Columbus Crew 1-2 Portland Timbers
Goalkeeping errors lead to two of games goals
Timbers time late season surge to perfection
If it wasn’t a classic MLS Cup, it certainly had the most dramatic start in recent memory. Portland opened the scoring within seconds and added another after just seven minutes, to stun Columbus Crew and take MLS Cup. A Kei Kamara goal quickly gave hope back to the hosts, but in the end the Timbers saw out the game comfortably, and but for a couple of deflections off the post could have been more emphatic winners.
Twitter wags were still fashioning tweets about Columbus not scoring in the first nine seconds when Portland took the lead. Steve Clark’s eccentricities at the back have been largely eliminated as the year has gone on, but he took too many touches on an early back pass with Diego Valeri bearing down. When Clark did try to clear it was already too late, and a sliding Valeri bundled the ball into the net.
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