The Houston Dynamo tries to stretch its unbeaten MLS stretch with five games when they welcome Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening.
The dynamo is 3-0-1 during the sequence and launched whitening in the three victories.
Houston (5-6-5, 20 points) is trying to continue his recent race against sport in difficulty Kansas City (3-8-4, 13 points), which has three consecutive links as part of a section of four games without match.
The Dynamo received a surprise spark from striker Gabe Segal during the 3-0 victory on Wednesday on the New York City FC.
Segal scored his first two goals of the season while enjoying his former teammates. It was his first start of MLS and his fifth appearance of the season, but he was ready for the occasion.
“I think that in this company, you always know that there will be competition and new faces that will challenge you for different roles,” said Segal. “Obviously, I want to play as much as possible and it is something that can block my minutes. At the end of the day, everything you can do is what is under your control. It’s crazy, you never know when your luck will come.”
Ezequiel Ponce leads Houston with four goals.
Sporting Kansas City did not have a mid -week match and will be the coolest team. SKC played the revolution visiting New England to 3-3 equality last Saturday.
Sporting KC lagged 2-0 before scoring three consecutive goals. However, Maxi Urruti from New England scored in the 84th minute to leave SKC with only one point.
“I’m just proud of the team and how we came back,” said SKC striker Daniel Salloi. “It is shocking to see how we can play when we change our state of mind and we are more forward. I am very proud of the team but, at the same time, it is soft-amer who does not get the victory after that. It’s difficult.”
Sporting KC lost defender Robert Voloder during this match and he underwent surgery on Thursday to repair a fractured left collarbone. Six to eight weeks will be missing.
Salloi scored five goals, second in the team behind the acquisition of the Dejan Jveljic’s Seven off -season.
Last season, Houston recorded a victory on the 2-1 route against KC Sporting and the two teams also played 1-1 in Houston.
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