For the fourth straight season, Sporting Kansas City's season ended in the wild card round of the MLS Cup playoffs, this year thanks to a 1-0 loss to the Houston Dynamo in extra time. Each of the last four years it's been something new that has knocked Sporting out of the playoffs, whether it was goalkeeping mistakes (2-1 loss to New York in 2014), unkind posts (Saad Abdul-Salaam penalty off both posts in Portland in 2015), incorrect refereeing decisions (Nelson Rodriguez being offside on his winner in Seattle in 2016), and inability to finish (Houston 2017), but in the end there have been two constants for Kansas City.
From Sporting Fit to Sporting Flat
