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Home and Away - A Sporting KC Podcast

Drew VanderPloeg and Cody Welton

A conversation on topics involving the MLS club Sporting Kansas City. Tactical breakdowns of match performances, discussion around personnel and their usage, and previews of upcoming matches. Some additional content around other USMNT and MLS news as appropriate. Want to participate in the discussion? Join us on the Podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/pkg4S85qR2

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02:02:34

Episode 107 - SKC crashes out of Leagues Cup, Roster...

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2024/08/14

We’re back! After an inopportune bout of COVID for Drew, we have returned and wow have things gone well for Sporting KC in our absence. Actually, I’m sorry, the exact opposite has happened as their Leagues Cup campaign hit the skids. SKC went down 2-1 at home vs. Toluca in a match they certainly could have gotten a result from had things gone a bit more their way, but perhaps from a quality perspective may not have really deserved. Then they headed to Columbus where the predictable happened,

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01:40:33

Episode 106 - SKC vs Fire recap, Cup vs Cup...

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2024/07/31

It was Sunday Funday(night?) at Children’s Mercy Park as Sporting KC kicked off their Leagues Cup campaign with a win against the Chicago Fire. There were a couple surprises in the gameday roster and starting lineup along with a couple really nice headed goals to get the 2-1 victory. Of course the beginning of Leagues Cup has also reignited the discourse around the tournament, which wasn’t helped by Don Garber’s comments about the Open Cup during all star weekend.Stephen Afrifa was one of the

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01:40:49

Episode 105 - SKC employs some tactical fluidity, and...

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2024/07/25

Sporting Kansas City allowed fans to have hope of a potential turn around for about 3 days after dispatching a terrible San Jose team on the road last Saturday. Unfortunately they followed it up by closing out this very dense stretch of the schedule with a loss in Vancouver and a 1-1 draw at home vs the Pink Dog Food CITY SC team on Saturday night. The good news is, this means Cody is sufficiently grumpy about this team again so you will get the entertainment you expect from this podcast.The

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01:30:52

Episode 104 - 3 games in 7 days, rain delays, and...

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2024/07/12

Sporting Kansas City’s performances were apt to be described best by Genarro Gatusso over the past week, but did reside mostly in the “sometimes maybe good” department, getting 2 consecutive wins at home over FC Dallas including a weather-interrupted Open Cup quarterfinal last night that went the full 120 minutes. This had the effect of somewhat washing out the sour taste of a frustrating final 30 minutes in Colorado on the 4th of July that erased what was a fairly well executed, if unexpected,

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02:04:54

Episode 103 - SKC Hires a Sporting Director

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2024/07/04

Is that a light at the end of the tunnel we see? Sporting Kansas City finally announced the hiring of their long awaited Sporting Director on Friday, former long time New England Revolution GM Mike Burns. Then they followed it up with a comprehensive beat down of Austin FC at Children’s Mercy Park on Saturday. Both of these stories have caveats, as they often do, but it was nice to have some semblance of positivity around a club that has had very little for some time.On Tuesday we got to hear

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01:54:38

Episode 102 - Show Me the Money

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2024/06/27

Every time we think things can’t possibly can’t any worse, Sporting KC finds new depths of despair to plummet into and that was on full display in Columbus last Saturday. Peter Vermes tried a new formation, but the players seemed ill equipped to execute the positional responsibilities it entailed, and they candidly got dog walked out of the stadium in a 4-0 defeat. What a wonderful homecoming game for Aidan Morris though.The result left a number of fans asking when any substantive change would

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01:44:51

Episode 101 - Dependencies, Play Your Kids, and Doing...

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2024/06/21

Things are rotten in the state of Missouri(or Kansas), and a predictably hard portion of the SKC schedule has produced two more frustrating losses making it 10 losses from the last 12 games. But, look on the bright side, at least the San Jose Earthquakes exist. While both of the games did end in losses to very good teams in the LA Galaxy and Real Salt Lake, there was actually some semblance of positivity due to the significantly improved chance creation over those games. They also tried some

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01:54:04

Episode 100! - SKC Break their losing streak,...

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2024/06/13

It finally happened, after almost 2.5 months, Sporting KC won another MLS game. They certainly got some help from their opponent to do so, but it is 3 points nonetheless, and the vibes were good for at least Saturday evening in Children’s Mercy Park.Mike Illig sat down with Sam McDowell of the KC Star for what is becoming an annual event where the relationship between fans and Peter Vermes had once again become so tenuous he had to address the questions about whether Vermes should remain at the

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02:10:01

Episode 99 - How did SKC get here? Listener Q&A

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2024/06/06

It’s been two weeks since we’ve last recorded the pod and not much has changed! Sporting KC have lost 3 more games since that time taking the total to 7 in a row, and are now legitimate Wooden Spoon contenders given their measly 2 wins on the season from 16 games. You heard that right, after Saturday’s game against Seattle, the season will be half over, and the best case scenario is Sporting will have 3 total wins. And given their performances to date there isn’t much optimism that it will

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01:55:02

Episode 98 - Where do we go from here?

