Home and Away - A Sporting KC Podcast

We are back after another week off(I know, I know, we take a lot of time off, but do you really want to hear us whining about how bad this team is every week for an hour and a half?).  Sporting KC has played 3 games in that timeframe and the silver linings are hard to find.  They have somehow not actually clinched the wooden spoon getting merely 1 point from those 3 games because, well, Montreal exists.  Which leads us to a decision day where there is actually something on the line, I guess.  Injuries hit SKC pretty hard again recently and it certainly led to the fairly lackluster performances but when you look at the numbers all that has really changed is they aren’t creating the type of offensive chances they were when Andre arrived.  We’ll discuss the reasons why, as well as the continued existence of just tragic defending at key moments in games, including one player in particular often being highlighted in those proceedings.In Tactical corner we will discuss Wicky getting salty in pressers about the choices he’s making, or in his opinion forced to make, before heading to Potpourri where we will talk about good MLS Teams, the Current finishing the regular season on a 5 game winning streak, and the recent USMNT roster for the Nations League Quarterfinal matchup with Haiti.  Finally we will do a brief preview of that Decision Day matchup this weekend vs San Diego.Music by The Spin Wires

We had to go and do it, didn’t we?  We spent the entirety of last week’s episode glazing Sporting KC(as Cody's son would say), talking about all the ways the team was much more fun to watch and even without results were so vastly different from the first half of the year, that they had to make us look like absolute fools and revert to the worst versions of themselves against Nashville and RSL.  All of the traumatic memories of tragic defending, ball watching, and complete disorganization came flooding back in a couple of fairly depressing capitulations.So, for those of you that were wondering what happened to us, and where grumpy Drew and Cody went, well you’re welcome, because we are definitely back this week.  We will discuss what went wrong in these matches this week with plenty of blame to pass around, what we think is causing these problems and how we’d fix them.  But we also must reckon with the fact that with 4 games left, it is unlikely much of anything will change, certainly with Raphael Wicky still in charge.We will also get to what we saw that we enjoyed in MLS this week, the Current getting hot at just the right time, and preview the only team that seems quite on Sporting KC’s level of putridity, Austin FC’s visit to Sporting Park on Saturday.

In this episode, we analyze recent performances of Sporting Kansas City, focusing on tactical decisions, player development, and team progress. We explore how individual mistakes, tactical choices, and player development impact results and team dynamics. In this episode, Drew and Cody analyze recent MLS performances, team strategies, injury issues, and the impact of management decisions on team success. They also discuss the broader implications of sports science and organizational support in professional soccer.Music by The Spin Wires

In this episode, we analyze Sporting Kansas City's recent performance, the US Men's national team's youth movement, and the impact of new signings like Andre Luiz. We explore tactical insights, player development, and league dynamics to understand what lies ahead for US soccer and MLS. In this episode, Drew and Cody analyze recent US men's national team performances, player development, tactical insights, and MLS league updates, providing a comprehensive look at the current soccer landscape.Music by The Spin Wires

Sporting KC had another schizophrenic performance Saturday night at Sporting Park as while Andre Luiz continued showing why the club invested so much in bringing him to the team, and the Wyatt Meyer Effect continued to show it’s potential in helping the team achieve results, a far too common refrain of falling apart when things started going bad also came to bear and really had fans searching for answers after shipping 4 goals in 10 minutes and losing a game they never should have.While Philly did put SKC under pressure, their performance after the hour mark was simply not good enough, and was not near the level of execution we saw from this team just a week prior vs LAFC.  We mentioned that it would be irrational to expect everyone to perform at the level they did in that game, but that doesn’t mean a capitulation of this magnitude is either expected or acceptable.  The mental softness of this team continues to be a consistent issue, and something that the coach seems unable to remedy.In Potpourri, we will catch up on the other things around MLS this weekend that caught our eye, the Current sleepwalking through a loss in San Diego, and David Lee’s favorite topic, GAM.Music by The Spin Wires