Sporting Kansas City travels west on Saturday to face the Colorado Rapids (5 p.m. CT, KMCI-TV & SKCtv) for their second away match of the 2014 Major League Soccer regular season. Historically, the series has been fairly even but Sporting KC are in the midst of a seven match (nine including postseason play) unbeaten streak against the Rapids in the regular season. Sporting KC's last victory in Colorado was on October 30, 2011, a 2-0 victory during the MLS Cup Playoffs. The teams most recent meeting was last August when Sporting KC earned a 2-1 victory behind goals from Benny Feilhaber and Graham Zusi. March 29 is the lone regular season meetinge between the two sides.
Below is a closer look at the two teams in this match's By The Numbers preview.
A few notable stats
- Sporting KC leads MLS with nine chances created from set plays
- All three of Colorado's goals this season have been scored from penalty kicks
- Sporting KC leads MLS with 203 duels won and 71 aerial duels won
- Colorado scored five goals from outside the box at home in 2013, second most in MLS
- Benny Feilhaber leads MLS with nine chances created
- Colorado's new head coach, Pablo Mastroeni, played 12 years with the club featuring in over 200 matches
Head To Head (MLS regular season)
Overall: 21-17-13
- Home Matches: 17-3-5 (55 goals scored, 25 goals conceded)
- Away Matches: 4-14-8 (32 goals scored, 43 goals conceded)
Team Leaders (MLS regular season)
<u>Sporting KC</u> |
<u>Stat</u> |
<u>Colorado Rapids</u> |
Collin/Dwyer 1 |
<strong>GOALS</strong> |
Vicente Sanchez 2 |
Benny Feilhaber 1 |
<strong>ASSISTS</strong> |
N/A |
Dom Dwyer 6 |
<strong>SHOTS</strong> |
Deshorn Brown 11 |
Benny Feilhaber 5 |
<strong>FOULS</strong> |
Shane O'Neill 5 |
Eric Kronberg 3 |
<strong>SAVES</strong> |
John Berner 4 |
Eric Kronberg 1.00 |
<strong>GAA</strong> |
John Berner 0.50 |
Team Stats (MLS regular season)
<u>Sporting KC</u> |
<u>Colorado Rapids</u> |
|
Shots (on goal) |
45 (15) |
31 (13) |
Fouls Committed (Suffered) |
57 (54) |
23 (20) |
Duels Success (Avg) |
51.79% |
45.35% |
Passes (Avg) |
396 |
397 |
Passing Accuracy (Avg) |
78.11% |
78.44% |
Possession (Avg) |
55.44% |
49.33% |
Recent regular season meetings
<u>Date</u> |
<u>Score</u> |
<u>Result</u> |
<u>Location</u> |
05/28/2011 |
1-1 |
D |
Dick's Sporting Goods Park |
07/06/2011 |
1-1 |
D |
Sporting Park |
05/19/2012 |
2-2 |
D |
Dick's Sporting Goods Park |
08/31/2013 |
2-1 |
W |
Sporting Park |
