2016 GAME GUIDE
SPORTING KANSAS CITY v D.C. UNITED (May 27, Children's Mercy Park, 6 p.m. CT; UniMas) PROBABLE LINEUPS
2016 SEASON RECORDS
ROSTERS
GP W-L-T PTS GF GA Sporting 14 5-7-2 17 14 17 at home 7 3-3-1 10 9 10 United on road
29
12 3-5-4 13 13 14 5 0-2-3 3 3 7
Melia
LEAGUE HEAD-TO-HEAD
17
ALL-TIME (52 meetings): Sporting 20 wins (0 shootout), 74 goals … United 20 wins (1 shootout), 67 goals … Ties 12
12
3
Coelho
Opara
Abdul-Salaam
94 Medranda
16 Olum
AT KC (26 meetings): Sporting 14 wins (0 shootout), 47 goals … United 7 wins (1 shootout), 31 goals … Ties 5
37
10
22
Feilhaber
Hallisey
Peterson
LAST YEAR [MLS] 5/9: DC 1, KC 1 (Arrieta 42 – Dwyer 45)
11 Davis
14 Dwyer
UPCOMING MATCHES UNITED SPORTING Wed. June 1 Seattle Thu. June 2 at Los Angeles Sat. June 18 at Houston Sun. June 19 FC Dallas Wed. June 22 New England Sat. June 25 at Montreal Fri. July 1 at Real Salt Lake Sun. July 3 Columbus
WHERE THE GOALS COME FROM F 14 90
A 17 74
F 13 76
GOALS SCORED MINUTES PER GOAL
11 Acosta
13
12
Neagle
Nyarko
2
UNITED
SPORTING
10 Espindola
A 14 71
Kemp
6 5 2 0
8 2 4 0
6 2 2 2 1 0 0 0
5 4 2 0 1 0 2 0
5 6 2
2 12 0
TYPE OF PLAY
9 3 1 0 1 0 0 0
9 0 1 1 2 1 1 2
OPEN PLAY CROSS CORNER REBOUND PENALTIES DIRECT FROM FREE KICK FREE KICK (INDIRECT) OWN GOALS
2 10 2
3 10 4
INSIDE GOAL AREA INSIDE PENALTY AREA OUTSIDE PENALTY AREA
32
6
5 Franklin
Opare
48 Worra
RIGHT FOOT LEFT FOOT HEADERS OTHER
7 8 1 1
7 Sarvas
Boswell
HOW SCORED
3 7 4 0
14 DeLeon
REFEREE: Alan Kelly. AR1 (bench): Frank Anderson; AR2 (opposite): Eric Weisbrod; 4th: Chris Penso DISCIPLINARY SITUATION SUSPENDED: KC: Roger Espinoza (through May 29) WARNINGS (suspended next yellow card): DC: Sean Franklin, Steve Birnbaum
DISABLED LIST / INJURED RESERVE DC: Bill Hamid, Andrew Dykstra, Chris Korb
SPORTING KC 1 Jon Kempin (GK) 3 Ike Opara (DF) 4 Kevin Ellis (DF) 5 Matt Besler (DF) 6 Paulo Nagamura (MF) 7 Chance Myers (DF) 8 Graham Zusi (MF) 9 Diego Rubio (FW) 10 Benny Feilhaber (MF) 11 Brad Davis (MF) 12 Nuno Andre Coelho (DF) 13 Amadou Dia (MF) 14 Dom Dwyer (FW) 15 Seth Sinovic (DF) 16 Lawrence Olum (MF) 17 Saad Abdul-Salaam (DF) 21 Justin Mapp (MF) 22 Connor Hallisey (MF) 25 Alec Kann (GK) 27 Roger Espinoza (MF) 29 Tim Melia (GK) 30 Daniel Salloi (FW) 37 Jacob Peterson (FW) 93 Soni Mustivar (MF) 94 