Welcome to your match thread for tonight's match-up between Orlando City (6-3-0, 18 points) and Sporting Kansas City (5-2-3, 18 points) at Orlando City Stadium. It’s the only scheduled meeting in this cross-conference series scheduled for 2017.
Orlando City is 1-1-0 in the all-time series (1-0-0 at home). Last year, the Lions went into Children’s Mercy Park and gave up an incredible 34 shots en route to a 2-1 loss in Kansas City. With that many shots, it was a minor miracle to escape without a more lopsided score line. At the time, Sporting put up the third-most shots ever in a regular season MLS game and the most since 1998.