Sporting Kansas City has won all six of its regular season home matches against Minnesota, outscoring the Loons by a total of 15-1. The lone playoff meeting between the sides at Children’s Mercy Park, however, was a 3-0 Minnesota victory in 2020.
Sporting Kansas City’s 3-0 win over D.C. United on Tuesday was its fourth straight home win after winning just three of its first 11 at home this season (D2 L6). This is Sporting’s longest home winning streak in over five years, since recording six straight home wins in March-June 2017.
Minnesota United ended a three-match losing streak on Tuesday with a 1-1 draw against LAFC. The four-match winless run equals the longest for Minnesota this season as the Loons haven’t gone five regular season games in a row without a win since July-August 2020 (L2 D3) including MLS is Back.
Khiry Shelton scored his first goal of the season in Sporting’s win over D.C. on Tuesday. the ended a run of 23 straight matches without a goal for Shelton, who had not previously gone more than 13 appearances without a goal since debuting in the league in 2015.
Minnesota will be without Emanuel Reynoso due to yellow card accumulation on Saturday. Since joining the club in September of 2020, Minnesota has won 43.5 percent of matches in which Reynoso has played (30/69) but just 20.0 percent when he doesn’t (2/10).
