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Kansas City 3-1 New England - September 16, 2017 / MLS 2017

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MLS 2017 - Round 28 - Western Conference

Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City - United States

September 16, 2017 - 19:30

19 089

Kansas City

3 - 1

New England

Gerso

16'

Assist by GersoDiego Rubio

45'

Diego Rubio

57'

Teal Bunbury

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4' - Goal Teal Bunbury

11' - Red card Krisztián Németh

16' - Goal Gerso16

23' - Yellow card Diego Rubio23

26' - Yellow card Jimmy Medranda26

45' - Goal Diego Rubio45

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46' - Substitution Chris Tierneyis substituted by Daigo Kobayashi

57' - Goal Diego Rubio57

62' - Substitution Teal Bunburyis substituted by Diego Fagúndez

65' - Substitution Diego Rubiois substituted by Cristian Lobato65

79' - Substitution Gersois substituted by Kevin Oliveira79

79' - Substitution Lee Nguyenis substituted by Juan Agudelo

83' - Substitution Jimmy Medrandais substituted by Soony Saad83

86' - Yellow card Claude Dielna

92' - Yellow card Diego Fagúndez

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Kansas City

3 - 1

New England

Kansas City New England

Team line-ups

Kansas City

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

11Rubio57456523

Diego Rubio

Chile

B.date15/05/1993

Age24 years

H1m79

positionStriker

9Blessing

Latif Blessing

Ghana

B.date30/12/1996

Age20 years

H1m65

positionBox-to-box midfielder

7Gerso1679

Gerso

Guinea-Bissau

B.date23/02/1991

Age26 years

H1m72

positionStriker

94Medranda8326

Jimmy Medranda

Colombia

B.date07/02/1994

Age23 years

H1m65

positionLeft full-back

10Feilhaber

Benny Feilhaber

United States

B.date19/01/1985

Age32 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

6Ilie

Ilie

Spain

B.date21/11/1990

Age26 years

H1m81

positionDefensive Midfielder

15Sinovic

Seth Sinovic

United States

B.date28/01/1987

Age30 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

5Besler

Matt Besler

United States

B.date11/02/1987

Age30 years

H1m82

positionLeft central defender

3Opara

Ike Opara

United States

B.date21/02/1989

Age28 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

8Zusi

Graham Zusi

United States

B.date18/08/1986

Age31 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

29Melia

Tim Melia

United States

B.date15/05/1986

Age31 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
29	G	Tim Melia		31	90	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Ike Opara		28	92	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Matt Besler		30	264	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
94	M	Jimmy Medranda	8326	23	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	D	Graham Zusi		31	249	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Seth Sinovic		30	196	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Ilie		26	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Latif Blessing		20	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Benny Feilhaber		32	174	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Diego Rubio	57456523	24	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Gerso	1679	26	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

115

New England

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

23Kamara

Kei Kamara

Sierra Leone

B.date01/09/1984

Age33 years

H1m88

positionStriker

10Bunbury462

Teal Bunbury

United States

B.date27/02/1990

Age27 years

H1m88

positionRight Winger

9Németh11

Krisztián Németh

Hungary

B.date05/01/1989

Age28 years

H1m79

positionStriker

5Koffie

Gershon Koffie

Ghana

B.date25/08/1991

Age26 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

6Caldwell

Scott Caldwell

United States

B.date15/03/1991

Age26 years

H1m72

positionCentre Midfield

24Nguyen79

Lee Nguyen

United States

B.date07/10/1986

Age30 years

H1m72

positionPlaymaker

8Tierney46

Chris Tierney

United States

B.date09/01/1986

Age31 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

44Dielna86

Claude Dielna

France

B.date14/12/1987

Age29 years

H1m84

positionLeft central defender

4Angoua

Benjamin Angoua

Ivory Coast

B.date28/11/1986

Age30 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

2Farrell

Andrew Farrell

United States

B.date03/04/1992

Age25 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

18Knighton

Brad Knighton

United States

B.date06/02/1985

Age32 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
18	G	Brad Knighton		32	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Benjamin Angoua		30	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Andrew Farrell		25	172	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
44	D	Claude Dielna	86	29	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	D	Chris Tierney	46	31	268	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Gershon Koffie		26	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Scott Caldwell		26	170	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	M	Lee Nguyen	79	30	207	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Teal Bunbury	462	27	124	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	F	Kei Kamara		33	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Krisztián Németh	11	28	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

101

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
21	G	Andrew Dykstra		31
2	D	Erik Palmer-Brown		20
17	D	Saad Abdul-Salaam		26
41	M	James Musa		25
19	M	Cristian Lobato	65	28	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
88	M	Kevin Oliveira	79	21	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	F	Soony Saad	83	25	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Cody Cropper		24
28	D	London Woodberry		26
16	M	Daigo Kobayashi	46	34	102	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Je-Vaughn Watson		33
14	M	Diego Fagúndez	6292	22	197	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	F	Juan Agudelo	79	24	103	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
88	F	Femi Hollinger-Janzen		23