Jimmy Medranda (MF) 96 Jordi Quintilla (MF) D.C. UNITED 1 Tally Hall (GK) 2 Taylor Kemp (DF) 5 Sean Franklin (DF) 6 Kofi Opare (DF) 7 Marcelo Sarvas (MF) 9 Alvaro Saborio (FW) 10 Fabian Espindola (FW) 11 Luciano Acosta (MF) 12 Patrick Nyarko (FW) 13 Lamar Neagle (MF) 14 Nick DeLeon (MF) 15 Steve Birnbaum (DF) 17 Miguel Aguilar (MF) 18 Chris Rolfe (FW) 20 Jalen Robinson (DF) 22 Chris Korb (DF) 25 Jared Jeffrey (MF) 26 Rob Vincent (MF) 27 Collin Martin (MF) 28 Bill Hamid (GK) 30 Charlie Horton (GK) 32 Bobby Boswell (DF) 33 Julian Buscher (MF) 34 Luke Mishu (DF) 41 Andrea Mancini (FW) 45 Alhaji Kamara (FW) 48 Travis Worra (GK) 50 Andrew Dykstra (GK)
DISTANCE
(W-L-T) KC DC
RECORD AT HALFTIME LEAD TIED TRAIL 2-0-0 3-3-2 0-4-0 3-1-1 0-2-2 0-2-1
INTERNATIONAL DUTY KC: Matt Besler, Graham Zusi (USA); Soni Mustivar (Haiti) ... DC: Steve Birnbaum (USA); Alvaro Saborio (Costa Rica)
RECORD WITH FIRST GOAL SCORE ALLOW 4-1-1 1-6-1 3-1-1 0-4-2
THE LAST TIME Home win Road win Home loss Road loss Tie game Shutout for Shutout vs.
SPORTING KANSAS CITY Date Score (Gms since) 5/15/2016 KC 2, ORL 1 4/09/2016 KC 2, NYR 0 5/21/2016 KC 1, RSL 3 5/11/2016 KC 0, COL 1 5/01/2016 KC 1, LA 1 4/09/2016 KC 2, NYR 0 5/11/2016 KC 0, COL 1
GAME-BY-GAME: WON/LOST/TIED Sporting KC WWWLWLLLTTLLWL United LTTLTWLWTLWL
(1) (5) (0) (0) (4) (9) (2)
D.C. UNITED Date Score (Gms since) 5/13/2016 DC 2, NYR 0 (0) 8/08/2015 DC 1, MTL 0 (10) 5/08/2016 DC 0, NYC 2 (1) 5/20/2016 DC 0, PHI 1 (0) 4/30/2016 DC 1, CHI 1 (3) 5/13/2016 DC 2, NYR 0 (1) 5/20/2016 DC 0, PHI 1 (0)
TEAM LEADERS SPORTING G: 6 Dwyer A: 4 Abdul-Salaam SHT: 46 Dwyer SOG: 16 Dwyer FC: 28 Espinoza FS: 35 Dwyer OF: 19 Dwyer C: 4 Espinoza E: 1 Espinoza/Opara UNITED G: 4 Saborio A: 3 Acosta/Neagle SHT: 33 Espindola SOG: 13 Espindola FC: 34 Sarvas FS: 29 Sarvas OF: 12 Saborio C: 6 Sarvas E: 1 Sarvas
GOALSCORING RECORD GOALS SCORED IN GAME GP 0 1 2 3 4+ TOT AVG KC 14 3 8 3 0 0 14 1.00 DC 12 5 4 1 1 1 13 1.08 GOALS ALLOWED IN GAME GP 0 1 2 3 4+ TOT AVG KC 14 3 6 4 1 0 17 1.21 DC 12 4 5 1 1 1 14 1.17 GOALS BY INTERVALS GOALS SCORED Total 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-90 KC 14 1 4 1 2 3 3 DC 13 1 1 4 1 1 5 GOALS ALLOWED Total 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-90 KC 17 1 2 6 2 3 3 DC 14 2 1 1 4 2 4