- Sporting Kansas City defeated the Vancouver Whitecaps 4-3 on Saturday in a thrilling come-from-behind victory at Sporting Park.
- With the win, Sporting KC moved into third place in the Western Conference with 40 points and four games in hand on the LA Galaxy, who currently lead the Western Conference with 43 points.
- Manager Peter Vermes made two changes to the Sporting Kansas City starting lineup that beat Real Salt Lake on Wednesday: Jimmy Medranda and Connor Hallisey replaced Amadou Dia and Jacob Peterson.
- With the win, Peter Vermes has the most MLS regular season wins in club history, breaking a tie with Bob Gansler, and the eighth most in League history.
- Benny Feilhaber made his 100th appearance for Sporting KC in all competitions on Saturday.
- The Vancouver Whitecaps had seven road wins in 2015 heading into Saturday's match, most in MLS.
- The Vancouver Whitecaps had allowed just nine goals in 13 road games this season. The Whitecaps conceded four road goals on Saturday.
- Sporting KC's 23 regular season wins against Canadian teams (TOR 13, MTL 6, VAN 4) are most all-time among American MLS clubs.
- The Whitecaps have only two losses in their last six matches; both are against Sporting KC.
- Prior to Saturday, Vancouver had never lost or tied when leading by two goals in the team's MLS regular season history.
- Prior to Saturday, Sporting KC had never won when trailing by two goals in the 80th minute of a regular season match. This feat has only been accomplished one time in MLS regular season history (7/27/03, DC at NE).
- Vancouver's Kekuta Manneh opened the scoring on Saturday to give the Whitecaps the 1-0 lead.
- Manneh scored a second goal for Vancouver in the 41st minute of the match.
- Kevin Ellis cut the lead in half, scoring for Sporting Kansas City in the 53rd minute.
- The goal was Ellis' third in 2015.
- Soni Mustivar tallied the assist on Ellis' goal from a Benny Feilhaber corner kick. The assist was Mustivar's first in MLS this season.
- Pedro Morales extended the lead for Vancouver to make it 3-1 in the 75th minute.
- Dwyer made it 3-2 in the 81st minute on an assist from Nemeth. Dwyer now leads the team with 13 goals in all competition in 2015.
- Paulo Nagamura leveled the match at 3-3 in the 87th minute.
- Benny Feilhaber and Chance Myers earned assists on Nagamura's goal.
- Feilhaber's 18 assists in all competitions tied Sporting KC's single-season record set by Preki in 2003.
- It was also Nagamura who scored the game-winner in the 94th minute of the match.
- Two of Nagamura's three goals in 2015 were game-winning goals on headers.
- Nagamura's brace is the second of his 11-year MLS career and first since 2009.
- Mustivar tallied his second career assist on Nagamura's game-winner.
- Dwyer (13), Krisztian Nemeth (12) and Benny Feilhaber (10) have combined for 35 of Sporting KC's 50 goals this season in all competitions.
- Sporting KC's three headed goals on Saturday were by Kevin Ellis (5'9), Dom Dwyer (5'9) and Paulo Nagamura (5'8) versus Vancouver centerbacks Pa Modou Kah (6'1) and Tim Parker (6'2).
- Sporting KC leads the League with 14 headed goals in 2015.
- Mustivar led all players with 63 successful passes, eight interceptions and 13 recoveries on Saturday.
- Ellis led all players with 11 duels won on Saturday.
- Feilhaber led all players with six chances created on Saturday.
- Nagamura led all players with an 86.67% passing accuracy on Saturday.
- Sporting Kansas City inducted Chris Klein into the Sporting Legends hall of honor on Saturday. Klein's 97 combined goals and assists (all competitions) are second most in club history.
- The first 10,000 fans to arrive on Saturday received Sporting KC branded lunch bags courtesy of match sponsor, Mark One.
- Sporting Park welcomed 19,969 fans on Saturday, marking the 65th straight MLS sellout dating back to 2012.
- Sporting Kansas City returns to the pitch on Wednesday to host the San Jose Earthquakes at 7:30 p.m. CT.
