{"id":834897,"date":"2025-03-18T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/dejan-joveljic-completes-historic-comeback-energy-moment-of-the-matchday-mlssoccer-com\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T10:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:13:19","slug":"dejan-joveljic-completes-historic-comeback-energy-moment-of-the-matchday-mlssoccer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/dejan-joveljic-completes-historic-comeback-energy-moment-of-the-matchday-mlssoccer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejan Jovelji\u0107 completes historic comeback | Energy Moment of the Matchday | MLSSoccer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Through 45 minutes at snowy Children&#8217;s Mercy Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/minnesota-united-fc\/\">Minnesota United FC<\/a> held a comfortable 3-0 lead and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/sporting-kansas-city\/\">Sporting Kansas City<\/a> seemed set for a lopsided home defeat.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But the tables turned at halftime, as Sporting KC erased a three-goal deficit to secure a result for the first time in club history \u2013 rattling off three unanswered goals in a thrilling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2025\/matches\/skcvsmin-03-15-2025\/\">3-3 draw<\/a> with the Loons.<\/p>\n<p>The equalizer arrived in the 80th minute through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/dejan-joveljic\/\">Dejan Jovelji\u0107<\/a>, whose curling effort has earned <strong>Energy Moment of the Matchday presented by Celsius<\/strong> honors for Matchday 4.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Jovelji\u0107&#8217;s goal capped a 12-minute burst from SKC, which included a clever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/daniel-salloi\/\">D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i<\/a> finish and an own goal by Minnesota defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/morris-duggan\/\">Morris Duggan<\/a>. It was also the Serbian striker&#8217;s second tally with his new team after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/sporting-kansas-city-acquire-dejan-joveljic-from-la-galaxy\">being acquired<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/la-galaxy\/\">LA Galaxy<\/a> for $4 million during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>However, it wasn&#8217;t enough to earn all three points and SKC remain winless through four games (0W-3L-1D). And while parity was restored vs. Minnesota, manager Peter Vermes expected more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m probably most disappointed at the end with the fact that after we tied, I think we took our foot off the gas pedal just a little bit,&#8221; Vermes said post-game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we had them at that point. We could have kept going but for whatever reason, maybe they felt good that they got back into the game and they didn&#8217;t want to then give something away, but we had them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SKC&#8217;s next chance at all three points comes Saturday when they welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/los-angeles-football-club\/\">LAFC<\/a> (8:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/sporting-kansas-city-vs-los-angeles-football-club\/umc.cse.8ccdotxe3uudhbwhghg8bp63?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000\">MLS Season Pass<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3 goals in 12 minutes. A historic comeback ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SportingKC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SportingKC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OStnX17HuC\">pic.twitter.com\/OStnX17HuC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sporting Kansas City (@SportingKC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportingKC\/status\/1901296131310506415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/dejan-joveljic-completes-historic-comeback-energy-moment-of-the-matchday\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Margherita Latson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Through 45 minutes at snowy Children&#8217;s Mercy Park, Minnesota United FC held a comfortable 3-0 lead and Sporting Kansas City seemed set for a lopsided home defeat. But the tables turned at halftime, as Sporting KC erased a three-goal deficit to secure a result for the first time in club history \u2013 rattling off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":834898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27810,120534,2005],"tags":[120532,120533],"class_list":["post-834897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dejan","category-joveljic","category-soccer","tag-dejan","tag-joveljic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}