Toronto FC vs Sporting Kansas City Prediction: Toronto must apply the advantage

Toronto and Sporting Kansas City will go to battle in game 6 of the campaign at the BMO Field. 

Toronto had the following record in their last 5 league matches: - DWWLW and Sporting Kansas City had the following record: DDDWL.

According to the current ranking on the league table, Toronto FC are 5th on the Eastern Conference table with 10 points in 5 matches, while Sporting Kansas City are 9th on the Western Conference table with 6 points in 5 games.

Toronto FC

Toronto FC are not doing poorly by their standards so far this season. They have managed 3 wins in 5 games and lost once in that time.

Toronto played against Atlanta United at home in their last league game and they ended the game with a win. Tyrese Spicer's opening goal put Toronto in the lead in the 35th minute and Prince-Osei Owusu scored the second goal in the 71st minute to seal the victory over Atlanta United. And according to the stats, Toronto had 46% possession, 9 shots on target and 7 corner kicks. They also created 5 big chances and missed 4 and they hit the woodwork once.

Toronto FC are playing at home after a win last week. That should be enough motivation to go on to get another, but they must fight for it.

Sporting Kansas City

Sporting Kansas City have lost just 1 game since the start of the season, and they won just once. But they threw more points after drawing 3 games already.

They suffered a 3-2 defeat in a dramatic game against LA Galaxy at home last week. Despite going ahead by 2 goals from Nemanja Radoja and William Agada in the first half, Toronto lost the game in the second half as they conceded 3 goals. It was a shocking performance from the team and their stats were below par. They had 48% possession, 9 shots on target and 6 corner kicks. They also managed to create 4 big chances and lost 2 of them.

After such a performance in the last game, it's hard to decide what the morale in the dressing room is like. Is it anxiety, frustration or anger? 

Whatever it is, it's going to play a huge role in the response of the team in this upcoming game. 

Head to Head

The last 20 meetings between Sporting Kansas City and Toronto showed 11 wins for Sporting Kansas City, 2 wins for Toronto and 7 draws between them.

Analysis and Predictions

Toronto are certainly not invincible but at the moment they are the better team and they are playing at home. Another defeat will damage the morale of the Sporting and they can't afford that. So how will they respond?

Toronto are unbeaten in the last 4 meetings and Sporting Kansas City in the last 11. Both clubs have not kept a clean sheet in the last 3 meetings and both teams scored in 8 of the last 10 meetings. Sporting Kansas City scored first in 5 of the last 7 and there were less than 10.5 corners in the last 8 meetings.

• Toronto Win or Draw and Under 4.5 Goals at 1.63 Odds
• Toronto Win or Draw and Under 4.5 Goals at 1.63 Odds
• Toronto to Win 2-1 at 10.00