- Sporting Kansas City defeated the Portland Timbers 1-0 at Providence Park on Saturday night.
- With the victory, Sporting KC moved into third place in the Western Conference with 48 points.
- Sporting Kansas City made seven changes to the starting lineup from Wednesday's victory in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final.
- With Connor Hallisey, Saad Abdul-Salaam and Amadou Dia in the lineup, Sporting KC started three rookie draft picks in an MLS match for the first time since May 26, 2007.
- Benny Feilhaber made his 100th start for Sporting KC in all competitions.
- Since the start of 2013, the home team in the Portland-Sporting KC series is winless in six straight meetings across all competitions.
- Sporting KC has a 3-1-1 all-time record at Providence Park with just two goals allowed in those five matches.
- Seven of the eight regular season matches between Sporting KC and Portland have been decided by a goal or less.
- Sporting KC leads the series 4-2-2.
- With the win, Sporting KC snapped the Timbers' 14-game home unbeaten streak against Western Conference foes since September 2014.
- Portland is 12-0-2 when scoring first but 0-11-1 when conceding first (worst in MLS).
- Sporting KC has four shutouts in four trips to Cascadia foes this season, tying Seattle and Portland 0-0, beating Vancouver 1-0 and now beating Portland 1-0 on Saturday.
- Sporting KC is 3-0-0 in MLS matches immediately following Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup championship wins.
- Sporting KC has three straight shutouts against Portland since June 2014.
- Krisztian Nemeth entered the match as a second half substitute in the 73rd minute on Saturday and scored the game-winner 10 minutes later.
- The goal was Nemeth's 10th regular season goal in 2015 and Sporting KC now has three players with double digit goals during the MLS regular season in 2015.
- Graham Zusi notched the assist, his fifth of 2015.
- Amadou Dia led all players with 13 of 13 duels won and six tackles won on Saturday.
- Graham Zusi, along with Portland's Fanendo Adi and Diego Valeri, led all players with four chances created.
- Kevin Ellis led all players with six interceptions on Saturday.
- Matt Besler led all players with nine clearances on Saturday.
- Tim Melia led all players with 14 recoveries on Saturday.
- Sporting KC returns to MLS action on Friday, Oct. 16 at San Jose.
- In the meantime, Matt Besler and Graham Zusi will join the U.S. MNT for the CONCACAF Cup next Saturday versus Mexico.
- Marcel de Jong (Canada) and Krisztian Nemeth (Hungary) will also be on international duty next week.
