Loons beat Seattle on penalties after wild, epic Game 3
You could go a decade as a soccer fan and never see a result quite as hard to believe as Minnesota United’s playoff victory over the Seattle Sounders on Saturday.
It had everything. Early goals. Late goals. A red card. An improbable comeback by a team playing a man short. And, in the end, a penalty shootout that had to be seen to be believed, one in which one goalkeeper scored the eventual game-winning penalty and then watched the other goalkeeper kiss his own penalty off the crossbar.
There is simply not a good place to begin with a game like Saturday’s Minnesota United penalty shootout victory over the Seattle Sounders to decide their first-round playoff series.
Not in a game like that. Not in a game with six goals, with Seattle scoring twice in the first eight minutes and once in the final three, with the Loons going down to 10 men while down a goal and, impossibly, scoring twice in the second half to turn a certain loss into a second-half lead.