March 31, 2023 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Sporting Kansas City News Release
Sporting Kansas City will return to the road for the fourth time in the first six weeks of the 2023 MLS season to face MLS Cup runners-up Philadelphia Union at 6:30 p.m. CT on Saturday in Chester, Pennsylvania.
The team’s first trip to Subaru Park since 2018 will kick off at 6:39 p.m. CT and will stream live on Apple TV for MLS Season Pass subscribers in both English and Spanish with pre-match programming starting at 6:10 p.m. CT. Saturday’s showdown will be shown at each of the club’s pub partners in the Sporting Pub Network and radio coverage will also air locally in English on ESPN 94.5 FM and 1510 AM, as well as in Spanish on La Grande 1340 AM with streams available in the Sporting KC app.
Despite playing in opposite conferences, Sporting and Philadelphia share a rich and highly competitive history. Both clubs own seven wins and six draws in 20 competitive meetings, including the memorable 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final at Subaru Park in which Sporting prevailed on penalties. The sides last met in the regular season more than four years ago as SKC earned a 2-0 victory at Children’s Mercy Park in the club’s 2019 MLS home opener.
That match came amidst Sporting’s participation in the Concacaf Champions League quarterfinals, a challenge that now awaits the Philadelphia Union as they host Mexican side Atlas FC on Tuesday in the CCL quarterfinals first leg. The Union qualified for Champions League as the top team in the Eastern Conference in 2022, leading all MLS clubs with the best offense (72 goals scored) and best defense (26 goals conceded) a year ago.
The Union’s stellar season garnered several awards with Andre Blake, Jakob Glesnes, Kai Wagner and Daniel Gazdag all named to the MLS Best XI. Jim Curtin was recognized as MLS Coach of the Year, while Blake received Goalkeeper of the Year honors and Glesnes was selected MLS Defender of the Year. Blake (groin) and Wagner (hamstring) are both questionable on the club’s player availability report, however Curtin told media this week that all signs pointed to Blake returning to the lineup on Saturday.
Without Blake – who led MLS with 15 shutouts in 2022 — for the past two matches, Philadelphia suffered back-to-back defeats for the first time since 2021 as the Union fell 3-2 in Montreal before dropping a 2-1 decision to Orlando last weekend. The result snapped a 24-game home unbeaten run (19-0-5) in the regular season and…
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