Tuesday, November 21, 2017

MLS 2017 Conference Championships - Leg 1

On Tuesday, November 21, 2017, the final four of MLS battled out in the first of their two-leg conference championships. First...

The Columbus Crew SC welcome Toronto FC. Alexander Bono and Zack Steffen are the gloved men. Columbus' Artur took a yellow card for a thirty-third minute foul. The Crew saw yellow cards for Pedro Santos in the fifty-second minute for dissent and for a fifty-fourth minute foul by Jonathan Mensah. Toronto's Jonathan Osorio took a yellow card for not retreating in the sixty-eighth minute, and teammates Raheem Edwards took a yellow card for a foul in the eighty-fifth minute. The final held at 0-0, with the man of the match being Bono for his three-save clean sheet.

The other game sees the Houston Dynamo bring in the Seattle Sounders FC. Tyler Miller and Joe Willis draw the starts in goal. Seattle opened in the eleventh minute with a Gustav Svensson goal, set up by Nicolas Lodeiro. Houston's Jalil Anibaba took a straight red card for denial of a goal scoring opportunity in the twenty-eighth minute. The Dynamo saw Alberth Elis take a yellow card for dissent in the twenty-ninth minute. The Sounders added on in the forty-second minute with a Will Bruin goal, via Joevin Jones. Tomas Martinez of Houston had a yellow card for a forty-fourth minute foul. Seattle saw yellow cards for fouls by Nouhou in the sixty-fourth minute and Roman Torres in the eighty-eighth minute. The Sounders won 2-0, with the man of the match being Svensson.

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