After an underwhelming 2-0 home loss to New York City FC on MLS’s 2018 opening weekend, Sporting Kansas City has won scored seven goals, gained back-to-back wins, and has jumped into a tie for first-place in the Western Conference. And much of the two-game run has been on the shoulders of its midfield trio, a trio that has been become a fluid, interchangeable, three-headed monster.
But if you want to put a label on each in this long-time-in-forming-midfield, you could …
The #6 box-to-box midfielder and general destroyer would be Roger Espinoza, the 31-year-old MLS, two-time Honduran FIFA World Cup and Wigan Athletic FA Cup winning veteran.