Minnesota United defeats St. Louis City, opens playoffs against RSL – Field Level Media – Professional Sports Content Solutions

Sang Bin Jeong came on as a substitute in the second half and scored a brace. Robin Lod also scored to lead Minnesota United to a 4-1 Decision Day victory over St. Louis City on Saturday night in Saint Paul, Minn.

Tani Oluwaseyi had two assists and Kelvin Yeboah picked up his first career MLS assist for Minnesota United (15-12-7, 52 points), which moved into sixth place in the Western Conference with its seventh win in its last 10 games ( 7-12-7, 52 points). 2-1). Dayne St. Clair finished the game with four saves for the Loons, who will play third-place Real Salt Lake in the best-of-three first round of the MLS Cup playoffs.

Marcel Hartel scored one goal, Roman Burki made two saves and Henry Keesler scored an own goal for St. Louis City (8-13-13, 37 points), which finished 1-8-8 in away games, tied with FC Dallas for fewest points Away wins in the MLS.

Minnesota had nine shot attempts and took a 1-0 lead in the first half, with Burki making a save near the left post to deny Joseph Rosales’ right-footed shot from the center of the box in the 17th minute. But four minutes later, Lod broke through the middle of the field, received a long pass from Yeboah and sent a left-footed shot into the left post – his seventh goal of the season.

St. Louis had two chances to score later in the half but came up empty. The first goal came after a long right-footed shot from Cedric Teuchert outside the penalty area, but it flew just past the far post. Joao Klauss was later denied by St. Clair with a sharp right-footed shot from the edge of the six-yard box.

Jeong made it 2-0 in the 72nd minute when he fired a right-footed shot into the open right side of the goal after a cross pass from Franco Fragapane.

St. Louis made it 2-1 just three minutes later when Hartel fired a right-footed shot from the top of the box into the left post for his third goal, giving the Loons a 480-minute shutout streak.

But Minnesota extended the lead to 3-1 in the 78th minute when Kessler headed a cross pass from Rosales into his own net.

In the 83rd minute, Jeong made it 4-1 when he tapped Oluwaseyi’s pass into the far post to score his sixth goal.

–Field level media