Most of the attention heading into this week’s match will probably be around the wild playoff matchup between these two teams to end San Jose’s season in 2020. And rightfully so. It was a crazy match with a history making performance by Tim Melia during the penalty shootout, but I want to go another direction.
I want to go back to the spring of 2019. I wrote a preview for a SKC/SJ game, that without even needing to look it up, said something to the effect of, this Sporting Kansas City team is capable of beating anyone.