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jimmy Medranda

Roger Espinoza

OUT

Gerso

Cristian Lobato

OUT

Latif Blessing

Daniel Sallói

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Teal Bunbury

Juan Agudelo

OUT

Brad Knighton

Cody Cropper

OUT

Scott Caldwell

Je-Vaughn Watson

OUT

Chris Tierney

Antonio Delamea Mlinar

OUT

Krisztián Németh

Diego Fagúndez

OUT

Kei Kamara

Xavier Kouassi

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Peter Vermes

326

Success rate in this team:

44 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

44 %

Vermes vs New England

9 victories

3 draws

7 losses

Latest figure on September 16, 2017

Vermes vs Heaps

6 victories

2 draws

5 losses

Latest figure on September 16, 2017

Manager

Age

Match num

Jay Heaps

223

Success rate in this team:

39 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Heaps vs Kansas City

5 victories

2 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on September 16, 2017

Heaps vs Vermes

5 victories

2 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on September 16, 2017

Referee

Jorge Gonzalez

7 victories	8 draws	6 losses	Kansas City21 matches	General total	New England21 matches	5 victories	5 draws	11 losses
2 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Kansas City2 matches	Season total	New England2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 16, 2017					Latest figure on September 16, 2017

4th official

Alejandro Mariscal

6 victories	4 draws	3 losses	Kansas City13 matches	General total	New England3 matches	0 victory	1 draw	2 losses
2 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Kansas City2 matches	Season total	New England1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 23, 2020					Latest figure on August 31, 2019

Video referee

Jon Freemon

5 victories	2 draws	4 losses	Kansas City11 matches	General total	New England3 matches	1 victory	0 draw	2 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Kansas City1 match	Season total	New England2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on November 22, 2020					Latest figure on December 06, 2020

Videos

Comments

Key figures

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Jay Heaps has reached 1.41 goals scored per game in Major League Soccer.

The last time New England has ended with the score 1-3 , It was on the 31/07/2016 (vs )

Kansas City keeps its 16 matches with at least one goal scored at home running (since 18/03/2017). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 02/11/2011 (13 matches)

Read the next 16 key stats

General ranking

	1	Vancouver Whitecaps	45 pts	28 rd
	2	Portland Timbers	44 pts	30 rd
+1	3	Sporting Kansas City	44 pts	28 rd
-1	4	Seattle Sounders	44 pts	29 rd
+2	5	San Jose Earthquakes	39 pts	29 rd

General ranking

No ranking available

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DSporting Kansas City 1-1 Philadelphia Union06/07/2017

VSporting Kansas City 3-0 FC Dallas11/07/2017

VSporting Kansas City 3-2 Chicago Fire29/07/2017

DSporting Kansas City 1-1 Atlanta United06/08/2017

DSporting Kansas City 1-1 San Jose Earthquakes09/08/2017

VSporting Kansas City 2-0 FC Dallas19/08/2017

Overall

DSporting Kansas City 1-1 Atlanta United06/08/2017

DSporting Kansas City 1-1 San Jose Earthquakes09/08/2017

LSeattle Sounders 1-0 Sporting Kansas City12/08/2017

VSporting Kansas City 2-0 FC Dallas19/08/2017

LNew York City FC 1-0 Sporting Kansas City06/09/2017

DColumbus Crew 1-1 Sporting Kansas City10/09/2017

Current form

Away

LToronto FC 2-0 New England Revolution23/06/2017

LPhiladelphia Union 3-0 New England Revolution02/07/2017

LChicago Fire 4-1 New England Revolution05/08/2017

LNew York City FC 2-1 New England Revolution20/08/2017

LD.C. United 1-0 New England Revolution26/08/2017

LAtlanta United 7-0 New England Revolution13/09/2017

Overall

VNew England Revolution 1-0 Vancouver Whitecaps12/08/2017

LNew York City FC 2-1 New England Revolution20/08/2017

LD.C. United 1-0 New England Revolution26/08/2017

VNew England Revolution 4-0 Orlando City02/09/2017

VNew England Revolution 1-0 CF Montréal09/09/2017

LAtlanta United 7-0 New England Revolution13/09/2017

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	19	1
Winless streak	0	2
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	15	1
Conceding streak	0	2
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	6	1
Winless streak	16	1
Drawless streak	6	17
Goalless streak	2	1
Conceding streak	19	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

585	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	654
6	FBDB index ranking (National)	9

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

27	Number of games (Competition total)	28
13	Number of games (Home / Away)	14
10	Victories (Competition total)	10
8	Victories (Home / Away)	0
11	Draws (Competition total)	5
5	Draws (Home / Away)	3
6	Losses (Competition total)	13
0	Losses (Home / Away)	11

Goals

32	Goals scored (Competition total)	44
25	Goals scored (Home / Away)	10
21	Goals conceded (Competition total)	48
8	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	35
1.19	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.57
1.92	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.71
0.78	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.71
0.62	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.5

Betting aid

8	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	19
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	9
10	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
10	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	8
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	7
11	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	13
7	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
1-1 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-2 (3 times)

