Griffin Dorsey scored the decisive penalty to offer the Houston Dynamo a 4-3 shootout win over Actual Salt Lake, after the groups performed to a 1-1 draw within the MLS Cup Collection first-round rubber match on Saturday. The Dynamo will advance to the semi-finals of the Western Convention.
Houston, the fourth seed within the West, will play No. 8 seed Sporting Kansas Metropolis within the convention semifinals. The defending champions, the second seed Seattle Sounders, and the third seed, Los Angeles, will host the opposite semi-final match.
Houston took a 1-0 lead into halftime when Corey Fowl obtained a cross from Hector Herrera and scored within the twenty eighth minute. It was the primary profession post-season purpose for Fowl, who spent his first three seasons within the league with Actual Salt Lake.
Diego Luna scored the equalizer for Actual Salt Lake within the sixty fifth minute, after an help from Brian Oviedo and Brian Ojeda. Each of Luna’s targets got here within the postseason within the sequence.
Luna and Dani Musovski, who got here on within the ninetieth minute, fouled Actual Salt Lake within the shootout. Adalberto Carrasquilla, Thorlivor Alvarsson and Amine Bassi scored the opposite targets within the penalty shootout for Dinamo.
Goalkeeper Steve Clarke completed with two saves in regulation play for the Dynamo. Zac MacMath saved 4 photographs in RSL regulation.
Houghton improved to a league-best 10-1-5 in all competitions because the League Cup break.
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Actual Salt Lake completed the season with 11 highway wins in all competitions. Solely the LA Galaxy, with 13 wins in 1998, have achieved extra away wins in a single calendar yr.