The Sporting Kansas City Post
Squad21 Sep 2026
9 saves: John Pulskamp was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Geovanni Vianney at 19 — 8.59
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Geovanni Vianney did not need any: 8.59, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Lasse Berg Johnsen
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Sporting Kansas City will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Sporting Kansas City
André Luiz and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match19 Sep 2026
Sporting Kansas City find a way past Seattle Sounders
Seattle Sounders made Sporting Kansas City work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Geovanni Vianney
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Shapi Suleymanov reaches 200 appearances
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Lasse Berg Johnsen in the eights
A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
A satisfied Daniel Sargent
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑2, Daniel Sargent could afford to be generous.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Tyler Deric
- The dugout Sporting Kansas City pick somebody else ahead of Sean Davis
- Market The Emir Karić talk will not go away