Sporting Kansas City’s “summer swoon” came early in 2018. In the past, the team’s attack was usually at fault, but this year it was a leaky backline that caused for plenty of concern.
After a winless July, KC have completed an unbeaten and unblemished August. SKC’s backline set a franchise record of four clean sheet wins in a row (all of them victories) in their 2-0 defeat of Minnesota United on the weekend.
“We have a defense-first mentality,” Graham Zusi said. “We pride ourselves on not giving up goals, and being very sound defensively.”
Sporting have littered the record books with their defensive numbers.