A month ago, The Blue Testament compared Sporting Kansas City’s start in 2019 to the the Seattle Sounders slow starts from 2016, 2017 and 2018. Sure, Sporting KC was starting bad, but Seattle turned it around, so why couldn’t Sporting?
Well it’s been five games since that story and things haven’t gotten (much) better (though to be fair, Seattle was still bad at this point in all three of the prior seasons). Sporting KC have gone 1-2-2 over that five game stretch and it’s time to ask ourselves if KC isn’t like those Seattle teams but instead is like Toronto FC’s teams from 2018, which never really got going.