Lineup Notes: Houston Dynamo vs. Sporting Kansas City

DYNAMO STARTING XI (4-3-3):

• Tyler Deric; A.J. DeLaGarza, Philippe Senderos, Leonardo, Dylan Remick; Ricardo Clark ©, Eric Alexander, Tomás Martínez; Vicente Sánchez, Mauro Manotas, Andrew Wenger

STARTING XI NOTES:

• The Dynamo will utilize their 30th different starting lineup in 32 matches this season.
• MF Ricardo Clark will start his 316th career game in MLS regular-season play tonight. That will move him into a tie for ninth in league history along with current Dynamo assistant coach Davy Arnaud and former Colorado Rapids midfielder Pablo Mastroeni.
• GK Tyler Deric will be making his 78th career start tonight and his 24th of the season.
• Deric can keep his fifth clean sheet of the season and the 20th of his career with a shutout tonight.
• DF A.J. DeLaGarza will start his 28th game of the season and the 224th of his MLS career tonight.
• DF Philippe Senderos returns to the Starting XI for the first time since Sep. 9 vs. Colorado Rapids. He will be making his second start of the season and second in MLS.
• DF Leonardo will start his 27th game of the season and the 106th of his MLS career tonight.
• DF Dylan Remick will play in his 57th career MLS game tonight. He’ll be making his 12th start of the season and the 44th of his career.
• MF Eric Alexander will be making his 10th start of the year and the 140th of his MLS career.
• MF Tomás Martínez will be making his fourth start of the year and his eighth appearance of the year.
• FW Vicente Sánchez can record an assist in his fourth consecutive game, extending the longest such streak of his career. The last time a Dynamo player was able to do this was Brad Davis in 2012.
• Sánchez can set a new MLS career high with his next assist, which would be his sixth of the season. He had five assists in 2015 with Colorado.
• Sánchez will make his 19th appearance of the season and his third start of the season.
• FW Mauro Manotas will be making his 23rd start of the season and will make his 31st appearance of the year tonight.
• Manotas needs one goal to reach 10 on the year and become the sixth Dynamo player to reach double digits in a season, and the third this season.
• FW Andrew Wenger will make his 21st appearance of the season and his 53rd with the Dynamo in his 11th start of the year.
• Wenger can surpass 1,000 minutes played in a season for the fourth year in a row if he plays through the 70th minute tonight.
• Wenger needs to score two goals to reach 10 in his Dynamo career.

SUBSTITUTES:

• GK Joe Willis can make his 61st career appearance and 38th with the Dynamo if he comes into today’s game. An appearance off the bench would be Willis’ third with the Dynamo and fourth overall.
• MF Alex can make his 150th career appearance and his 75th with the Dynamo if he comes into tonight’s game.
• Alex can play in his 30th game of the season if he comes in tonight, which would tie his career single-season high. He also played in 30 games in 2013 with Chicago and last season with Houston.
• DF Jalil Anibaba can make his 165th career appearance and his 37th with the Dynamo if he comes into tonight’s game.
• Torres needs one goal to match his career high of 15 from the 2014 season.
• DF Kevin Garcia can make his fourth career appearance if he comes into tonight’s game.
• MF Joe Holland can make his sixth career appearance if he comes into tonight’s game.
• FW Erick Torres can make his 26th appearance of the season and the 92nd of his career if he comes into the game tonight.
• MF Charlie Ward will be dressing for the first time since he suffered a dislocated patella in his right knee on August 18.
• Ward can make his second career appearance if he comes into tonight’s game.