Fewer than 48 hours after securing their first victory in five weeks, Sporting Kansas City players filed into the training facility, and veteran Brad Davis noticed a discernible difference in temperament.
For more than a month, the walk onto the practice field had been accompanied by the cloud of a winless skid.
This week ...
“You get to come out with a smile,” Davis said. “There hadn’t been a lot of smiling recently.”
With one victory, the simple things have changed for the better. But has the big picture?
Sporting KC didn’t just break its winless skid Sunday against Orlando City SC — it shattered a franchise record with 34 shot attempts in the process, recording seven more than any other match in club history.