FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Sporting Kansas City manager Peter Vermes did not see the decisive own goal in Saturday night's 3-1 defeat at New England as the line of demarcation for his team. He simply saw it as the instance of a problem that manifested through the entire night.
Vermes labeled the wrenching tally -- Lee Nguyen’s rasping effort bounced off the near post and deflected off Kevin Ellis for the Revolution’s second goal after 75 minutes -- as a “really tough own goal,” but he also noted how it proved another instance where Sporting KC overcommitted defensively and paid the considerable price.