San Diego is a juggernaut. #SportingKC gave a decent account of themselves. Concepts are there. Quality of execution of said concepts has some room to grow.
An account of tonight's loss. #SKCvSD
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1-0. Life tweeting/skeeting on 10x speed.
Wicky said the possession discrepancy didn't surprise him. Felt that it was more about what they were gonna do when they did win the ball. Says they weren't patient enough to start their attacks and made sloppy turnovers. #SportingKC
Set-Piece chance at the end doesn't come with a shot on goal, and that'll do it. #SportingKC falls 2-0. #SKCvSD
AFRIFA SAVED. Oh huge chance for #SportingKC at the end. That truly might have been the last gasp. #SKCvSD
Shane Donovan makes his MLS debut. Short Term Loanee from SKC II comes on for Jake Davis. Last change for #SportingKC
Calheira nearly levels. He couldn't quite get everything on it. 89th minute. That might have been the chance. #SKCvSD
Everything is a yellow card these days. Davis into the book. #SKCvSD
Pulskamp with another save. He's made four tonight and has kept #SportingKC hanging around hereto maybe pick off a point. Three of San Diego's back four now have yellow cards.
Calheira and Agyabeng on now. Shapi and Harris came off.
1-0. Ten minutes to go.
#SKCvSD
Duah gets booked for taking down Shapi on the counterattack. #SKCvSD
Now there is a change. Bartlett is coming off for Stephen Afrifa. Assume Davis moves to the midfield. #SKCvSD
No changes yet for #SportingKC. With it just being 1-0 and about 20 minutes to go, gotta figure a chance to switch it up and push for an equalizer is coming. #SKCvSD
Correct call, very quickly executed. That is a good example of VAR being good for the game. #SKCvSD
VAR is probably going to overturn this. Badawi has gone to the monitor. Pretty clearly comes off his arm. Still 1-0. #SKCvSD
On the counter. San Diego makes it 2-0. Pulskamp claims it came off his foot onto his hand. We'll see if it stands. #SKCvSD
Pulskamp keeping #SportingKC in this. Great save from point blank on Dreyer. #SKCvSD
Second half underway. No changes either way. #SKCvSD
Halftime. 1-0 SD. San Diego has been good. #SportingKC not valuing the ball well. Dreyer stepped up with a moment of quality and that's the difference. #SKCvSD
GOAL. San Diego. Dreyer. 1-0. #SKCvSD
Miller goes into the book. A foul you don't need to make in that moment as #SportingKC had numbers back. #SKCvSD
Jansen Miller with great defense 1v1 on Pellegrino to force a corner out of a quick San Diego counter. #SKCvS
Certainly an orange card. I've seen less given as a red. #SKCvSD
Manu is scythed down on the counter and Bombino gets a yellow. #SportingKC players adamant it was a high boot. Bombino flopped for one of the fouls earlier. Foul count now 5-1. #SKCvSD
Ref ignores Man Garcia getting elbowed/shouldered in the head. In a pretty physical game both ways the foul counter is SKC 4, SD 0. #SportingKC #SKCvSD
Welp! It's beautiful night for footie. #SportingKC and San Diego FC are off.
Lasse Berg Johnsen available off the bench tonight for #SportingKC
What a goal from Thompson.
Raphael Wicky liked his team's response after the self-inflicted goal last week against Columbus.
"That’s what I want to see. And I think that’s when we see growth from players. That’s when we see players developing.”
#SportingKC seeks to build on last week's performance versus Columbus:
Availability report ahead of #SKCvSD. #SportingKC
