Live Gamethread: Houston Dynamo vs Sporting Kansas City

The Basics

Houston Dynamo vs Sporting Kansas City

Friday, August 29, 7pm CT

Sporting Park, Kansas City, Kan.

Broadcast

NBC Sports Network

ESPN 97.5 FM and 850 AM (Spanish)

Preview

Familiar playoff foes, Sporting Kansas City and the Houston Dynamo meet for the second time this season with the
clubs having very different outlooks, as they clash Friday evening at Sporting Park before an NBC Sports Network
audience. Sporting fell out of the top spot in the East last weekend, following a 3-0 home loss to D.C. United, who
moved into the point position. The Dynamo suffered their seventh consecutive defeat away from home, dropping a 3-0
decision at the Columbus Crew, leaving them five points out of the final playoff position in the conference.

REFEREE: Mark Geiger. AR1 (bench): Adam Wienckowski; AR2 (opposite): C.J. Morgante; 4th: Ted Unkel
MLS Career: 122 games; FC/gm: 26.6; Y/gm: 3.5; R: 30; pens: 42

WARNINGS:

SUSPENDED: none

SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: KC: Dom Dwyer, Benny Feilhaber, Paulo Nagamura ... HOU: Kofi Sarkodie

SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: KC: Antonio Dovale, Eric Kronberg, Kevin Ellis, Lawrence Olum, Seth
Sinovic, Igor Juliao ... HOU: Will Bruin, Ricardo Clark

DISABLED LIST: KC: Peterson Joseph, Ike Opara, Chance Myers (season-ending injury)

Injury Report Presented by Houston Methodist (As of Wednesday, Aug. 27)

Dynamo:

OUT: Tony Cascio - R knee surgery; Mark Sherrod - L knee ACL tear 

QUESTIONABLE: DaMarcus Beasley - L hamstring strain

Sporting KC:

OUT: Ike Opara - R ankle; Chance Myers - L Achilles; Eric Kronberg - fractured fourth metacarpal in L hand; Jacob Peterson - L knee strain

QUESTIONABLE: Paulo Nagamura - L ankle sprain; Sal Zizzo - lower back contusion

HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (19 meetings): Sporting 5 wins, 21 goals ... Dynamo 6 wins, 22 goals ... Ties 8
AT KANSAS CITY (9 meetings): Sporting 2 wins, 11 goals ... Dynamo 3 wins, 10 goals ... Ties 4