Sporting Kansas City v Colorado Rapids Betting Tips [18 May 2022]

Sporting Kansas City aren’t having a great season so far, and they will look to address this when they play host to Colorado Rapids. Playing in the Western Conference, Kansas City have nine points, in 13th place while Colorado have 15 points and in seventh place. In their last outing, Kansas City were humiliated by Portland Timbers, suffering a 7-2 defeat away from home. Their only positive in recent matches was the 4-2 win over Dallas in the US Open Cup but there they had to do it in extra time and with Dallas playing the final 20 minutes with a man down. In MLS action Kansas are winless in seven matches, while they have just one win in the last 10 league games. They’ve failed to score in four of those 10 matches while three of the last five have produced over 2.5 goals. In the last four meetings with Colorado Rapids, Kansas are winless and failed to score in three of those four.

Colorado Rapids beat Kansas City 2-0 in their last meeting, to end a run of three straight draws between these two sides. They have three clean sheets in four meetings with Kansas City and heading into this game, they registered a 2-0 win over Los Angeles FC. That win ended a run of two straight losses and it was Colorado’s third clean sheet in five games. While Colorado go into this game with the better run of form, they will have jitters about their performances away from home. They go into this game with four straight losses away from home and the only time they’ve avoided defeat in the last seven away matches was in the 1-1 draw with Houston Dynamo; all the rest were defeats. Three of their last four away matches have produced over 2.5 goals.

These two sides haven’t been very stable in their league runs ahead of this game. Away from home, Colorado have struggled to win while Kansas City are just struggling in the MLS. Three of their last four meetings have ended in draws and we are backing this too to end in shared spoils.