Blown Leads and Bobbleheads: Sporting KC Fades as the Current Roll

<p><a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/tag/for-the-glory-kc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">For the Glory KC</a> is back with the 198th episode of the show!</p><p><em>Before we get to the podcast, if you&#39;d like to support us, we talked at the start of the episode about Upside. It&#39;s an app you can use to buy gas, eat out and in some cities buy groceries and get cash back for buying what you are going to buy anyways. If you want to support the podcast by doing what you are already doing, </em><a href="https://upside.app.link/CHAD93386">join Upside with our affiliate link</a><em>. You get $10 and we get $10!</em></p><p>***</p><p><a href="https://www.sportingkc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sporting Kansas City</a> win one and then lose one. This time, in unlucky and <a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/10/02/2026/late-goal-drops-sporting-kc-in-seattle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quite painfully late fashion</a>. On a road trip to the <a href="https://www.sounderatheart.com/">Seattle Sounders</a>, they got out ahead early on yet another Andre Luiz goal only to let that lead melt away. Was Rapha Wicky out coached or did he just have nothing to work with? Sporting KC are decimated with injuries, and they still nearly got a road point.</p><p>But when you are ahead to start, you sure want to win. It was that mystical game in hand against <a href="https://x.com/TBIRMontreal">CF Montreal</a>, and they let it slip away. Now all the teams around them have seven games to go and they still have three points to make up to climb out of the basement.</p><p>Sheena and I talked through the beats of the game and the unfortunate Lasse Berg Johnsen injury and what the team will do without him. Will Zorhan Bassong be healthy enough to play? If not, who does? Jacob Bartlett seems to be available, but there is no one else, so are any SKC II players still around that might come up on short-term loan? And who will be the captain with no Lasse and Bassong perhaps not 90 minutes fit?</p><p>For the second straight game, the <a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/category/kc-current/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KC Current</a> came from behind and <a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/10/03/2026/the-kc-current-complete-another-comeback-to-defeat-bay-fc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earned a big win</a>. This time, it was a 5-1 shellacking of <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/sports/soccer/bay-fc/">Bay FC</a> and former teammates Claire Hutton, Alex Pfeiffer a