It’s the match of the weekend. It might, in fact, be the match of the season. On Saturday afternoon, Sporting Kansas City venture north to face the hottest team in MLS, the Seattle Sounders, in a top-of-the-table tilt in the Western Conference.
The Sounders are famously coming off a run of seven successive wins. They are currently tied with the MLS record. The team that they are tied with? Yep, you guessed it. Sporting Kansas City.
This match has historic, title and playoff implications. KC can be top of the West if they win their game in hand, while Seattle have steamed into the playoff positions with this brilliant winning streak and could still chase down their visitors with the right results down the stretch.