Seven Ailments of Sporting KC’s Defense

William Purnell-USA TODAY Sports Sporting Kansas City are off to a less than ideal start in MLS play in 2019. They are 2-2-4 through eight league games and are coming off of a 4-4 draw to the last place team in the Eastern Conference, the New England Revolution. Before that they got a 4-1 pounding at the hands of what had been a terrible San Jose Earthquakes squad.

I’ll take a look at several possibilities but in no way do I promise any answers. I’m not a regular on The Shades of Blue podcast, but much like that pod, I have questions but only the vaguest hint at an answer.

Before we look at what’s wrong, let’s try to illustrate how wrong things are going. Sporting KC have allowed 15 goals in…