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Sporting Kansas City is back at Children’s Mercy Park for a match against the New York Red Bulls on Sunday, July 3 at 7 p.m. CT. After three straight weeks of national broadcasts, the match will air on 38 The Spot and is available to stream at SportingKC.com or in the Sporting KC mobile app.
Coming off a stretch of three matches in six days in which Sporting advanced to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Semifinals and beat Nashville on the road, Children’s Mercy Park will host an MLS match for the first time in over two weeks. The Red Bulls are currently tied for first in the Eastern Conference but occupy the second spot due to tiebreakers. Thursday, they defeated Atlanta United 2-1 in come-from-behind fashion, scoring two goals after the 80th minute.
Below we provide a statistical preview of Sporting Kansas City’s Sunday night match against the New York Red Bulls.
Head-to-Head
- Sporting are 4-1-1 against New York in the last six meetings across all competitions.
- Sporting won the most recent meeting, prevailing 2-1 at Red Bull Arena in Week 1 of the 2021 MLS campaign.
- Sporting holds a slight edge in the regular season series with a 22-21-14 record, including a 15-9-6 mark at home.
- Sporting notably beat the Red Bulls by a 2-1 scoreline in the 2017 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final at Children’s Mercy Park.
- Sporting are 2-2-4 in eight regular season matches against the Red Bulls at Children’s Mercy Park.
Sporting Kansas City
- 2022 MLS record: 4-10-4, 16 points (13th in Western Conference)
- 2022 MLS home record: 3-3-2, 11 point (8 GF, 8 GA)
- 2021 MLS Cup Playoffs: Lost to Real Salt Lake in Western Conference Semifinals
- All-time Honors: Two MLS Cups (2000, 2013), four Open Cups (2004, 2012, 2015, 2017), one Supporters' Shield (2000).
- Sporting have won two of their last three matches in all competitions, scoring eight goals during that stretch.
- Nine of Sporting’s next 15 MLS matches are at home, including eight home matches in an 11-game stretch from July 23 to Oct. 2.
- Since July 2020, Sporting are 24-0-1 in the regular season when leading in the 75th minute.
- Sporting have reached the U.S. Open Cup semifinals for the sixth time in club history. In each of the last four instances, they went on to win the competition (2004, 2012, 2015 and 2017).
- Forward Daniel Salloi struck twice in Sporting’s 6-0 win over Omaha on June 22, becoming the club’s all-time leading scorer in the U.S. Open Cup with seven goals.
- Salloi is second on the team with six goals in all competitions, one behind captain Johnny Russell’s seven.
- Russell ranks fourth in MLS in touches inside the opponent’s box (83) as well as ninth in duels won (112). His 76 combined goals (45) and assists (31) in the regular season are third-most in MLS since the start of 2018.
- Midfielder Felipe Hernandez, who has three goals and one assist in his last three appearances including Open Cup, leads Sporting with four assists in all competitions.
- Midfielder Remi Walter leads MLS in distance covered (121.3 miles) and ranks third among field players in recoveries (146). His two goals this year have equaled his career-high for a single league season dating back to 2013.
- Manager Peter Vermes is the longest-tenured head coach with one club in MLS history, having served at the helm since August 2009.
- He remains the only person to win MLS Cup as a player and coach with the same club in MLS history.
- New York Red Bulls
- 2022 MLS record: 8-5-5, 29 points (2nd in Western Conference)
- 2022 MLS road record: 5-3-1, 16 points (14 GF, 10 GA)
- 2021 MLS Cup Playoffs: Lost to the Philadelphia Union in Eastern Conference Round One
- All-time Honors: Three Supporters' Shield (2013, 2015, 2018)
- The Red Bulls are tied atop the Eastern Conference standings with 29 points from 18 matches, posting an 8-5-5 record.
- New York’s five wins away from home are tied for the MLS lead.
- New York tied an MLS record by winning their first five regular season road matches of 2022, but the Red Bulls have gone 0-3-1 away from home since then.
- New York enters the weekend with a 204-minute road scoreless drought.
- Like Sporting, the Red Bulls have advanced to the U.S. Open Cup semifinals, where they will visit Orlando City SC on July 27.
- Winger Lewis Morgan leads the Red Bulls with eight goals this season. He also has a team-best 24 chances created.
- Center back Sean Nealis has played in every minute of all 18 Red Bulls matches this season. He ranks second in MLS in both duels won (128) and aerial duels won (86).
- Midfielder Omir Fernandez leads the Red Bulls with six assists on just 13 chances created.
- At 16 years old, forward Serge Ngoma became the youngest MLS player to score this season when he bagged the winner in a 2-1 Red Bulls victory over Atlanta United FC on Thursday.
- Midfielder Cristian Casseres leads MLS with 39 fouls committed.
Milestones and Miscellany
- Children’s Mercy Park will host its 200th MLS match on Sunday (regular season and playoffs).
- Manager Peter Vermes will coach his 500th match for Sporting in all competitions on Sunday.
- Has coached in over half of Sporting’s regular season matches all-time (421 of 838) and over half of the club’s matches in all competitions (499 of 989).
- He is the longest-tenured coach in MLS history.
- Midfielder Uri Rosell is one shy of his 50th regular season start for Sporting.
- Forward Daniel Salloi has 12 career game-winning goals in the regular season, one shy of tying the club record held by Preki and Dom Dwyer.
