MLS: Seattle Sounders thrash Orlando City
Tuesday 18 August 2015 11:33, UK
Seattle Sounders brought an end to their poor run of form in style with a 4-0 mauling of 10-man Orlando City in Major League Soccer on Sunday.
The Sounders had lost their last five MLS matches and taken just three points from a possible 27 heading into the weekend match, but they brushed aside an Orlando side that were always up against it after losing Tyler Turner to a 40th-minute red card at CenturyLink Field.
Seattle were already leading 1-0 at that stage thanks to Obafemi Martins' 17th-minute goal and they struck three more times after the break through Nelson Haedo Valdez (51), Martins again (62) and Jaguaribe Thomas (90).
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In the late match, the bottom two sides in the Eastern Conference, Philadelphia Union and Chicago Fire, shared the spoils in a six-goal thriller at PPL Park.
Philadelphia, having beaten the Fire in the US Open Cup semi-finals at home four days earlier, looked set to make it a quickfire double over Chicago when they went 3-2 ahead in stoppage time through Sebastien Le Toux.
However, last-placed Chicago went up the other end and salvaged a point when Kennedy Igboananike struck his second of the match to make it 3-3.
Earlier, Chicago's ninth-minute lead given to them by Igboananike had been wiped out by goals from Fernando Aristeguieta (21) and Fabio Alves (31) only for Patrick Nyarko - set up by Igboananik - to make it 2-2 just before the hour.
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