Sporting Kansas City took on the Colorado Rapids on Wednesday night in Tucson, Arizona. This was Sporting KC’s third game in the Desert Diamond Cup. The starting line-up was the same as the final line-up of the game on Saturday night (Kann, Dia, Opara, Ellis, Abdul-Salaam, Olum, Mustivar, Nagamura, Hallisey, and Peterson). The one exception was trialist Kenny Cooper playing up top instead of Salloi.
The first couple minutes were pretty shaky with Colorado having most of the possession and chances, but Kann was up to the test. The center back pairing of Opara and Ellis in my opinion is just a disaster waiting to happen.