FC Dallas looks to find the win column at home for the first time this season when it hosts Sporting Kansas City on Saturday in a Western Conference match in Frisco, Texas.
The Toros (2-2-1, 7 points) have won twice and captured all seven of their points away from home this season, most recently a rousing 1-0 victory at Real Salt Lake last Saturday. Dallas won just once on the road in the 2024 campaign.
Designated player Luciano Acosta scored the lone goal deep into first-half stoppage time in the win over RSL while rookie homegrown goalkeeper Michael Collodi stopped the three shots he faced to earn the clean sheet in his first career start.
It helped that FC Dallas played with a man advantage for the final 74 minutes of the win over RSL.
“We have to stay focused and really pay attention to details,” FC Dallas first-year coach Eric Quill said. “It is another important game, especially at home. We want to rectify our home defeats. We can’t feel like we have done something greatly important in just getting one win — we have to be consistent.”
Sporting Kansas City (0-4-1, 1 point) has stumbled mightily through the first five matches and carries a nine-match MLS winless streak into the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex that dates back to Sept. 18, 2024, against Colorado.
Sporting’s most recent outing was last Saturday’s 2-0 home loss to Los Angeles FC in which it conceded multiple goals for the fourth straight match and was shut out for the second time this season in MLS play.
“If you look at the other games we played, I think in every one of those games easily we could have gotten results in different ways,” Sporting Kansas City coach Peter Vermes said about the loss to LAFC. “We have got to win. I mean, we have got to win. I don’t know what else to tell you. We have got to win.”
Striker Dejan Joveljic leads Sporting this season by scoring two of its five goals. Kansas City has surrendered 10 goals, tied with the LA Galaxy for the most in the West and third-most in the MLS.
FC Dallas owns a 31-29-14 all-time mark against Sporting KC. The home team in the series has won the last seven meetings across all competitions, including all three matchups (one in the U.S. Open Cup) in 2024.
–Field Level Media
