When: Thursday, October 26 @ 8:30 pm CDT Where: BBVA Compass Stadium; Houston, TX Records: Sporting Kansas City (12-9-13), 5th in West Houston Dynamo (13-10-11), 4th in West TV: UniMas (KFTH-67) Radio: 610 am/1010 am (Spanish) This is a game in the Knockout Round of the MLS playoffs. If the score is level after 90 minutes they will play overtime and then a shootout if the score is still level. The Dynamo and Kansas City played twice this year in league action with both games in October. The Dynamo won, 2-1, at home on October 11 and then drew, 0-0, in Kansas City on October 15. The teams did also play in Houston in the U.S. Open Cup in June with Kansas City winning 0-2. The teams have met in the MLS playoffs six times overall with Houston winning 3, drawing 1, and losing 2. The Dynamo have not lost a home playoff game to KC. Sporting Kansas City's most recent game was a 2-1 road loss to Real Salt Lake on October 22. SKC is 0-3-2 in their last five league games scoring 3 goals and allowing 6. They have not won a game since September 24 when they hosted LA Galaxy. This year KC was 2-8-7 in road league games. They haven't won a road game since June 24 also against the LA Galaxy. The Dynamo are 3-0-2 over the last five league games scoring 10 goals and allowing 5. The current undefeated streak is at 6 games in league play. Houston is 12-1-4 in home league games this year outscoring opponents, 43 to 17. The winner of this single game knockout advances to play either Portland or Seattle in the Western Conference Semifinals which start on October 29.
Houston v. Kansas City in the playoffs, all-time: 11/10/07 HOU 2-0 KCW 11/06/11 SKC 0-2 HOU 11/04/12 HOU 2-0 SKC 11/07/12 SKC 1-0 HOU 11/09/13 HOU 0-0 SKC 11/23/13 SKC 2-1 HOU That's 3-2-1 with 7 goals scored and 3 allowed. In the MLS playoffs against all opponents the Dynamo have went 14-8-6 with one of those draws being the 2006 MLS Cup win. In home playoff games Houston is 9-1-2.
So is DeLaGarza done for the playoffs? Any update on his injury? Don’t have many words right now but I’ll be the biggest #Houston fan. #HoustonStrong pic.twitter.com/EdopTq0X38— AJ DeLaGarza (@AJD_20) October 23, 2017
Done. Probably not even available in the spring when next season starts, by usual timetables. https://www.houstondynamo.com/post/2017/10/24/aj-delagarza-miss-remainder-playoffs-torn-left-acl
Match preview https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017...g-kansas-city-2017-mls-knockout-round-preview HOUSTON Suspended: None International Duty: None Injury Report: OUT: D George Malki (torn ACL), M Memo Rodriguez (right knee sprain), D A.J. DeLaGarza (torn ACL); QUESTIONABLE: D Philippe Senderos (right adductor strain) Projected Starting Lineup (4-2-3-1, left to right) GK: Tyler Deric – DaMarcus Beasley, Leonardo, Adolfo Machado, Jalil Anibaba – Juan David Cabezas, Ricardo Clark – Romell Quioto, Alex, Alberth Elis – Mauro Manotas KANSAS CITY Suspended: None International Duty: None Injury Report: OUT: F Cameron Porter (broken fibula and ligament damage in right ankle), GK Tim Melia (right hamstring injury) Projected Starting Lineup (4-3-3, left to right) GK: Andrew Dykstra – Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler, Ike Opara, Graham Zusi – Jimmy Medranda, Ilie, Roger Espinoza – Latif Blessing, Diego Rubio, Gerso Fernandes REFEREES Referee: Mark Geiger Assistant Referees: Joe Fletcher, Mike Rottersman Fourth Official: Hilario Grajeda VAR: Juan Guzman Jr.
Did anyone witness Haywards injury in opening night of NBA basketball, he plays for the Boston Celtics. He snapped his ankle raw! AJ's knee tear was from jumping and then landing. Get these modern athletes some milk! Cannot wait to Thursday night! DALE DYNAMO!!!'
Anyone else besides me think attendance is going to be really poor for this game? Sort of a late weeknight start time in a week of Astros fever
It will be the let down you speak of or the city, ripe for some playoff enjoyment post Harvey, the soccer faithful and others looking for a good time just might look forward to the cooler temps and a home town playoff battle versus old rivals Kansas City.
ya'll are probably right, but I bought my first two dynamo tix this year for this game. first year my family didnt have season tix
Game will not sell out, unfortunately. Predicting 17,000...hopefully. Too much Astros excitement and fans will probably be looking for a nights sports (baseball) break while the Astros and Dodgers travel on Thursday.
I'm just surprised the MLS/Dynmao Front Office didn't try to put this game on the same night as an Astros home game.
I've seen Hayward's injury quite a bit in rugby. When the tibia breaks, the foot sometimes dislocates. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt, and then it's hilarious.
Should be good weather tonight. Forecast for 8:00 pm: 73F 54% humidity wind 11 mph S clear 1% chance of rain It should stay like that throughout the game.
So we go from close to 70000 in one game to a gathering of family and friends, MLS has to be one of the only leagues compared to the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL where you see empty stadiums in the playoffs you hardly see empty stadiums in these other leagues for playoff games but you do in the MLS, I’ll bet you if Houston had an NHL team and were playing say a playoff game during a Houston NBA finals run you would see a sold out Arena no excuses , but in the MLS teams that don’t draw well always have excuses, maybe in the end it’s simply that not as much people care to come out as simple as that.
There are a number of factors, can be discussed later but the situation tonight overall is a culmination of years of poor FO cultivation of fans and the product on the field
1st half shots from #HOUvSKC this evening. #MLS #MLSPlayoffs (https://t.co/yHARvw5oej + https://t.co/g0nnBqo9L8) pic.twitter.com/rfCEPbylql— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) October 27, 2017