Sporting Kansas City made a truly sensational start to the 2020 Major League Soccer season. It was a long time ago but Peter Vermes’ side had recovered from their 2019 slump while injecting an element of pace, tempo and physicality to quickly establish themselves as one of the premier teams in the entire league.
SKC looked to play at intensity, with and without the ball. They passed crisply, accurately and directly, attacked with incision and purpose, playing passes into attacking areas quickly to exploit space on the counter-attack. But it is in defence where Sporting KC have been most impressive.