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Sporting Kansas City at Inter Miami CF Match Thread
Sporting Kansas City won’t take on Lionel Messi but they do take on Inter Miami as they look to move up the table
Sporting Kansas City vs Inter Miami CF
Time: 6:30 pm CST
Location: DRV PNK Stadium, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
How to Watch: Apple TV MLS Live
Line: Sporting KC +250, Inter Miami CF +105, Draw +240
Referee: Ismail Elfath
The Teams
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Sporting Kansas City
8-8-11, 32 points
11th in the West
Head Coach: Peter Vermes (15th season)
Last 5 (League Play): D-D-L-W-W
Injury Report: OUT: Kortne Ford (Achilles surgery), OUT: Kayden Pierre (hamstring), OUT: Gadi Kinda (international duty), OUT: Marinos Tzionis (international duty), QUESTIONABLE: Stephen Afrifa (hamstring), QUESTIONABLE: Graham Zusi (hamstring), QUESTIONABLE: Johnny Russell (ankle)
Inter Miami CF
7-14-4, 25 points
14th in the West
Head Coach: Gerardo Martino (1st season)
Last 5: D-L-W-D-W
Injury Report: OUT: Gregore (Lisfranc), OUT: Ian Fray (ACL), OUT: Franco Negri (ACL), OUT: Corentin Jean (ACL), OUT: Josef Martinez (international duty), OUT: Lionel Messi (international duty), OUT: Sergii Kryvtsov (international duty), OUT: Benjamin Cremaschi (international duty), OUT: Edison Azcona (international duty), OUT: Diego Gómez (international duty), OUT: David Ruiz (international duty), OUT: Robert Taylor (international duty)
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I understand why Gadi isn’t here, but I wish he was. I’m just afraid that the Israeli organization is going to pull a Mexico and hurt Kinda more by saying he’s fine. Hope we can take down Inter Messi FC.
I want a win here so badly. As amazing as Messi has been, I’m so sick of the media obsession and it would be truly sweet to knock Messiami back. Don’t care about the asterisk.
Lol, look at how empty that stadium is without Messi.
Lotta empty seats at Inter Bandwagon
I was just typing up a comment about all the good ball movement, then Gutierrez goes and unleashes that awesome setup for Salloi. Really nice to have a player crashing the net, hockey-style, it felt like that wasn’t happening during the crap part of the season.
Let’s go! Earlier I wanted us to miss the playoffs because I was mad at PV, but I can’t help but want it now that we’re so close.
anyone know how salloi wasn’t offsides on the goal? I’m happy for the goal, but our house didn’t celebrate because he sure looked past the line when the shot was taken
The replay I saw on the broadcast made it look legit (if close), I’ll have to watch it more closely later.
Yedlin kept him on 100%.
Yeah, it’s close, but I think Yedlin keeps him on too.
Dang Tim, that was as unnecessary.
I know they got the penalty goal, but Inter Miami have not played well at all. That goal was a gift from SKC.
Absolutely. And we’ve had the better chances, we just need to put it away
Unfortunately SKC hold the copyright on Points Dropped as Better Team
Yeah. Like that.
And like that.
Tim’s such a nice guy he couldn’t let Miami’s goalie be the only one with a very stupid decision.
Farias should’ve gotten a yellow for simulation. He didn’t even get touched.
Okay GUTI! That was filthy
Ahhh I really wanted Russell to take the shot there. He was in a really good position to launch one in the left corner. Also, Guti is giving the ball away WAY too much.
So frustrating. This is what I get for being excited by this team.
Fontas has to be one of the biggest wastes of space on the back line. Glad we got scored on because he though it was a better use of his time to complain to the ref.
This was one of the most egregious mistakes I’ve ever seen.
Remember the days when no lead was safe against SKC? Those were fun.
That shouldnt have been a handball. It was obvious ball to hand.
Then with Busquets, good awareness from him, but come on, any other time in that moment when the ref is talking to a player, and then the balls gets grabbed/purposely hit from that from that player and is immediately played without the ref giving any go ahead, it’s not allowed and called back. Elfath has to do better on both those calls.
I agree, AND as the commentators mentioned, Fontas cannot let go of that ball. If anything throw it to the other side of the field, but don’t let it go. Once he gave that ball back he took the chance of putting it in the ref’s hands.
This is just rough. We’re playing with a double pivot in Walter and Radoja but neither are winning second balls and both are playing with zero urgency. For the love of everything holy PV inject some energy into the game.
We have no impact subs. I watch other teams around the league bring in guys who inject pace and technique into the game to change things. I’ll credit Vermes for making 5 subs but we don’t have a string pulling midfielder to bring in off the bench (at least not with Gadi hurt/on national team duty).
This team needs a big overhaul.
We should have had a point since their third should have never counted, but that point aside, this team can’t get out of it’s own way.
20 points dropped from a leading position this year. 20. With even half of those salvaged, we’re in 2nd place.
With a win tonight, we’d be in 9th, only 1 point behind the team we’re playing 2 more times in the next 6 games – that’s 2 huge 6 point games. Those games would put us in direct contention with Houston, whose we have another 6 point game with.
A win tonight and a draw next week would have been pretty positive, because that would set us up well to win the home games and have a shot. Right now, I think we have about a 10% Chance of making it.
And talk about a lack of any intensity. You’re down 3-2 for the final 12ish minutes, push! There was so much standing around, passing backwards, etc.
It felt like they didn’t come out of the locker room at halftime. No urgency. No focus.
#VermesOut
Sad