March 22, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Sporting Kansas City News Release
Sporting Kansas City will host the LA Galaxy at 7:30 p.m. CT on Saturday at Children’s Mercy Park in a compelling clash of Western Conference clubs that are off to unbeaten starts four weeks into the 2024 season.
Tickets are available online at SeatGeek, including the Sporting U Pass offering $15 Supporters’ Stand ticket for college students on Spring Break. Ticket holders can take advantage of $2 off 25-ounce Michelob Ultra and Bud Light cans at stadium concessions and fans can also pre-order the club’s limited-edition Sporting KC baseball jersey at SportingStyle.com for matchday pick-up on Saturday.
With identical 1-0-3 records after the first month of the regular season campaign, Sporting Kansas City and the LA Galaxy enter Saturday’s showdown — the only MLS fixture of the matchday to feature two unbeaten teams going head-to-head — tied for fourth place in the Western Conference. Sporting is unbeaten through four regular season games for a fourth time in club history (2000, 2012, 2017, 2024) while the Galaxy are unbeaten after four matches for the first time since 2013.
LA is coming off a pair of dramatic draws in back-to-back weeks, first rallying from 2-0 down with 30 minutes remaining to earn a 2-2 road result at Nashville SC on March 10 then scoring a 95th-minute equalizer last weekend in a 3-3 stalemate with St. Louis.
The top scoring team in the West with nine goals, LA is led by MLS Golden Boot frontrunner Dejan Joveljic — who is looking to become the second player in MLS history to score in his team’s first five matches — with a supporting cast that includes MLS All-Star Riqui Puig, MLS assist leader Mark Delgado and two newcomers in Joseph Paintsil and Gabriel Pec who rank among the top 10 players in MLS based on estimated transfer value according to CIES Football Observatory.
After opening the season with three straight draws against teams from last year’s Conference Semifinals, Sporting Kansas City secured the club’s first win last weekend with a 2-1 come-from-behind victory versus the San Jose Earthquakes. SKC trailed for the first time all year, but only for seven minutes, until Dany Rosero headed home a corner kick to pull Sporting level and set the stage for Alan Pulido to volley in the game-winning goal.
Pulido recorded a brace in the most recent match-up with LA — a 2-2 draw in southern California last June — as Sporting extended the club’s unbeaten run…
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