Sporting Kansas City stormed to a 3-0 victory over Minnesota United FC on Saturday afternoon at Children’s Mercy Park, vaulting back into first place in the Western Conference with goals from Ike Opara, Jimmy Medranda and Saad Abdul-Salaam.
The dominant performance saw Abdul-Salaam open his MLS scoring account, while Opara and Medranda both scored for the first time since July 2016 as Sporting Kansas City (7-4-4, 25 points) extended their club-record home unbeaten streak to 16 matches and avenged a 2-0 loss to expansion side Minnesota (4-8-2, 14 points) just four weeks earlier.
A national television audience on ESPN was witness to Sporting Kansas City’s sixth consecutive home win — and their fourth straight of the shutout variety.