Is Sporting Kansas City a team of destiny? More posts and timely interventions have top-seeded Sporting Kansas City heading home in good shape in the MLS Western Conference two-match aggregate goals series after a 0-0 draw Sunday evening at 5th-seeded Portland Timbers. Tim Melia featured for the guests as Kansas City were on the short-end of 6-1 deficit in shots on goal.
But a fortunate Kansas City was not without their chances and their best came in the 82nd minute.
Johnny Russell, the wee-Scotsman who had so often come through for Sporting during the season, penetrated low on two defenders and played a diagonal ball back to the six-yard box.