Sporting Kansas City vs Los Angeles FC, MLS 2025 REGULAR SEASON

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Sun 23 Mar 2025 · 00:30 UTC Children's Mercy Park HT 45' · FT 45'

Logan Ndenbe 11' Y

Memo Rodriguez 24' Y

Y 60' Sergi Palencia

Nemanja Radoja 65' Y

Y 90' Yaw Yeboah

Overview

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Sporting Kansas City vs Los Angeles FC — MLS at Children's Mercy Park.

Sporting Kansas City 34 games · 26 pts (2026/26)
Los Angeles FC 34 games · 47 pts (2026/26)

Standings

#	Team	P	Pts
1	Nashville SC	34	77
2	Internacional CF Miami	34	60
3	New England Revolution	34	58
4	Chicago Fire FC	34	55
5	Charlotte FC	34	54
6	Philadelphia Union	34	50
7	Columbus Crew SC	34	47
8	FC Cincinnati	34	46
9	Orlando City SC	34	46
10	New York City FC	34	42
11	New York Red Bulls	34	42
12	Toronto FC	34	39
13	Atlanta United FC	34	33
14	D.C. United SC	34	33
15	Montreal Impact FC	34	26
16	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	34	64
17	FC Dallas	34	58
18	St. Louis City	34	54
19	San Jose Earthquakes	34	52
20	Houston Dynamo	34	51
21	Los Angeles FC	34	47
22	Portland Timbers	34	46
23	Seattle Sounders FC	34	46
24	Real Salt Lake	34	45
25	Minnesota United FC	34	44
26	Los Angeles Galaxy	34	44
27	Colorado Rapids SC	34	43
28	San Diego FC	34	38
29	Austin FC	34	34
30	Sporting Kansas City	34	26

Head-to-Head

Sporting Kansas City 17 games · Avg 3.2 goals Los Angeles FC

Last 5 meetings

2025-03-23 Sporting Kansas City 0–2 Los Angeles FC 2024-10-06 Sporting Kansas City 0–3 Los Angeles FC 2024-03-10 Los Angeles FC 0–0 Sporting Kansas City 2023-06-18 Sporting Kansas City 1–2 Los Angeles FC 2023-05-18 Los Angeles FC 1–1 Sporting Kansas City

Recent Form

Sporting Kansas City

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
23 Mar	Los Angeles FC	H	0–2	L
16 Mar	Minnesota United FC	H	3–3	D
09 Mar	D.C. United SC	A	1–2	L
02 Mar	San Jose Earthquakes	H	1–2	L
23 Feb	Austin FC	A	0–1	L
20 Oct	FC Dallas	A	1–2	L

Los Angeles FC

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
23 Mar	Sporting Kansas City	A	2–0	W
15 Mar	Austin FC	H	0–1	L
08 Mar	Seattle Sounders FC	A	2–5	L
02 Mar	New York City FC	H	1–0	W
22 Feb	Minnesota United FC	H	1–0	W
20 Oct	San Jose Earthquakes	H	3–1	W

Season Stats

Sporting Kansas City		Los Angeles FC
#30	Position	#21
26	Points	47
34	Played	34
7 / 5 / 22	W / D / L	12 / 11 / 11
40	Scored	52
81	Conceded	40
-41	GD	+12
0.76	PPG	1.38
21%	Win %	35%

Key Stats

59% Both Teams to Score
H2H (17 games)

71% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history

6% Clean Sheets
Sporting Kansas City this season

38% Clean Sheets
Los Angeles FC this season

Sporting Kansas City are 30th (26 pts). Los Angeles FC are 21st (47 pts).

