Major League Soccer
Sporting Kansas City at DC United Match Thread
Sporting Kansas City is still searching for their first result of 2025 as they travel to take on DC United at Audi Field.
Sporting Kansas City at DC United
Time: 6:30 pm CST
Location: Audi Field, Washington, DC
How to Watch: Apple TV MLS Season Pass
Referee: Rosendo Mendoza
The Teams
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Sporting Kansas City
0-2-0, 0 points
13th in the West
Head Coach: Peter Vermes (17th season)
Availability Report: OUT: Andrew Brody (quad), QUESTIONABLE: Tim Leibold (knee), QUESTIONABLE: Jansen Miller (back), QUESTIONABLE: Khiry Shelton (hamstring)
DC United
0-0-2, 2 points
9th in the East
Head Coach:Â Troy Lesesne (Second season)
Availability Report: OUT: Conner Antey (knee), OUT: Jackson Hopkins (ankle), OUT: Hakim Karamoko (abdomen), OUT: Randall Leal (thigh)
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What’s the deal with Arifa?
No idea. He was honestly one of Sporting’s best players last year per minute played. Now he doesn’t even make the bench?
Im cautiously pessimistic
Why does Bassong start in the midfield again? He’s offensively inept.
We’d be better of putting him a right back and moving Jack to the midfield I think anyway.
If Davis is our best option at RB, it’s gonna be a long season. Defensively, he is not good at all. Going forward, at least he isn’t a liability at RB and sometimes carries the ball into dangerous areas. He is industrious in the midfield, which is the nicest thing I can say about him. I think people are high on him because he at least tries, kind of like Thommy. Neither is a difference-maker in MLS, but we want to cheer the best of what we have.
Cool assist though.
More of the same, same for the lineup. No imagination or new ideas from Vermes.
Vermes ideas for improvement: play harder. Play better.
How many turnovers in our own half have we had already this half?! Lazy passing.
While I like him, Shapi does not play quick enough for a wing player. At least tonight he looks like a black hole with the ball. Not quick with his decisions and is only willing to cut-in on his left. He has to at least take his defender down the line for some variety.
He has that one cut back at the top of the box where he should have just ripped a shot.
Shapi is a one trick pony so far. Run down, cut back onto his left. Total inability to use the right foot.
Yeah, it’s going to get old very quickly. He doesn’t have the speed or power that Johnny Russell had so he’s going to be very limited in this team if he doesn’t add a right foot to his game.
I do agree that he needs to show some more variety in his attacks. To be fair, he has Bassong as the midfielder on his side of the field. The defense doesn’t need to pay any attention to Bassong so more focus is on Shapi.
Bassong has nothing to do with Shapi’s ineffectiveness. He only has the cutback. He can’t use his right so everything is with the outside of his left. He’s got to either be quick and decisive on the cut-in to get a shot off or he’s got to learn how to use his right foot.
Bassong isn’t the difference in his game.
If Benteke has a little more touch on his passes, it’s 0-2 right now. As a Liverpool fan, I can’t say I’m surprised, but SKC is lucky.
Neither team looked good in the attacking third.
Benteke’s physicality has both SKC’s centerbacks on yellows already.
I don’t think Rosero should have gotten a yellow for his foul, especially given the fact that the DC player could have easily gotten a yellow for his foul just seconds before. Fernandez kicks the ball away for his yellow. Just a boneheaded play on his part.
Both center backs on yellows for stupid s*** This team is something else!!!!
These yellow cards are so ridiculous and preventable. I like that we play with an edge but this feels so undisciplined.
Someone needs to press PV about his substitutions. Why does Bassong stay on the field when Sporting is chasing a goal? Why did Miller sub in instead of Voloder? Just makes 0 sense.
Agree Bassong makes no sense but Voloder is not an MLS caliber center back and he’s never improved with any amount of reps. He’s over. Time to see what you have in Miller.
I can’t watch 2023 and 2024 Sporting again
Well. One positive….the attendance at home games should be so low that the lines at the concession stands will be super small. I feel stupid to have kept my season tickets for this year.
Got rid of mine. Definitely don’t regret it!!