Go in-depth in Sporting Kansas City's 2-0 loss against the LA Galaxy on Saturday at The Home Depot Center with this week's Fast Facts below:
- Sporting Kansas City lost to the LA Galaxy 2-0 at Home Depot Center on Saturday.
- Marcelo Sarvas scored the first goal of the match in the 27th minute of play, his first of the season.
- Landon Donovan earned the assist on the goal, also his first of the season.
- Landon Donovan scored the second goal for the LA Galaxy, his first of the season on an assist by Robbie Keane, his second of the season.
- Landon Donovan leads all Galaxy players with 13 goals and 12 assists in his career against Sporting KC.
- With the loss, Sporting Kansas City moves to 4-2-2 in 2013 and 2-2-1 on the road.
- Sporting KC remains in first place in the Eastern Conference. The loss ended a three-game winning streak and five-game unbeaten run.
- The loss marks only the second against the LA Galaxy in the last nine meetings dating back to March 24, 2008. Both losses were suffered at The Home Depot Center.
- With the win, the LA Galaxy move to 3-1-2 on the season and remain undefeated at home with a record of 3-0-1.
- Sporting Kansas City's record against the LA Galaxy moves to 18-23-11 all-time and 5-15-6 on the road in the series.
- Sporting Kansas City is 216-208-111 all-time, 73-133-63 all-time on the road.
- Sporting Kansas City has started the same lineup in their last four matches. Saturday's loss was the only blemish in the four game stretch.
- The LA Galaxy made three changes to their starting lineup, replacing Greg Cochrane, Leonardo and Colin Clark with Sean Franklin, Todd Dunivant and Robbie Keane from the club's last match on April 13, a 1-0 loss to FC Dallas.
- Galaxy defender Leonardo served a mandatory one-game suspension for Saturday's game.
- Prior to Saturday's victory, the LA Galaxy had lost three straight in all competitions including both legs of the CONCACAF Champions League Semifinals and were winless in their previous four matches.
- Sporting KC conceded a goal in the 27th minute of the match, ending the club's shutout streak at 545 minutes. The streak stands as the second longest in club history and fifth longest in League history.
- Sporting KC lost for only the third time in MLS regular season action with Matt Besler, Aurelien Collin, Seth Sinovic and Chance Myers in the starting lineup. The team is now 23-3-8 all-time in the MLS regular season with that backline starting together.
- Sporting Kansas City has allowed five goals this season, second fewest in MLS this season behind the LA Galaxy (4).
- Jimmy Nielsen has appeared in 69 straight MLS matches, including postseason, for Sporting Kansas City, dating back to June 12, 2011. The streak covers a span of 6,210 straight minutes of MLS action.
- Nielsen's career goals against average stands at 0.99, best among MLS goalkeepers all-time with a minimum of 4,000 minutes played.
- Nielsen boasts the best goals against average in road games in MLS history among goalkeepers with a minimum of 2,000 road minutes played (1.08).
- Sporting Kansas City was outshot for the third time this season in Saturday's match. The LA Galaxy took 12 shots to Sporting Kansas City's nine, including five shots on goals to Sporting KC's two.
- Prior to the match, Sporting KC's six shots on goal allowed in the last five games is the fewest for a five-game span in MLS history.
- Sporting KC leads MLS all-time in shots with 7,303.
- Sporting Kansas City has gone 74 consecutive MLS matches (including playoffs) without conceding a goal on a corner kick, dating back to May 21, 2011 at Seattle.
- Sporting Kansas City is 1-2-0 when conceding the first goal and 0-2-0 when trailing at halftime in 2013.
- U.S. Men's National Team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann will attend Saturday's match at The Home Depot Center
- Robbie Keane made his return for the LA Galaxy after missing three straight League matches.
- The LA Galaxy have conceded only one goal at home in 2013 in MLS play.
- The goal in the 74th minute was the latest goal allowed by Sporting Kansas City this season.
- Chance Myers played his 100th match in MLS competition (including playoffs).
- Seth Sinovic surpassed 5,000 regular season minutes played for Sporting KC in his career on Saturday.
- LA have 19 straight wins when allowing 0 goals.
- On Saturday, a moment of silence was observed prior to the match to recognize those who were affected by Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon. The team flags of the Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots and the New England Revolution were displayed on The Home Depot Center berm, along with the flag of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
