Sporting Kansas City embarrasses Montreal

Sporting Kansas City crushed the Montreal Impact 7-1 on Saturday, Krisztian Nemeth scoring a hat trick in the romp that marked the 12th time in Major League Soccer history that a team won by six or more goals.Johnny Russell scored twice and Felipe Gutierrez and Gianluca Busio added a goal apiece.Nemeth and Russell were the beneficiaries of speedy Gerso Fernandes' work in the first half, when Sporting built a 3-0 led.Fernandes himself had connected 90 seconds into the game but the goal was ruled offside and it was Russell who opened the scoring in the 10th minute.Fernandez, harrying the Montreal defence, fed Nemeth and Gutierrez for open goals before the break.Sporting continued to dominate a Montreal side missing injured Ignacio Piatti and suspended Zakaria Diallo in the second half.Russell scored his second of the game in the 50th minute, dribbling past a defender before beating Evan Bush with a shot in the opposite corner.SKC scored its fifth of the game in the 68th minute, when Russell crossed for Nemeth, the latter having no trouble finding the back of the net.Substitute Busio, 16, scored a sixth goal for the hosts in the 78th minute when he found himself alone in front of Bush after having recovered the ball from a Montreal defender.Following a turnover in the 84th minute, Nemeth completed his hat trick to give SKC a 7-0 lead.Finally, in the 89th minute, Saphir Taider scored his fourth of the season preventing Kansas City from matching the largest margin of victory in MLS history.The match in Kansas City wasn't the only lopsided contest of the day.Carlos Vela completed his first MLS hat trick with a sensational curling second-half goal as Los Angeles FC beat the San Jose Earthquakes 5-0.San Jose keeper Daniel Vega's frightful clearance error paved the way for Vela's opener.Mexico's Vela added a goal in first-half stoppage time, then lofted in his stunning left-footed shot from outside the area in the 66th.Former Quake Steven Beitashour and Diego Rossi also scored for LAFC, who remained unbeaten atop the Western Conference standings.NAMPA/AFP

Sporting Kansas City embarrasses Montreal

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Namibian Sun 2025-05-02

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