MLS 2017: Week 15

Just three games this week as most teams have time off for the international break. We begin in...

Chicago, as the Fire host Atlanta United. Alec Kann and Matt Lampson are in goal. Chicago opened in the twenty-ninth minute with a Luis Solignac goal, passed from David Accam and Bastian Schweinsteiger. Kevin Kratz of Atlanta had a yellow card for his thirty-ninth minute foul. The Fire saw yellow cards for Schweinsteiger in the fiftieth minute and Accam in the fifty-ninth minute, both for fouls. Atlanta had a yellow card for a Carlos Carmona foul in the sixty-seventh minute. Chicago added on with a Nemanja Nikolic penalty kick goal in the seventieth minute. This made it 2-0, the final, with Solignac the man of the match.

Down in Kansas City, Sporting welcomes the Montreal Impact. Evan Bush and Tim Melia are the keepers. Kansas City started in the twenty-fourth minute with a Gerso Fernandes goal, via Ilie Sanchez. Montreal's Ignacio Piatti had a yellow card for a foul in first half stoppage time. The Impact tied it on an eighty-second minute by Matteo Mancosu. Montreal's Mancosu took a yellow card for dissent in the eighty-fourth minute. In the eighty-sixth minute, the Impact went down to ten men when Chris Duvall took a straight red card for a foul. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, with the man of the match being Fernandes.

Finally, the Portland Timbers bring in FC Dallas. Jesse Gonzalez and Jake Gleeson are in the six-yard boxes. Michael Barrios of Dallas had a yellow card for a tenth minute foul. Portland saw a yellow card for a foul in the twenty-fourth minute by Vytautas Andriuskevicius. The Timbers struck first in the thirty-second minute with a Fanendo Adi goal, courtesy of Sebastian Blanco. Portland's Dairon Asprilla took a yellow card for a foul in the fifty-fourth minute. The Timbers added on in the seventy-second minute with another Adi goal, set up by Asprilla and Diego Valeri. The final was 2-0, with the man of the match being Adi for his brace.

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