Go in-depth for Sporting Kansas City's 2-1 win at Real Salt Lake on Saturday evening with this match's Fast Facts...
- Sporting KC earned the 2-1 victory over Real Salt Lake with goals from Soony Saad and Ike Opara on Saturday.
- With the win, Sporting KC remains in first place of the Eastern Conference with 36 points.
- The team's ten wins are second most in MLS. Wins are the first tiebreaker for Major League Soccer this season.
- Sporting Kansas City's current three-match winning streak is the longest active winning streak in MLS.
- Sporting Kansas City has the second best winning percentage (.619) in MLS this season.
- Sporting Kansas City has the second most points among MLS teams this season, trailing only Real Salt Lake by one point in the Supporters Shield race.
- Sporting KC's record moves to 10-5-6 this season and 5-2-3 on the road, the best road record in MLS.
- Sporting Kansas City is unbeaten in their last five matches on the road, the longest active road unbeaten streak in MLS.
- Sporting KC is now 8-5-3 against Real Salt Lake all-time and 3-4-1 on the road in the series.
- Saturday marked the only meeting between Sporting KC and Real Salt Lake during the 2013 MLS regular season.
- Soony Saad scored the game-tying goal on Saturday in the 67th minute. Saad has now scored in back-to-back matches for Sporting Kansas City after scoring twice in the team's 3-0 victory over Toronto FC last weekend.
- Claudio Bieler earned the assist on Saad’s goal, his third of the year.
- Ike Opara notched the game-winner for Sporting KC in second-half stoppage time on Saturday. The goal was Opara’s second of the 2013 season and fifth of his career.
- The goal was first game-winner since April 20, 2010 when he scored his first MLS goal in his second MLS match.
- Graham Zusi had the game-winning assist. Zusi’s four game-winning assists are most in MLS, tied with Patrice Bernier and Sebastien Le Toux.
- Zusi’s six assist’s in 2013 are tied for sixth most in the League in 2013.
- Zusi's assist is the 29th of his career and breaks a tie with Mo Johnston for sole posession of fourth place on club's all-time chart.
- Opara’s goal in the seventh minute of stoppage time was the latest game-winning goal in club history and tied Preki (6/14/03) for the latest goal in team history.
- The Sporting KC victory ended Real Salt Lake’s 11 match unbeaten streak in all competition.
- Sporting KC has scored 28 of the team's 31 goals from inside the penalty area this season.
- Sporting KC outshot Real Salt Lake 12-7 on Saturday. Sporting KC is 7-4-5 when outshooting their opponent in 2013.
- Sporting KC is 9-3-5 when wearing Sporting Blue in 2013.
- Sporting KC has only one loss in the team's last ten MLS matches.
- Sporting KC was without their starting center back Matt Besler, who is with the USMNT in advance of their CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal match against El Salvador on Sunday.
- Real Salt Lake was missing Nick Rimando, Tony Beltran and Kyle Beckerman who are also with the U.S. MNT.
- Real Salt Lake forward Alvaro Saborio is with the Costa Rican national team and also missed Saturday's match.
- Paulo Nagamura missed Saturday's match, his fifth consecutive match out with a left ankle sprain
- Zusi's 95 corner kicks in 2013 are the most in MLS.
- Sporting Kansas City's +3 goal differential on the road is the best in the Eastern Conference.
- Nielsen has started and played the full 90 minutes in 77 straight MLS matches. That's the longest active streak among MLS players.
- Nielsen has the best career goals against average (1.01) in League history among MLS goalkeepers with a minimum of 4,500 minutes played.
- Nielsen surpassed Tony Meola for the most regular season victories by a KC goalkeeper all-time with 50.
- Nielsen's 10 victories in 2013 are tied for the most in MLS with Real Salt Lake's Nick Rimando.
- Sporting Kansas City's 0.95 goals against average in 2013 is the third best in MLS.
- Sporting KC is 4-2-4 when tied at halftime in 2013.
- Sporting KC is 3-1-5 when tied in the 75th minute.
- Claudio Bieler is the only Sporting KC player to have played in every competitive match this season.
- Sporting Kansas City's 323 shots are most in MLS this season.
- Chris Wingert received two cautions in Saturday's match and was sent off in the second half. This marks the third straight match Sporting KC's opponent was shown a red card.
- The ejection was the sixth red card by a Sporting KC opponent this season.
- Sporting KC is 2-3-2 against the Western Conference in 2013.
- Sporting Kansas City has allowed the fewest shots in MLS this season, conceding just 186 shots in 2013.
- Oriol Rosell's six fouls committed on Saturday are tied for the third most by a player in a match this season and set a new single-game career high for the Spaniard.
- Rosell led all players with 57 passes on Saturday.
- Aurelien Collin received his eight caution of the season, most in MLS this season, and will miss the team's next match due to caution accumulation.
- Graham Zusi's 10 total crosses on Saturday were most among all players.
- Chance Myers six total open crosses on Saturday were most among all players.
- Aurelien Collin's nine aerial duels were most among all players on Saturday, with Collin also leading all players with six aerial duels won. He also led all players with 10 duels won.
- Seth Sinovic led all players with 78 total touches on Saturday.
- Kei Kamara started his 150th MLS match (including playoffs) on Saturday.
- With the victory, Peter Vermes now has 55 regular season wins in his coaching career and moves into a tie with Dave Sarachan for 19th all-time among MLS coaches.
- Defender Kevin Ellis and midfielder Christian Duke, on loan from Sporting Kansas City to Orlando City SC, started in the Lions 3-1 victory on Saturday over Harrisburg.
