The Sporting Kansas City Post
Match3 Jul 2038
Efrain Morales wins it after the whistle should have gone
91 minutes played. Efrain Morales found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and FC Dallas went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Market5 Jul 2038
Jack Kortkamp is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sporting Kansas City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings5 Jul 2038
Both of them Efrain Morales's — 8.74
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.74, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad5 Jul 2038
A one-man rearguard from Jack Kortkamp
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad5 Jul 2038
Sean Moore says Sporting Kansas City went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Jul 2038
Or Blorian in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sporting Kansas City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jul 2038
Words at Sporting Kansas City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lasse Berg Johnsen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match3 Jul 2038
Sporting Kansas City find a way past FC Dallas
FC Dallas made Sporting Kansas City work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings5 Jul 2038
A masterclass from Nimfasha Berchimas
Marked 8.67 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
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