These two stats seem to be a good omen for Sporting Kansas City’s chances this season
No team in Major League Soccer has had a better start to the 2020 season than Sporting Kansas City.
With six points from two games, Sporting KC is tied atop the Western Conference standings with Minnesota and Colorado. And while Atlanta is also unbeaten in the East, none of those three teams has a goal differential as dominant as Kansas City, which is plus-six.
Sporting Kansas City hopes to claim a third MLS Cup, having won previously in 2000 and 2013, and it’s a good omen that forward Alan Pulido has scored in each of his first two games.
He’s just the third player in franchise history to score in each of his first two matches with Sporting Kansas City. Check out when the others did it (fan Colin Cooper made the connection):
That’s a good sign, right? Well, here’s another: the seven goals over the first two games was only matched by the 2000 team, which as noted, won MLS Cup.
That 2000 team opened with 10-0-2 record and had a bulldog in defense named Peter Vermes.
This story was originally published March 10, 2020 at 8:09 AM.
