St. Louis CITY SC and Sporting Kansas City Draw 1-1 at Children’s Mercy Park

July 20, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
St. Louis City SC News Release

KANSAS CITY, KS – St. Louis CITY SC earned a point on the road at Sporting Kansas City on Saturday night. CITY SC opened the scoring in the first half with a strike from Nökkvi Thórisson which was his third of the season. John Klein and Akil Watts both registered assists on the goal. In the second half, Willy Agada tied the match for Sporting Kansas City in the 73rd minute. Cedric Teuchert and Jake Girdwood-Reich both made their MLS debuts during the match. CITY SC will begin Leagues Cup play next Saturday at CITYPARK against FC Dallas.

Postgame Notes

STL’s 1-1 draw snapped a three-game losing streak. The two goals scored in the match was the lowest total of the seven total matches across all competitions between the two rivals.

St. Louis has scored at least one goal in all seven matches against Sporting Kansas City.

City SC has scored in 19 of their 25 MLS matches this season.

With the start, Cedric Teuchert made his MLS debut

Additionally, Jake Girdwood-Reich made his MLS debut coming off the bench

Nökkvi Thórisson earned his third goal of the season. Thórisson has tallied three goals in the last six matches.

Thórisson became the ninth different CITY SC player to score against Sporting Kansas City.

John Klein picked up his first career MLS assist. Klein is the 13th different St. Louis player to record at least one assist this season.

Klein has tallied his first MLS goal and first MLS assist in the last three matches.

Akil Watts registered his first assist of the season

Klein and Watts became the eighth and ninth different St. Louis players to record an assist against Sporting KC

Goal-Scoring Plays

STL: Nökkvi Thórisson (John Klein, Akil Watts), 42nd minute – Nökkvi Thórisson scored with a right footed shot from the center of the box.

SKC: Willy Agada (Alan Pulido), 73rd minute – Willy Agada scored a header from the center of the box.

July 20, 2024 – Children’s Mercy Park (Kansas City, KS)

Goals by Half 1 2 F

Sporting Kansas City 0 1 1

St. Louis CITY SC 1 0 1

Scoring Summary

STL: Nökkvi Thórisson (John Klein, Akil Watts), 42′

SKC: Willy Agada (Alan Pulido), 73′

Misconduct Summary

STL: Nökkvi Thórisson (caution), 34′

STL: Akil Watts (caution), 45’+1

SKC: Tim Leibold (caution), 84′

SKC: Khiry Shelton (caution), 89′

STL: Hosei Kijima (caution), 90’+4

Lineups

SKC: GK Tim Melia, D Khiry Shelton, D Robert Castellanos, D Robert Voloder, D Tim Leibold; M Rémi Walter, M Nemanja Radoja, M Erik Thommy…