New York City will host Sporting Kansas City team at their home ground within another round of the MLS regular championship. Both sides are having terrific seasons, the Citizens compete with Toronto for the title of the best team in the east, while Sporting have great chances of becoming the winner in the western conference. There I no doubt, that the upcoming game is going to be very interesting.
New York City are situated on the second position in the tournament table of the Western conference. The side has 47 gained points in the asset, the gap to Toronto is nine points, but there is one game in reserve, I.e. the Citizens are basically only six points behind the Canadians. Within the last five games, City managed to win thrice with one draw against New York Red Bulls and one defeat from Toronto.
Sporting have a very similar statistics with New York City. Three victories within the last five matches over Chicago, San Jose and Dallas a draw with Atlanta and an away loss against Seattle, the leader of the MLS western conference. Sporting are situated on the third position in the tournament table of the west with 40 points in the asset and only two points behind Sounders, whereas the men from Kansas City have two games in reserve.
Sporting are known for their well-built defense, the team is going to New York after some points and they may be achieved only through quality defense performance. The Citizens, in their turn, know the advantages of their future opponents well, and will try to play reliably themselves, as in case New York City to concede first, it would be very hard to recoup.
Prediction for the match: Under 3.25 goals in the match
