KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Despite falling behind early, No. 15 Kansas City Men’s Soccer gave San Francisco all it was worth this evening, battling until the final whistle in a 3-2 loss. The Roos (2-1) put up more shots, including more shots on goal, than the Dons (1-2-1) but were unable to come up with the equalizer in the game’s late stages.<\/p>\n
Kansas City applied pressure with a pair of early shots, but it was the Dons that struck first in the fourth minute. Just four minutes later, a foul was called in the box, setting up a penalty kick which allowed USF to double its lead.<\/p>\n
The Roos appeared to draw one back in the 18th minute, finding the back of the net after a scrum from the foot of Mark Ramarola<\/a>. After a VAR review, the goal was called back for an offside earlier in the sequence.<\/p>\n It did not take much longer for KC to reach the score sheet for real, drawing a handball in the box and setting up a penalty kick in the 20th minute. Raphael Kistmann<\/a> stepped up and buried the penalty for his team-leading third goal of the season and the 16th of his Kansas City career.<\/p>\n Kansas City dominated possession for the rest of the half, finishing the first 45 with a 64% possession rate. That continued into the second half, attempting three shots before USF took their first shot of the half in the 64th minute.<\/p>\n San Francisco extended its lead again in the 73rd on a beauty of a goal that tucked its way into the lower-right corner. This turned the Roos’ aggression into desperation, needing a pair of goals in the final 17 minutes for a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ian Witis-Hughes<\/a> came up big after entering as a substitute in the 79th minute, striking just two minutes later for the first goal of his collegiate career. Miguel Fernandez<\/a> pushed the ball forward to Jonas Rossdorfer<\/a>, who put a cross to the left foot of Witis-Hughes and gave Kansas City life.<\/p>\n The Roos continued to apply pressure in the game’s waning moments, attempting four shots in the final five minutes, but could not materialize an equalizer.<\/p>\n Kansas City drops its first game of the season after opening the year with a pair of victories and will be put to the test on Friday, traveling to fifth-ranked SMU for the first road game of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Despite falling behind early, No. 15 Kansas City Men’s Soccer gave San Francisco all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-448553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}