Ex-Sounder Montero lifts Whitecaps to draw

VANCOUVER — Fredy Montero scored against his former club for the third time in two games this season as the 10-man Vancouver Whitecaps salvaged a 1-1 draw with the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday night.

Montero, who played for Seattle from 2009 to 2012, grabbed the equalizer in the 64th minute after Whitecaps midfielder Tony Tchani was sent off for a second yellow card moments earlier.

The Colombian striker took a feed from substitute Alphonso Davies and slotted it home past Stefan Frei from in close for his 11th goal of the season.

The 16-year-old Davies, who came on in the 56th minute, fought off a defender on a ball over the top down the right-hand side before coolly finding an unmarked Montero.

On loan to Vancouver this season from his club in China, Montero scored both goals in the Whitecaps’ 2-1 victory over the Sounders back in April.

Nicolas Lodeiro replied from the penalty spot for Seattle, sending Whitecaps goalkeeper David Ousted the wrong way in the 19th minute after Sheanon Williams fouled Victor Rodriguez.

Vancouver (10-9-5) remains sixth in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference after earning a hard-fought point following Saturday’s 2-1 home victory over the Houston Dynamo.

Seattle (10-7-8), meanwhile, is now alone in first place in the West, a point up on idle Sporting Kansas City.

Both the Whitecaps and Sounders played their second game of three in eight days. Vancouver now has to travel across the continent to visit Orlando City SC on Saturday.