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2024/05/23

Sporting Kansas City went down to Austin this weekend and lost their 4th straight game and pushed their winless streak in league play to 7, but at least the effort was good. Peter Vermes made promises to sacrifice quality for effort where necessary but the only lineup changes were swapping backup defenders for other backup defenders.While we can perhaps agree that in general the players were trying harder than the last match, they still have multiple weaknesses that cause them to ship goals in a

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01:56:56

Episode 97 - Mentality

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2024/05/16

Things seemed to finally have reached a breaking point after Sporting KC lost again at home to Houston making it zero league wins since March, 2 total wins out of 12 games, and a point total under 12 from 12 games for the 3rd season in a row. Peter Vermes did not hold back in his post game press conference calling the goals they conceded “atrocious” and “amateur at best”, while questioning the effort and mentality of some of the players. He then doubled down in a fairly frank radio interview with

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01:21:08

Episode 96 - SKC continue to use the 4-2-3-1, so we...

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2024/05/01

The Sporting KC Comms department made sure to let us know how well SKC had performed on the road this before the game up in Minnesota, conveniently leaving out the fact they had only played 3 road games all season. That backfired a bit as the boys in blue took a 2-1 defeat at Allianz Field with yet another attempt to make the 4-2-3-1 happen. It doesn't seem like it is going anywhere anytime soon so we take a deeper dive into the setup, how it is traditionally used, how SKC seem to be trying

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01:32:18

Episode 95 - SKC drops more points at home, midfield...

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2024/04/25

It felt like Groundhog Day in Children’s Mercy Park on Saturday night as Sporting Kansas City scored first, and held a lead into stoppage time only to give up a late equalizer on a somewhat unfortunate, yet somewhat self inflicted series of events, and this increased their tally of dropped points from winning positions to 14 on the season. In fairness, Sporting KC was pretty lucky to have that lead, after a pretty wild own goal equalizer and then a bit of brilliance from Andreu Fontas and Erik

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01:29:23

Episode 94 - The Arrowhead Experience, Is this simply...

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2024/04/19

72 thousand plus midwestern soccer fans descended on Arrowhead Stadium Saturday to see Sporting KC take on Leo Messi and Inter Miami and were treated to several golazos on both sides of the ball and an unfortunate 3-2 loss for the good guys in blue. The environment was honestly pretty cool, and it did give a glimpse of what professional soccer could look like in this region, but it also highlighted the length of the road to get there and how much of it we have left to traverse.Sporting once again

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01:35:23

Episode 93 - More bipolar performances, "poor...

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2024/04/11

Sporting KC seems to be hell bent on shipping 3 goals in the 2nd half of home games, as they did it again on Sunday afternoon, turning a first half that had fans feeling great about the team’s prospects into a horror movie. This team continues to have a bipolar nature to their play that is creating significant frustration for both the fan base and its coach, who blamed the 2nd half performance on “poor management”, which was an interesting choice of words.There were obviously some bright spots,

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01:24:40

Episode 92 - Using chaos as a weapon, JFD the Goat,...

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2024/04/04

Sporting Kansas City traveled to the great white north and came away with a 3-1 victory in Toronto thanks to a couple bombazos from Remi Walter and Jake Davis, with a cherry on top of the sundae resulting from a very fun and dynamic play by Alenis Vargas. We spent a lot of time bemoaning useful depth on the pod last week, and with several starters unavailable it was reasonable to expect that things would be fairly difficult for Sporting in this match. Instead, we found several solid, useful

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01:32:24

Episode 91 - A tale of two halves, are we...

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2024/03/28

It was a tale of two halves last Saturday night in Kansas City as Sporting KC controlled the proceedings through the first 45 minutes of the match entering the locker room with a well deserved 2-0 lead. Unfortunately a 10 minute sequence in the 2nd half quickly erased that advantage and left the team chasing a result with limited options available on the bench to help them do so.Useful depth is another oft-covered topic on this podcast, and it reared it’s head again in the late minutes Saturday

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01:35:34

Episode 90 - SKC makes improvements, backups make...

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2024/03/21

As the estimable Sam McDowell noted after the end of Sporting KC’s 2-1 victory over San Jose last Saturday night, the team went from winless to undefeated in an instant!It was an improved performance in many areas, while certainly leaving continued room for additional improvements in future games. The team was much more selective about the shots they took, and Dany Rosero scored on a set piece in a manner we’ve bemoaned has not been employed regularly enough in previous games. There were a number

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01:33:58

Episode 89 - A game for nerds, Stadler and Waldorf...

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2024/03/14

Sporting Kansas City got its 3rd draw in a row to start the season after an entertaining 0-0 final in Los Angeles where the score line did not accurately tell the story as to how the match was played. It was a very up and down affair as often happens when these clubs meet, and likely was a fun one for neutrals to watch.That said, Sporting KC’s performance produced a familiar refrain from previous matches: The ball progression was good, and often beautiful to watch, but too often the quality of

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01:32:42

Episode 88 - SKC Stadium Upgrades, Referees draw the...

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2024/03/07

Sporting Kansas City opened up Children’s Mercy Park for the season with what has to feel like a heartbreaking draw at the hands of the Philadelphia Union, giving up the equalizing goal in the 5th minute of stoppage time after some dubious refereeing led to a late corner kick for Philly that they eventually converted. This of course meant that the replacement referees were a significant topic in the discourse following the match, as it was a fairly blatant error that allowed the sequence. It was

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