Los Angeles FC vs Sporting Kansas City Predictions

• All of the previous six meetings between these two have seen at least three goals scored.
• Both teams have scored in four of LAFC’s last five matches.
• LAFC’s home matches are averaging three goals per game so far this season.

Hosts looking to bounce back after derby day defeat

Los Angeles come into this one sitting top of the Western Conference and were agonisingly close to maintaining their unbeaten start to the season last time out but ultimately fell to defeat to arch-rivals LA Galaxy. They showed tremendous fight after going 2-0 down as Cristian Arango notched one back with 10 minutes left to play. Latif Blessing thought he’d scored the equaliser in the 98th minute only for the goal to be ruled out for an agonisingly tight offside call. Now they’ll look to get back to winning ways against a Sporting Kansas City outfit who’ve lost five of their opening seven games.

The visitors finished as best of the west in both 2018 and 2020 but now find themselves languishing in twelfth place after seven games played. They’ve been far too easy to score against whilst lacking any potency in their own attack. On the road, they’ve been pretty horrific. In their four away games, they’ve scored just twice but conceded an alarming nine goals – over two per game on average.

Los Angeles to cover handicap

The visitors haven’t kept a clean sheet against Los Angeles FC in any of their previous meetings with the West Coast side and given they’re struggling to stop the ball going in their net already, we think the hosts will bounce back from derby defeat at the first time of asking. We’ll back LAFC on a -1 handicap here as they coast to victory.

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