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US Open Cup final: Sporting Kansas City vs Los Angeles FC Match Thread
Sporting Kansas City goes for their fifth all time US Open Cup, but standing in their way is Los Angeles FC.
Sporting Kansas City at Los Angeles FC
Time: 9:30 pm CST
Location: BMO Stadium, Los Angeles, California
How to Watch: Apple TV MLS Live
Referee:Â Armando Villarreal
The Teams
Sporting Kansas City
Head Coach: Peter Vermes (16th season)
Injury Report:Â OUT: Nemanja Radoja (groin)
Los Angeles FC
Head Coach: Steve Cherundolo (3rd season)
Injury Report: OUT: Lorenzo Dellavalle (knee), OUT: Jesús Murillo (knee), QUESTIONABLE: Cristian Olivera (leg)
I wish I could be there, I’ve attended the last 4 finals, and it doesn’t feel the same..Sporting!!!
I’ll give it 20 min. Salloi and Pulido equals no goals. Castellanos over Rosero? Puzzling
Do you think the commentators know there are two teams playing?
It seems LAFC is all they can see. Or talk about.
I’m glad. Shocked by the effort of some guys on our squad who usually walk around. Let’s go!
Outside of Pulido’s shot, hasn’t been a ton of offense. But, LAFC didn’t have much either. Gotta clean up those turnovers though.
Yeah, Voloder’s passes directly to an LAFC player is a bold strategy
PRO is gonna PRO. We don’t deserve to be winning, but learn to call offsides for God’s sake.
Sure seemed like a foul on Thommy, and like there was an offside too. Looked pretty clear to be at least half a step off.
That was very offside
Freakin awesome from Thommy and Salloi. I know it won’t happen, but we need to bring in Afrifa to drive at Segura on that yellow now. Or maybe Vargas since he knows how to draw the foul. We need any advantage we can get.
That’s too much tactic-ing for Vermes
Pretty maddening that it should be over 1-0. He was about a foot off, there’s absolutely no reason that VAR shouldn’t catch that and have it called back.
I really don’t think we have the legs to keep up with them for another 30, especially when they seem to have an endless supply of starter level subs
Russell is absolutely gassed. Vermes has to use more than 2 subs tonight.
If their $5 million player can score, then surely our $10 million player could come up big in this moment? Right? Right guys?!?!?
Hot damn, Kei…
That’s it, the season is officially dead and over. Don’t care that we have more games, I won’t be watching them. Maybe I’ll tune in for the STL game, but the rest don’t matter.
PV couldn’t win with PV’s team. Seems like there’s a common factor there. Too bad ownership doesn’t seem to be good at math…
Gotta see if St. Louis gets eliminated by Sporting KC (again), right?
I guess the boys have been playing for one point for so long….. when regulation ended, so did we.
Yup there we go. Their backups are just as good as – if not better – than our starters
Such a joke that this wasn’t over 1-0 at 90.
It’s been like 10 years since we moved on from Kamara, and I think he’s done better than our top scorers basically every one of those years…
Kei’s goal was absolutely a result of Khiry not being a defender. He’s played a relatively good match but he’s not drilled in the positional awareness required to snuff out runs like that. That’s honestly not on him. It’s on the coach who put him in that position.
Players that have always been defenders have made plenty of mistakes this year.
I’m not sure how much I blame Khiry. Yes, he needs to attack that ball. He knows Kei is there, he checks his shoulder just before. Kei is really good at what he does.
BUT Castellanos, and everyone else, just stand and watch Bouanga and give him all the time in the world and no pressure to make that pass (admittedly, they are probably gassed). AND Pulido turns the ball over stupidly deep in the midfield to start that sequence.
Plenty of blame to go around.