The weather may be 30 degrees cooler than when the club arrived yesterday Friday afternoon, but there's little room to make excuses ahead of Sunday's match at Sporting KC (1 p.m. PT; ESPN, YouTube TV, 950 KJR AM, El Rey 1360 AM). Goalless and scoreless through the first three matches, the Rave Green put in a focused shift in their lone in-market training session at Swope Soccer Village before facing first-place SKC.
"It's a little chilly, the weather turned," Head Coach Brian Schmetzer said after training. "So we're not going to face a hot summer day [like the past two seasons].