Salt Lake, who bowled over the Seattle Sounders in a penalty shootout in the starting spherical, erased an early deficit to benefit another dissatisfied and ebook a convention title clash with the Portland Timbers, who ousted Western Conference top seeds Colorado on Thursday.
Pablo Mastroeni, who took over as meantime manager of Real Salt Lake after the unexpected departure of Freddy Juarez in August, stated he wasn't amazed to peer his crew pull off the comeback.
Perhaps he should not had been, since it became the eighth 2d-half stoppage-time intention of 2021 for the membership.
Those goals covered Damir Kreilach's stoppage-time winner towards Sporting on the final day of the ordinary season.
"The way things have long past this 12 months, the way we were given into the playoffs, the combat in these guys, the resilience ... I'd like to say I'm surprised but virtually while we scored that (first) purpose I knew we had been going to get a 2d one," Mastroeni said. "These men believed they have been going to get a 2nd one."
Sporting's Johnny Russell opened the scoring inside the 24th minute with a crisply taken penalty after Aaron Herrera tripped Gadi Kinda in the area.
Kansas City almost doubled their lead within the 2d 1/2 when Pablo Ruiz headed a free-kick from Kinda off the post.
The tenor modified, however, while Mastroeni introduced in Anderson Julio, Justin Meram and Wood, and Julio grabbed the equalizer in the 72nd minute while he headed in a ball served up through Andrew Brody from simply outside the field.
Finally Wood discovered the winner inside the first minute of stoppage time, sliding forward to gather a low move and firing it beyond Sporting keeper Tim Melia.
"It's first rate," Wood stated. "We have been down 1-0 but we kept going. I'm glad we got the aim and I'm glad I got to score the game-winning purpose."
