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Sporting Kansas City vs Portland Timbers Match Thread
Sporting Kansas City begins the first of three straight home matches as they take on the Portland Timbers in a nationally televised match.
Sporting Kansas City vs Portland Thorns
Time: 12:45 pm CST
Location: Children’s Mercy Park, Kansas City, Kansas
How to Watch: Fox
Line: Sporting KC -125, Portland Timbers +290, Draw +270
Referee: Armando Villareal
The Teams
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Sporting Kansas City
2-1-3, 9 points
7th in the West
Head Coach: Peter Vermes (16th season)
Injury Report: OUT: Logan Ndenbe (knee), OUT: Johnny Russell (hamstring), QUESTIONABLE: Khiry Shelton (ankle)
Portland Timbers
2-3-1, 7 points
11th in the East
Head Coach: Phil Neville (1st season)
Injury Report: OUT: Marvin Loria (knee), OUT: Larrys Mabiala (leg), OUT: Zac McGraw (head)
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. Tzionis over Afrifa in the 18? Interesting
Well that wasn’t the greatest short corner I’ve ever seen
AGADAAAAAAAAA
Despite the deflection, that was good from Agada. He’s already been in good spots, and that shot may have very well been going far post anyways. It had some power on it
How did the announcer see that as potential offside? Romero didn’t touch the ball. Am I missing something?
Yeesh…
In other news my hatred of stutter step penalties remains
Dang it. He doesn’t have good shot placement so I was leery of him taking that, but I still wanted him to so he could get the hat trick.
Same. I guess we know what his end of practice drill will be.
what is going on
Hopefully Agada’s penalty miss doesn’t come back to haunt us…
It already is.
😖
This has to be a joke
wow
2 straight choke jobs at home. Absurd.
Unbelievable
Jeez, I checked the score at HT we were up 3-0. I was just able to tune in about 15 minutes ago, what the hell happened?!
We have 10 points, but have dropped 9 from leading positions, most notably the last 2 home games…..
Obviously not the reason we lost, but the CF position becomes so useless when Pulido is on. He hardly touches the ball, and lately it’s just kind of been a dead end when he has gotten the ball
And he folds like paper….
Too true. Agada was bodying up guys and making room for himself to receive the ball
Pulido had 4 passes. Our $4mil CF had 4 passes in 30 minutes.
There were points where he was farther outside the box and further back on the field than our wings. He and Russell are huge catalysts for our swing-around-the-box playstyle
So SKC has been outscored 8-1 from the 69th minute onward. Any other coach may look at that statistic and say, “perhaps we need multiple sets of fresh legs at 65ish min?” PV says, “you guys need to run harder after 69 min…come on…go get yourself a hammy and join the club.”
Vermes has been buying stock in a hammy replacement company for years. Just waiting on fda approval is what I heard.
Hey, vermes, it’s all your fault.
Pulido may be good, he clearly doesn’t fit this team. We lose all potency with him as a striker.
Once again, Chara had our number. We can’t go from 3-0 to 3-3…. and even then we still escaped.
Agreed on Pulido. Not faulting him, but if he doesn’t fit the system/style we need, then something needs to be changed
Even with Agada’s penalty miss I didn’t want to see Pulido come in. Would have rather seen Vargas replace Agada.
Same. Afrifa or vargas is a leg up.
Pulido naturally gravitates between the lines in the middle of the pitch. He needs to play the 10 behind Agada and the set-up would be more effective. Agada is the only goal-hunter CF Sporting has on the roster. He needs to be on the pitch.