A profoundly strange year of soccer culminates on Saturday when the Seattle Sounders meet the Columbus Crew in the MLS Cup Final. It will be the second meeting between the two teams, and it’s strangely fitting that the last game of the season will be against the same side as the last game before the season was halted by the pandemic. If you cast your mind back to that game in March, the two teams were evenly matched as the game ended 1-1 courtesy of goals by Gyasi Zardes and Raúl Ruidíaz. That evenness would seem to suggest that we’re in for a real contest in the final.
How both Crew and Sounders have evolved since previous meeting