Goal Timing (This Season)

Sporting Kansas City

0-15

3/12

16-30

8/10

31-45

9/9

46-60

3/7

61-75

6/15

76+

5/14

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Los Angeles FC

0-15

4/5

16-30

6/6

31-45

10/8

46-60

7/7

61-75

7/6

76+

8/7

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Top Scorers (This Season)

Sporting Kansas City

Andre Luiz

7 G

1 A

Los Angeles FC

Denis Bouanga	18 G	5 A
Heung-min Son	7 G	11 A
Esteban David Martinez	4 G

Events

Match Events

0' The stage is set the green flag drops! Another match against Sporting Kansas City and Los Angeles FC has kicked off!
5' Supporters expect more eagerness from Artem Smoliakov, as he is very good at scoring at Children's Mercy Park with 0 goals in the last 0 games.
10' Cengiz Under, a Turkey forward, has 0 bookings this season and will need to keep his discipline tonight.
11' The referee calls foul for Logan Ndenbe. He receives a card.
16' With 0 assists to his name this season, Nemanja Radoja is clearly more than just a goal scorer for Los Angeles FC.
18' Esteban David Martinez puts Los Angeles FC on the lead.
23' We miss some good tackles and strikes. Is there anyone on the field to put the game back to action?
24' Memo Rodriguez picks up a card and will need to be extremely careful for the remainder of this match.
29' will be watching from the dugout nervously. His Sporting Kansas City side need to improve if they are to claim all three points.
34' The clock is ticking and both teams know a goal could change everything at this point.
39' Both keepers have barely been tested. Sporting Kansas City and Los Angeles FC are cancelling each other out in the centre of the park.
44' Los Angeles FC is defending very well tonight not leaving a chance for their rivals to get through for a goal.
49' It’s high time Steven Cherundolo made some changes to put the his team’s game back to action.
54' The USA Aaron Long breaks the deadlock on 54 minutes. 0-2!
59' Memo Rodriguez is a natural and has been asked to do a very specific job for Los Angeles FC tonight.
60' Sergi Palencia picks up a card and will need to be extremely careful for the remainder of this match.
65' Controversy at the stadium! Nemanja Radoja argues furiously but the card stands.
66' Another change for Sporting Kansas City made on 66 minute. Erik Thommy leaves to be changed by Daniel Salloi.
71' Players seem to put ease on their energy level Spectators hardly appreciate such approach. Teams need to speed up the tempo.
72' It is a substitution in Sporting Kansas City team. Magomed Suleymanov is replaced by Mason Toye on 72 minute.
75' A change in the Los Angeles FC ranks — Esteban David Martinez exits the field as Adrian Wibowo enters on 75.
80' Los Angeles FC fans have not had much to celebrate tonight. Their side is struggling to get forward.
85' Sporting Kansas City are deployed in a today, looking to exploit space against Los Angeles FC's shape.
86' Fresh legs for Sporting Kansas City! Khiry Shelton comes on to replace Jake Davis.
87' A tactical swap from Los Angeles FC — Nkosi Burgess on, Marky Delgado off on 87 minutes.
90' Controversy at the stadium! Yaw Yeboah argues furiously but the card stands.
90' Los Angeles FC ring the changes. Ryan Hollingshead has done his job and it is now time for Artem Smoliakov to step up.
Sporting Kansas City will have plenty to reflect on. Los Angeles FC were simply the better side today.

Lineups

Sporting Kansas City Lineups

Starting XI

Bench

14
Tim Leibold ↑ 86'
10
Daniel Salloi ↑ 66'
11
Khiry Shelton ↑ 86'
13
Mason Toye ↑ 72'
23
Willy Agada ↑ 66'
30
Stephen Afrira
36
Ryan Schewe
16
Jacob Bartlett

Coach Peter Vermes

Los Angeles FC Lineups

Starting XI

1
Hugo Lloris
14
Sergi Palencia
11
Timothy Tillman
22
Cengiz Under ↓ Yaw Yeboah 75'
24
Ryan Hollingshead ↓ Artem Smoliakov 90'
33
Aaron Long
8
Marky Delgado ↓ Nkosi Burgess 87'
4
Eddie Segura
6
Igor
27
Nathan Ordaz ↓ Odin Holm 87'
30
Esteban David Martinez ↓ Adrian Wibowo 75'

