Sporting Kansas City completed a season sweep of the LA Galaxy on Wednesday with a 3-1 victory over the six-time MLS champions at Sporting Park.<\/p>\n
Calvin Harris played a part in each of the team’s season-high three goals, providing primary assists on goals by Capita Capemba and Dejan Joveljic in the first half before tallying a goal of his own in the second half as Sporting snapped an eight-game winless skid across all competitions and an eight-game winless run at home in emphatic fashion.<\/p>\n
Capita struck first in the 32nd minute on a superb counter attack from the hosts as Lasse Berg Johnsen won the ball inside his own half before threading a pass to Harris racing down the left flank. Harris’ centered a perfectly-placed pass into the path of Capita for a sliding finish from eight yards out for his first goal since joining the club in April.<\/p>\n
Sporting would add a second on the stroke of halftime, again from a well-worked counter, as Zorhan Bassong — who made his first start of the season on Wednesday — played a 40-yard pass forward for Harris. The Englishman took his first touch in stride and held off LA Galaxy defender Emiro Garces before dishing to Joveljic to finish the move with a deft chip over Marcinkowski.<\/p>\n
The Serbian striker, who made his 150th regular season appearance on Wednesday, began his MLS career with four seasons in LA from 2021-2024 — leading the Galaxy to a league title in his final season — and has since scored in each of his last three games against his former side.<\/p>\n
Harris had a trio of chances to open his SKC scoring account — first in the 11th minute, again in the seventh minute of first-half stoppage time and finally in the 63rd minute — only to be denied by Marcinkowski on each occasion before breaking through to stretch Sporting’s lead to 3-0 with 20 minutes remaining. Second-half substitute Manu Garcia — coming off the bench for the first time in the regular season — evaded three Galaxy players to set up Harris, who fired low inside the far post for his first goal in Sporting Blue.<\/p>\n
The Galaxy own the league’s longest active scoring streak with goals in 22 consecutive MLS matches as Gabriel Pec kept the run alive with a sublime strike from 25 yards out l in the 89th minute. The Brazilian has six goal contributions (two goals, four assists) in five career match-ups with Sporting and now has the Galaxy’s last three goals after bagging a brace on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Sporting Kansas City will play the club’s final road match before the World Cup this weekend as the team travels to Texas to take on Austin FC at 7:30 p.m. CT on Saturday at Q2 Stadium. The Western Conference match-up will be available to watch on Apple TV in addition to local radio coverage on Sports Radio 810 WHB and La Grande 1340 AM.<\/p>\n
2026 MLS Regular Season | Game 12
Sporting Park | Kansas City, Kansas
Attendance: 14,188
Weather: 75 degrees and sunny<\/p>\n
Sporting Kansas City 3-1 LA Galaxy<\/p>\n
Score<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n F<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Sporting Kansas City (2-8-2, 8 points)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n LA Galaxy (4-5-4, 16 points)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Sporting Kansas City:<\/strong> Stefan Cleveland; Jake Davis (Justin Reynolds 81′), Ian James Wyatt Meyer, Jayden Reid; Capita Capemba (Stephen Afrifa 46′), Lasse Berg Johnsen, Zorhan Bassong (Jacob Bartlett 61′), Calvin Harris; Taylor Calheira (Manu Garcia 62′), Dejan Joveljic (C) (Shapi Suleymanov 90+2′)<\/p>\n Subs Not Used:<\/strong>\u00a0John Pulskamp, Ethan Bartlow, Diego Borges, Cielo Tschantret<\/p>\n LA Galaxy:<\/strong> J.T. Marcinkowski; Mauricio Cuevas (Miki Yamane 65′), Jakob Glesnes, Emiro Garces (Justin Haak 64′), John Nelson; Lucas Sanabria (Erik Thommy 64′), Marco Reus (C), Edwin Cerrillo; Gabriel Pec, Joseph Paintsil, Harbor Miller (Elijah Wydner 46′)<\/p>\n Subs Not Used:<\/strong>\u00a0Novak Micovic, Maya Yoshida, Isaiah Parente, Ruben Ramos Jr., Matheus Nascimento<\/p>\n Scoring Summary:<\/strong> Misconduct Summary:<\/strong> Referee:<\/strong>\u00a0Ricardo Montero Araya\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
SKC – Capita Capemba 1 (Calvin Harris 3, Lasse Berg Johnsen 3) 32′
SKC – Dejan Joveljic 6 (Calvin Harris 4, Zorhan Bassong 1) 45+4′
SKC – Calvin Harris 1 (Manu Garcia 3, Jacob Bartlett 1) 70′
LA – Gabriel Pec 4 (Justin Haak 2, Erik Thommy 1) 89′<\/p>\n
SKC – Zorhan Bassong (yellow card; unsporting behavior) 41′
LA – Mauricio Cuevas (yellow card; unsporting behavior) 49′
LA – Gabriel Pec (yellow card; unsporting behavior) 79′<\/p>\n
Assistant Referee:<\/strong>\u00a0Nick Uranga
Assistant Referee:<\/strong>\u00a0Walt Heatherly
Fourth Official:<\/strong>\u00a0Drew Klemp
VAR:<\/strong>\u00a0Guido Gonzales Jr.
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