Go in-depth behind Sporting Kansas City's 5-1 loss against Cruz Azul in the CONCACAF Champions League on Wednesday with this match's fast facts.
- Cruz Azul defeated Sporting KC in the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals on Wednesday with a 5-2 score on aggregate.
- Sporting KC won the first leg 1-0 at Sporting Park last week but conceded five goals in the second leg at Estadio Azul.
- Sporting KC homegrown defender Kevin Ellis scored the lone goal of the first leg.
- Cruz Azul's Mariano Pavone opened the scoring on Wednesday in the 2nd minute. Pavone added a second goal in the 24th minute and completed his hat rick in the 55th minute.
- Benny Feilhaber scored for Sporting Kansas City in the 44th minute, to give Sporting KC the advantage heading into halftime.
- Graham Zusi earned the assist on Feilhaber's goal.
- Sporting KC are 2-6-2 all-time in competitive matches against Mexican teams.
- Cruz Azul is 6-1-0 in the quarterfinal round of CCL all-time. The lone loss was against Sporting KC in the first leg.
- Cruz Azul is 6-2-0 all-time against MLS teams in CCL.
- Wednesday's match aired live on Fox Soccer Plus until the conclusion of San Jose versus Toluca and then moved over to Fox Sports 2.
- The match also aired on Galavision.
- Cruz Azul will advance to the semifinals and face Club Tijuana.
- All three Major League Soccer team's that remained in the 2013-14 CCL were eliminated this week in the quarterfinals.
- The loss on Wednesday was the first for Sporting KC in the 2013-14 CCL. Toluca is now the only unbeaten team remaining in the tournament.
- Sporting KC used all three substitutions on Wednesday with Mechack Jerome, C.J. Sapong and Dom Dwyer replacing Josh Gardner, Paulo Nagamura and Claudio Bieler respectively.
- Cruz Azul also used all three of their substitutions. David Stringel, Pablo Barrera and Ismael Valadez Arce entered the match for Sergio Napoles Saucedo, Marco Fabian and Mariano Pavone respectively.
- Sporting KC received seven yellow cards on Wednesday.
- Seth Sinovic was unavailable for Wednesday's match while serving a suspension for yellow card accumulation.
- Sporting KC are 6-4-4 in CCL all-time and 7-9-7 all-time in competitive international matches.
- Wednesday's loss marks Sporting Kansas City's first to an international opponent under Manager Peter Vermes.
- Cruz Azul currently leads Liga MX with 28 points and a 9-1-1 record in 2014.
- Sporting KC qualified for the 2013-14 edition of the CONCACAF Champions League by winning the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup against the Seattle Sounders FC in a penalty kick shootout in 2012.
- Cruz Azul finished as runner-up in the 2013 Liga MX Clausura Liguilla to qualify.
