Let’s be clear about one thing right off the bat: The Seattle Sounders earned all three of the points they claimed in Portland on Sunday. After a lackluster first half and an iffy start to the second, they dominated chances for the final 30 minutes or so and never gave the Timbers any particularly good looks from the run of play.
Still, there’s a lot of understandable conversation swirling around the two penalties that were called nearly back-to-back between the 55th and 61st minutes.
MLSsoccer.com’s Instant Replay does a fine job recapping the controversy in the video above.