Sporting Kansas CityvsSt. Louis CITY SC
SKC 2/STL 3
Things to say
St. Louis CITY SC beat Sporting Kansas City 3-2 at home in the I-70 derby.
01
opener
St. Louis edged Kansas City 3-2 at Energizer Park. Proper derby, back and forth the whole way. Home side just wanted it more.
02
key player
Becher was everywhere up top, five shots on his own. Kid's a handful when he's switched on.
03
hot take
SKC keeps this up and they're done. That defending was shambolic, they gifted goals.
04
deep cut
MacNaughton put in thirteen defensive interventions at the back. That's the unglamorous work that actually won it.
05
exit
Anyway, STL are trending up. Curious to see if they can string a run together.
The recap
St. Louis edged Sporting Kansas City 3-2 in the Missouri derby, a proper back-and-forth night at Energizer Park.
Simon Becher was the busiest man on the pitch with five shots as City kept pushing forward and found the net three times. Sporting hung around and made it a one-goal game, but they couldn't dig out the equalizer down the stretch.
Big three points for St. Louis, and a gut-punch for a Kansas City side now sitting on nine draws.