Welcome to your match thread for today's meeting between Orlando City (2-2-5, 11 points) and Sporting Kansas City (4-6-2, 14 points). This is the one and only scheduled match-up between these two teams from opposite conferences.
Neither team is at its best right now. Orlando City is winless in five (0-2-3) while SKC has gone seven matches since its last victory (0-5-2) and has lost its last two matches by a combined 3-0 score.
The Lions defeated Sporting 3-1 in last season's only meeting at the Citrus Bowl on the strength of two Adrian Winter goals and Bryan Rochez's first MLS tally.