Welcome to your match thread for a Friday night match-up between Orlando City (0-0-1, 1 point) and Sporting Kansas City (1-0-0, 3 points) at Children’s Mercy Park. It is the lone meeting of the two sides scheduled for 2021 and the second consecutive year the Lions have traveled to Kansas for this fixture because...reasons. It’s one of only two games against Western Conference opposition scheduled this season, with the other being a home match vs. San Jose.
The Lions enter tonight two points off the top of the Eastern Conference lead. Sporting is tied atop the West — the same spot it occupied at the end of the 2020 regular season.