Bench

20
Yaw Yeboah ↑ 75'
17
Jeremy Ebobisse
25
Maxime Chanot
12
Thomas Hasal
91
Nkosi Burgess ↑ 87'
43
Adam Saldana
80
Odin Holm ↑ 87'
77
Adrian Wibowo ↑ 75'
29
Artem Smoliakov ↑ 90'

Coach Steven Cherundolo

H2H

H2H Top Scorers

Player	Goals
Denis Bouanga	5
Carlos Vela	3
Alan Pulido	3
Daniel Salloi	3
Cristian Arango	3
Mamadou Fall	3
Aaron Long	2
Ismael Tajouri-Shradi	2

Head to Head

Sporting Kansas City Form

2025-03-23 Sporting Kansas City 0–2 Los Angeles FC L 2025-03-16 Sporting Kansas City 3–3 Minnesota United FC D 2025-03-09 D.C. United SC 2–1 Sporting Kansas City L 2025-03-02 Sporting Kansas City 1–2 San Jose Earthquakes L 2025-02-23 Austin FC 1–0 Sporting Kansas City L 2024-10-20 FC Dallas 2–1 Sporting Kansas City L

Los Angeles FC Form

2025-03-23 Sporting Kansas City 0–2 Los Angeles FC W 2025-03-15 Los Angeles FC 0–1 Austin FC L 2025-03-08 Seattle Sounders FC 5–2 Los Angeles FC L 2025-03-02 Los Angeles FC 1–0 New York City FC W 2025-02-22 Los Angeles FC 1–0 Minnesota United FC W 2024-10-20 Los Angeles FC 3–1 San Jose Earthquakes W

Predictions

Prediction accuracy

2 / 4

1.12 Sporting Kansas City xG

Expected Goals

Dixon-Coles · Bivariate Poisson · Neg. Binomial · Elo

2.09 Los Angeles FC xG

I would bet for: Over 2.5 goals 61% + Both teams to score 59%

Match Result

✓ Correct

Sporting Kansas City21% Draw24% Los Angeles FC55%

Actual: Los Angeles FC win

Both Teams to Score

✗ Wrong

Yes59% 0% No41%

Avg goals/match: 3.21

Actual: No — clean sheet

Over / Under Goals

✗ O/U 2.5

Line	Over	Under
± 0.5	94%	6%
± 1.5	83%	17%
± 2.5	61%	39%
± 3.5	40%	60%
± 4.5	22%	78%

Double Chance

Sporting Kansas City or Draw

45%

Draw or Los Angeles FC

79%

Sporting Kansas City or Los Angeles FC

76%

Half-Time Result

✓ Correct

Sporting Kansas City17% Draw41% Los Angeles FC42%

Actual: Los Angeles FC win at HT

Correct Score

✓ In top 12

1 – 1

10.3%

1 – 2

9.5%

0 – 2

Actual

0 – 1

7.9%

1 – 3

6.6%

0 – 3

0 – 0

5.6%

2 – 2

5.3%

2 – 1

5.1%

1 – 0

3.8%

2 – 3

3.7%

1 – 4

3.5%

Asian Handicap — Sporting Kansas City

Handicap	Sporting Kansas City covers	Push	Los Angeles FC covers
-2.5	2%	—	98%
-2	2%	5%	93%
-1.5	7%	—	93%
-1	7%	11%	81%
-0.5	19%	—	81%
+0.5	42%	—	58%
+1	42%	22%	36%
+1.5	64%	—	36%
+2	64%	18%	18%
+2.5	82%	—	18%

Clean Sheet

Sporting Kansas City keeps clean sheet

13% ✓

Los Angeles FC keeps clean sheet

33% ✗

Predictions are statistical estimates based on season form, H2H history, and a Poisson model. Not financial advice.