Bookings

47	Yellow cards (Competition total)	41
22	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	22
1	Red cards (Competition total)	4
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	3

Key players

Gerso	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	11 goals	Kei Kamara
Gerso	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Lee Nguyen
Benny Feilhaber	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	3 penalties	Lee Nguyen
Benny Feilhaber	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	2 penalties	Lee Nguyen
Graham Zusi	5 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	8 assists	Lee Nguyen
Graham Zusi	5 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	3 assists	Lee Nguyen
Matt Besler	1 assist during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal, 2 assists during the last 3 matches	Lee Nguyen

Historical head to head

Home

26 matches

13 v

6 d

7 l

44 gf

29 ga

Away

29 matches

11 v

8 d

10 l

43 gf

42 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

5 gf

0 ga

Total

56 matches

25 v

14 d

17 l

92 gf

71 ga

Historical head to head

Home

29 matches

10 v

8 d

11 l

42 gf

43 ga

Away

26 matches

7 v

6 d

13 l

29 gf

44 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

5 ga

Total

56 matches

17 v

14 d

25 l

71 gf

92 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	May 25, 2011
Home	3 - 0	August 10, 2013

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 1	October 01, 2016
Away	3 - 1	April 09, 2008

Latest head to head

October 01, 2016 - MLS 2016

New England

3 - 1

Kansas City

May 20, 2015 - MLS 2015

Kansas City

4 - 2

New England

September 26, 2014 - MLS 2014

Kansas City

2 - 3

New England

September 03, 2014 - MLS 2014

New England

3 - 1

Kansas City

April 26, 2014 - MLS 2014

New England

2 - 0

Kansas City

Best historical scorers against New England

Preki	8 goals	1996 - 2003
Kei Kamara	6 goals	2010 - 2013
Davy Arnaud	6 goals	2004 - 2009
Josh Wolff	6 goals	2004 - 2009
Vitalis Takawira	5 goals	1996 - 1998
Chris Klein	4 goals	2001 - 2005

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/06/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Kansas City

Shalrie Joseph	5 goals	2005 - 2011
Taylor Twellman	5 goals	2002 - 2007
Pat Noonan	5 goals	2004 - 2007
Lee Nguyen	3 goals	2014 - 2014
Clint Dempsey	3 goals	2004 - 2006
Joe-Max Moore	2 goals	1999 - 1999

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/06/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs New England

Jack Jewsbury	21 matches	2004 - 2010
Davy Arnaud	21 matches	2004 - 2011
James Conrad	21 matches	2003 - 2010
Nick Garcia	20 matches	2000 - 2007
Kerry Zavagnin	20 matches	2000 - 2008
Matt Besler	18 matches	2009 - 2015

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/06/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Kansas City

Matt Reis	28 matches	2004 - 2013
Jay Heaps	24 matches	2001 - 2009
Shalrie Joseph	24 matches	2003 - 2012
Steve Ralston	19 matches	2002 - 2009
Andy Dorman	18 matches	2004 - 2015
Joe Franchino	17 matches	2000 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/06/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Seth Sinovic

195 matches

25 matches

2010 - 2017

Benny Feilhaber

173 matches

53 matches

2011 - 2017

Chris Brown

150 matches

4 matches

1999 - 2003

Kei Kamara

126 matches

53 matches

2009 - 2017

Teal Bunbury

105 matches

123 matches

2010 - 2017

Mike Burns

62 matches

111 matches

1996 - 2002

Total : 14 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Teal Bunbury

105 matches

123 matches

2010 - 2017

Mike Burns

62 matches

111 matches

1996 - 2002

Wolde Harris

13 matches

108 matches

2000 - 2003

Alexi Lalas

30 matches

57 matches

1996 - 1999

Adam Cristman

5 matches

55 matches

2007 - 2009

Benny Feilhaber

173 matches

53 matches

2011 - 2017

Total : 14 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Vancouver Whitecaps	45	28	13	6	9	45	39	+6
2	Portland Timbers	44	30	12	8	10	50	47	+3
+13	Sporting Kansas City	44	28	11	11	6	35	22	+13
-14	Seattle Sounders	44	29	11	11	7	42	35	+7
+25	San Jose Earthquakes	39	29	11	6	12	32	48	-16
+26	Real Salt Lake	38	30	11	5	14	44	52	-8
-27	Houston Dynamo	38	28	10	8	10	46	39	+7
-28	FC Dallas	38	28	9	11	8	39	38	+1
+19	Minnesota United	29	28	8	5	15	36	58	-22
-110	Los Angeles Galaxy	27	28	7	6	15	36	52	-16
11	Colorado Rapids	26	28	7	5	16	26	42	-16

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Kansas City 3-1 New England - September 16, 2017 / MLS 2017

Kansas City

3 - 1

New England

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Vermes vs New England

Vermes vs Heaps

Manager

Heaps vs Kansas City

Heaps vs Vermes

Referee

4th official

Video referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against New England

Best historical scorers against Kansas City

Players with most games played vs New England

Players with most games played vs Kansas City

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

Post-match general ranking