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| MLS Cup final: Seattle Sounders v Toronto FC – live! | MLS Cup final: Seattle Sounders v Toronto FC – live! |
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| Minute-by-minute report: The Seattle Sounders meet Toronto FC in the MLS Cup final for a third time in four years. Follow all the action with Beau Dure | Minute-by-minute report: The Seattle Sounders meet Toronto FC in the MLS Cup final for a third time in four years. Follow all the action with Beau Dure |
| Seattle starting lineup | |
| The tip of the spear is a strong one. Forward Raul Ruidiaz, who has been nicknamed “The Flea” and “the Peruvian Messi,” has been a consistent scoring threat in his first full season with Seattle. He’s also connected to a country that has had a strong taste of success recently -- Croatia, from which his mother’s family hails. | |
| Uruguayan midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro is a staple in Seattle. | |
| Two more midfielders, Jordan Morris and Cristian Roldan, are on the U.S. national team. These days, we’re not sure if that’s a compliment. | |
| The rest of the midfield is from Trinidad and Tobago (Joevin Jones) and Sweden (Gustav Svensson). | |
| Goalkeeper Stefan Frei, who used to play for Toronto, has been on this stage a couple of times now. | |
| Korean defender Kim Kee-hee anchors the backline alongside Panamanian defender Roman Torres, who has been to a couple of MLS Cups along with Frei and converted the winning kick from the mark in the first Seattle-Toronto MLS Cup matchup in 2016. | |
| Kelvin Leerdam, a Dutch player born in Suriname, provides some scoring punch from right back. | |
| Australian Brad Smith, who played a few games for Liverpool in the mid-2010s, is on the left. | |
| What time is kickoff? | What time is kickoff? |
| Never a simple question when you’re talking about a U.S. soccer broadcast, which mimics other U.S. sports by having a pregame show for its pregame show. | Never a simple question when you’re talking about a U.S. soccer broadcast, which mimics other U.S. sports by having a pregame show for its pregame show. |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jonathan Tannenwald is plugged into the TV scene and says 3:08 p.m. Eastern time, which is surprisingly quick. But national anthems here tend to take 20 minutes, so you never know. | The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jonathan Tannenwald is plugged into the TV scene and says 3:08 p.m. Eastern time, which is surprisingly quick. But national anthems here tend to take 20 minutes, so you never know. |
| Good afternoon to the East Coast, good morning to the West Coast, good caffeinated overnight to Australia and much of Asia, and good evening to those in Europe who watched Liverpool beat Manchester City and are hoping for a closer game here. | Good afternoon to the East Coast, good morning to the West Coast, good caffeinated overnight to Australia and much of Asia, and good evening to those in Europe who watched Liverpool beat Manchester City and are hoping for a closer game here. |
| Funny thing about that -- MLS is a league of salary cap-enforced parity, and yet we have the same two teams in the final for the third year in the last four. | Funny thing about that -- MLS is a league of salary cap-enforced parity, and yet we have the same two teams in the final for the third year in the last four. |
| Should be a fun one in any case. | Should be a fun one in any case. |
| Beau will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s Graham Ruthven’s lookahead to today’s final. | Beau will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s Graham Ruthven’s lookahead to today’s final. |