My wife was bouncing up and down in her seat as Sporting and the LA Galaxy lined up before kickoff at Children’s Mercy Park on Sunday.
“We’re playing three in the back!” she announced, squeezing my arm for emphasis.
Without the benefit of the Fox Sports pregame, I had assumed that the lineup announced on Twitter, with Opara at right back and Espinoza at defensive midfielder, was probably how the team would lineup. I had a few niggling doubts that Vermes would put his players in those positions, but there really wasn’t evidence that Sporting was trying something new.