VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Léo Chú scored two second-half objectives and Yeimar Gomez Andrade delivered the winner in stoppage time to rally the Seattle Sounders to a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday evening.
Seattle (10-7-5) snapped its first two-game skid towards Vancouver (6-7-7) since 2014. The Whitecaps have by no means crushed the Sounders three straight instances. Vancouver posted simply three victories in 24 match-ups towards the Sounders in between the two-match win streaks.
Defender Ranko Veselinovic discovered the online for a second time this season, utilizing an help from Ryan Gauld within the twenty fourth minute to ship the Whitecaps into the locker room at halftime with a 1-0 lead.
Chú pulled the Sounders even within the sixtieth minute. Jackson Ragen and Nicolás Lodeiro had assists on the equalizer.
Vancouver took a 2-1 lead within the 72nd minute on Gauld’s fifth purpose of the season with assists from Brian White and goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka.
Chú scored the equalizer for Seattle, as soon as once more utilizing assists from Ragen and Lodeiro, within the 76th minute to seek out the online for the third time this season.
PHOTOS: Chú, Yeimar lead Sounders to 3-2 victory over Whitecaps
Yeimar’s winner was unassisted within the first minute of stoppage time. It was his first purpose of the marketing campaign.
Stefan Frei completed with three saves for Seattle. Frie leads the league with 11 shutouts this season. Takaoka saved three photographs for the Whitecaps.
Lodeiro has seven objectives and 9 assists in 14 profession regular-season matches towards Vancouver.
Seattle travels to play the San Jose Earthquakes on Wednesday. Vancouver will host Austin FC on Wednesday.
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