Juice Boxes and Post Game Stats: Davis Makes His 100th Start

Sporting Kansas City lost for the third time in their four games since the return to play from the World Cup. This time it was 2-0 against the Houston Dynamo. Sporting spent over half the game down a man after Lasse Berg Johnsen was sent off in first half stoppage time for a second yellow card. The loss keeps Kansas City seated at the bottom of MLS’s Western Conference with a 4-12-2 record, 14 points, three behind fourteenth place Austin FC. Kansas City currently sits just two points above Atlanta United in the race to avoid the Wooden Spoon, awarded to the team that that finishes with the worst record.

Here are the stats and milestones from Saturday night at Sporting Park.

The loss drops KC’s all time record in league play to 381-383-210. It’s the 1st time KC has been 2 games below .500 since 3/25/2012.

At 24 years, 210 days, Jake Davis became the 3rd youngest player to reach 100 starts in all competitions for KC.

Davis became the 40th player to start 100 games in all competitions for Kansas City.

Moises Mosquera is the 14th player to make his first start for KC this year. That’s the most in a single league season for KC since 20 players did so in 1996.

He’s the 14th player to make his first start in all competitions for KC this year as well. That’s the most since 2016 and now tied for the 2nd most in club history.

Dejan Joveljic became the 96th player to make 50 appearances in MLS competitions for KC.

He became the 90th player to make 50 league appearances for KC.