St. 不良研究所导航网址 City SC continued to blaze new territory on Saturday. Fresh off its first road win of the season, City SC beat Sporting Kansas City 3-1 before a sellout crowd at CityPark to mark the first time this season it had won consecutive games.
But it all has come too late, as City SC was officially eliminated from playoff contention thanks to Minnesota鈥檚 win over Colorado. City SC鈥檚 hopes were a thread, requiring an improbable run of results, but now even those are gone.
Cedric Teuchert had a goal and two assists, scoring the first goal and then setting up Rasmus Alm and Eduard Lowen for goals. Joakim Nilsson came into the game as a late sub, his first appearance since July 7 and his second since June 15.
The win also gave City SC the season series against its cross-state-plus rival. The teams had tied their first two meetings.
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It was the sixth straight game in which City SC has scored first, though in the previous five, the team won only two of them.
Teuchert has scored in three straight games and four of the past five. His five goals on the season have tied him with Klauss for the team lead in goals. In the 33rd minute, a good buildup down the left side led to the ball getting to Akil Watts at the top of the box. His shot was blocked, but the ball fell to Teuchert, who from about 21 yards right-footed it to the far post to give City SC the lead.
That was the only shot on goal for City SC in the first half, as it had way more of the ball but far less of the chances. Still, City SC almost took a 2-0 lead in the 41st minute when Klauss made a strong run down the left and had Marcel Hartel and Alm on his right. He put the ball in the box and a sliding Hartel deflected the shot wide.
Alm scored in the 54th minute, tapping in a cross from Teuchert for his second goal of the season and his first since May 11. Alm was euphoric after the goal, first embracing Klauss, whose hustle got the play started, and Hartel and then later making a running leap into the arms of Teuchert. It鈥檚 been a rough season for Alm, who missed 15 games with a knee sprain, not long after coming back from offseason sports hernia surgery.
SKC got a goal back in the 63rd minute on a blast from Stephen Afrifa but Lowen got the lead back to two goals in the 75th minute, slamming in a ball from 18 yards out after a curling cross found Lowen with plenty of time and space.
City SC was without two regulars in the midfield. Chris Durkin, who left the San Jose game in the first half with a sore knee, didn鈥檛 suit up. It was the first game that Durkin missed other than for accumulated yellow cards this season. Also missing was Indiana Vassilev, who was in the concussion protocol after taking a hit to the head midweek. It was the first game in the history of the franchise that Vassilev didn鈥檛 suit up for and only the third, over all competitions, that he didn鈥檛 appear in.
SKC, meanwhile, rested some of its top players after going 120 minutes in the U.S. Open Cup final on Wednesday against LAFC. Alan Pulido, Johnny Russel and Daniel Salloi started on the bench and Erik Thommy was out with an injury as SKC didn鈥檛 start three of its top four scorers, as well as first-choice goalkeeper Tim Melia.
City SC travels to the West Coast for a game Wednesday against LAFC and then closes its home season next Saturday against Houston.