Seattle Sounders vs Sporting Kansas City — Major League Soccer: stats, lineups & analysis
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- 44′Sporting Kansas City, goal:0–1assist
- Half-time0 – 1
- 46′Seattle Sounders, substitution:off
- 51′Seattle Sounders, goal:1–1assist
- 61′Seattle Sounders, yellow card:
- 63′Seattle Sounders, substitution:off
- 63′Seattle Sounders, substitution:off
- 76′Sporting Kansas City, substitution:off
- 76′Sporting Kansas City, substitution:off
- 76′Sporting Kansas City, substitution:off
- 79′Sporting Kansas City, substitution:off
- 89′Seattle Sounders, substitution:off
- 90′Seattle Sounders, goal:2–1assist
- 90+1′Sporting Kansas City, yellow card:
- 90+3′Seattle Sounders, substitution:off
- Full-time2 – 1
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Roldan's 90th-minute strike completes Seattle comeback over Kansas City
Seattle Sounders came from behind to beat Sporting Kansas City 2-1 at Lumen Field in a Major League Soccer Regular Season fixture, overturning a half-time deficit with two second-half goals. The result lifted Schmetzer's side, who sit 13th in the table, while Kansas City remain down in 30th place.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
André Luiz put the visitors ahead just before the break, turning in a Stephen Afrifa assist in first-half stoppage time to send Kansas City in 1-0 up at the interval. Seattle responded six minutes into the second half when Sebastian Gomez converted a Jordan Morris delivery to level the score at 1-1.
The hosts pushed for a winner and found it deep into stoppage time, Cristian Roldan converting another Morris assist in the 90th minute to complete the turnaround. Seattle dominated territory with 59 percent possession and won 11 corners to six, though Kansas City matched them for attempts on goal, firing 11 shots on target to Seattle's seven across the match.
André Luiz scored the opening goal for Kansas City and finished with the highest rating on the pitch at 8.55, though his effort was not enough to prevent defeat. Morris, meanwhile, set up both of Seattle's goals from open play.
Seattle controlled the game territorially with 59 percent of possession despite finishing with fewer shots on target than their opponents.
Seattle Sounders beat Sporting Kansas City 2–1 (half-time 0–1).
Seattle Sounders met Sporting Kansas City in the Major League Soccer (Regular Season - 24). Kick-off was Friday, 2 October 2026, 01:30 UTC at Lumen Field. Referee: Jair Marrufo. Attendance: 28,587.
Team pages: Seattle Sounders · Sporting Kansas City · Major League Soccer
Key moments
- 44' Goal: André Luiz (assist: Stephen Afrifa) — 0–1
- 51' Goal: Sebastian Gomez (assist: Jordan Morris) — 1–1
- 90' Goal: Cristian Roldan (assist: Jordan Morris) — 2–1
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Seattle Sounders (4-2-3-1)
Sporting Kansas City (4-4-2)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Seattle Sounders 63%, the draw 22%, Sporting Kansas City 15%. It finished Seattle Sounders 2–1 Sporting Kansas City.
Seattle Sounders' rating edge carries it — Seattle Sounders are the stronger side on our strength rating, and Major League Soccer home advantage on top gives Seattle Sounders a clear lead. The draw at 22% is held down by a high-scoring environment.
Why Seattle Sounders at 63%?
Seattle Sounders sit 157 points higher on our strength rating — 1493 to 1336. Sides with a 80–160-point rating edge at home won 56.6% of 13,285 such games. Major League Soccer home sides out-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to away wins (25.7% vs 30.0%). Major League Soccer homes won 49.1% of 5,205 games vs 44.6% across all 100,799 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly. The 300 most similar past games finished 64–18–18.
Why only 63%?
No scored evidence points the other way. 63% is what this rating gap has been worth in games like these; the rest is the draw at 22% and Sporting Kansas City at 15%.
Why is the draw only 22%?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 24.9%. These teams' recent games average 3.2 goals — a high-scoring environment. Games in that environment drew 23.2% of 16,776. The goals environment takes 2.1 points off the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Sporting Kansas City are 1 game into a new manager (R. Wicky), appointed 5 days ago. The famous new-manager bounce doesn't survive its receipt: sides with a new manager beat their rating by 0.9 points over 33,420 games — but sides on an equally bad run who kept their manager beat it by 2.4 over 31,777. Out: Paul Rothrock, an important player, Snyder Brunell and Hassani Dotson, rotation players, and Dejan Joveljić, on a provisional rating. Doubtful: Jesús Ferreira, a rotation player. This does not change our forecast yet: we are still measuring how much missing players like these cost a team. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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