Throw it out. Trash it. It’s bantha fodder. Sporting Kansas City’s season victory over Minnesota United FC (two wins out of three) in the 2020 regular season means nothing for Wednesday evening’s MLS Western Conference Semifinal match at top seed Sporting Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Park.
Not just because the playoffs are a hairy beast in which mistakes are magnified. Not just because home-field advantage does not mean quite as much without a full stadium. But because Minnesota United is the real deal.
The Loons defeated MLS teams Sporting KC, Houston Dynamo, and Portland Timbers on the way to the 2019 US Open Cup Final.