Juice Boxes and Post Game Stats: Melia Passes Nielsen

Sporting Kansas City picked up back to back league wins for the first time this season with a 3-0 win on the road against the Vancouver Whitecaps, here are the stats and milestones from that game.

The win was Tim Melia’s 58th in league play for KC, breaking his tie with Jimmy Nielsen for the most in club history by a goalkeeper.

In the 90th minute, Melia passed Mo Johnston and moved into 15th place for minutes played in all competitions for KC, Melia finished the game with 14,183 minutes played.

Melia made his 157th appearance in all competitions, tying him with Dom Dwyer for 18th all time on that list.

Melia made his 157th start in all competitions, tying him with Johnston for 14th all time on that list.

Graham Zusi made his 272nd start in all competitions, tying him with Nick Garcia for 3rd all time on that list.

Zusi made his 225th start in league play, breaking his tie with Garcia for 3rd all time on that list.

Gerso Fernandes scored his 22nd goal in all competitions for KC, tying him with Daniel Salloi for 15th all time on that list.

Fernandes scored his 8th goal in all competitions away from home, tying him with Sasha Victorine, Francisco Gomez, and Mark Chung for 19th all time on that list.

Seth Sinovic made his 205th league appearance for KC, breaking his tie with Jimmy Conrad for 8th all time on that list.

Felipe Gutierrez scored his 15th league goal was KC, tying him with Chris Brown and Diego Rubio for 19th all time on that list.

Gutierrez scored his 9th league goal away from home, tying him with CJ Sapong for 13th all time on that list.

It was his 9th goal away from home in all competitions, tying him with Brown and Matt McKeon for 16th all time on that list.

Johnny Russell’s assist was his 20th in all competitions for KC, tying him with Digital Takawira for 14th all time on that list.

Yohan Croizet made his 50th league appearance for KC, he’s the 65th player to reach that mark.