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Sporting Kansas City at San Diego Match Thread
MLS original visits the latest expansion side
Sporting Kansas City and expansion side San Diego FC meet each other for the first time. Zavagnin has to make some rotation, and Jovelic is out as he and his wife await a child.
Sporting Kansas City at San Diego FC
2025 MLS Regular Season | Match 14
Saturday, May 17 | 9:30 p.m. CT (9:40 kickoff)
Snapdragon Stadium | San Diego, California
Apple TV: MLS Season Pass
Local Radio: Sports Radio 810 WHB
Referee: Victor Rivas
Assistant ref: Andrew Bigelow
Assistant ref: Jeffrey Swartzel
4th official: Joe Dickerson
VAR: Geoff Gamble
AVAR: Mike Kampmeinert
Sporting Kansas City
Sporting Kansas City
3-8-2, 11 points
13th in the West
Head Coach: Kerry Zavagnin (Interim)
Leading scorers:Â Jovelic (6G, 1A), Salloi (4G, 3A)
Availability Report:
Nemanja Radoja – Quad (Out)
Our Starting XI in San Diego 👊
Dejan is unavailable tonight as he & his wife await the birth of their first child 💙#SDvSKC | @BlueKC pic.twitter.com/Q0aQyvjyza
— Sporting Kansas City (@SportingKC) May 18, 2025
San Diego
San Diego
7-4-2, 23 points
3rd in the West
Head Coach:Mikey Varas
Leading scorers:Â Dreyer (6G, 6A), Lozano (4G,6A)
Availability Report:
Hamady Diop – Lower Body (Out)
Marcus Ingvartsen – Lower Body (Out)
Andrés Reyes – Lower Body (Out)
The kids this evening. pic.twitter.com/i5cCHQ1Nzv
— San Diego FC (@sandiegofc) May 18, 2025
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Let us know your thoughts on the lineup and the match!
Lots of rotation. No Dejan (birth of his first child).
KC don’t look effective going forward really, but they are holding their own defensively.
I’m not loving that Miller picked up a yellow in the 9th minute. Long time to play on a yellow and a sloppy field where a slip could screw you.
Yep, he seems to do that a little too often
Why is Joveljic not even on the bench? Late scratch?
birth of child
What’s more important, chasing an elusively close chance to be eliminated early from the playoffs or a kid??? This guy and his priorities…
“beating a team that i didn’t realize was in the MLS…”
I am pleasantly surprised by Munoz. He looks sharp and has great hold-up play thus far.
Just turned it on and saw the collision with Garcia and Lozano. That didn’t look good at all. I hope they’re both able to keep playing.
Thommy has to be more involved and effective. I don’t think he has got on the ball and driven forward one time this half.
Feels like San Diego fans are upset with every single call from the ref. Surprising they’re so loud with so many empty seats.
AI
1st half thoughts:
– #SportingKC don’t have much going forward
– The field looks rough
– Lozano should be in the book (studs on Leibold, pulled down Miller and delayed a restart)
– Most of SKC’s defense looks solid
I would agree with all of that. Sucks not having Dejan up top. This is where I wish we had someone like Agada to provide an attacking threat. Muñoz hasn’t done anything wrong, he just doesn’t draw players like Joveljic does.
SKC should really look to isolate Shapi this half. Lozano isn’t going to come back to defend much and you have to make him work.
We need to be a little quicker in transition. When we finally break the press, we need to go fast with numbers but we keep slowing it down once we pass midfield.
Geez, I can’t believe how close Shapi got. That hurt to watch it bounce off.
Wish I could stay up to finish, but I’m falling asleep. Hoping we can at least hang onto a point tonight.
This summer Pulskamp should spend a significant amount of time working on coming for crosses from corners. He has been so great and that is one of the only major weaknesses he has in his game that keep coming up.