"Major mistakes" doom Sporting KC as strong outing turns to heavy defeat

PORTLAND, OR – Sporting Kansas City arrived in Portland on Sunday looking to extend their two-game winning streak and get their first win away from home since April. Ninety minutes of hard-fought soccer later, the visitors once found themselves heading home empty handed.

Looking back at the match, Kansas City coach Peter Vermes was left ruing Sporting's mistakes and missed chances, particularly after the game was turned on its head by a pair of first-half red cards to the Portland Timbers' Diego Chara and SKC's Soni Mustivar.

"The game wasn't a 3-0 game," Vermes told the press after the match. "They finished a couple of chances at the end of the game. What I would say is that we actually…