It's soccer. Finals are often defensive battles. The best team doesn't always win in this game - there just aren't enough goals. Congrats to Seattle.
he played great....im a big critic of his....but thats exactly the form that I wish he would play with for the USMNT...just keep him far from goal and free kicks and PKs.
Nah. They won the playoff. If a team in the English Championship finishes 6th and wins the promotion playoff, they didn't finish 3rd, they finished 6th and won the playoff.
I always make a point to watch MLS Cup Final, years like this make me question that decision. Negative tactics, and very loose officiating, stars failing to shine, no goals, no shots on goal by one side, penalties. Oh well, on to 2017.
Jordan Morris won NCAA Championship last season, MLS Cup this season, and will lift the World Cup in 2018 #BornToWin @JmoSmooth13 🇺🇸— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) December 11, 2016
Nobody deserved to win that game. Quite possibly the worst game of football I've seen in the last 5 years - and I've been watching the SPL during that period.
That's not a valid comparison. The English Championship determines the winner of the league by points over 46 (or whatever it is) games. MLS does not. The "regular season" and "playoffs" are not independent, they are two parts of the same season.
Congratulations Seattle Sounders. By the laws of the game you are champions. What you and Toronto did to the spirit of the game is unforgivable. Edit: You too Alan Kelly.
Was trying to find a box score for the 94 WC. Can't find one that gives me shots for each team, but I have on the first page of my google search are links to the 1994 Quidditch World Cup. I said before that I only geek out over Star Wars so this Harry Potter business is outside my realm of comprehension.
Well, it's Seattle's 4th professional top level male sports championship in history. We don't care how it got done.
Meh. No worse than that fiasco that was the 2010 World Cup Final. That was garbage that didn't deserve a winner at all.
With this MLS nonsense now officially complete, I can also devote 100% of my soccer attention to the demise of the NASL.
In other words, a typical cup final anywhere in the world. I try to watch the MLS Cup final whenever I can too (had to miss it this year), but generally, when I'm watching as a neutral, I enjoy watching regular season games more than the final.
I thought the Croatia-Portugal match in this summer's Euros was a worse game than this. Neither team had shots on goal. And the game was played in mild favorable conditions. And yet one of those two teams went on to win the whole thing. It's just the way things work out sometimes.