Portland Timbers 2-1 Sporting Kansas City — Result, Statistics & Match Review — USA - Major League, 26 May 2024

📅26/05/2024 · 🕒05:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 2-1
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
40%
1.9
Draw
26%
3.64
Away
34%
3.25
Under/Over 2.5
Under
44%
2.29
Over
56%
1.56
Both Teams to Score
Yes Pick
57%
1.53
No
43%
2.33
Total Goals
0-1
23%
4.69
2-3
40%
1.91
4-5
25%
2.85
6+
12%
7.95
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
17%
2.56
1/2
6%
32.5
1/X
7%
12.95
X/1
15%
4.71
X/2
11%
7.63
X/X
13%
5.59
2/1
8%
21.85
2/2
17%
5.01
2/X
6%
13.25
Value flag · 2/1 at 21.85 — our 8% vs market 2.3%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
BTTS Yes — 57%
Fair price · no betting value
Every market fairly priced — no value edge at these odds. Our Pick = the most likely outcome, not a value bet.
STRENGTH Over 2.5 BTTS Yes — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Selection The Market
40%
Home Win
49%
-8.6pp
26%
Draw
24%
+2.4pp
34%
Away Win
27%
+6.3pp
44%
Under 2.5
40%
+4.7pp
56%
Over 2.5
60%
-4.7pp
57%
BTTS Yes
61%
-4.1pp
43%
BTTS No
39%
+4.1pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — the market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Portland Timbers The Market 53%
Head to Head
AWAY Sporting Kansas City The Market 31%
+1% / -18% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -4% / -3%
1.61/1.33 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.13/1.68
+11% / -11% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -3% / -6%
50% Ball Possession 50%
15 Total Shots 12
6 Shots on Target 5
6 Corners 5
354 · 81% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 356 · 79%
28.1 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 20.0
20.3 Crosses 16.1
2.2 Yellow Cards 1.9
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Portland Timbers
2W-2D-2L
AWAY Sporting Kansas City
2.33 Avg Goals (FT) 2.33
1.60 xG 1.74
41% Ball Possession 59%
10 Total Shots 14
5 Shots on Target 6
1 Corners 7
294 Passes 450
79% Pass Accuracy 87%
16 Box Touches 26
9 Crosses 30
2 Yellow Cards 2
07.04.2024 Sporting Kansas City Sporting Kansas City 3-3 HT 3-0 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers ABD
28.05.2023 Sporting Kansas City Sporting Kansas City 4-1 HT 1-1 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers ABD
28.02.2023 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers 1-0 HT 1-0 Sporting Kansas City Sporting Kansas City ABD
22.08.2022 Sporting Kansas City Sporting Kansas City 4-1 HT 3-0 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers ABD
15.05.2022 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers 7-2 HT 1-0 Sporting Kansas City Sporting Kansas City ABD
19.08.2021 Sporting Kansas City Sporting Kansas City 1-1 HT 0-1 Portland Timbers Portland Timbers ABD
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Portland Timbers
2-1
AWAY Sporting Kansas City
2.08 xG 0.25
43% Ball Possession 57%
11 Total Shots 6
4 Shots on Target 2
3 Corners 2
365 Passes 523
81% Pass Accuracy 86%
19 Box Touches 10
13 Crosses 11
0 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Portland Timbers vs Sporting Kansas City
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Portland Timbers edged past Sporting Kansas City 2-1. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

We called this one close before kick-off — 40% / 26% / 34% — and on the day Portland Timbers made the difference. The goals side of the card held up too — over 2.5 goals (56%), both teams to score (57%) came in.

On the day, Portland Timbers had 43% of the ball to Sporting Kansas City's 57%, shots finished 11-6, expected goals 2.08 to 0.25 — an xG gap that size says the one-goal margin undersold Portland Timbers's control.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, honours were even at 2 apiece, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 2.33 goals for Portland Timbers and 2.33 for Sporting Kansas City.

What was the final score of Portland Timbers vs Sporting Kansas City?

Portland Timbers 2-1 Sporting Kansas City in the USA - Major League on 26/05/2024. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Portland Timbers vs Sporting Kansas City?

Before kick-off our model rated a Portland Timbers win the most likely single outcome at about 40%, with the full match-result split Portland Timbers 40%, draw 26%, Sporting Kansas City 34%. The final score 2-1 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Portland Timbers), Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — a clean sweep of the main markets.

✓ Match Result (Portland Timbers) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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