May 6, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Sporting Kansas City News Release
Sporting Kansas City (2-6-2, 8 points) will embark on the club’s busiest stretch of the season with a road trip to face reigning MLS Cup champion New York City FC (4-3-1, 13 points) at 6 p.m. CT on Saturday at Citi Field. The cross-conference clash will be the club’s first of potentially seven matches in a span of 22 days and kicks off a cross-country trek featuring matches in New York (May 7), Kansas City (May 10) and Portland (May 14) in the week ahead.
Saturday’s showdown will be locally televised on 38 The Spot with three hours of coverage beginning at 5:30 p.m. CT. The broadcast will also stream live on SportingKC.com and in the Sporting KC app for viewers in Kansas and Missouri (excluding St. Louis area per MLS policy), as well as ESPN+ for out-of-market subscribers.
In addition, Sporting KC pub partners across the Midwest will be showing the match including enhanced watch parties at No Other Pub in the KC Power & Light District and Kelly’s Westport Inn. Local radio broadcasts will also air on Sports Radio 810 WHB and La Grande 1340 AM.
Sporting Kansas City will be in pursuit of the team’s first road result of the season – suffering losses in each of the club’s last seven away matches dating back to 2021 — in a first-ever trip to Citi Field. NYCFC have played home matches at five different stadiums in four different states this year, and will add a sixth home venue next week in the U.S. Open Cup.
After going a club-record 20 straight regular season matches without a draw, Sporting are coming off back-to-back ties amidst a five-game winless stretch in the month of April. Most recently, SKC rallied for a 2-2 draw against FC Dallas last weekend with club captain Johnny Russell opening the scoring and MLS All-Star Daniel Salloi providing the equalizer.
Salloi will be up against fellow 2021 MLS MVP finalist Valentin Castellanos, who leads his side with nine goals in all competitions…
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