Sporting Kansas City vs San Jose Earthquakes, MLS 2025 REGULAR SEASON

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San Jose Earthquakes

Sun 2 Mar 2025 · 01:30 UTC Children's Mercy Park HT 45' · FT 45'

Tim Leibold 5' Y

Jacob Bartlett 16' Y

Jake Davis 45' Y

Y 45' Hernan Lopez Munoz

YR 52' Hernan Lopez Munoz

Nemanja Radoja 67' Y

Overview

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Sporting Kansas City vs San Jose Earthquakes — MLS at Children's Mercy Park.

Sporting Kansas City 26 games · 21 pts (2026/26)
San Jose Earthquakes 27 games · 45 pts (2026/26)

Standings

#	Team	P	Pts
1	Nashville SC	27	60
2	Internacional CF Miami	27	46
3	New England Revolution	27	46
4	Charlotte FC	27	43
5	Chicago Fire FC	26	42
6	Philadelphia Union	27	39
7	Orlando City SC	27	34
8	New York City FC	27	33
9	FC Cincinnati	26	33
10	New York Red Bulls	26	33
11	D.C. United SC	26	30
12	Columbus Crew SC	27	29
13	Toronto FC	27	29
14	Atlanta United FC	27	27
15	Montreal Impact FC	27	24
16	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	26	50
17	FC Dallas	27	47
18	San Jose Earthquakes	27	45
19	St. Louis City	26	44
20	Houston Dynamo	27	44
21	Los Angeles FC	28	41
22	Colorado Rapids SC	27	36
23	Los Angeles Galaxy	28	36
24	Seattle Sounders FC	26	35
25	San Diego FC	27	32
26	Portland Timbers	27	32
27	Real Salt Lake	27	32
28	Austin FC	27	31
29	Minnesota United FC	27	29
30	Sporting Kansas City	26	21

Head-to-Head

Sporting Kansas City 17 games · Avg 3.8 goals San Jose Earthquakes

Last 5 meetings

2025-03-02 Sporting Kansas City 1–2 San Jose Earthquakes 2024-07-14 San Jose Earthquakes 1–2 Sporting Kansas City 2024-03-17 Sporting Kansas City 2–1 San Jose Earthquakes 2023-08-27 Sporting Kansas City 3–0 San Jose Earthquakes 2023-04-16 San Jose Earthquakes 3–0 Sporting Kansas City

Recent Form

Sporting Kansas City

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
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
06 Oct	Los Angeles FC	H	0–3	L
29 Sep	St. Louis City	A	1–3	L
22 Sep	Minnesota United FC	H	0–2	L

San Jose Earthquakes

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
02 Mar	Sporting Kansas City	A	2–1	W
23 Feb	Real Salt Lake	H	4–0	W
20 Oct	Los Angeles FC	A	1–3	L
06 Oct	Real Salt Lake	H	0–1	L
03 Oct	FC Dallas	H	3–2	W
28 Sep	Montreal Impact FC	A	0–3	L

Season Stats

Sporting Kansas City		San Jose Earthquakes
#30	Position	#18
21	Points	45
26	Played	27
6 / 3 / 17	W / D / L	13 / 6 / 8
31	Scored	49
63	Conceded	39
-32	GD	+10
0.81	PPG	1.67
23%	Win %	48%

Key Stats

76% Both Teams to Score
H2H (17 games)

82% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history

4% Clean Sheets
Sporting Kansas City this season

26% Clean Sheets
San Jose Earthquakes this season

Sporting Kansas City are 30th (21 pts). San Jose Earthquakes are 18th (45 pts).

Goal Timing (This Season)

Sporting Kansas City

0-15

3/8

16-30

7/7

31-45

5/8

46-60

2/6

61-75

4/11

76+

4/9

■ Scored ■ Conceded

San Jose Earthquakes

0-15

12/7

16-30

5/4

31-45

5/6

46-60

6/7

61-75

5/2

76+

8/11

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Top Scorers (This Season)

