In a season as up and down as the Seattle Sounders’ 2018 MLS campaign, it’s perhaps only fitting that the final match was the most mercurial yet.
The Sounders and Portland Timbers’ rivalry on Thursday night added another chapter, one written by a drunkard devolving into madness, a “some men want to watch the world burn” screenwriter with a sick sense of humor. The teams traded goals five times in 29 minutes before the Timbers prevailed in the fifth round of penalty kicks to advance to the Western Conference Championship, ending Seattle’s reign of back-to-back winners of the West.