After an absolutely wild back-and-forth affair, Tim Melia denied all three San Jose penalty kick attempts to send SKC to the MLS Conference Seminfinals.
The shot-stopper’s reputation was well known and that must have been on the minds of the Earthquake players as they made the long walk from midfield to face him. Melia was so far ahead of SJ’s first attempt, he literally had to wait for it to make the save. The second attempt led him the other way, but it was the same result.
SKC had scored each of their PK’s and forced Christian Espinoza into a do-or-die situation.