Just four days after burying the Montreal Impact with a seven-goal barrage, Sporting Kansas City found itself on the more painful end of an embarrassing beatdown, enduring a humbling loss that effectively brought another disappointing end to the Concacaf Champions League for Major League Soccer.
Monterrey overwhelmed Sporting KC, rolling to a 5-0 CCL semifinal first-leg victory in Monterrey, leaving Peter Vermes' side all but eliminated and battered just days after its 7-0 drubbing of the Impact.
None of those seven goals helped Sporting KC on Thursday against a Monterrey side that repeatedly punished KC's defense on the counterattack, with Dorlon Pabon leading an onslaught that began with his seventh-minute strike.