season, Houston Dynamo, with 50 points of the West, Sporting Kansas City, who took only one point less than the Texans. The winner of the game will be in the playoffs on the first of the Western Conference, the Portland Timbers. Will Houston Dynamo use the home advantage or can Kansas City secure the coveted Playoff place? Kick-off is in the night from Thursday to Friday at 2:30 am.
Houston Dynamo :
The Texans had not much to laugh about in recent years. Since reaching the Conference Finals in 2013, Houston has missed the playoffs in the last three years. With 39, 42 and lastly even 34 points, Houston was not even close to reaching the playoffs. Last season, the Texans were the worst team in the West. At this low point, the club management responded and committed a new coach with the Colombian Wilmer Cabrera. Under the 50-year-old, Houston Dynamo gained new momentum and reached the fourth place of the Western Conference in the current season with 50 points, with a record of 13 wins, eleven draws and ten defeats. In his own stadium, Houston played as an absolute heat, and with twelve victories, four draws and only one defeat, was the western’s strongest team. Cheffrainer Wilmer Cabrera said before the match against Sporting Kansas City: “Every game is totally different. We can play a team a hundred times and each game will be different. “Over the past few weeks, Houston has been a good form and did not lose any of the last six games.
Sporting Kansas City :
Similar to the upcoming opponent Houston, Kansas in 2013 had the best season in recent times. In this season, Sporting KC finished second with 58 points after the regular season and was even able to get the title in the end when Real Salt Lake was beaten in the final. In the three years that followed, however, Kansas was only able to qualify for the play-offs, but did not succeed in pushing through them. In the current season the team of coach Peter Vermes, who has been in office since 2009, tries to finish this series again in the playoffs. In the regular season Kansas City got 49 points with a record of twelve wins, 13 draws and nine defeats. In contrast to Houston, the shape curve at Kansas shows downward. The team has been victorious for five games, and Kansas has been very weak. Just three wins were won from the last 33 games.
Houston Dynamo vs Sporting Kansas City head to head matches
16.10.17 MLS Sporting Kansas City Houston Dynamo 0 : 0
12.10.17 MLS Houston Dynamo Sporting Kansas City 2 : 1
28.06.17 USO Houston Dynamo Sporting Kansas City 0 : 2
10.09.16 MLS Sporting Kansas City Houston Dynamo 3 : 3
30.06.16 USO Houston Dynamo Sporting Kansas City 3 : 1