San Jose Earthquakes

Preston Judd	15 G	3 A
Timo Werner	6 G	4 A
Ousseni Bouda	6 G	1 A

Events

Match Events

0' The referee blows the starting whistle. The fans are roaring. The teams are ready for the match. Sporting Kansas City is hosting San Jose Earthquakes for another epic battle.
3' Against the run of play, Cristian Arango has scored! This game has turned on its head.
5' Poor challenge from Tim Leibold. The referee spots it immediately and shows the card.
10' Tim Leibold has been one of the livelier players on the pitch with 0 goals to his name this season.
15' Sporting Kansas City is showing some good football. However, Sporting Kansas City are ready to play back every minute. It might result in some problems for the home side. The game will hardly remain goalless.
16' It’s gonna be a card for Jacob Bartlett.
19' Josef Martinez does the damage! The net is bulging and San Jose Earthquakes surge ahead!
24' Sporting Kansas City have won 443 goals from 290 games. They will be desperate to add to that tally today.
27' GOAL! Dejan Joveljic scores on 27.
32' The 31-year-old Mark-Anthony Kaye has been sensational this season — 0 goals and 0 assists is a remarkable return.
37' San Jose Earthquakes come into this ranked in Array. They desperately need points to push themselves up the standings.
42' The Array continues to deliver drama. Both Sporting Kansas City and San Jose Earthquakes are desperate not to drop points on matchday .
45' Sporting Kansas City receives a card for a hard tackle on 45.
50' Sporting Kansas City are keeping things exceptionally tight at the back. It will take something special to break them down.
52' That is a card for San Jose Earthquakes. Hernan Lopez Munoz will be fuming at that decision.
56' Time for substitution for Sporting Kansas City. Tim Leibold is replaced by Logan Ndenbe.
59' A change in the Sporting Kansas City ranks — Jacob Bartlett exits the field as Nemanja Radoja enters on 59.
61' The San Jose Earthquakes bench stirs into life. Josef Martinez is withdrawn and Mark-Anthony Kaye gets his opportunity.
66' The midfield battle is intense right now. Both Sporting Kansas City and San Jose Earthquakes are fighting for every inch of the pitch.
67' A moment of madness from Nemanja Radoja on 67 minutes earns him a card. Sporting Kansas City will be frustrated.
72' Matchday of the Array and both teams know exactly what is at stake tonight.
76' Nick Lima has so much to prove this time. He replaces Beau Leroux on 76 minute.
77' Fresh legs for Sporting Kansas City! Memo Rodriguez comes on to replace Zorhan Bassong.
81' The whistle greets Cristian Arango as he departs to be replaced by Ousseni Bouda.
86' It’s high time Bruce Arena made some changes to put the his team’s game back to action.
The final score is 1-2.

Lineups

Sporting Kansas City Lineups

Starting XI

Bench

6
Nemanja Radoja ↑ 59'
10
Daniel Salloi ↑ 77'
3
Andrew Brody ↑ 56'
8
Memo Rodriguez ↑ 77'
18
Logan Ndenbe ↑ 56'
5
Dany Rosero
23
Willy Agada
36
Ryan Schewe
2
Ian James

Coach Peter Vermes

San Jose Earthquakes Lineups

Starting XI

9
Cristian Arango ↓ Ousseni Bouda 81'
42
Daniel
6
Ian Harkes
17
Josef Martinez ↓ Mark-Anthony Kaye 61'
10
Cristian Espinoza
26
Rodrigues
23
Hernan Lopez Munoz
4
Bruno Wilson
12
Dave Romney
2
Jamar Ricketts
34
Beau Leroux ↓ Nick Lima 76'

Bench

Coach Bruce Arena

H2H

H2H Top Scorers

Player	Goals
Daniel Salloi	6
Alan Pulido	5
Danny Hoesen	3
Cristian Arango	3
Chris Wondolowski	3
Felipe Gutierrez	3
Erik Thommy	3
Johnny Russell	2

Head to Head

Sporting Kansas City Form

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 2024-10-06 Sporting Kansas City 0–3 Los Angeles FC L 2024-09-29 St. Louis City 3–1 Sporting Kansas City L 2024-09-22 Sporting Kansas City 0–2 Minnesota United FC L

San Jose Earthquakes Form

2025-03-02 Sporting Kansas City 1–2 San Jose Earthquakes W 2025-02-23 San Jose Earthquakes 4–0 Real Salt Lake W 2024-10-20 Los Angeles FC 3–1 San Jose Earthquakes L 2024-10-06 San Jose Earthquakes 0–1 Real Salt Lake L 2024-10-03 San Jose Earthquakes 3–2 FC Dallas W 2024-09-28 Montreal Impact FC 3–0 San Jose Earthquakes L

Predictions

Prediction accuracy

4 / 4

1.35 Sporting Kansas City xG

Expected Goals

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

2.16 San Jose Earthquakes xG

I would bet for: Over 2.5 goals 67% + Both teams to score 65%

Match Result

✓ Correct

Sporting Kansas City26% Draw25% San Jose Earthquakes49%

Actual: San Jose Earthquakes win

Both Teams to Score

✓ Correct

Yes65% 0% No35%

Avg goals/match: 3.51

Actual: Yes — both scored

Over / Under Goals

✓ O/U 2.5

Line	Over	Under
± 0.5	96%	4%
± 1.5	86%	14%
± 2.5	67%	33%
± 3.5	46%	54%
± 4.5	28%	72%

Double Chance

Sporting Kansas City or Draw

51%

Draw or San Jose Earthquakes

74%

Sporting Kansas City or San Jose Earthquakes

75%

Half-Time Result

✓ Correct

Sporting Kansas City20% Draw40% San Jose Earthquakes40%

Actual: San Jose Earthquakes win at HT

Correct Score

✓ In top 12

1 – 1

9.6%

1 – 2

Actual

0 – 2

1 – 3

6.5%

2 – 2

6.1%

0 – 1

2 – 1

5.7%

0 – 3

4.9%

2 – 3

4.4%

0 – 0

4.4%

1 – 4

3.5%

1 – 0

3.5%

Asian Handicap — Sporting Kansas City

Handicap	Sporting Kansas City covers	Push	San Jose Earthquakes covers
-2.5	3%	—	97%
-2	3%	7%	90%
-1.5	10%	—	90%
-1	10%	13%	77%
-0.5	23%	—	77%
+0.5	45%	—	55%
+1	45%	21%	34%
+1.5	66%	—	34%
+2	66%	17%	17%
+2.5	83%	—	17%

Clean Sheet

Sporting Kansas City keeps clean sheet

12% ✓

San Jose Earthquakes keeps clean sheet

27% ✓

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