**Sporting Kansas City / MLS Post Season 2015**
 

Because I know you guys love it. SKC capped the season with a nice win against Los Angelas on ESPN and now it is playoff time.

Sporting Kansas City vs Portland Timbers | Thursday 9pm CT

There are 3 major American soccer trophies and Kansas City already won one of them in the US Open Cup. NYRB won the Supporters Shield for having the best regular season...MLS Cup the biggest prize is left.

Postseason Situation - SKC was riding high but ran into a pretty bad slump for a while that coupled with the really close and really competitive Western Conference left them in 6th place. One off playoff game is against Portland and should they win they move into a two legged series with FC Dallas.

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Sporting's seed obviously is not ideal but path their path to MLS Cup is. Sporting has had a really nice run against Portland and Dallas. The scarier teams (IMO) are on the other side of the bracket...LA...Seattle...and less so Vancouver.

The East part of the bracket is weaker but it is still pretty damn interesting. I see NYRB, Columbus, and Montreal as the real threats. Drogba has had a really nice run and brought MTL to life. New York won the Supporters Shield they have a really strong complete team and streaky scorers plus a good GK. Columbus has some big scoring threats but can be shaky on defense.

There is also Giovinco in Toronto. He is the MVP this year but the team around him isn't good enough IMO.

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Mods, please move this ****ing gay shit now. We've had a great week of threads. Don't let this fairy nonsense ruin the good vibes.

Glad we made the playoffs, but 6th wouldn't be good enough any other season. Really poor finish to the season. The team falling apart around August needs to be addressed.

There were some bad results there. They had good results against good teams but played poorly against bad teams so not sure what to make of it. The reality is the Ike Opara and Espinoza injuries hurt us...its really really hard to have awesome back ups with the salary restrictions in MLS and I think people under appreciated Espinoza and some of the things he brought to the table even though we have other really awesome midfielders.

Nobody ****ing under appreciated Espinoza.

Yeah missing Ike and Roger is horrible.

Honestly, we have enough going forward to put in some goals. If we can limit teams to, let's say one goal per game, we definitely have a shot. Say what you want about the backline of a few seasons ago, but in 2013, we leaked at least 1 goal in every playoff game bar the first leg in Houston. Tournament soccer particularity favors teams with firepower. Just finish chances.

This discussion could easily be accomplished using the PM function.

The team's ceiling is higher...if they really turn it on they are hard to beat. We will see though.

KC is a blue town. Deal with it.

Not sure about that. A lot of people felt his play was lackluster this year...not very flashy. But his play protecting a lot of other players on the field and the dip in results after he got hurt was pretty shocking.

So have you driven by Sporting Park while a game is going on and gone inside? How about a practice out at Swope Park? Ever stopped and watched? My guess is probably a big homophobic *#*!% No Way! So why in the world do you open this thread and decide to post your obviously gay paranoid incredibly tired crap?

Go read the scintillating stories about processed meat perhaps causing cancer, the Lions firing their coaches and all the Alex Smith threads that comprise your so called week of thread nirvana.

Oh and finally make sure you erase the gay porn from your browsing history. Homophobes sometimes forget to cover their tracks. Toodles!

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Consistently winning franchises such as SKC should be celebrated and revered.

Always in it, they are.

Bufkin being a bitch is not surprising.

Is Sharting Park now a bigger gay haven than the Liberty Memorial?

like a moth to a flame

Mormons are socially awkward. He's still working on it.

Not surprising a royal **** like Prison Bitch would troll this thread...

Is the game even going to be on TV in KC?

KMCI locally yes.

Espinoza was a destroyer of the world's when he left for wiggin.

Asking for a friend, I'm sure.

**crickets**

i've liked wut quintilla has done so far...

very good technical skills on ball but still seems to still be adjusting to mls physicality.

i'll think our eleven from last game was the best we could put out there outside of injuries...

dwyer
nemeth-zusi
quintilla-feilhaber
mustivar
salaam-besler-ellis-myers

What does Chance Myers do well?

With the LA Galaxy getting beat by the Sounders there will be a new MLS Cup Champion this year. LA had a very poor end to their season...this is a big win for the Sounders who have often been thwarted by LA.

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DC United had a weird win and overcame a moment of brilliance from Juan Agudelo.

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He has put in a ton of good years for this club but I think his time is up.

Getting ready to kick this thing off.

PTFC!!!!!

Season ends tonight!

Nil - Nil at half.

****! Lucky bastards!

Whose season is over tonight, again?

It aint over yet.

Wallace is a cheep piece of shit. Should have red carded that mother ****er.

And the ref missed a hand ball in the box by Portland. **** this season. Western Conference sucks.

Yeah, I thought that when you posted that earlier.

WOW

Equalizer!!!!

Beautiful. Finish these bitches off

What a cheap shot on Besler

Holy crap. Portland should have been given two red cards so far and called for a hand ball in the box. WTF?

Callum Williams is calling the game on stream I'm watching.

Extra Time!

Tuning in at just the right time. Watching on Univision...in English. LMAO

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was sick!

Hell of a nice goal.

Woot

Dang it!

Poop

Played that ball like shit.

Penalties. Not good after subbing our goalie and starting striker.

Played well to burn down the clock, and then one poor effort and there goes the lead.

This is unbelievable

Wow

Kempin is a wall

Unreal.

This is like nothing ever seen! 2 posts? Are you fing kidding me?

Well poop

That is ridiculous. How do you blow so many chances?

I ****ing hate PK's. Good season.

I think they should go to golden goal after 120'. PK's are stupid.

That was simply incredible. So proud of that team.

What a devastating sequence.

Painful to watch.

I know they'll be harder on themselves than anybody else could be, so I hope they just live and learn. But I too am proud of this team, they represent the city very well and they embody the true spirit of the people from here.