The teams that made the playoffs but couldn't finish second or better in their conferences square off in these one-off games for the chance to continue their playoff dreams. We begin with two Wednesday games, the first seeing...
Toronto FC host the Philadelphia Union. Andre Blake and Clint Irwin man the nets. Toronto had a yellow card go to Michael Bradley for his fourteenth minute foul. Toronto led off in the fifteenth minute with a Sebastian Giovinco goal, assisted by Jozy Altidore. Philadelphia had a twenty-fifth minute yellow card for a C.J. Sapong foul, as did teammate Alejandro Bedoya in the forty-third minute. Toronto's Altidore took a yellow card for a foul in first half stoppage time. Toronto added on with a Jonathan Osorio goal in the forty-eighth minute, set up by Nick Hagglund and Giovinco. The Union got on the board with a seventy-third minute Bedoya goal, passed from Richie Marquez and Ilsinho. Toronto shot back in the eighty-fifth minute with an Altidore goal. Philadelphia's Ken Tribbett took a yellow card for a ninetieth minute foul. The game ended 3-1, with Toronto advancing on the back of Altidore's man of the match performance.
Out in Los Angeles, the Galaxy welcome Real Salt Lake. Nick Rimando and Brian Rowe are the goalies. Los Angeles began in the fourteenth minute on an Alan Gordon goal, set up by Giovani dos Santos and Landon Donovan. Salt Lake tied it in the twenty-first minute on a Joao Plata penalty kick goal. The Galaxy retook the lead with a twenty-sixth minute goal by Emmanuel Boateng, via Gordon. Los Angeles added on with another Boateng goal in the thirty-fourth minute, coming off of Gordon. Real saw yellow cards for Demar Phillips in the thirty-ninth minute and Chris Wingert in the forty-first minute, both for fouls. The Galaxy's Baggio Husidic took a yellow card for a sixty-second minute foul. Salt Lake saw a yellow card go to Sunny in the seventy-first minute for a foul. The game ended 3-1, with Boateng's winning brace making him the man of the match.
On Thursday, DC United brings in the Montreal Impact. Evan Bush and Bill Hamid are the gloved men. Montreal opened in the fourth minute with a Laurent Ciman goal, passed from Marco Donadel. The Impact added on with a forty-third minute Matteo Mancosu goal, assisted by Ignacio Piatti. Montreal extended the lead as Moncosu scored again in the fifty-eighth minute, thanks to Ambroise Oyongo. The Impact padded the lead on a Piatti goal in the eighty-third minute, via Mancosu. DC got on the board in the ninetieth minute with a Lamar Neagle goal, set up by Patrick Nyarko. United pulled closer with a Taylor Kemp goal in stoppage time. The game ended at 4-2, with the man of the match being Mancosu.
Finally, the Seattle Sounders FC host Sporting Kansas City. Tim Melia and Stefan Frei are in the six-yard boxes. Seattle's Osvaldo Alonso took a yellow card for a thirty-second minute foul. Kansas City had yellow cards for a foul by Seth Sinovic in the sixty-third minute and dissent by Benny Feilhaber in the seventy-first minute. The Sounders got going with an eighty-eighth minute Nelson Valdez goal, set up by Joevin Jones. Sporting's Roger Espinoza had a yellow card for a foul in stoppage time. The final held at 1-0, with the man of the match being Frei for his seven-save clean sheet.
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