Sporting Kansas City, Real Salt Lake play out draw

Apr 6, 2014 at 1.30am UK

The MLS clash between Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake ends in a goalless draw despite the home side being reduced to 10 men.

Published: April 6 2014 | 04:09

Last updated: April 7 2014 | 23:14

Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake played out a goalless draw in their MLS match at Sporting Park.

Salt Lake started the game strongly and could have taken the lead in the second minute when Javier Morales threaded a ball through for Olmes Garcia, who fired an effort just over the bar.

Kansas City responded and the visitors were grateful to keeper Jeff Attinella for keeping them level, as he rushed out to deny Dominic Dwyer with a good save.

Attinella was forced to make another great save minutes later when Dwyer teed up Seth Sinovic to strike from the edge of the area, but the keeper tipped his powerful shot over the bar.

The visitors were having to endure a lot of pressure and Attinella was forced into action yet again, this time to stop Benny Feilhaber's volleyed effort from finding the bottom corner.

After the break, Sporting kept up their assault on the Real goal and Graham Zusi should have given them the lead as he raided into the box, but from close range he put his left-footed shot wide.

The home team came their closest to finding the net when Dwyer beat the offside trap and rounded Attinella, but from a tight angle his shot hit the post and was cleared by the Salt Lake defence.

Kansas City's frustrating match got worse when Oriol Rosell was given a straight red card for a late challenge on Devon Sandoval, reducing them to 10 men for the last seven minutes.

However, Salt Lake couldn't make their advantage count and the match ended in a draw.

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Eastern Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Inter Miami Inter Miami	34	22	8	4	79	49	30	74
2	Columbus Crew	34	19	9	6	72	40	32	66
3	FC Cincinnati Cincinnati	34	18	5	11	58	48	10	59
4	Orlando City	34	15	7	12	59	50	9	52
5	Charlotte FC Charlotte FC	34	14	9	11	46	37	9	51
6	New York City FC NY City	34	14	8	12	54	49	5	50
7	New York Red Bulls NY Red Bulls	34	11	14	9	55	50	5	47
8	CF Montreal Montreal	34	11	10	13	48	64	-16	43
9	Atlanta United Atlanta	34	10	10	14	46	49	-3	40
10	DC United	34	10	10	14	52	70	-18	40
11	Philadelphia Union Philadelphia	34	9	10	15	62	55	7	37
12	Toronto	34	11	4	19	40	61	-21	37
13	Nashville SC Nashville	34	9	9	16	38	54	-16	36
14	New England Revolution New England	34	9	4	21	37	74	-37	31
15	Chicago Fire	34	7	9	18	40	62	-22	30

Western Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Los Angeles FC Los Angeles	34	19	7	8	63	43	20	64
2	Los Angeles Galaxy LA Galaxy	34	19	7	8	69	50	19	64
3	Real Salt Lake Salt Lake	34	16	11	7	65	48	17	59
4	Seattle Sounders Seattle	34	16	9	9	51	35	16	57
5	Houston Dynamo Houston	34	15	9	10	47	39	8	54
6	Minnesota United Minnesota Utd	34	15	7	12	58	49	9	52
7	Colorado Rapids Colorado	34	15	5	14	61	60	1	50
8	Portland Timbers Portland	34	12	11	11	65	56	9	47
9	Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver	34	13	8	13	52	49	3	47
10	Austin FC Austin	34	11	9	14	39	48	-9	42
11	Dallas	34	11	8	15	54	56	-2	41
12	St Louis City	34	8	13	13	50	63	-13	37
13	Sporting Kansas City Kansas	34	8	7	19	51	66	-15	31
14	San Jose Earthquakes Earthquakes	34	6	3	25	41	78	-37	21