Sporting KC Set for Showdown with San Jose

April 14, 2023 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Sporting Kansas City News Release

Sporting Kansas City returns to the road this weekend as the team travels to California to take on the San Jose Earthquakes at 9:30 p.m. CT on Saturday at PayPal Park.

The Western Conference clash will kick off at 9:39 p.m. CT and will stream free on MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app in both English and Spanish with pre-match programming starting at 9:10 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 Sports Radio 810 WHB and in Spanish on La Grande 1340 AM with streams available in the Sporting KC app.

Saturday’s match-up will feature a Sporting Kansas City (0-4-3, 13th in West) side looking for the team’s first victory of the season against a San Jose (3-2-2, 4th in West) squad unbeaten at home in 2023 (3-0-1) and off to the club’s best seven-game start to a regular since since 2016.

Coincidentally, Sporting has gone 8-1-5 in the last 14 matches against San Jose across all competitions since 2016, including a 3-1-2 record at PayPal Park and an active six-game unbeaten run in the series.

Sporting claimed the season series against the ‘Quakes in 2022, going 1-0-1 across two meetings last year. The first encounter was Sporting’s last visit to PayPal Park on 
May 22, 2022, with the team picking up a point following a hard-fought 1-1 draw. Johnny Russell, playing in an unfamiliar center forward position, gave the visitors the lead late in the first half before Jackson Yeuill equalized just seconds into the second half. Sporting KC then hosted the Earthquakes at Children’s Mercy Park on August 27, 2022 and claimed a narrow 1-0 victory in the rematch courtesy of Daniel Salloi’s opportunistic early goal.

Salloi, who leads MLS in successful crosses from open play (8) in 2023, has historically found success in the series with three goals and two assists in six career regular season appearances against San Jose. Salloi has led the club in goal contributions in each of the past two seasons and will be aiming to spark a Sporting KC attack which is off to the worst offensive start in MLS history with two goals in seven matches.

Sporting Kansas City, winless in 10 straight on the road, enters Saturday with a 265-minute scoreless streak on the heels of a 1-0 loss to the Colorado Rapids last weekend that stretched the team’s winless streak to eight games, the club’s…