On Saturday, the Seattle Sounders surprised the Columbus Crew at Lower.com Field, winning 2-1 on the road with two late goals from Xavier Arreaga and Will Bruin in the first MLS Cup 2020 rematch. Bradley Wright-Phillps put the Crew up in the 77th minute with a goal, but Arreaga and Bruin scored in a frantic two-minute stretch just before second-half stoppage time, allowing the Sounders to grab all three points in unusual fashion. Seattle has now won three consecutive away games, while Columbus has now lost six consecutive games.

In the first half, Seattle had several chances, the most notable of which was a header from Yeimar Gomez Andrade from a free-kick from Joao Paulo that forced Columbus goalkeeper Eloy Room into a reflex stop. In the first half-hour, Raul Ruidiaz and Fredy Montero both had opportunities for Seattle, but Ruidiaz's 13th-minute laser blast went just high, while Montero's look from distance was stopped once more by a sprawling Room. Columbus had their finest opportunity of the first half in the 34th minute when Lucas Zelarayan's free-kick was met by Jonathan Mensah's looped header. The center back, on the other hand, threw it high and wide.

After coming on as a second-half substitute, Wright-Phillips scored Columbus' first goal in the 77th minute. After a Zelarayan corner kick was nodded down in front of goal, the veteran New York Red Bulls player tucked home a point-blank finish, giving the hosts hope that their fortunes might turn around.

The Sounders, on the other hand, fought back with a pair of late goals, the first coming from an unusual source in Arreaga. In the 88th minute, the Ecuadorian center back got his foot to a cross from Jimmy Medranda for a close-range goal to level the game at 1-1. Then, just one minute later, Bruin scored the game-winning goal, sliding home his first goal of the season with a precise finish from inside the box off a Medranda set-up.

[Photography by ICONIC photographer Sean Faska]