Sporting Kansas City are in for a late west-coast matchup on America’s birthday this Sunday. They will head to Los Angeles for the first time since a 2-7 drubbing at the hands of the LA Galaxy and Zlatan Ibrahimovic way back in September of 2019. Zlatan is gone and 2019 appears to have been an aberration, not a trend.
Sunday’s game will be a battle for second place. Sporting KC enter the game with a two point lead, but the Galaxy have two games in hand. If the standings are reordered based on points per game, then it’s LA in second and SKC in third.