From six to nine. Sporting Kansas City (9-6-6, 33 points) hosted FC Dallas (12-3-6, 42 points) in a match vital to Sporting’s late-mid season standing Saturday night at Children’s Mercy Park. An early goal from FC Dallas midfielder Michael Barrios and an early second-half equalizer by Sporting’s Gerso Fernandes set a tense affair until Barrios finished two more too-easy chances to ice the match for the visitors, shoving their hosts nine points back in the standings.
Sporting Kansas City, who began the night 3rd in the West, came in winless in their last four MLS contests, while FC Dallas, who began the night as Western Conference leaders, had won three of their last five, losing only one.