Go in-depth behind Sporting Kansas City's 2-1 loss against the Chicago Fire on Sunday with this match's fast facts.
- Sporting KC fell to the Chicago Fire 2-1 on Sunday.
- The loss is Sporting KC's second in as many games, marking the first time Sporting KC has dropped back-to-back matches in 2014.
- With the loss, Sporting KC falls to second place in the Eastern Conference (17 points).
- Sporting KC is now 12-25-10 against the Fire all-time and 4-17-2 at home.
- With the loss, Sporting KC's record moves to 5-4-2 in 2014.
- Sunday's two first half goals mark the only time Sporting KC has conceded first half goals in 2014, snapping a span of 14 consecutive matches during the MLS regular season that Sporting KC had not given up a goal in the first half dating back to 2013.
- With the two goals allowed on Sunday, Sporting KC has now conceded two goals in back-to-back games and four times this season.
- Sporting KC was without Matt Besler and Graham Zusi on Sunday as they are with the U.S. Men's National team preparing for the 2014 FIFA World Cup this summer.
- With Besler unavailable, midfielder Paulo Nagamura wore the captain's armband on Sunday.
- Sporting KC was also without Lawrence Olum who has joined the Kenyan National Team for a pair of qualifying matches for the African Cup of Nations.
- Sporting Kansas City homegrown defender Erik Palmer-Brown (17) started Sunday's match becoming the youngest player in MLS history to start a regular season match as a defender (via Elias Sports).
- Sporting KC midfielder Victor Munoz was in the gameday 18 for the first time after being officially added to the roster earlier this week.
- Sporting KC had four players out due to injury on Sunday. Aurelien Collin (hamstring), Oriol Rosell (quad), Ike Opara (surgery) and Peterson Joseph (illness).
- Sunday's match marked the first time that Claudio Bieler and Dom Dwyer played on the field together.
- Chicago's two goals on Sunday came from the penalty spot.
- Sporting Kansas City conceded two penalty kicks in one game for the second time this season. The first was against Colorado at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on March 29.
- Mike Magee converted both penalty kicks for Chicago.
- Palmer-Brown was show his second yellow card in the 64th minute of Sunday's match. Palmer-Brown will serve a mandatory one-game suspention against Toronto FC on Friday.
- Dom Dwyer scored Sporting KC's lone goal on Sunday, for his team-leading eighth goal this season.
- Eight goals ranks Dwyer tied for second in MLS this year.
- Benny Feilhaber earned the assist on Dwyer's goal, his second of 2014 and 15th of his MLS regular season career.
- Sunday was the first of three regular season meetings between Sporting KC and the Chicago Fire in 2014. The Fire visits Sporting Park on July 6 and October 10.
