It came down to a tight race between two understudies standing in for their team’s starting goalkeepers.
In the end, Zac MacMath edged Jeff Attinella for the Week 9 MLS Save of the Week award, the Colorado Rapids ‘keeper polling at 46 percent compared to 39 percent for his Portland Timbers counterpart.
MacMath won his second consecutive SOTW prize for a leaping parry of an Antonio Nocerino strike in Orlando City SC’s 2-0 win over the Rapids on Saturday, as he continued to stand tall in the suspension-enforced absence of Tim Howard.