Match Centre: Sporting KC vs SJ Earthquakes
Player of the match Manu García 7.9
GolVolt rating 2.2GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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4 → 2
SJ Earthquakes climb 2 places in the table. Sporting KC: 27 → 28.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
- Dramaweight 50% Red card at 52′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 4.9 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Martínez scored the winner.Nobody stood out. Heroes: 0.7 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% Not much was at stake yet. Stakes: 0.3 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Few chances and few shots. Quality of play: 2.7 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 2.2more watchable than 22% of MLS matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
3 goals6 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 3' Goal: Cristian Arangoassist: Martínez0:1
- 5' Tim Leiboldyellow card
- 16' Jacob Bartlettyellow card
- 19' Goal: Josef MartínezSJ Earthquakes0:2
- 27' Goal: Dejan Joveljićpenalty1:2
- 45' Jake Davisyellow card
- 45+5' Hernán López Muñozyellow card
- Half-time · 1:2
- 52' Hernán López Muñozsecond yellow, sent off
- 56' 3 substitutionsBrody for DavisNdenbe for LeiboldRadoja for Bartlett
- 61' SubstitutionKaye for Martínez
- 67' Nemanja Radojayellow card
- 76' SubstitutionLima for Leroux
- 77' 2 substitutionsRodríguez for BassongSallói for Thommy
- 81' SubstitutionBouda for Arango
- Full-time · 1:2
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Sporting KC
SJ Earthquakes
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Sporting KC
- 36 Ryan Schewe GK —
- 2 Ian James DEF —
- 3 Andrew Brody DEF on
- 5 Dany Rosero DEF —
- 18 Logan Ndenbe DEF on
- 6 Nemanja Radoja MID on
- 8 Memo Rodríguez MID on
- 10 Dániel Sallói ATT on
- 23 Willy Agada ATT —
SJ Earthquakes
- 36 Earl Edwards Jr. GK —
- 5 Daniel Munie DEF —
- 24 Nick Lima DEF on
- 25 Max Floriani DEF —
- 94 Vítor Costa DEF —
- 14 Mark-Anthony Kaye MID on
- 30 Niko Tsakiris MID —
- 7 Amahl Pellegrino ATT —
- 11 Ousseni Bouda ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Children's Mercy Park, Kansas City
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Sporting KC Manu García
- 2. place · SJ Earthquakes Cristian Arango
- 3. place · Sporting KC Shapi Suleymanov
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