#SportingKC welcome to town a stern-test in one of the leagues best teams early this year, the San Jose Earthquakes.
KC will have revenge from the road opener on their minds on Saturday in KC. #quakes74 #SKCvSJ
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Pulskamp: "The second goal, as for the goal on the set piece, it's on me."
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Vermes said the first three subs were because of yellow cards, but it's not who they would have preferred to put out there. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
Full time. Sporting Kansas City drop their home opener 2-1 to San Jose.
Honestly, the team looked less dangerous after San Jose went down to 10 men. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
4 minutes of stoppage time is criminal! #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
There better be like 10 minutes of stoppage time. And I'm saying that in the 80th minute... #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
Memo Rodriguez about to check in. I'd assume for Zorhan Bassong.
Salloi also coming in. Perhaps for Thommy? #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
Radoja in the book for dissent... during the play.
The broadcast didn't show a replay of the handball, just the yellow card. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
Davis does in fact come out. All three guys on yellows removed. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
Triple sub coming. Brody, Ndenbe and Radoja coming on. It'll be interesting to see if Jake Davis stays on and moves into the midfield and Bassong checks out. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
Incredibly stupid second yellow from Hernan Lopez. That's a red card and he's gone. SJ playing with 10 for nearly 40 minutes. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
No changes at the half for either team. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
The halftime adjustment has to be centered around putting more pressure on Bartlett, Davis, and Liebold who are all on yellow cards. Force Vermes to have to change his defensive tactics or even personnel earlier than he would like. #SKCvSJ
Offense was cooking there in the last half of the first 45'. Obviously need to work on set piece defense. 1-2 #SKCvSJ
Crossbar pinged as the final action before the half.
I'd honestly say SKC have mostly controlled the game, but SJ are up 2-1. San Jose clearly want to hit on the counter and it's been dangerous. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
Shapi definitely fouled, but it wasn't called. It's outside the box so it's not reviewable.
The counter it created led to a Jake Davis yellow card though... #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
CORNER KICK LETS GO 🗣️🗣️🗣️ #SKCvSJ
This same situation happened in 2021. Sporting thought they had a penalty kick, but it was overturned. They were in possession of the ball in the box and the play was restarted with a drop ball to the San Jose GK. #SKCvSJ
That's a really fun ruling that has now happened twice in a San Jose Earthquakes/#SportingKC matchup. Corner kick routine had Sporting stunned. Ball hits ref that means drop ball in the box.
You cannot drop the ball in the box as a 50/50, it has to go to the keeper. #SKCvSJ
Omfg the ref barely even tried to get out of the way lolol #SKCvSJ
Sporting KC pull one back! Joveljic with his first in a KC uniform. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
Wow, Leibold with a great chance! Ride the momentum, boys 🏄♂️ #SKCvSJ
Joveljic opens his account for Sporting Kansas City! 1-2.
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PK called against San Jose. His arm is near his side, but the replays are poor. It definitely knocks Harkes arm. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
JOVELJIC!!!! #SKCvSJ 🔥
PENALTY 🗣️🗣️ #SKCvSJ
Pulskamp has to claim that. #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
And it's 2-0. Three shots, two goals... #SportingKC #SKCvSJ
Wow, we are going to be a horrible set piece defense team this year by the looks of it. Second week, second, sloppy goal. Damn. #SKCvSJ
