When Latif Blessing cleverly returned a pass to Christian Ramirez in the 84th minute of Saturday night’s match between two Western Conference playoff contenders LAFC and Sporting Kansas City, it looked for all the world like Superman was about to pick up right where he left off when he departed Minnesota earlier this week and give his new team a chance to get back into the contest.
Instead, it was Sporting’s central defender Ike Opara who was able to get just enough on it to send Ramirez's shot looping over his goalkeeper and off the woodwork.