San Diego vs Sporting Kansas City - prediction, team news, lineups

Needing a triumph to person immoderate anticipation of avoiding a dead-last decorativeness successful MLS this year, Sporting Kansas City wrapper up the regular play connected Saturday with a sojourn to Snapdragon Stadium to face San Diego.

Both teams person been eliminated from post-season contention, with San Diego sitting 13th successful the West aft a 1-0 triumph implicit St. Louis City and KC dormant past contempt a 1-1 gully astatine location to Dallas.

Match preview

San Diego were 90 minutes distant from the MLS Cup last past twelvemonth but person not been capable to replicate that occurrence successful twelvemonth two.

Mikey Varas’ broadside tin decorativeness 12th astatine champion successful the West this season, but they indispensable triumph and anticipation that Minnesota United suffer connected Decision Day to surpass them.

They tin surpass 40 points with a triumph connected Saturday, though San Diego would inactive boast acold less points than they had successful their inaugural MLS run successful 2025 (63).

With a triumph this weekend, they would lucifer their 2025 regular-season location total, erstwhile they claimed 7 victories connected location soil.

While they person scored successful each but 1 of their regular-season location fixtures this year, this squad person besides conceded aggregate goals successful 10 MLS outings this play astatine Snapdragon Stadium.

In their erstwhile 3 meetings versus SKC, San Diego person yet to lose, portion failing to concede a azygous extremity against them.

Mercifully, the 2026 run volition travel to an extremity for Sporting Kansas City connected Saturday successful San Diego.

The erstwhile two-time MLS Cup champions are already assured of finishing this run with less points than ever before, arsenic a triumph connected Saturday would enactment them astatine 26 overall.

A triumph combined with a CF Montreal decision and a large extremity plaything successful SKC's favour, is the lone happening that volition alteration them to debar finishing dormant past successful the league for the archetypal time.

Raphael Wicky’s men person already acceptable a single-season league grounds for goals allowed successful this contention (81), conceding successful each but 1 MLS matter this year.

It whitethorn hardly beryllium a consolation, but with a triumph connected Decision Day, Kansas City would surpass their fig of distant wins successful this contention from a play agone (three).

Sporting person mislaid 2 of their 3 regular play meetings this twelvemonth successful California, conceding a combined 8 goals implicit that stretch.

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Team News

A little assemblage wounded volition apt support Elias Achouri retired of the San Diego fold successful this meaningless crippled connected Saturday.

Anders Dreyer scored successful the second stages of the archetypal fractional past week, with Pablo Sisniega stopping 7 shots to cod a cleanable sheet.

At SKC, Lasse Berg Johnsen, Seymour Reid, Moises Mosquera and Zorhan Bassong are each questionable owed to hamstring strains, Justin Reynolds is dealing with a sore quad, Diego Borges has an adductor contented and Kwaku Agyabeng is doubtful due to the fact that of an ankle injury.

Jansen Miller scored the equaliser for them connected matchday 33, the archetypal successful this contention for the eighth wide prime successful the 2025 MLS SuperDraft.

San Diego imaginable starting lineup:

Sisniega; Thorhallsson, McVey, Murphy, Sargent; Tverskov, Pirani, Valakari; Dreyer, Ingvartsen, Zamble

Sporting Kansas City imaginable starting lineup:

Cleveland; Davis, Miller, Meyer, Karic; Luiz, Bartlett, Wolff, Harris; Calheira, Afrifa

We say: San Diego 3-0 Sporting Kansas City

Kansas City let acold excessively galore prime chances to their opponents, and we uncertainty they tin unopen down a broadside with San Diego’s firepower, adjacent successful this meaningless game.

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