2009 MLS CUP Playoffs

Houston Dynamo 1 – 0 Seattle Sounders

Houston advanced to Western Conference Championship were they will meet LA Galaxy.

Thanks to a tight defense on both sides the match ended scoreless in regular time and went on to overtime.

Brian Ching scored the winning goal in the 96th minute with a deflected ball.

Mike Chabala set up the action, but because he received the second yellow card of the series in the 44th minute, he will miss the final.

Houston reaches the Conference finals for the third time in four years.

Definitely a very good run for newcomer Sounders, who made it this far in their inaugural season.

Houston Dynamo: Pat Onstad, Andrew Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Geoff Cameron, Mike Chabala, Brian Mullan, Ricardo Clark, Stuart Holden, Brad Davis, Dominic Oduro, Brian Ching

Substitutes: Corey Ashe, Luis Landin, Cam Weaver

Seattle Sounders FC: Kasey Keller, James Riley, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Tyrone Marshall, Leo Gonzalez, Nate Jaqua, Osvaldo Alonso, Brad Evans, Steve Zakuani, Fredy Montero, Freddie Ljungberg

Substitutes: Sanna Nyassi, Roger Levesque, Sebastian Le Toux

LA Galaxy 1 – 0 Chivas USA

The Galaxy won the series on a 3-2 aggregate goals.

Chivas had plenty of opportunities but couldn’t finish them.

Second half belonged to LA Galaxy and they put themselves on the score board in the 73rd minute.

The winning goal came from a penalty kick executed by Landon Donovan.

The referee awarded the penalty after Yamith Cuesta’s foul on Mike Magee.

Galaxy advances to the Western Conference Semifinal Series is a first since they won the Cup four years ago.The only dark spot on their win was David Beckham’s injury in the 78th minute of the match.

Los Angeles Galaxy: Donovan Ricketts, Sean Franklin, Gregg Berhalter, Omar Gonzalez, Todd Dunivant, Chris Klein, David Beckham, Dema Kovalenko, Landon Donovan, Edson Buddle, Mike Magee

Substitutes: Jovan Kirovski, Alan Gordon, Eddie Lewis

Chivas USA: Zach Thornton, Carey Talley, Yamith Cuesta, Shavar Thomas, Jonathan Bornstein, Michael Lahoud, Paulo Nagamura, Jesus Padilla, Sacha Kljestan, Maicon Santos, Justin Braun.

Substitutes: Eduardo Lillingston, Maykel Galindo, Jorge Flores

ESPN2 and Fox Soccer Channel will showed the finals live. All times are EST.

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