Houston 5, Sporting Kansas City 2

First half_1, Houston, Elis, 1 (Quintero), 17th minute; 2, Sporting Kansas City, Russell, 1, 26th; 3, Houston, Ramirez, 1 (Elis), 44th.

Second half_4, Houston, Hansen, 1 (Ramirez), 48th; 5, Sporting Kansas City, Kinda, 4, 49th; 6, Houston, Quintero, 1 (Ceren), 57th; 7, Houston, Quintero, 2 (Hansen), 61st.

Goalies_Houston, Marko Maric, Cody Cropper; Sporting Kansas City, Tim Melia, Richard Sanchez.

Yellow Cards_Vera, Houston, 25th; Busio, Sporting Kansas City, 38th.

Referee_Joseph Dickerson. Assistant Referees_Jason White, Diego Blas, Jon Freemon. 4th Official_Lukasz Szpala.

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Lineups

Houston_Marko Maric; Maynor Figueroa, Adam Lundqvist, Kiki Struna, Zarek Valentin; Darwin Ceren (Nico Lemoine, 90th+1), Memo Rodriguez (Tomas Martinez, 80th), Matias Vera; Alberth Elis (Niko Hansen, 46th), Darwin Quintero (Boniek Garcia, 66th), Christian Ramirez (Mauro Manotas, 66th).

Sporting Kansas City_Tim Melia; Matt Besler, Jaylin Lindsey, Winston Reid, Graham Zusi; Gianluca Busio, Roger Espinoza (Felipe Hernandez, 58th), Gadi Kinda (Cameron Duke, 72nd); Gerso Fernandes (Khiry Shelton, 58th), Alan Pulido (Erik Hurtado, 64th), Johnny Russell (Daniel Salloi, 64th).