{"id":44607,"date":"2026-09-09T07:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/us\/?post_type=news&p=44607"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:48:11","slug":"match-preview-sporting-kc-vs-lafc-09-12-26-mls","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/us\/news\/mls\/match-preview-sporting-kc-vs-lafc-09-12-26-mls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting KC vs LAFC: Predictions, Picks, Odds & Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sporting KC<\/a> host LAFC<\/a> at Sporting Park on Saturday, September 12 (8:30 PM ET \/ 7:30 PM CT \/ 5:30 PM PT).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sporting KC and LAFC both arrive with clean team sheets, so this is one where the shape of the game will be dictated by the players already doing the damage in 2026. Sporting KC will lean heavily on Calvin William Harris up top, who has scored 3 goals from 42 shots and created 13 chances in 1,717 minutes, with Osvaldo Pedro Capemba (2 goals, 21 shots, 9 chances created) and Taylor Calheira (2 goals, 10 chances created) also expected to feature. LAFC travel with Denis Athanase Bouanga<\/a> in red-hot form \u2014 the winger has scored 12 goals from 72 shots and created 48 chances in 1,935 minutes \u2014 and he’ll be flanked by Heung-Min Son (5 goals, 42 chances created) and David Enmanuel Mart\u00ednez Morales (6 goals in 960 minutes).<\/p>\n

This has the makings of a low-key horror show for Sporting KC on paper, but they’ve shown enough in defeat recently to suggest they won’t go down without landing a blow of their own \u2014 the 4-3 defeat at FC Dallas alone proves they can hurt sides going forward. LAFC arrive with the greater control of a game like this, Bouanga’s movement and end product giving them a route through a defense that has shipped goals for fun, and we’d expect that class to tell late on. It shapes up as a tight, low-scoring affair rather than an open shootout, with Sporting KC likely to get themselves back in it before LAFC’s superior firepower sees them home.<\/p>\n

US viewers can watch Sporting KC vs LAFC on Apple TV’s MLS Season Pass.<\/p>\n\n\n