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Beyond the Box Score: Sporting's California reign ends at the death

As the age-old saying goes, all good things must come to an end.

For Sporting Kansas City, that term was applicable in multiple contexts on Sunday night in a last-gasp 2-1 defeat at Los Angeles Football Club to open the 2019 MLS campaign.

First off, Sporting were a perfect 10-0-0 during the 2018 regular season when leading at halftime. Such was the case on Sunday, as the visitors held a 1-0 edge at the interval on Krisztian Nemeth's 16th-minute strike, his third in as many games.

LAFC rallied, however, drawing level on 47 minutes through Diego Rossi before substitute Adama Diomande bagged a dramatic winner in the fourth minute of stoppage time.