Matt Besler was fired up on Sunday afternoon.
In the final moments of a 3-0 win over FC Dallas at Toyota Stadium, just as his teammate Johnny Russell was being subbed off, the Sporting Kansas City captain erupted into an animated applause.
A feisty encounter between fierce Western Conference rivals—one in which numerous altercations between players nearly reached boiling points—had resulted in Sporting KC running away to an emphatic victory.
“You saw me in a raw moment, really fired up because we were on the road against Dallas, we were winning 3-0, and they were complaining about everything we were doing,” Besler recalled during his Tuesday morning appearance on Sports Radio 810 WHB with hosts Nate Bukaty, Steven St.