We beat the stats to death when we previewed the first leg in the Western Conference Semifinals between Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake. They aren’t very positive for Sporting KC.
One stat we didn’t highlight, because it hadn’t happened yet, was possession in the first leg. RSL outpossessed SKC 66.6% to 33.4%. That’s the single worst outing possession-wise that Sporting KC have had in years. Years. Over three years to be more precise.
At the end of the 2018 regular season they were second in the league in possession per game (57.