KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Dejan Jovelji\u0107 scored in the first half, and Manu Garc\u00eda found the net in the second to help Sporting Kansas City hold off Minnesota United 2-1 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Jovelji\u0107 used assists from rookies Capita Capemba and Lasse Berg Johnsen to score his team-leading seventh goal of the season and give Sporting KC (4-10-2) a 1-0 lead in the 28th minute that stood through halftime. <\/p>\n
Capemba\u2019s assist was his first in his 10th career appearance and Berg Johnsen collected his fourth in 13 matches.<\/p>\n
Defender Jake Davis and Calvin Harris set up Garc\u00eda\u2019s second goal of the campaign to give Sporting KC a 2-0 lead in the 54th minute. It was the third assist for Davis and a career-high fifth for Harris.<\/p>\n
Minnesota United (6-6-4) cut it to 2-1 in the 75th minute when defender Devin Padelford took a pass from Joaqu\u00edn Pereyra and scored with a header for his first goal this season and his second in 59 career appearances. Pereyra\u2019s helper was his sixth.<\/p>\n
Stefan Cleveland had six saves for Sporting KC.<\/p>\n
Drake Callender saved five shots for Minnesota United.<\/p>\n
Minnesota United entered with a 4-0-1 record in the last five matchups with Sporting KC, including back-to-back 3-0 victories at home in the two most recent.<\/p>\n
Sporting KC leads the all-time series 13-10-5 in all competitions and had a 4-0-1 streak in the series prior to Minnesota United\u2019s run. Sporting KC is 11-2-1 in the series at home.<\/p>\n
Sporting KC was coming off a 3-2 road loss to St. Louis City on Thursday, but the club has picked up three wins in its last five matches.<\/p>\n
Minnesota United is 0-3-2 in its last five outings.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Minnesota: Hosts the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Sporting KC: At Los Angeles FC on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Dejan Jovelji\u0107 scored in the first half, and Manu Garc\u00eda found the net…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-820591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}