Sporting KC Visits Vancouver on Saturday
June 2, 2023 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Press release from Sporting Kansas City
After back-to-back home wins, Sporting Kansas City will return to the streets as league leaders for the tenth time this season when the club crosses the Canadian border to visit Vancouver Whitecaps FC at 9:30 p.m. CT on Saturday at BC Place.
All 13 MLS games on Saturday, beginning with NYCvNE at 2:30 p.m. CT and ending with VANvSKC in the Round 17 final, will be available for free in the MLS Season Pass on Apple TV when Major League Soccer closes the halfway point of the 2023 season reached. Saturday’s Vancouver showdown will be streamed live in English, Spanish and French as fans in over 100 countries and regions can enjoy the MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app on Apple devices, smart TVs, streaming devices from Roku, Amazon and can view google. game consoles and tv.apple.com.
In addition, all Sporting Kansas City games will be broadcast by pub partners on the Sporting Pub Network and local radio coverage of the game in Canada will air on Sports Radio 810 WHB and La Grande 1340 AM, with streams available on the Sporting KC app .
After a winless start in the first ten games of the year, Sporting Kansas City, 4-1-1, has the most points of any team in the Western Conference in the month of May and now faces a quick turnaround as the team goes into a five-game list in June. Sporting clinched a comfortable 4-1 win over Portland on Sunday before beating FC Dallas 2-1 on Wednesday, setting the stage for Saturday as SKC have their first opportunity of three wins in the regular season of seven days to tally time in team history.
Daniel Salloi scored the deciding goal in both games as the 2021 MLS All-Star and MLS MVP finalist has scored or assisted half of Sporting’s 18 goals in all competitions this year with five goals and four assists. The 26-year-old SKC Academy product leads the team in both categories and also ranks among the league leaders in several stats, including shots on target (2nd), crosses successfully in open play (4th), assists expected (6th and 6th). ) and created opportunities (10th).
Salloi has recorded five career goals (three goals, two assists) in seven regular-season games against a Vancouver side who have beaten Sporting in their last three regular-season games and won three straight home games in 2023. Most recently, the Whitecaps scored a club-record six goals in Wednesday’s highest-scoring game of the MLS season in a 6-2 win over Houston, moving them to sixth place in the Western Conference.
The win extended Vancouver’s unbeaten home streak to seven games (5-0-2) at BC Place, home of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final and games will be played during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Whitecaps netted an MLS-best 14 goals in May. Brian White leads the team with eight goals in all competitions and leads the league with 8.11 expected goals, while fellow forward Simon Becher – who was born in Topeka, Kansas – has contributed seven goals in his second season as a professional .
After navigating his club’s participation in the Concacaf Champions League in March and April, head coach Vanni Sartini faces another busy stretch of the season as the Whitecaps play 11 games in a 36-day span from May 6th to June 10th . A streak of five straight games midweek will culminate with the 2023 Canadian Championship final on Wednesday, June 7 when the Whitecaps defend their title against CF Montreal.
Sporting Kansas City is 11-6-4 all-time against Vancouver in the MLS regular season, including a 5-4-2 record at BC Place, but manager Peter Vermes will be without six players on Saturday through injuries. Willy Agada (shin), Kortne Ford (hamstring), Tim Melia (quad), Kayden Pierre (hamstring) and Johnny Russell (hamstring) remain out, while Graham Zusi, on Wednesday as a second-half substitute, suffered a hamstring injury.
Sporting Kansas City at Vancouver Whitecaps FC
2023 MLS regular season | game 17
Saturday 3rd June | 9:30pm CT (9:39am kick-off)
BC Square | Vancouver, British Columbia
Broadcast schedule:
AppleTV | Free with MLS Season Pass
English Radio | Sports radio 810 WHB
Spanish Radio | La Grande 1340h
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