The ball bounced twice in the penalty box, and after a brief initial reaction, Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper Jon Kempin realized the inevitable and simply stood still. His shoulders slouched as the ball crossed the goal line and budged the net.
In the opening 12 minutes of a CONCACAF Champions League match in Vancouver on Tuesday, this scene unfolded twice — a ball finding daylight into the goal, without a keeper there to make a play on it.
They could amount to the final scenes in Sporting Kansas City’s CCL hopes.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC dealt Sporting a 3-0 defeat on Tuesday night and took control of the three-team Champions League group.