After a regular season that saw the Houston Dynamo fail to lose a single game at their new home at BBVA Compass Stadium, Dominic Kinnear and company will look to continue that pattern as they host their first ever playoff game there today, taking on the Eastern Conference-winning Sporting Kansas City. (3:30 PM, NBC)
Much like last year, Houston goes into the playoffs under the radar, hoping to duplicate last year’s success and making a surprise run to the MLS Cup. After knocking out the Chicago Fire at Toyota Park last week, Houston takes on a much more formidable foe in the form of Sporting Kansas City.
Houston will feature a starting lineup identical to Wednesday’s match against Chicago, with forward Will Bruin looking to continue his strong start to the playoffs, after netting a brace against the Fire.
Meanwhile, Sporting Kansas City will send out their usual starting lineup, with the strong centerback duo of Aurelien Collin and Matt Besler looking to keep Bruin and company out of the net.
In three matchups this season, Houston had the only win, defeating Sporting Kansas City at home 2-1 in July. The other two matchups contained a scoreless draw, along with a 1-1 draw in their final match during the regular season in September.
If you will be watching today’s match, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action:
Hack, dive, cry- WE ARE SKC!
Only if Century link belong to sounders and seahawks were second in the owners pocket but only one can dream. Also, so dynamo played right after the texans game and still got a good crowd in the SUN without a roof cover like texans have, not bad. What was the attendace 19000?oh and by the way so weird that san jose or dc might end up hosting the cup with weird stadium situations. Dc needs to add stands like crew stadium to both endslike it was done for the USA game vs Jamaica and make them super cheap. Another question, giants stadium is pack like always but red bull couldn’t host……
Giants stadium is in East Rutherford, closer to NY and Manhattan but Red Bull Arena had issues with power
That was one ugly game of kickball. Embarrassing for MLS.
Some Houston fans wanted to sit Moffat but I bet they are glad now that didn’t happen.
Houston played very well against SKC.
So, this is good news for DC United (or, I suppose, NYRB, but I choose to fervently hope and believe United will emerge victorious). LA might dump SJE. THen DCU will have the inside track to host the MLS Cup final. RFK will rock.
I don’t think having to play Houston in the East can ever be considered good news. Dom knows how to win the playoffs.
Nice, high quality grass field. Hahahahahaha. Zzzzzz. Nice win KC. Way to pull that one out.
SKC’s offense has been piss poor
I didn’t know Houston shares their stadium with the Texans. Nice gridiron!
They don’t. They share it with a small college — I believe it’s Texas Suthern U.
4 Playoff games, 2 Football fields. When, oh when, will we have true SSS in MLS?
Anybody have a link for a stream?
absolutely sick strike.
Who scores first? I think Houston but I hope KC win….
Houston always gets tough during playoff time
I really hope NBS stops putting the team names and score on the top portion of the screen. ESPN used to do that and they stopped right before the 2010 WC. That is one thing that BeIn does well. They show most of the screen, and no ticker either.
I am not the only one the feels strong about this right?
I don’t see what the big deal is with having the score on top or bottom as long as it is small and on the edge….the camera work keeps everything on frame so it shouldn’t matter much…ESPN will always show ticker