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All Cristian Roldan has done since returning from the U.S. national team is score two winning goals and three goals in two games.
His goals two minutes apart gave the Seattle
Sounders a 3-0 win over San Jose that moved them above the .500 mark for the first time since the 2015 season.
Both Roldan goals followed long throw-ins from Dutch newcomer Kelvin
Leerdam, who scored the third goal himself.
The Sounders overran the Quakes in the second half and Roldan missed a hat trick when his shot hit the post. The win gave the Sounders
three wins in a row. San Jose, in turn, slumped to its third straight loss.
In Sunday's other game, Portland traveled with only 16 players (two of them emergency callups from its USL team) but managed to beat Vancouver, 2-1, to end its six-game winless streak.
Harold Hanson, 18, became the youngest player to ever play for the Timbers when he came on as a late sub.
MLS
STREAKS: UNBEATEN 7 Sporting KC (2 wins, 5 ties) 5 FC Dallas (3 wins, 2 ties) 5 Seattle (3 wins, 2 ties) 4 Atlanta United (4 wins)
WINLESS 5 D.C. United (5 losses) 5 LA Galaxy (5 losses) 5 Minnesota United (3 losses, 2 ties) 3 San Jose (3 losses) 3 Philadelphia (2 losses, 1 tie)
Wednesday, July 19 LA Galaxy 0 Vancouver 1. VAN: Tony Tchani (Christian Bolanos) 64 LA Galaxy -- Rowe; Diallo, Steres, Van Damme, Romney; Cole, Joao
Pedro; Alessandrini (Jamieson 74), dos Santos, Boateng (Jones 69); McBean (Lassiter 70). Vancouver -- Ousted; Parker, Nerwinski, Laba, Harvey; Mezquida (Reyna 59), Bolanos, Jacobson,
Tchani, Techera (Shea 75); Montero (Ibini-Isei 82). Att.: 17,404.
Wednesday, July 19 Seattle 4 D.C. United 3. DC: Deshorn Brown (Patrick
Nyarko) 8 DC: Ian Harkes (Sean Franklin) 27 DC: Lloyd Sam (Luciano Acosta) 50 SEA: Will Bruin (Joevin Jones) 51 SEA: Brad Evans (Joevin Jones) 62 SEA: Svensson, 1 (Nicolas Lodeiro) 74 SEA: Cristian Roldan (Will Bruin) 78 Seattle -- Miller; Evans (Delem 70), Marshall, Torres; Jones, Kovar (Leerdam 54), Roldan,
Shipp (Tolo 54), Svensson; Bruin, Lodeiro. D.C. United -- Worra; Birnbaum, Franklin, Kemp, Opare; Acosta, Harkes, Sam (Le Toux 87), Sarvas; Brown (Neagle 73), Nyarko. Red Card: Seattle -- Lodeiro 89 Att.: 42,714.
Wednesday, July 19 Portland 1 Real Salt Lake 4. RSL: Kyle Beckerman (Tony Beltran) 10 RSL: Joao Plata pen. 50 RSL: Albert Rusnak (Jefferson Savarino) 68 RSL: Joao Plata (Danilo Acosta) 80 POR: Jack Barmby (Ben Zemanski) 90+3 Portland -- Gleeson; Mabiala, Miller, Myers (Arboleda 46), Valentin; Blanco (Ebobisse 72), Olum, Valeri, Zemanski; Adi, Asprilla (Barmby
72). Real Salt Lake -- Rimando; Beltran, Glad, Horst, Phillips (Acosta 49); Sunny (Maund 83), Beckerman, Rusnak, Savarino, Silva (Wingert 75); Plata. Red Cards: Portland -- Arboleda 53, Adi 55; Real Salt Lake -- Beckerman 56.
MLS
STANDINGS: Eastern Conference PTS TEAM W-L-T GF/GA 40 Toronto FC 11-3-7 37/22 38 Chicago 11-4-5 38/21 37 NYCFC 11-6-4 40/27 33
Atlanta United 10-7-3 40/27 32 NY Red Bulls 10-8-2 28/26 31 Columbus 10-10-1 31/32 ----------------------------------- 29 Orlando City 8-8-5 22/30 24 Montreal 6-7-6 30/32 23 New England 6-9-5 33/34 23 Philadelphia 6-9-5 26/24 18 D.C. United 5-13-3 18/38 Western Conference PTS TEAM W-L-T GF/GA 34 FC Dallas 9-3-7 32/19 33 Sporting KC 8-4-9 25/15 32 Houston 9-7-5 37/30 30 Portland 8-8-6 37/36 30 Seattle 8-7-6 32/31 27
Vancouver 8-8-3 26/29 ----------------------------------- 26 San Jose 7-9-5 23/34 24 Real Salt Lake 7-13-2 28/42 22
LA Galaxy 6-10-4 31/37 20 Colorado 6-11-2 20/28 19 Minn. United 5-12-4 25/45
MLS LEADING SCORERS: G PLAYER
(TEAM) 16 Nemanja Nikolic (Chicago) 14 David Villa (NYCFC) 12 Erick Torres (Houston) 11 Maxi Urruti (FC Dallas) 11 David Accam (Chicago) 10 Fanendo Adi
(Portland) 10 Christian Ramirez (Minn. United) 10 Diego Valeri (Portland) 10 Bradley Wright-Phillips (NY Red Bulls) 9 Federico Higuain (Columbus) 9 Sebastian Giovinco
(Toronto FC) 9 Josef Martinez (Atlanta United) 9 Justin Meram (Columbus) 9 Ola Kamara (Columbus) 9 CJ Sapong (Philadelphia) 9 Hector Villalba (Atlanta United)
MLS SCHEDULE, WEEK 21: Wednesday, July 26 Philadelphia vs. Columbus 7:30 pm Saturday, July 29
Atlanta United vs. Orlando City 4:30 pm FOX New England vs. Philadelphia 7:30 pm NY Red Bulls vs. Montreal 7:30 pm FC Dallas vs. Vancouver 8 pm San Jose vs. Colorado 8 pm Minn. United vs. D.C. United 8 pm Sporting KC vs. Chicago 8 pm Houston vs. Portland 9 pm LA Galaxy vs. Seattle 10 pm ESPN Real Salt Lake vs. Columbus 10 pm Sunday,
July 30 Toronto FC vs. New York City 2 pm ESPN