Sporting Kansas City takes on Real Salt Lake today in the 2013 MLS Cup Final at Sporting Park (4pm, ESPN).
Sporting KC is hosting the final, and will look to overcome the frigid conditions for a second straight match as Graham Zusi and Benny Feilhaber lead KC’s attack against a Real Salt Lake side riding a wave of confidence after posting impressive playoff victories against the LA Galaxy and Real Salt Lake.
SBI will be providing live commentary on today’s match so please feel free to share your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Today’s commentary is after the jump):
All of this self righteous negativity makes for a really depressing comment board.
+100
Jimmy Nielsen Rules! Thanks KC. Suck it Salt Lake.
IMO Collin should have been sent off. Changes everything
The final was great as a neutral fan! The refs called a good game. Some of you are ridiculous; What more do want?!?!
a good,fun,attractive…… finall?!? guess not in your book.
Yea, I’m a neutral and I enjoyed it as well. These guys are just hating
Don Garber looks like Freddy Kreuger. Correction: he is Freddy Kreuger.
A missed pk is the most fitting ending for this game.
The whole thing was a disgrace.
The ref was bad and conditions weren’t conducive for attractive play but I wouldn’t call it disgraceful. Crybaby
Go home.
This game was so violent. I would have sent off like 4 people. No one innocent in this game.*
This game was so violent. I would have sent off like 4 people. KC’s goal only happened because someone. No one innocent in this game.
It may have been violent, but your comment completely murdered the English language.
Hence the repost. I have no idea how that happened. Also you don’t need to be rude. Did your team lose? No one likes a grumpy pedant.
OK Goalie looked good on PKs but still was weak during the game
What did the crossbar say to Rick James? Oh snap!
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Best comment of the day!
Disgraceful ending to a “championship.”
Entirely illegitimate.
How? It seems like you guys are complaining just to complain.
The game sucked.
Yes, I got that from your 15 other comments. Why keep watching? And how does that make it illegitimate.
Are you kidding me?
My 9 year old nephew can hit a better penalty than that. Is that what loses the MLS championship? God.
I have literally lost all interest in this game. I just want it to end so I can go do something more worth my time.
Nielson is a child.
lollololollolololol zusi
This is such a terrible way to decide the league’s champion.
20 degree weather + 120 minutes + PKs?
God these are awful penalties.
omg Zusi
a league title decided by penalty kicks. LMAO
this is why the regular season needs to be more important
Beckerman the only person practicing penalties on RSL it seems.
MLS Cup final should be held in warm weather in May. Anyone else agree with me?
why don’t they call it the MLS Cup Final?
the promos just called it MLS Cup
Before this starts, I will say KC needs a new goalie next year
RSL got this. Nielsen is drunk
Calm down people. This has been enjoyable.
well you must be drinking lots of scotch, ’cause NO it hasn’t been “enjoyable”.
I haven’t counted more than 2-3 passes tops connecting going forward during the whole game.but hey, if that’s what you call enjoyable, then enjoy i guess.
No one is forcing you to watch. Im enjoying myself
and how so, steveNC, not trying to be mean, but seriously, it hasn’t been a fun final. I’m watching espn in s. america and the announcers are trying to be positive about the game and they can’t help but question the style of play in a final. mind you one of the commentators is Giovanni Savarese ex-mls and current cosmos coach. great if you enjoyed it, but don’t deny it’s been enjoyable..i would say chill, but i’m sure you’re more than just that.
Right? I mean, the Dutch and Spanish would never play a final like this…
It is a championship game in 20 degree weather… Are you expecting Spain out there in Madrid? Almost all championship games are choppy and throw in the weather…..
Sapong with a DISGRACEFUL dive. Really?
Not a lot of integrity for MLS with this officiating performance.
This has been quite shockingly bad.
Wait, what?
How is that not a yellow for Myers? What a joke, MLS. What a god*amn joke.
What’s jimmy nielsens story? Looks like he’s asleep or something. So slow in body and mind.
I think he’s 72 years old.
It looks like he’s got too many clothes on.
He looks like John Lithgow. I can’t help but think its him out there.
Seeing findleys speed reminds me of the charlie davies of old. I miss that jozy/ davies partnership
gooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaal. nice pass
Besler got manhandled
Actually the game is pretty good. Both teams with opportunities. Cold weather is affecting players reaction times, making for some interesting play. But really, I think it’s a good tense match.
Are you watching the same game??
Yes I am and I am totally enjoying it.
Alejandro Moreno you were a great player. You suck at being an analyst
The attacking both ways has been fun, but the thuggery by both teams needs to calm down. It’s not fun to see guys just straight up hitting each other like an NFL game. The ref seems on the verge of losing control of things.
I know. What horrible soccer. It’s not like this sort of thing would EVER happen in a WC final…
Who would win between these two teams and Sunderland.
I got Sunderland by 4 goals.
Best players of the two versus Sunderland? I’d take Sunderland by 4 or 5.
These two MLS teams have a better midfield then Sunderland
No, they don’t.
You clearly don’t know football. This coming from a fan of Sunderland for years. 4 goals? Lol ok
WOW i’m a huge MLS fan……but it’s an ugly game to watch. I’m in s. america w/ a few ppl and this is not looking attractive at all……and fans in the states want mls to go to a fifa calendar(winter??).
I’m a mls fan in Portland, it’s in the 20s here today. 0C or so. The weather is definitely affecting the style today. It would be a terrible mistake to match the euro schedule. High school and college soccer are fall/winter sports, with club soccer playing through the summer. MLS is doing it right, however, they so take a look at a warm weather neutral venue for the cup.
hey Yep, come down south, it’s in the low 80’s!. Been to portland, great city. the second half picked up a bit, but it’s still sluggish and the weather has a lot to do with it, although the ref isn’t helping at all! horrible officiating and allowing way to much rough play.
That was a horrible half of “soccer.”
No skill. No class. No flow. MLS.
Is this MLS’ top officiating crew? Because that’s embarrassing.
Haven’t watching a lot of SKC games this year, but they seem to… have trouble staying on their feet around the edge of the RSL penalty area.
All brown and no brains in this game.
It’s like watching a bunch of caveman kicking a soccer ball around.
It’s the MLS Crap Bowl. Which turd will float to the top?
This is not the MLS Cup. This is a high school rugby match. What a bunch of hacks.
+1000000
Feilhaber deserves a red for throwing a temper tantrum and throwing himself on the floor acting like saborio pushed him. SKC you have no class
Feilhaber with the intentional kick out and ridiculous flop.
How does Feilhaber escape without a yellow for intentionally kicking someone? WTF is going on with these refs.
+100, saborio did nothing wrong
Grabavoy needs to come off. Velasquez needs to come on his pairing with Gil was A+ against LA.
Aurrellian should have seen a red card right there.
Can we please…. PLEASE get competent officiating? I mean come on, it’s the finals for heaven’s sake.
Finally a yellow! Hope he gets a red.
Collin should be gone. Period.
Collin gets away with shoving Saborio in the chest right in front of the ref–after the play. Not even a word.
Get out of here MLS.
Ref is incredibly pro-SKC.
Ridiculous. Collin gets free reign to wreck everything and anything.
That foul on findley should have been called
They’re all thugs on both teams – Collin, Saborio, Shuler, Beckerman, Feilhaber, the entire lot of them. Worst. MLS Cup. Ever.
The odds are stacked against SKC. Wow.
I meant RSL.
Sporting Kansas City a -200 favorite
SKC is just lucky.
Go Wiz, send Kreis out a loser.
looking forward to seeing zusi, besler, and gil
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