Photos by John May
Captions by Graham Tooke
42′ Kah played a super cross field ball to Techera who brought it down brilliantly to get in on goal but his shot was well held by Frei. The Seattle goalkeeper wasn’t looking like getting beat on the day.
45′ GOAL Obafemi Martins picks out Andreas Ivanschitz on the left side of the area with a delicious lob over Jordan Smith, the Austrian nutmegging Ousted for a timely advantage going into the break.
54′ Rosales picked out Waston in the area but Chad Marshall wasn’t about to give the ‘Caps centre back any room as Frei got down low to collect comfortably.
71′ GOAL Gonzalo Pineda celebrates his first goal of the season with a sumptuous strike off the inside of the post after skipping round the challenge of a couple Whitecaps defenders.
87′ GOAL The points were sealed for Seattle late on as Clint Dempsey got the better of Russell Teibert on a swift counter attack, squaring for Martins to tap in.
Seattle Sounders finally wrestled the Cascadia Cup back from Vancouver and Portland after a 4 year wait.
