Match Report
15 points for Sporting KC (15th), 27 for Seattle Sounders (13th): a 12-point gap. On recent form Sporting KC sat only 30th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 15th overall. Per game in the league, Sporting KC were scoring 1 and conceding 2.52, Seattle Sounders 1.09 and 1.32, against a competition average of 1.6 goals per team per game.
Sporting KC arrived off six straight defeats. Momentum sat with Seattle Sounders, winners of their last three. Over the last five, Sporting KC had taken 0 of 15 points to Seattle Sounders's 12.
GioScore's database holds 5 meetings between the two: 2 for Sporting KC, 3 for Seattle Sounders and 0 drawn, at 4.4 goals per meeting. History points to goals: 80% of the meetings had three or more, and both sides scored in 80%.
Children's Mercy Park, capacity 18,467, hosted the game. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.
Goal scorers
Sporting KC: Dejan Joveljić (18') · Seattle Sounders: Paul Rothrock (2')
Key stats
Possession: Sporting KC 35% · Seattle Sounders 65% · Total shots: 10-26 · On target: 7-9 · Corners: 4-9