LA Galaxy vs Sporting Kansas City Predictions

• LA Galaxy have won five of their six home games this year.
• Sporting KC have lost three of their last four away MLS contests
• Sporting KC have kept only one clean sheet this season and not one in their last six.

Galaxy bar Sporting’s path to the top

It will be a battle for second place in the west on Monday morning when Sporting KC head to Carson to take on LA Galaxy for the first time since a 7-2 hammering in 2019.

There will be no Zlatan Ibrahimovic to face this time but another ex-Manchester United striker could prove a handful for the Wizards’ defence

Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez has 10 goals in just 10 games for Galaxy and Sporting coach Peter Vermes must find a way to muzzle the Mexican striker without hurting his own side’s chances of scoring.

And they could be missing their own Mexican centre forward for this one as Alan Pulido is nursing a foot injury.

Sporting enter the game with a two point lead, but the Galaxy have two games in hand, and there could be an element of risk-averse strategy from Vermes in order to stop his team from being leapfrogged.

Their three-game hot streak was broken last weekend in a 2-1 road defeat in Portland, but the Wizards returned to winning ways against Colorado Rapids’ on Wednesday.

The away form is a concern, with three defeats in the last four, so we are siding with the hosts to win this one by a 2-1 scoreline.

The visitors have conceded seven in their last four road games – but have scored in all but one of their away days this season.

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