By Benson Petit-Clair
The New England Revolution falls 3-0 to Sporting Kansas at Livestrong Sporting Park tonight in front of 19, 988 fans. Kamara Kei headed in a goal midway through the first half and added another one early in the second half to give the host a comfortable lead against the visiting Revolution. Kamara combined with Soony Saad on both occasions.
The Revolution who came to Kansas City after a disappointed home loss to Toronto FC last week, started the match with a twisted line-up that featured Kevin Alston at right-back. Thus, moving Chris Tierney to his natural left mid-fielding position. Kelyn Rowe started for Juan Toja was the other change to the starting line-up.
The first goal of the match came in the 27th minute courtesy of Kamara Kei who would eventually wins the man of the match. Kamara beat Kevin on a cross by Soony Saad from the left side.
Sporting KC entered the half with the one goal lead over the Revolution.
Kamara scored once more a little bit after the half to increase the score for Sporting KC. Soony and Kamara partnered another time to score on nearly the same play that resulted in the first goal.
Things got worse for the Revs in the 64th minute when referee Baldomero Toledo issued a second yellow to Dimitry Imbongo which automatically translated into a red card for the young striker.
The best chance of the night for the visitors came in the 80th minute when Chad Barrett maneuvered past All Star defender Matt Besler to earn a one on one with KC’s goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen. Nielsen made a play on the ball to preserved the shutout.
Imbongo was not the only Revolution play who got ejected in this match, Andy Dorman who replaced Lee Nguyen became the second player from the visiting team to be ejected after challenging Kamara at midfield. Kamara left the field with the assist of the team staff.
Benny Feilhaber scored in the dying minutes against his former team on a free-kick from the top of the box to add the third and last goal of the match.
New England (8-9-6) will be at home next Saturday to face Chicago Fire while Sporting will travel to San Jose to face the Earthquakes on Sunday.
Line-ups:
New England Revolution: Bobby Shuttleworth, Kevin Alston (Diego Fagundez 57), Jose Goncalves ©, Stephen McCarthy, Andrew Farrell, Chris Tierney, Kelyn Rowe, Scott Caldwell, Lee Nguyen (Andy Dorman 71), Saer Sene (Chad Barrett 63), Dimitry Imbongo
Substitutes Not Used: Matt Reis, A.J. Soares, Ryan Guy, Darrius Barnes
Sporting KC: Jimmy Nielsen ©, Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler, Aurelien Collin, Chance Myers, Benny Feilhaber, Oriol Rosell, Peterson Joseph (Lawrence Olum 57), Kei Kamara, Soony Saad (C.J. Sapong 77), Claudio Bieler (Dom Dwyer 83)
Substitutes Not Used: Eric Kronberg, Ike Opara, Mechack Jerome, Jacob Peterson
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