A penalty shootout finally separated the league’s best teams after six goals, a scary injury and a last-minute goal by Gareth Bale.
It had taken the finest of margins to separate Los Angeles F.C. and the Philadelphia Union on the final day of Major League Soccer’s regular season, months and months of work all coming down to a tiebreaker to decide the league’s best record. So, it was to be expected, then, that it would take the finest of margins to separate them again when the league’s two best teams met, perhaps inevitably, in Saturday’s M.