If you’re a casual Sporting fan, you’re probably baffled by the team’s recent run of poor play. Then again, if you’re a casual Sporting fan, you probably aren’t reading ReportingKC anyway. If you are reading this, I suspect that you attribute much of Sporting’s current struggles to the absence of Soni Mustivar from the Sporting lineup due to injury.
I’ve waxed poetic about the importance of the d-mid position to Sporting KC before, especially in Sporting’s 4-3-3 system:
Turns out, the defensive midfielder–a position casual soccer fans scarcely notice–is pretty much the most important position on the field.