Pre-Match: Whitecaps vs. Sporting Kansas City, Playoff Edition

How to Watch

Where: Children’s Mercy Park, Kansas City, Kan.

When: 4 p.m. EST/2 p.m. PST

TV: TSN1/TUDN

Radio: Am 730

Sporting Kansas City

If there is a silver lining to the Caps’ matchup with the number three seed in the west, it is that SKC has not been in good form to close out the year, losing three matches in a row (although the regular season finale, a 1-0 loss to Real Salt Lake, is heavily disputed). It is an abrupt turn of events after a 2-1 win over Seattle Sounders, which seemed to position Sporting for a run at the number one seed and the first round bye which comes with it.

There are some baked in advantages for SKC here. They have only three losses at home all season, one of which…