Match Week 25 | First Team Report

a home win against your rival in front of a capacity crowd, yes, that's exactly what Sporting KC got on Saturday night in a 2-1 win over St Louis City right here in the capital of United States soccer, in this

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presses here and giving you everything you need to know ahead of Sporting's next

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against Miami's Inland at Dry Pink Stadium, but

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Let's dive into the highlights. From Saturday night's game it was a physical battle from the opening whistle in the second meeting between SKC and St Louis City.

Sporting almost got on the scoreboard first with this spectacular set piece from Eric Tommy just outside the 18-yard line. It was set up by a foul on left back Logan and Denbigh just on the edge of the area and Tommy's effort forced a great save by goalkeeper Roman Berkey to keep SKC off the board early, but just under 10 minutes later, St Louis found the breakthrough on a quick counterattack that was finished off by Samuel Dinnerin to put STL at nil, however, SKC did not was left behind for a long time. 31. Eric Tommy, dribbling crazy pressure at the top of the 18, sets up a perfect chip pass for Daniel Shallow, who then places it across the box.

Alan Polito, who puts it in for the tie. SKC would then find the gold of the lead just before the half and this time it was all Jake Davis Davis, combining with Tommy on the right flank, makes an aggressive run forward battling the players in red to get into the box and set up Polito for his second goal of the game. Davis sporting took the lead at the half and stayed strong for the rest of the match to finish with a score of 2-1 and earn three crucial points while making a push for a playoff spot in 2023 after match director , Peter Burmese, will talk about his

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's performance, especially after losing a goal and the way they are going in this final stretch of the regular season from the halfway point when we got all our guys back and we started to get into shape and inform us.

I think the guys have started to show what they can do and I think tonight was another good example of that and that it really doesn't matter what happened in the past. it's all of us, it's about us moving here into the future and being prepared first of all, which I think they had a great mentality within the group. I thought we were playing very well up to that point and the game opened up and I thought we were good at that too, um and then I realized that the two goals that we scored are two great goals, they are beautiful goals, but I would also say that probably we could have scored a couple more with some. of the counterattacks we had and we really defined the game, but it's good to see because there was a real intensity and aggressiveness from the group that I think was very evident tonight by Alan Polito, who won the team of the match award. day of honors for the double he scored in this game he also spoke to the media after the game this is what he said yes, I am very happy for these two roles, I think they are working for the entire team because we have together to be able to score yes yes the team doesn't work you know at the same moment then and I'm very happy but happier for the photo you know for me all the time I say I say this yes I score but The team didn't win so I'm not happy so now it's a very Good night because I scored in the team's victories.

Sporting's next opponent, the Miami interior, has been the story of the summer in Major League Soccer after news broke in early June that Lionel Messi came to the United States to join the Miami interior and MLS, but it wasn't just a disaster. Miami also hired their former coach in Barcelona and Argentina, Tata Martino, and brought in Messi's former Barcelona teammates, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, together these four have helped. Miami is reaching incredible heights - they are currently unbeaten in 11 games in all competitions since Messi and Busquets made their debuts in mid-July - so yes, the messy effect is very real and has not only helped Miami in the tournament since the regular season resumed. intermiami have taken seven points in three games scoring five goals and only conceding once those results helped them move out of last place in the East and they are now eight points away from a playoff spot tune in to sportingkc, get on the road to take inside Miami in Florida at Drive Pink Stadium on Saturday night, kickoff for this game is at 6:30 p.m. central time and you can catch all the action right here on the MLS Season Pass.