Sporting Kansas City VS Colorado Rapids

Kansas City host Colorado Rapids at Children's Mercy Park for this USA MLS battle Thursday morning Beijing time. This is overall a quite entertaining league for football fans to watch. There are many older experienced players who previously played in big European leagues. There is also many young, talented – mostly offensive - young players of South America and Mexico. Most teams play aggressive, offensive football and focus less on defense than most teams in top European leagues - for example in Argentinian Copa De La Liga Professional or Brazilian Serie A. Many teams often seem to lack any defensive structure whatsoever and the coaches seem to accept this. Moreover, the midfielders can often be very lazy at defending. Colorado, however, are among the best-organized teams in MLS and have allowed the same number of goals as the current Western Conference leaders, Los Angeles FC. Their goal difference is 13:12 and have grabbed 15 from 11 matches. They won this conference last season with 61 points so the start to this season has not gone quite as expected. The potential is definitely there and the betting market has, in my opinion over-reacted the relatively slow start..

The visitors were excellent in their most recent match against Los Angeles FC at home winning 2-0. The strong LA side had 62% ball possession, but Colorado did not seem to really have a problem with this.. The visitors also recorded more completed passes. However, I was extremely impressed by the way they defended allowing the visitors only two shots on target. Colorado created six themselves. Their level has not been even close to that good in all matches but even if they are not at their best today in Kansas, they would still have a good chance to win. The probability is 43%. However, my fans and I only need a draw with the suggested +0.5 goals handicap option to extend the good streak. The chance of winning is 71%. If they defend as well as in the most recent game Kansas might have a hard time to even score – let alone win! Colorado would definitely have deserved more points this season as they have had some bad luck in many matches. The best example of this was a very balanced match against Minnesota United away from home. They lost 1-3 as underdogs.

Kansas have been very disappointing so far this season as whole ad have just eight points in the bank. The main problem has been the very shaky defense. Indeed, they have conceded 20 goals in 12 matches. Their offense has not been great either – it lacks speed, structure and creativity! We must remember, though, that they did finish in 3rd place last season – with only a few points less than the visitors - in this conference and will sure gradually improve as the season progresses.. At the moment Colorado are, however, quite a lot better in all areas of the game! Kansas have not won any of their latest seven matches in MLS! They did beat FC Dallas in a cup match after overtime 4-2 though. The score after 90 minutes was 2-2. Kansas do not have the best fans and the home advantage is not as big as with many other teams. We must also remember that this is a weekday game - in the weekend there would probably have been more fans and they would be more enthusiastic.

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北京时间周四上午，堪萨斯城在儿童慈善公园主场迎战科罗拉多急流队。对于球迷来说，这是一个非常有趣的联赛。有许多经验丰富的老球员曾经在欧洲的大联赛中效力过。还有许多来自南美和墨西哥的年轻、有天赋的球员——大多是进攻型的。与欧洲顶级联赛的大多数球队相比，大多数球队踢的是侵略性、进攻性的足球，而不太注重防守——例如阿根廷的西甲杯或巴西的意甲。许多球队似乎常常缺乏任何防守结构，教练似乎也接受了这一点。此外，中场球员往往在防守上很懒惰。然而，科罗拉多队是大联盟中组织最好的球队之一，他们的进球数与目前西部领头羊洛杉矶队相当。他们的净胜球差距是13:12，在11场比赛中拿下15球。他们上个赛季以61分的成绩赢得了西部冠军，所以本赛季的开局并不像预期的那样顺利。潜力肯定是存在的，在我看来，博彩市场对相对缓慢的开始反应过度了。

客队在最近主场对阵洛杉矶队的比赛中表现出色，2比0获胜。强大的洛杉矶队有62%的控球率，但科罗拉多队似乎真的没有问题。游客还记录了更多完整的通行证。然而，我对他们防守的方式印象深刻，客队只有两球命中目标。科罗拉多州自己创造了6个。他们的水平并不是在所有的比赛中都接近那么好，但即使他们在堪萨斯不是最好的，他们仍然有很好的机会赢得比赛。概率是43%然而，我的球迷和我只需要一个平局，加上建议的+0.5个球的障碍选项，就可以延长好势头。获胜的几率是71%如果他们的防守像最近的比赛一样好，堪萨斯队可能很难得分，更别说赢了!科罗拉多队本赛季绝对应该得到更多的分数，因为他们在很多比赛中都有一些坏运气。最好的例子就是客场对阵明尼苏达的一场平衡的比赛。他们以1比3败北。

到目前为止，堪萨斯队这个赛季的表现非常令人失望，整个广告在银行里只有8分。主要的问题是不可靠的防守。事实上，他们在12场比赛中丢了20球。他们的进攻也不是很好——缺乏速度、结构和创造力!尽管如此，我们必须记住，他们上个赛季确实以第三名的成绩结束了比赛——只比客队少了几分——在这次比赛中，他们肯定会随着赛季的进展而逐渐提高。然而，目前科罗拉多队在比赛的各个方面都做得很好!堪萨斯队最近七场比赛都没赢过!他们在一场加时赛中4-2击败了达拉斯。90分钟后比分是2比2。堪萨斯没有最好的球迷，主场优势也不像其他球队那么大。我们也必须记住这是一场工作日的比赛，在周末可能会有更多的球迷，他们会更有热情。