Three games at midweek will bring the schedule to balance for the tail end of the year. We begin with Wednesday's lone game, as the...
Seattle Sounders FC host the Houston Dynamo. Joe Willis and Stefan Frei play in goal. Houston had a yellow card for a forty-third minute foul by Ricardo Clark. In the sixty-fourth minute, Seattle's Osvaldo Alonso took a red card for violent conduct, and the Dynamo's Will Bruin had a yellow card for arguing. The game ended 0-0, with Willis the man of the match for his seven-save clean sheet.
The first of Thursday's two games had the Chicago Fire welcome the Columbus Crew SC. Steve Clark and Sean Johnson are the veteran keepers. Columbus started in the thirteenth minute on an Adam Jahn goal, via Justin Meram. Chicago got on the board with an own goal from the Crew's Michael Parkhurst in the fifty-third minute. The Fire took the lead with a Michael de Leeuw goal in the fifty-seventh minute, assisted by Arturo Alvarez. The Crew retied it on a Jahn goal in the eightieth minute, coming off of Corey Ashe. Chicago saw yellow cards for fouls by Razvan Cocis in the eightieth minute and Joao Meira in the eighty-fifth minute. The game ended 2-2, and the man of the match was Jahn for his brace.
Over in Colorado, the Rapids bring in the San Jose Earthquakes. David Bingham and Tim Howard are the American goalies. Colorado opened in the thirty-eighth minute with a Kevin Doyle goal, set up by Marc Burch and Dominique Badji. San Jose tied it with a fifty-seventh minute penalty kick goal by Chris Wondolowski. The Rapids retook the lead on a Doyle penalty kick goal in the seventy-third minute. Doyle took a yellow card for his eighty-fourth minute foul. In the eighty-sixth minute, the Earthquakes' Victor Bernardez had a yellow card for a foul. The game ended 2-1 for the Rapids, with Doyle the man of the match.
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