By The Numbers: Sporting KC vs. Colorado Rapids - June 27, 2015

Sporting Kansas City (6-3-6, 24 points) will aim for a sixth straight home victory when the Colorado Rapids (2-4-9, 15 points) visit Sporting Park at 7:30 p.m. CT on Saturday. The match will air live on KMCI-TV 38 the Spot locally and on SKCTV across the Midwest with coverage beginning at 7 p.m. CT. In addition, radio broadcasts will be available on Sports Radio 810 WHB (English) and La Gran D 1340 AM (Spanish).

Recent history in the head-to-head matchup favors Sporting KC, who are unbeaten in 10 straight MLS matches against Colorado dating back to 2009 with a 5-0-5 record (including playoffs). In addition, Kansas City has not lost to the Rapids at home since September 2002, a run of 14 straight league games without defeat (10-0-4 record including playoffs). We examine the matchup in our By The Numbers preview...

Head-to-head

• Sporting KC is undefeated in eight straight regular season matches against Colorado dating back to 2009 with a 3-0-5 record. The current unbeaten run extends to 10 games including postseason, as Sporting KC beat Colorado twice in the 2011 MLS Cup Playoffs.
• Colorado hasn't recorded an MLS win in Kansas City since September 2002. The Rapids are 0-10-4 in their last 14 visits (including postseason).
• Both teams have scored at least one goal in each of the last six regular season meetings.
• Colorado is 0-3-1 at Sporting Park in all competitions with two goals scored and seven conceded.
• Sporting KC has lost just three of 25 regular season home games against Colorado all-time (17-3-5).
• Colorado is Sporting KC's most frequent opponent across all competitions with 66 total meetings (KC leads 28-22-16).
• Benny Feilhaber has scored three goals in five MLS matches against Colorado, including one in each of the last two meetings (8/31/13 and 3/29/14).
• Dom Dwyer scored a 92nd-minute game-winner in a 3-2 triumph over Colorado on March 29, 2014, at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.

Sporting KC

• SKC has won four straight home MLS matches, tied for the longest streak in a single regular season since Sporting Park opened. Kansas City hasn’t won five straight home games in the same regular season since 2000, when the club won its first seven contests at Arrowhead Stadium.
• SKC is 2nd in MLS with 1.53 goals per game and leads the league with 27 assists.
• SKC leads Western Conference teams with 10.8 chances created per game.
• SKC leads MLS with eight headed goals, two more than any other team.
• SKC has conceded 9.7 shots per game, the fewest in MLS.
• SKC is tied with San Jose for the fewest games played in the West (15) but ranks 3rd in the division with 1.6 points per game (4th in MLS).
• SKC is the only MLS team to have three players with five or more goals (Krisztian Nemeth 6, Dom Dwyer 5, Benny Feilhaber 5).
• Benny Feilhaber ranks 2nd in MLS lead with eight assists, one behind Ethan Finlay (Columbus).
• Matt Besler ranks 4th in MLS with 112 clearances and 5th with 55 interceptions.
• Tim Melia has a 4-1-2 record through his first seven MLS starts, including four clean sheets and a league-best 0.71 goals against average.

Colorado Rapids

• Colorado's two road losses are the fewest in MLS (1-2-5 record).
• Colorado has allowed a league-low five road goals. Their four road clean sheets are 2nd most in MLS.
• Colorado ranks last in MLS with 0.75 goals per game.
• Colorado ranks 5th in MLS with 10.6 chances created per game but leads the league with 13 big chances missed and has hit the woodwork seven times, 2nd most in the league.
• Gabriel Torres leads Colorado with four MLS goals and ranks 3rd in MLS with 18 offsides.
• Dillon Powers is tied for 5th in MLS with a team-leading five assists.
• Juan Ramirez is 3rd in MLS with 35 dribbles completed and ranks 5th with 38 fouls suffered.
• Lucas Pittinari ranks 2nd in MLS with 38 fouls committed but has received just two yellow cards.

Milestones and miscellany

• Sporting KC is one shy of its 250th regular season win in club history (tied 4th most all-time).
• Peter Vermes is one win shy of tying Thomas Rongen for 9th all-time with 83 regular season victories.
• Graham Zusi is one shy of tying Chris Klein for 2nd place on the club's all-time MLS assist chart (49) and all competitions assist chart (54).
• Benny Feilhaber's 25 assists for Sporting KC in all competitions are tied for 8th all-time with current assistant coach Kerry Zavagnin, one behind Mark Chung for 7th.
• Chance Myers is in contention to play his first MLS match since May 23, 2014, after recovering from an achilles injury.

Team stats (2015 regular season)

MLS rank in parenthesis (stats as of June 25, 2015)

Recent #SKCvCOL meetings

• All-time regular season record vs. Colorado: 22-17-13
• At home: 17-3-5 (55 GF, 25 GA)