Albert
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My Prediction
Sporting Kansas City by 1Hold onto your seats or maybe just a floaty, we're diving headfirst into a Major League Soccer showdown between the wiggle waggle of Sporting Kansas City and the prancing stallions of Real Salt Lake.
Fade out the white noise; let's give our honorable glovemen some limelight. For Sporting Kansas City, we've got John Pulskamp in net, boasting a 7.07 rating and 13 saves; could give a cat a run for its nine lives. Meanwhile, Real Salt Lake's Rafael Cabral is nipping at his heels in the shot-stopping department with a 7.03 rating and 7 saves.
Moving on to the fancy footed fellas, Dejan Joveljić sends pulses racing over at Sporting Kansas City with a cool 7.47 rating, 3 goals and brilliant accuracy of 72%. As for Real Salk Lake, Diogo Gonçalves and Diego Luna are working their magic on the field, locking in 7.5 and 7.45 player ratings respectively with passing accuracies around the mid to high seventies.
As they face off in the primordial soup of prior matchups, Real Salt Lake seems to be having a slight edge over Sporting Kansas City. Just a dash of reminiscence, their most recent head to head ended in a thrilling 4-3 victory for Salt Lake. However, tread lightly as past glory doesn't always predict a future triumph.
When it comes to Regular Season Records, these two are slugging it out in a game of 'who's less unfortunate.' Real Salt Lake managed to snag 5 wins, as did Sporting Kansas City. Must have been an interesting season, or maybe they all just watched a lot of Netflix.
Turning the hourglass to more recent times, Real Salt Lake recorded 2 wins, but they face a Kansas City side with similar recent form. Hopefully, their performance won't be as unspectacular as the latest season of Stranger Things.
Looking at everything on the soccer sommelier's tasting board, this might be a nail-biter unless you have no nails to bite. Hmmm.
Albert’s Prediction: Sporting Kansas City by 1
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