Sporting Kansas City will try to earn a date last week when a Portland Timbers paid a visit to the US Open Cup victory in the middle of the week.
Kansas City (3-7-1, 10 points), MLS history, the struggling Los Angeles Galaxy on the 1-0 victory on a single shot, although the first team to lead the first team won the victory.
Temporary SKC manager Kerry Zavagnin, the result, MLS’s longest -term manager Peter Vermes’nin a little longer than a month after the dismissal, said a sign of an attitude in the squad.
“It was the collective spirit of the group defending every action that came to their way, and we haven’t seen it for a long time.” He said. “The spirit of the group you can see at the end of the game.
Sporting Kansas City is still connected to the worst of the Western Conference with 21 goals, but they held two clean sheets and won three wins in five matches of Zavagin.
Portland (5-3-3, 18 points) won a dramatic 3-2 road against Tacoma Defian on Tuesday’s fourth round of the US Open Cup.
Last weekend, San Jose stopped 4-1 missing Portland’s seven matches (4-0-3). However, the win with an intensely rotated staff in Tacoma, the next professional side operated by the rival Seattle Sounders, must strengthen the group of Phil Neville before the beginning of a busy league stretch for Timbers, who visited Real Salt Lake next weekend.
Kevin Kelsy, one of the three Timbers players with at least four MLS goals, won the winner against Tacoma from the penalty spot during the second half.
“I think the next game is always the most important, Nev Neville said. “Now you can start thinking about Seattle, and you burn in the next two games. So, the next two games are very important for us to go to Seattle.”
-FELD level media
