Columbus Crew lifts MLS Cup after tense, rain-drenched win over LAFC
Crew 2, LAFC 1

Steven Goff

COLUMBUS, Ohio — For much of the rainy MLS Cup at the Columbus Crew’s gold-splashed palace, there was a greater sense of coronation than tension.

The hungry hosts scored twice in the first half Saturday, and with Los Angeles FC flashing few of the elements that had positioned it for a possible repeat championship, the Crew seemed certain to raise the trophy for a third time.

But finals are almost never this easy, and when the final whistle broke a tension-cooked stretch run unfurling in heavy rain, the Crew and its record crowd at Lower.com Field celebrated a 2-1 thriller.

“I cried like a baby,” said Cucho Hernández, the game MVP.

Columbus, an MLS founding member, won the title for the second time in four seasons while denying LAFC’s attempt to become the first repeat champion since the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2011-12.

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Hernández and Yaw Yeboah scored four minutes apart, and Columbus survived a whirlwind finish, including Dénis Bouanga’s 74th-minute goal and seven minutes of stoppage time, before a raucous audience of 20,802.

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