Dwyer helps K.C. score a win at Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. — Dom Dwyer got the goal and Tim Melia preserved the win for Sporting Kansas City.
Dwyer scored in the 53rd minute and undefeated Kansas City won its first game on the road this season, a 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers on Saturday night.
Melia was able to tip a hard shot from Darlington Nagbe in the 79th.
“I thought from the opening whistle we came to play, I thought we worked really hard and I thought we were very intelligent in the game,” Sporting coach Peter Vermes said. “I thought we managed the moments of the game really well.”
Kansas City remained one of just two teams in Major League Soccer without a loss. It was the team’s fourth shutout of the season.
It also was Portland’s first loss of the year at Providence Park.
“That’s a very good team,” Portland coach Caleb Porter said. “This game will help us. We’ll learn from it. And we’ll have a chance next weekend to show we’ve learned some lessons from this type of soccer game.”
The Timbers (4-2-1) were coming off a 3-1 victory at Philadelphia.
Sporting KC (3-0-3) was coming off a victory at home last week against the Colorado Rapids. The game has gotten attention in recent days because Colorado goalkeeper Tim Howard was suspended for three games and fined for using profanity directed at the crowd during the match and getting into an altercation with a fan following the game.
Dwyer came through with a goal on a header in the 53rd minute off a cross from Jimmy Medranda and got around Portland’s Marco Farfan out in front.
“[Medranda] just whipped it across and I just redirected it into the corner,” Dwyer said.
MONTREAL — Anthony Jackson-Hamel scored in second-half stoppage time as the Montreal beat 10-man Atlanta. It was the Impact’s first MLS win of the season.
Jackson-Hamel deflected Hernan Bernardello’s shot from distance off the post and just past the outstretched Alec Kann in Atlanta’s net. JacksonHamel came into the game in the 83rd minute.
Ignacio Piatti scored for Montreal on a penalty kick.
Atlanta went down a player in first-half stoppage time when defender Leandro Gonzalez Pirez shoved Matteo Mancosu in the back in the penalty box and was given a red card. Piatti, in his first game back from injury, converted from the spot for his second goal of the season.
HARRISON, N.J. — Alex Muyl and Bradley WrightPhillips scored and Luis Robles had his third shutout of the season as New York beat D.C. United to end a four-game winless streak.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Justin Meram and Ola Kamara scored, and Zack Steffen made four saves to help Columbus beat Toronto.
Meram put Columbus (4-2-1) in front for good in the 44th minute, poking Alex Crognale’s header — off a corner kick by Federico Higuain — into the net with the outside of his right foot.
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — Nemanja Nikolic scored twice and Bastian Schweinsteiger added a goal as Chicago beat New England.
HOUSTON — Johan Venegas and Christian Ramirez scored, and John Alvbage came off the bench and held Houston scoreless in the second half as Minnesota rallied for the draw.
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Yura Movsisyan and Brooks Lennon scored goals moments apart in the closing minutes as Real Salt Lake rallied to beat Colorado.
Lennon capped RSL’s comeback in the 88th minute, dribbling around a pair of defenders before blasting a right-footer from well outside the top of the box into the back of the net.