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Sporting Kansas City vs Chicago Fire Prediction & Betting tips
On Thursday, the Chicago Fire Soccer Club ended the series of seven consecutive MLS games without a win. This was quite impressive with a 5-1 home win against champions Atlanta United. With the victory, the play-off places for Chicago are back within reach. Fire is currently in eighth place in the Eastern Conference and is one point behind the table screen from Toronto, but still has a game in the hindquarters. Now Bastian Schweinsteiger’s team will have to compete on Saturday at Children’s Mercy Park, Sporting Kansas City.
Also at the last game of Sporting Kansas City there was a 5-1 on Thursday. However, Kansas lost 1-5 at home to the Los Angeles Football Club. Thus, Sporting KC remained at the bottom of the Western Conference with 19 points. While the bookmakers play Kansas City Vs. Chicago Fire rates betting on the hosts with low odds, the betting base expects that the knot has burst at Chicago and the guests take at least one point.
Sporting Kansas City:
In the years 2000 and 2013 Kansas City had still won the Major League Soccer. In the preseason it was enough for Sporting also to the first place in the Western Conference. Only in the Conference Final, the blue-white failed just short of the Portland Timbers. So far this season, Kansas City has not been running yet. With four wins, seven draws and seven defeats, the men of Coach Peter Vermes are currently in last position in the Western Conference. At the end of the table it is close to. From the twelfth and last place in the table, it is only one point to ninth. The play-off ranks are already seven meters away. On Thursday, Sporting received home league leaders Los Angeles Football Club. In the first half, the tail could still make the game reasonably open and was “only” 0: 1 at the break.
However, in the second half, L.A. fired the ball and won the match 5: 1. As Daniel Salloi awarded a penalty for the home side in the 82nd minute, Kansas City’s consolation goal was scored. Against the front-runner, it tried the team of coach Vermes with much fighting and aggressiveness. In addition, they tried to remove the top striker of the opponent, Carlos Vela, from the game. Both match plans did not go up in the end.
That leaves four victories for Sporting Kansas City. In the MLS only Cincinnati could bring in less threes this season. From the last eight home games, there was only one victory. On the opponent’s place, it was even enough to win only in the last twelve games. Now the next home game is on. The long-term injured Roger Espinoza, Erik Hurtado, Jaylin Lindsey and Rodney Wallace are also missing. The stakes of Botond Barath, Jimmy Medranda, Johnny Russell and Graham Zusi are still debatable, which is why at Sporting Kansas City. Chicago Fire to existing quotas a tip on KC does not seem logical.
Chicago Fire:
In the previous year missed Chicago Fire as table second last of the Eastern Conference, the championship play-offs clear. This year, Fire wanted to attack again and strengthened the squad with some new additions. After 19 games are only five victories in the account. The team of coach Veljko Paunovic lacks creativity and tactical finesse. Especially against compact defenses, the CFSC has problems. World Champion Bastian Schweinsteiger is currently used as a central defender. From there, the ex-Bayern player but has little influence on the game design. After four defeats and three draws from the last seven games, stood for Chicago on Thursday, the home match against reigning champions Atlanta United on. In addition to Schweinsteiger stood with Kenneth Kronholm and Fabian Herbers two other Germans in the starting eleven.
Already in the fourth minute, the hosts took the lead and increased three minutes later to 2: 0. Atlanta did not recover from this early shock. After a dismissal for the guests and a penalty for Chicago, who brought the 3-0, the game was after less than a quarter of an hour as good as decided. Fire even increased to 5-0 before the break. In the second half United only came to a consolation goal. The Argentine Nicolas Gaitan, who has only been under contract in Chicago since March, prepared three goals and also scored the 3: 0 by penalty himself. With the goal to 5: 0 also Fabian Herbers could register in the hit list. Fire has been unbeaten at home for eight games. There were five wins and three draws during this period. Now Schweinsteiger and Co. want to work best on Saturday on the away statistics. In the stranger, the Red-Whites have been waiting for a win for ten competitive matches, only three points away. If you only look at the MLS, there have not been a threesome for 21 away games. Best scorer is C.J. Sapong scored eight goals in the 2019 calendar year. Chicago currently has to give up injured Johan Kappelhof and Djordje Mihailovic, who is still competing in the USA for the Gold Cup final on Sunday.
Sporting Kansas City vs Chicago Fire head to head matches
10.03.18 MLS Chicago Fire Sporting Kansas City 3 : 4
30.07.17 MLS Sporting Kansas City Chicago Fire 3 : 2
14.07.16 MLS Chicago Fire Sporting Kansas City 1 : 0
03.05.15 MLS Sporting Kansas City Chicago Fire 1 : 0
11.10.14 MLS Sporting Kansas City Chicago Fire 2 : 0