TORONTO — Roman Torres converted the winning penalty in the sixth round of the shootout to lift the Sounders to their first MLS Cup title on Saturday night at BMO Field. The previous 120 minutes finished scoreless, and Seattle won the shootout 5-4.
These are my first impressions:
– What drama.
Penalty-kick shootouts might not be the fairest way to decide a title, but they might be the single most dramatic. Every one of the 36,045 hearts at BMO were lodged somewhere in their owners’ throats as the teams traded punches and counterpunches in the shootout.