Sporting Kansas City and Colorado Rapids clinched play-off spots while New England Revolution secured the Supporters Shield as the top team in the MLS regular season Saturday.
Johnny Russell s 79th-minute goal gave Sporting KC a 2-1 win away to Seattle Sounders, locking up a play-off spot for the second-placed team in the Western Conference table as Russell netted for the seventh straight game.
Colorado also are in after defeating Portland Timbers 2-0 behind golas from Dominique Badji and Diego Rubio.
The Seattle loss ensured New England, who face Orlando City on Sunday, will finish atop the overall table. The Revs are on 69 points, 20 points clear of Philadelphia and Nashville in the Eastern Conference and 11 clear of Seattle overall.
JOHNNY S SEVE…
An all too rare sight
It was nice to see Michael Owen come on to the pitch for Manchester United at Newcastle on Tuesday. It must have been great for the thirty-one year old striker to get a rare taste of first team football, even if it was only as an eighty-first minute substitute in a disappointing 0-0 draw.
Burst
The man who burst onto the scene at Liverpool as a seventeen year old in 1996 and then the world stage with that fantastic goal against Argentina in the World Cup of 1998, has had a miserable time of it with injuries and faces being released by United at the end of the season after playing just twenty-eight Premier League games in two injury hit years. In fact, after playing two hundred and sixteen league games for Liverpool in eight years, he has play…
Jan Oblak believes Atletico Madrid s supporters deserve so much more after Los Rojiblancos were eliminated from the Champions League on Wednesday.
Atletico bowed out in the group stage for the first time in five years following a 2-2 draw with Bayer Leverkusen at Civitas Metropolitano, where Yannick Carrasco s last-gasp penalty was saved by Lukas Hradecky.
Oblak insisted the team take full responsibility after Porto s earlier 4-0 thrashing of Club Brugge meant only a victory over Leverkusen would be enough to maintain their hopes of progressing from Group B.
[It is] a very cruel way [of being eliminated]. It s football, the goalkeeper told Movistar+. We have done everything to win, but the previous games have punished us. We have not had the little bit of luck t…