Go in-depth in Sporting Kansas City's 1-0 victory over D.C. United on Friday at Sporting Park with this week's Fast Facts below:
- Sporting Kansas City defeated D.C. United 1-0, scoring the lone goal of the match in the 89th minute of play.
- With the win, Sporting Kansas City is 3-1-2 in 2013 and 2-0-1 at home. Sporting KC is now in second place in the Eastern Conference, one point behind Montreal.
- Sporting Kansas City is unbeaten in their last 10 MLS matches at Sporting Park dating back to 2012 and has not lost at home against D.C. United since July 4, 2007. With tonight’s victory Kansas City is unbeaten at home against D.C. United in their last eight competitions.
- The Sporting KC victory hands D.C. United back-to-back losses.
- Sporting Kansas City’s record against D.C. United moves to 19-18-9 all-time and 13-6-5 at home in the series.
- Sporting Kansas City is 215-207-111 all-time, 143-75-48 all-time at home and 21-5-11 at Sporting Park.
- Sporting Kansas City made no changes to last week's starting lineup in a 2-0 triumph over the Montreal Impact.
- D.C. United made three changes to their starting lineup from the club’s last match on March 23 in a 2-1 loss to the Columbus Crew. Dejan Jakovic, Marcos Sanchez and Raphael Augusto replaced James Riley, Dwayne De Rosario and Nick DeLeon.
- Dwayne De Rosario missed tonight’s match with an abductor strain. Nick DeLeon also missed the match, out with a hamstring strain.
- Sporting KC is 22-2-8 all-time in the MLS regular season with Matt Besler, Aurelien Collin, Seth Sinovic and Chance Myers in the starting lineup.
- Claudio Bieler scored the game-winning goal in the 89th minute of play on an assist from Soony Saad. The goal is Bieler’s fourth of the season and the assist is Saad’s first in 2013 and second of his career.
- Bieler is tied for second in MLS for goals this season at four with Toronto FC’s Robert Earnshaw. Two of Earnshaw’s four goals came against Kansas City in the club’s only loss to date during the 2013 season.
- Sporting Kansas City has allowed three goals this season, second fewest in MLS this season. New England leads MLS with two goals allowed, but in two fewer games played.
- Sporting Kansas City held D.C. United to a single shot in the first half, with the attempt coming in stoppage time.
- Jimmy Nielsen has the longest shutout streak in MLS at 429 minutes, ranking second in Kansas City history behind Tony Meola’s 681-minute streak during the 2000 season. Nielsen’s four shutouts in 2013 lead the League.
- Jimmy Nielsen appeared in his 100th regular season MLS match on Friday. He has appeared in 67 straight MLS matches, including postseason, for Sporting Kansas City, dating back to June 12, 2011. The streak covers a span of 6,030 straight minutes of MLS action.
- Nielsen recorded his 36th career shutout on Friday and lowered his career goals against average to 0.99, best among MLS goalkeepers all-time with a minimum of 4,000 minutes played.
- Nielsen’s 0.91 goals against average at home is the 4th best goals against average in home games in MLS history among goalkeepers with a minimum of 2,000 home minutes played.
- Nielsen now has five career shutouts against D.C. United in seven appearances against D.C. United since joining Kansas City in 2010. Nielsen’s first shutout with KC came in a 4-0 victory over D.C. United on March 27, 2010 at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.
- Nielsen has the best career winning percentage for a KC goalkeeper in club history (.571).
- Graham Zusi led all players on Friday with eight total crosses.
- Sporting Kansas City made 22 open play crosses in Friday’s match to D.C. United’s two open play crosses.
- Oriol Rosell led all players with six tackles.
- Aurelien Collin logged 10 aerial duels, most among all players, and won all 10 aerial duels.
- Collin led all players with 96 touches, 62 total passes and 25 duels.
- With the win, Peter Vermes recorded his 48th win as a manager and surpasses Preki for 22nd on the MLS coaching chart for victories.
- Vermes, named to the National Soccer Hall of Fame earlier this week, has the best winning percentage for a KC manager all-time (.552).
- With the one home goal in tonight’s match, Sporting KC surpasses the Columbus Crew for the third most home goals in MLS history with 442.
- Sporting Kansas City outshot D.C. United 13 to four.
- Sporting KC leads MLS all-time in shots with 7,281.
- Sporting Kansas City has gone 72 consecutive MLS matches (including playoffs) without conceding a goal on a corner kick, dating back to May 21, 2011 at Seattle.
- Sporting Kansas City distributed team flags to the first 10,000 fans to arrive at Sporting Park on Friday courtesy of presenting match sponsor H&R Block.
- Attendance at Friday's match was 18,988 for the 19th straight MLS sell-out at Sporting Park (including playoffs).
- Sporting Kansas City announced the launch of The Victory Project on Friday, kicking the initiative with a fundraising goal of $3,000 at Friday’s match in an effort to support eight-year-old Xander who is in need of special equipment due to a brain tumor.
- Sporting Kansas City players currently on loan with USL Pro affiliate Orlando City SC -- Dom Dwyer, Jon Kempin, Yann Songo’o and Christian Duke -- play their first match of the 2013 season on Sunday against Phoenix FC at 9:30 p.m. CT.
