Lucas Zelarayan celebrates his first-half goal with Columbus teammates in the Crew’s 3-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders in the MLS Cup final
LOS ANGELES – Lucas Zelarayan scored twice as the Columbus Crew beat Seattle to win the 2020 MLS Cup on Saturday, denying the Sounders a second straight Major League Soccer crown.
Zelarayan, the Argentine midfielder who formerly starred for Tigres in Mexico, opened the scoring in the 25th minute and sealed the Crew’s second MLS Cup triumph in the 82nd at MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
He set up Derrick Etienne’s 31st-minute strike on the way to Man of the Match honors.
With some 1,500 spectators in the stands amid continuing Covid-19 restrictions, the Crew shrugged off the absences of key contributors Darlington Nagbe and Pedro Santos — both ruled out after…
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