Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Dallas 7th with 44 points, Sporting KC 15th with 28, 16 apart. Recent form told a different story for Sporting KC: only 30th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 15th. Scoring rates set the scale: Sporting KC 1.35 scored and 2.06 conceded per game, Dallas 1.53 and 1.62, with the league averaging 1.5.
Dallas had gone 6 games without a win.
9 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Sporting KC 4, draws 1, Dallas 4, at 3.44 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 78% of the meetings. Expect goals on precedent — three or more in 89% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 89%.
Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City staged the fixture, a ground that holds 18,467. It was 1-1 at the break, and the second half added 4 goals for the 2-4 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Sporting KC: Shapi Suleymanov (8'), Santiago Muñóz (90') · Dallas: Petar Musa (11'), Luciano Acosta (59'), Bernard Kamungo (69'), Luciano Acosta (82')