- Sporting Kansas City defeated Real Salt Lake 3-1 in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semifinals at Sporting Park on Wednesday.
- Sporting Kansas City Manager Peter Vermes made three changes to his starting lineup from the club's last match, a 3-1 victory against Toronto FC at BMO Field. Dom Dwyer, Amadou Dia and Saad Abdul-Salaam started in place of Connor Hallisey, Chance Myers and Jimmy Medranda.
- In 23 meetings across all competitions, Sporting KC broke the series stalemate with a victory on Wednesday. Sporting KC is now 9-8-6 against Real Salt Lake all-time.
- In three MLS regular season matches and one U.S. Open Cup match in 2015, Sporting KC and Real Salt Lake have combined for 20 yellow cards and one red card.
- Last time Sporting KC reached the U.S. Open Cup semifinals was in 2012 on the way to the tournament title. At that point in 2012, Sporting KC had a +6 goal differential (8-2) through the competition's first three games. In 2015, Sporting KC had a +7 goal differential through the first three games (10-2).
- Real Salt Lake opened the scoring on Wednesday in the 24th minute of the match.
- Olmes Garcia scored the goal for RSL. Garcia scored the game-winner against Sporting KC on June 21 in the 93rd minute.
- Garcia now has a goal or an assist in three of Real Salt Lake's four U.S. Open Cup games this year.
- Garcia received a red card in the 93rd minute of the match for violent conduct.
- Sporting KC's Soni Mustivar equalized for Sporting KC in the 35th minute - his first goal since joining Sporting KC.
- Benny Feilhaber notched the assist on Mustivar's goal. The assist was Feilhaber's 17th assist of the year across all competitions (one shy of the club record).
- Feilhaber now has five assists in 2015 U.S. Open Cup competition - that's the most in the tournament by a Kansas City player all-time.
- Feilhaber has a goal or an assist in six straight games across all competition.
- Feilhaber has goal or an assist in all four U.S. Open Cup games for Sporting KC this season.
- Only two previous players in club history have recorded 17 assists in a season (Preki in 1997 and 2003, Graham Zusi in 2012).
- Feilhaber has a goal or assist in three straight games against RSL this year.
- Feilhaber also notched the game-winner on Wednesday. The goal was his second goal of the 2015 U.S. Open Cup and 10th in all competitions.
- Nemeth added the third goal for Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday.
- The goal was Nemeth's fourth goal in the 2015 U.S. Open Cup and his 12th goal of the season in all competitions.
- With the win, Peter Vermes broke a tie with Bob Gansler for most wins across all competition in club history (109).
- Real Salt Lake is 0-3-3 all-time at Sporting Park.
- Real Salt Lake took seven points in three games versus Sporting KC during the regular season but hasn't won in Kansas City since August 2009 and has never won a U.S. Open Cup road game in club history.
- Wednesday's attendance broke the modern era record for the semifinal round. The previous mark was 14,742 - set by Real Salt Lake in 2013.
- The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final will be on September 30th at Philadelphia (time TBD).
- Sporting KC returns to MLS competition on Saturday as they host first place the Vancouver Whitecaps at 8 p.m. CT.
