{"id":460287,"date":"2026-09-11T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460287\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:22:13","slug":"los-angeles-fc-plays-sporting-kansas-city-after-shutout-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460287\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles FC plays Sporting Kansas City after shutout victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles FC (11-7-7, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Sporting Kansas City<\/a> (4-16-3, 16th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: LAFC<\/a> -163, Sporting Kansas City +360, Draw +324; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: A game after shutting out the New York Red Bulls 2-0, Los Angeles FC faces Sporting Kansas City.<\/p>\n

Sporting KC is 4-13-2 against Western Conference opponents. Sporting KC is 21-3-3 when it records two goals.<\/p>\n

LAFC is 8-7-6 against Western Conference opponents. LAFC ranks third in the league allowing only 24 goals.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season. LAFC won the last meeting 4-0.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Calvin Harris<\/a> has scored three goals with three assists for Sporting KC. Taylor Calheira has two goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Denis Bouanga<\/a> has scored 12 goals with five assists for LAFC. Heung Min Son has five goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Sporting KC: 8-16-6, averaging 3.0 goals, 10.8 shots on goal and 12.9 corner kicks per game while allowing 7.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n

LAFC: 16-4-10, averaging 4.8 goals, 12.6 shots on goal and 19.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Sporting KC: Ian James<\/a> (injured), Owen Wolff<\/a> (injured), Calvin Harris (injured), Jake Davis (injured), Zorhan Bassong<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

LAFC: Eddie Segura<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles FC (11-7-7, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Sporting Kansas City (4-16-3, 16th in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[54466,17063,42706,181506,48,52,51,47,9494,50,49,11203,9491,43954,181507],"class_list":["post-460287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-calvin-harris","tag-denis-bouanga","tag-eddie-segura","tag-ian-james","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-fc","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mls","tag-owen-wolff","tag-sporting-kc","tag-zorhan-bassong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}