r/SportingKC

FT: Seattle Sounders FC 2 - 1 Sporting Kansas City

⚽ Seattle Sounders FC: Sebastian Gomez 51' 51', Cristian Roldan 90' 90'

⚽ Sporting Kansas City: André Luiz 44' 44'

Info	Details
Competition	MLS
Date	Fri, October 2, 2026
Kickoff	1:30 AM UTC
Status	FT

Line-ups

Seattle Sounders FC (4-2-3-1)

Starting XI	Bench
26 Andy Thomas	19 Daniel Musovski
25 Jackson Ragen	17 Paul Arriola
5 Nouhou Tolo	39 Stuart Hawkins
16 Alex Roldan	81 Mark Bronnik
11 Albert Rusnák	24 Stefan Frei
7 Cristian Roldan	4 Ryan Sailor
45 Peter Kingston	35 Antino Lopez
13 Jordan Morris	28 Yeimar Gómez
8 Caden Clark
90 Sebastian Gomez
85 Kalani Kossa-Rienzi

Sporting Kansas City (4-4-2)

Starting XI	Bench
30 Stefan Cleveland	42 Alexander Cunningham
28 Wyatt Meyer	22 Zorhan Bassong
15 Jansen Miller	2 Ian James
18 Emir Karic	99 Jayden Reid
13 Justin Reynolds	1 John Pulskamp
4 Lasse Berg Johnsen	29 Seymour Reid
20 Kwaku Agyabeng	93 Shapi Suleymanov
14 Calvin Harris	23 Ethan Bartlow
11 André Luiz	16 Jacob Bartlett
17 Stephen Afrifa
19 Taylor Calheira

Match Events

• Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
• First Half begins.
• 45'+1' First Half ends, Seattle Sounders FC 0, Sporting Kansas City 1.
• 45' Second Half begins Seattle Sounders FC 0, Sporting Kansas City 1.
• 45' Substitution, Seattle Sounders FC. Sebastian Gomez replaces Danny Musovski.
• 63' Substitution, Seattle Sounders FC. Kalani Kossa-Rienzi replaces Stuart Hawkins.
• 63' Substitution, Seattle Sounders FC. Caden Clark replaces Paul Arriola.
• 76' Substitution, Sporting Kansas City. Zorhan Bassong replaces Calvin Harris.
• 76' Substitution, Sporting Kansas City. Shapi Suleymanov replaces André Luiz.
• 76' Substitution, Sporting Kansas City. Seymour Reid replaces Stephen Afrifa.
• 79' Substitution, Sporting Kansas City. Jacob Bartlett replaces Lasse Berg Johnsen because of an injury.
• 89' Substitution, Seattle Sounders FC. Mark Bronnik replaces Peter Kingston because of an injury.

Match Stats

Stat	Home	Away
Fouls	7	4
Yellow Cards	1	0
Red Cards	0	0
Offsides	1	2
Corner Kicks	11	6
Saves	8	5
Possession	59.3	40.7
SHOTS	21	21
ON GOAL	7	10
On Target %	0.3	0.5
Penalty Goals	0	0
Penalty Kicks Taken	0	0
Accurate Passes	483	317
Passes	541	367
Pass Completion %	0.9	0.9
Accurate Crosses	5	6
Crosses	17	18
Cross %	0.3	0.3
Long Balls	40	28
Accurate Long Balls	24	12
Long Balls %	0.6	0.4
Blocked Shots	7	3
Effective Tackles	7	10
Tackles	11	11
Tackle %	0.6	0.9
Interceptions	11	10
Effective Clearances	27	18
Clearances	27	18

Group B

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Vancouver Whitecaps	26	15	5	6	+33	50
2	St. Louis CITY SC	27	13	8	6	+12	47
3	FC Dallas	27	13	8	6	+8	47
4	San Jose Earthquakes	27	13	6	8	+10	45
5	Houston Dynamo FC	27	13	5	9	+2	44
6	LAFC	28	11	8	9	+13	41
7	Colorado Rapids	27	11	3	13	0	36
8	LA Galaxy	28	9	9	10	-7	36
9	Seattle Sounders FC	26	9	8	9	-1	35
10	Portland Timbers	27	9	5	13	-3	32
11	Real Salt Lake	27	9	5	13	-4	32
12	San Diego FC	27	8	8	11	0	32
13	Austin FC	27	7	10	10	-12	31
14	Minnesota United FC	27	7	8	12	-9	29
15	Sporting Kansas City	26	6	3	17	-32	21

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This is just an observation. But if you look back to the success of Rafa - he generally had teams that had :

1. A solid GK - Vaclík (Basel) & von Ballmoos (Young Boys)

And perhaps just as improtant....

2. His backline was sort of the star of the show :

At Basel he became famous and sort of a prodigy because
Michael Lang, Marek Suchy, Manuel Akanji, Eder Balanta, Serey Die were all able to build up drives by attacking space and had the recover speed to mark on counter attacks.

He was asked to replicate that at YB.

Garcia, Lustenberger, Camara and later Cheikh Niasse were all solid defenders who could control the ball well and find excellent through balls in the attacking 1/3.

Watching this game tonight, and I know there are injuries and other concerns , but our back line is almost like a recreational league team of 8 year olds where they have the least amount of talent on the team and we just stick them there because they have to.

I don't think Jansen Miller would dominate in the USL in his peak, but KC (even after Lee got here) seems to be attached to developing him.

Bartlett, Davis, Meyer might have some fan love... but they are kinda run-of-the-mill defensive backfield players that wouldn't work in a Swiss system and their ceiling isn't high enough for Wicky to utilize them as the starting back line.

I feel like our pace and dribbling ability / ball skills and overall speed is just not what Wicky would be satisfied with w/ a team he was coaching - tactics he'd want to explore. Mosquera is probably the closest to what he'd want to have ... but kinda wish we had more options than him.

Maybe Lee is just dealing with what he can w/ the situations of Moises and Blorian. His years of development even after he left helped Peretta at Basel and Amenda, Zesiger, Blum at YB to the point that they could basically reload.

Ethan has been recalled for the remainder of the season