Major League Soccer · USA · Round 1

San Jose Earthquakes
1 - 2 Full time
Sporting Kansas City

Avaya Stadium

Lineups

San Jose Earthquakes4-4-2
DB1Bingham
CC7Cato
MW4Wynne
VB5Bernárdez
JS3↓33'Stewart
AQ91↓80'Quintero
FA27Alashe
DC17Ceren
SD49âš½Dawkins
CW8Wondolowski
QA25↓4'Amarikwa
TM29Melia
SA17Abdul-Salam
KE4âš½Ellis
NA12Coelho
JM94Medranda
PN6↓62'Nagamura
SM93Mustivar
RE27Espinoza
BF10Feilhaber
DD14âš½Dwyer
JP37↓76'Peterson
Sporting Kansas City4-3-3

San Jose Earthquakes substitutes

10 Henok Goitom 6.4 ↑4'
20 Shaun Francis 5.7 ↑33'
22 Tommy Thompson 5.8 ↑80'
32 Andres Roberto Imperiale
28 Andrew Tarbell
30 Anibal Cesis Godoy
6 Shea Salinas

Coach: Dominic Kinnear

Sporting Kansas City substitutes

11 Brad Davis 6.4 ↑62'
3 Ikenna Ike Opara 7.1 ↑76'
25 Alec Kann
22 Connor Hallisey
9 Diego Rubio
5 Matt Besler
15 Seth Sinovic

Coach: Peter Vermes

Match events

4'↑ Henok Goitom ↓ Quincy Amarikwa⇄
7'Dominic Dwyer assist: Paulo Nagamura 0 - 1âš½
33'↑ Shaun Francis ↓ Jordan Stewart⇄
42'Simon Dawkins assist: Henok Goitom 1 - 1âš½
Second half
52'Paulo Nagamura
57'Darwin Ceren
62'↑ Brad Davis ↓ Paulo Nagamura⇄
64'Roger Espinoza
76'↑ Ikenna Ike Opara ↓ Jacob Peterson⇄
80'↑ Tommy Thompson ↓ Alberto Quintero⇄
80'Henok Goitom
81'Kevin Ellis assist: Benny Feilhaber 1 - 2âš½
84'Tim Melia

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Match details

CompetitionMajor League Soccer
Kick-off (UTC)Sunday, 25 September 2016, 02:40 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

5San Jose Earthquakes wins1Draws6Sporting Kansas City wins

11 past meetings on record. Biggest San Jose Earthquakes win: Sporting Kansas City 4–1 San Jose Earthquakes (2010). Biggest Sporting Kansas City win: Sporting Kansas City 0–5 San Jose Earthquakes (2015).

23 Oct 2016Sporting Kansas City 2 - 0 San Jose EarthquakesMajor League Soccer
24 Apr 2016San Jose Earthquakes 1 - 0 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
17 Oct 2015San Jose Earthquakes 1 - 0 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
20 Aug 2015Sporting Kansas City 0 - 5 San Jose EarthquakesMajor League Soccer
23 Mar 2014Sporting Kansas City 1 - 0 San Jose EarthquakesMajor League Soccer
19 Aug 2013San Jose Earthquakes 1 - 0 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
27 May 2012Sporting Kansas City 2 - 1 San Jose EarthquakesMajor League Soccer
2 Oct 2011San Jose Earthquakes 1 - 1 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
18 Jun 2011Sporting Kansas City 1 - 0 San Jose EarthquakesMajor League Soccer
24 Oct 2010Sporting Kansas City 4 - 1 San Jose EarthquakesMajor League Soccer
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15 Aug 2010San Jose Earthquakes 1 - 0 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer