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TECHNOLOGY Monday 23 october 2017

Toronto FC sets MLS record,

Atlanta breaks attendance marks

By The Associated Press earn a bye in the first round the Earthquakes, who fired
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta of the playoffs. coach Dominic Kinnear
United set a pair of atten- The Timbers also won their midway through the sea-
dance records Sunday but second Cascadia Cup son.
failed to secure a first-round since joining MLS. The Cas- In the build-up to the win-
bye in the playoffs when cadia Cup is a trophy cre- ner, San Jose goalkeep-
Sebastian Giovinco scored ated by the fans of Port- er Andrew Tarbell sent a
on a brilliant free kick in land, Vancouver, and Se- long ball that was chested
the 84th minute, giving To- attle awarded to the best by Victor Bernardez and
ronto FC a 2-2 tie and the team in the Pacific North- headed to Quincy Amarik-
most points ever in a Major west. wa inside the 18-yard box.
League Soccer season. Vancouver (15-12-7) Minnesota goalkeeper
Josef Martinez scored his opened the scoring in the Bobby Shuttleworth pushed
19th goal in the 74th minute 29th minute, when Yordy Amarikwa’s shot wide but
to put expansion United in Reyna’s free kick from San Jose star Chris Won-
position to finish second in 25-yards out found an un- dolowski chased it down
the Eastern Conference, marked Kendall Waston 8 for a feed to an open Ure-
which would have been yards from goal to head in na in front of goal.
good enough to avoid his fourth goal of the sea- The Earthquakes have
the single-game knockout son. won seven of their last nine
round. Portland tied it three min- home games — with every
But Giovinco, with a set utes later. A corner kick win coming by one goal.
piece from just outside the bounced through the box Wondolowski gave San
penalty area, curled a shot and found Darlington Nag- Jose a 2-1 lead in the 55th
over the wall that caught be at the top of the box. with an easy redirection of
the bottom off the cross- Nagbe’s shot was blocked Danny Hoesen cross at the
bar to deflect past leaping by goalkeeper Stefan Mari- back post. Minnesota (10-
goalkeeper Brad Guzan. It novic, but Timbers defend- 18-6), which has lost nine of
was Giovinco’s 16th goal of er Liam Ridgewell reacted its last 12 road games, tied
the season. instantly to throw a foot out it at 2 in the 81st on Francis- Seattle Sounders defender Roman Torres (29) heads the ball
United broke its own MLS and stab the ball past Ma- co Calvo’s header off the above Colorado Rapids defender Kortne Ford (24) during the
single-game attendance rinovic. crossbar. second half of an MLS soccer game in Seattle, Sunday, Oct. 22,
2017.
record with a crowd of Portland took the lead SOUNDERS 3, RAPIDS 0 Associated Press
71,874 at Mercedes-Benz early in the second half, as SEATTLE (AP) — Nicolas
Stadium, where the retract- some fancy footwork and Loderio scored two goals, NEW YORK CITY FC 2, CREW fore halftime.
able roof was open on a a clever pass by Sebas- Will Bruin had his third in 2, TIE Josh Williams, who had a
warm, cloudy day. Atlanta tian Blanco found Vytautas the past two games and NEW YORK (AP) — David brief stint with New York
also set a season record Andriuskevicius open near Seattle beat Colorado to Villa scored two goals and City in 2015, headed home
with an average of 48,200 the goal line. The Timbers take the No. 2 playoff seed New York City FC tied Co- a corner kick by Federico
a game, eclipsing the mark defender dragged a pass in the Western Conference. lumbus in the first regular- Higuain in the 58th min-
of 44,247 set two years ago back to Mattocks, whose The defending MLS Cup season match at Citi Field ute to cap the scoring.
by Seattle. shot ping-ponged off of champion Sounders (14- to secure the No. 2 seed Williams, a defender, has
The tie gave Supporters’ two Vancouver defenders 9-11) avoided this week’s in the Eastern Conference scored all of his three goals
Shield winner Toronto (20-5- on its way into the net for knockout round. playoffs. this season in the last four
9) 69 points on the season, his ninth goal Bruin’s ninth-minute goal Citi Field was used instead games.
beating the previous MLS EARTHQUAKES 3, MINNESO- put Seattle on the board of Yankee Stadium be- Villa finished the regular
mark of 68 set by the Los TA UNITED 2 and gave him 11 for the cause of a conflict with the season with 22 goals — his
Angeles Galaxy in 1998. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — season. Lodeiro sent a pen- Yankees playoff run. second consecutive 20-
Atlanta (15-9-10) will host Marco Urena scored in the alty kick past goalkeeper Ola Kamara gave the goal season — and has 61
Columbus in the opening third minute of stoppage Tim Howard in the 64th Crew a 1-0 lead in the 11th goals in three MLS seasons.
round of the playoffs. time and San Jose beat minute, then scored again minute but Villa tied it with Columbus (16-12-6), which
TIMBERS 2, WHITECAPS 1 Minnesota to secure a in the third minute of stop- a header off a corner kick could have finished as high
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — playoff spot. page time. He finished the by Maximiliano Moralez in as No. 2 in the Eastern Con-
Darren Mattocks scored San Jose (13-14-7) needed year with seven goals. the 18th and then blasted ference, will be fifth seed
early in the second half a win for the final spot in Both teams finished with 10 a right-footer from the top and face No. 4 Atlanta in
and Portland held off Van- the Western Conference men, each losing a player corner of the box that de- the knockout round. New
couver. after FC Dallas’ victory over to a straight red card after flected off a diving Zack York City earned a bye into
Portland (15-11-8) won the the Los Angeles Galaxy. video reviews by referee Steffen and gave NYCFC the conference semifinals,
Western Conference title to It’s an unexpected run for Christopher Penso. (16-9-9) a 2-1 lead just be- which begin Oct. 30.q