2023-09-28 19:04:12
Sporting Kansas City heads east this weekend to take on cross-state rival St. Louis at Citypark on Saturday night. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. CT and will be available to stream for free on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV in English and Spanish, while the match will also be available on the radio locally on Sports Radio 810 WHB (English) and La Grande 1340 AM (Spanish).
1. CRUNCH TIME FOR PLAYOFF OUTLOOK
It’s getting down to crunch time for Sporting Kansas City’s MLS Cup Playoffs hopes, with the club knowing that they likely need two wins from their final three matches to clinch a spot in the postseason. Sporting has won four of their six matches since the Leagues Cup break, beating San Jose, St. Louis, Minnesota and Houston while suffering a pair of tough losses at Miami and home to Nashville.
Sporting showed the type of heart and grit required to produce one of the most impressive turnarounds from early season form when the team played down a man for 51 minutes of regulation play and 18 minutes of first and second-half stoppage time to beat Houston Dynamo FC 2-1 last Saturday night.
Sporting is now set to travel cross-state to face St. Louis at Citypark knowing that the side needs to take three points either from their geographic rivals or the following Saturday once morest long-time foes Real Salt Lake at America First Field. The squad travels to St. Louis without influential captain Johnny Russell, who will serve a one-game suspension following his red card in the win over Houston and failed midweek appeal.
Since the start of May, Sporting have gone 10-6-5 in MLS play, scoring 38 goals along the way following going 0-7-3 and scoring just three goals in its first 10 league matches through the end of April. In that span, Sporting lead the Western Conference in wins (10), points (35), goals (38), goals per match (1.81) and goal differential (+9).
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