- Sporting Kansas City and the Portland Timbers played to a scoreless draw on Wednesday.
- With the draw, Sporting KC and the Portland Timbers remain tied for fourth place in the Western Conference along with the Seattle Sounders FC.
- With the draw, the Portland Timbers maintain their unbeaten streak at home now for 10 games dating back to May 2 (6-0-4).
- The draw ended a three-game losing slide for Sporting Kansas City.
- The Timbers also remain unbeaten for 14 consecutive MLS home matches against Western Conference foes (6-0-8) since last September.
- The three-game losing streak for Sporting KC was their first in 2015.
- Wednesday night marked the return of defensive midfielder Soni Mustivar, who missed the last three MLS matches for Sporting KC due to a groin strain. Sporting KC is 13-2-4 when Mustivar starts.
- Sporting KC was without Krisztian Nemeth, Marcel de Jong and Erik Palmer-Brown on Wednesday, all of which are traveling back from international duty.
- The Timbers were without Will Johnson (Canada), Alvas Powell (Jamaica) and Michael Seaton (Jamaica), who are all traveling back from international duty. Portland was also without Liam Ridgewell and Diego Chara due to suspension.
- Matt Besler re-joined Sporting KC for Wednesday's match after playing 28 minutes for the U.S. Men's National Team in a friendly against Peru on Friday.
- With Wednesday's draw, Sporting KC is unbeaten on the road against Cascadia foes this season, earning a 0-0 draw at Seattle (5/23) and a 1-0 win at Vancouver (7/12).
- Jack Jewsbury captained the Timbers FC on Wednesday. Jewsbury played for KC from 2003-10, scoring 15 goals and adding 22 assists in 218 games across all competitions.
- Sporting KC has a 2-1-1 all-time record at Portland.
- Matt Besler led all players on Wednesday with seven interceptions.
- Tim Melia led all players on Wednesday with 14 recoveries.
- Graham Zusi led all players with a passing accuracy of 87.88%.
- Soni Mustivar led all players in successful passes with 35.
- Sporting KC still has two games in hand over all of the teams in the Western Conference except FC Dallas, which they have one game in hand over.
- Sporting KC is 0-1-3 in 2015 when scoring zero goals.
- Sporting KC is 3-5-6 when tied at the half in 2015.
- With the draw, Sporting KC is 5-6-6 against Western Conference opponents this season.
- Sporting KC is 3-2-2 against the Portland Timbers all-time.
- Sporting KC is 28-35-14 all-time during the month of September.
- Sporting KC is 254-236-131 all-time and 90-150-71 all-time on the road.
- Sporting KC is 6-6-6 when wearing Sporting Blue in 2015.
- Sporting KC is back on the pitch this Sunday for the team's first match with expansion club Orlando City SC.
