The pageantry was on full display, a celebration of fire and electric guitars to signal opening day at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kan.
The goals were icing on the cake.
Sporting Kansas City opened its home slate with a convincing 2-1 victory over Vancouver Whitecaps FC to move to 2-0-0 on the season and first place in the MLS Western Conference.
Here are three thoughts on the match:
1. First 45 minutes were the best from Sporting KC in quite some time
It wasn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but the first half was about close as one can get, and the best Sporting KC has shown in recent memory.