Welcome to your match thread for a Saturday night match-up between Orlando City (7-16-3, 24 points) and Sporting Kansas City (13-7-6, 45 points) at Children’s Mercy Park. It’s the only scheduled meeting in this cross-conference series for 2018.
The Lions are deadlocked with Chicago for last place in the Eastern Conference as we enter the weekend, although they hold the wins tiebreaker by one. Sporting is third in the West.
Orlando City is 1-1-1 in the all-time series (0-1-0 on the road). The last meeting resulted in a 2-2 draw at Orlando City Stadium in 2017.