- Sporting Kansas City suffered a 2-1 loss to Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto Stadium on Sunday.
- Sporting KC falls to 6-3-6 and Real Salt Lake moves to 5-5-6 in 2015.
- Real Salt Lake's three Designated Players - Kyle Beckerman, Joao Plata and Sebastian Jaime - all started together on Sunday for only the second time this season.
- Jaime opened the scoring for RSL on Sunday. The goal was the first of his MLS career.
- Both teams started a homegrown player at centerback. Sporting Kansas City's Kevin Ellis made his 10th appearance of the season while Real Salt Lake's Justen Glad earned his second career start.
- RSL's Nick Rimando (384) and Kyle Beckerman (368) lead all active MLS players in regular season appearances.
- Real Salt Lake is 5-0-1 in 2015 when scoring first.
- The loss marks Tim Melia's first since becoming a starter for Sporting KC. Melia is 4-1-2 in MLS play in 2015.
- Melia's 310-minute shutout streak for Sporting KC (400 minutes in all competition) is the second longest in MLS this season.
- Sporting Kansas City has now given up five goals in the opening 15 minutes this season, tied with Toronto FC for most in MLS in 2015.
- Sporting Kansas City has allowed the fewest shots (145) of any MLS team.
- Sunday's loss snapped a seven-game unbeaten streak for Sporting KC that included three road results.
- The loss also snapped an unbeaten streak of five straight meetings against Real Salt Lake that included three clean sheets.
- Real Salt Lake has lost just twice in 26 MLS games at Rio Tinto Stadium since the start of 2014, tied for fewest in the league.
- Sporting KC's Dom Dwyer opened the scoring for the visitors. The goal was Dwyer's fifth goal of 2015. Dwyer's five goals are second most on Kansas City this season, tied with Benny Feilhaber.
- Sporting KC lost for the first time in 2015 when Dwyer has scored (2-1-2).
- Fifteen games into the season, Sporting KC is the only MLS team to have three players with five or more goals (Nemeth 6, Feilhaber 5, Dwyer 5). In 2014, Sporting KC didn't have three players with five or more goals at the conclusion of the season.
- Dwyer now has 29 goals in his MLS regular season career.
- Feilhaber earned the assist on Dwyer's goal. Feilhaber moves into a tie with Ethan Finlay for most assists in MLS with eight.
- Feilhaber has a goal or an assist in each of his last three matches.
- Feilhaber has three goals and four assists in his past six matches across all competitions.
- Sporting KC has scored 23 goals in MLS this year, tied with Seattle and New England for most in MLS.
- Prior to Sunday, neither team had scored a first half goal in the last six meetings (including MLS Cup 2013) dating back to August 2011. Both teams scored first half goals on Sunday.
- RSL midfielder Olmes Garcia scored the game-winner in the 93rd minute.
- Javier Morales earned the assist. Morales had two assists on Sunday and now has five in 2015, tied for fifth most in MLS this season.
- Sporting KC's last two losses have been in second half stoppage time. Sporting KC's last loss was also a 2-1 loss on the road. LA Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez scored the game-winner in the 94th minute.
- With the loss, Sporting KC dropped to 5th in the Western Conference. Real Salt Lake moves up to 8th in the West.
- Real Salt Lake entered tonight with the fewest corner kicks in MLS (52 through 15 games).
- RSL's 10 corner kicks in the first half are most in an MLS match this season (tying Houston's 10 on 5/10/15 in a 2-1 win at Toronto) and third most in MLS regular season history.
- Real Salt Lake finished with 16 corner kicks on Sunday, fifth most in a MLS regular season match in league history.
- Javier Morales took all 16 corner kicks and goes into the record books with the second most in a MLS regular season match behind only Guillermo Barros Schelotto's 18 in 2008.
- Real Salt Lake won for the first time (1-5-6) on Sunday when tied or trailing at halftime this season.
- Real Salt Lake captain Kyle Beckerman received a yellow card in the 47th minute on Sunday and will be suspended for the team's next match due to caution accumulation.
- Sporting KC's Roger Espinoza, Jalil Anibaba and Benny Feilhaber all made their 125th career MLS appearances in the regular season on Sunday.
- Dwyer made his 50th regular season start for Sporting KC.
- Kevin Ellis led all players with nine interceptions.
- Matt Besler led all players with 11 recoveries and nine clearances.
- Soni Mustivar led all players with 36 successful passes.
- Graham Zusi led all starters with 89.66% passing accuracy (26 successful passes).
- Dwyer - along with RSL's Devon Sandoval and Tony Beltran - led all players with five aerial duels won.
- Sunday's affair was the third MLS match in Sporting KC's 20-year history to fall on Father's Day and the first since 1999.
- Sunday's match was nationally televised on FOX Sports 1 and FOX Deportes.
- Sporting KC returns to Sporting Park on Saturday to host the Colorado Rapids at 7:30 p.m. CT.
