MONTREAL IMPACT vs. SPORTING KANSAS CITY
STADE SAPUTO, Montreal
June 25, 2016 (Week 16, MLS Game #156)
7:30 pm ET (MLS LIVE, TVAS, KMCI-38, SKCTVN)
Two clubs in the thick of the chase for playoff positions meet for the only time this season in league play when the Montreal Impact entertain Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening at Stade Saputo. The Impact made it a second game in a row without defeat, reaching a scoreless result with Columbus Crew SC on the road last weekend. Sporting put an end to a three-game winless run last Sunday, knocking off FC Dallas 2-0 at Children's Mercy Park.
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- The Impact weren’t able to build upon a first win in seven games, but still came away with a point in a scoreless draw at Columbus Crew SC on Saturday evening.
- Sporting KC put an end to a three-game winless slide, winning for the second time since April 9, defeating FC Dallas on Sunday evening at Children’s Mercy Park. Benny Feilhaber scored one goal and set up the other.
- Sporting have won the last four meetings between the teams, over the last two seasons. Sporting took the lone meeting a year ago, a 2-1 win July 18 in Kansas City. Sporting won all three meetings in 2014, when both clubs were part of the Eastern Conference, including both meetings that year at Stade Saputo. SKC has won three of the five games all-time in the series in Montréal.
- The last victories in the series by the Impact both came in 2013, winning once at each ground.
REFEREE: Mathieu Bourdeau. AR1 (bench): Jason White; AR2 (opposite): Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho; 4th: Silviu Petrescu
MLS Career: 3 games; FC/gm: 29.7; Y/gm: 5.0; R: 0; pens: 0
SUSPENDED: none
WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: KC: Dom Dwyer
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: MTL: Ignacio Piatti -- KC: Roger Espinoza
DISABLED LIST: none
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: MTL: Laurent Ciman (Belgium; Euro 2016) -- KC: Matt Besler, Graham Zusi (USA; Copa America)
HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (10 meetings): Impact 3 wins, 8 goals -- Sporting 6 wins, 17 goals -- Ties 1
AT MONTREAL (5 meetings): Impact 1 win, 3 goals -- Sporting 3 wins, 8 goals -- Ties 1
LAST MEETING (MLS):
7/18: KC 2, MTL 1 (Feilhaber 4; Dwyer 34 - Piatti 59)
- This is the only league meeting between the teams this season.
- Coaches record: Peter Vermes vs. MTL: P10 W6 L3 D1 -- Mauro Biello vs. KC: first game
