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Red Bulls strike early and often to rout Revolution; Fire stun Sounders

Bradley Wright-Phillips had two goals and an assist in the first 12 minutes, and the New York Red Bulls beat the sliding New England Revolution 4-1 on Saturday night.

Wright-Phillips headed home Lloyd Sam's cross in the fourth minute, and then helped set up Sam's low hard finish into the left corner five minutes later. Wright-Phillips capped the flurry with a shot that looked much like Sam's goal, giving the Red Bulls a 3-0 lead.

It was Wright-Phillips' eighth multigoal game of his career.

Andy Dorman got one back in the 37th minute for New England, which has dropped five in a row.

Brooklyn native Anthony Wallace also scored for the Red Bulls in the 56th minute.

Jason Johnson drove a left-footed shot into the far corner of the net in the second minute of stoppage time, lifting the Chicago Fire to an unlikely 1-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders.

The decisive sequence started when Johnson and Michael Stephens raced down the right side on a counter-attack. Johnson ran ahead of Stephens, who delivered a sharp pass to the top right corner of the box. Johnson juked two defenders and beat Seattle goalie Troy Perkins into the left corner.

The Fire, last in the Eastern Conference, beat the Sounders, co-leaders of the Western Conference, for the first time.

Chicago outshot Seattle 16-9 and attacked aggressively in the final minutes.

Seattle's Andy Craven, set up at the left goalpost in the 68th minute, fired a point-blank shot that Chicago goalie Sean Johnson chested away.

Jared Watts scored the go-ahead goal in the 91st minute and Juan Ramirez added an empty-net goal in the 97th to cap the Colorado Rapids' 3-1 win over Real Salt Lake.

The teams, which entered as the two lowest-scoring clubs in Major League Soccer, played to a scoreless draw in their first meeting on June 7 and were on track for the same outcome until Sebastian Jaime scored his fourth goal in five games for Real Salt Lake in the 79th.

Drew Moor answered two minutes later for the Rapids, heading in Charles Eloundou's corner kick. Jaime was then sent off in the 84th minute for punching Moor in the face. Moor was crowding Jaime prior to an RSL free kick.

Sandoval's header nearly tied it for RSL in the fifth minute of stoppage time, but Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin saved it off the crossbar and out of play. On the ensuing corner kick, Real Salt Lake pulled its goalkeeper forward which allowed Ramirez score on an empty net.

Vincent Nogueira scored twice and the Philadelphia Union beat the Portland Timbers 3-0.

Andrew Wenger also scored for Philadelphia, and Cristian Maidana assisted on all three goals, giving him nine on the season.

Wenger got his first goal of the season in the season in the 69th minute. The Philadelphia native ran the ball in on a slant from nearly midfield and launched a bending, waist-high shot that curled around a defender and beat diving keeper Andrew Weber.

Nogueira scored on a right-footed smash two minutes later, and then capped the scoring in the 80th minute.

Mauro Diaz and David Texeira scored to help FC Dallas knock off Orlando City 2-0.

In first-half stoppage time, Fabian Castillo drew a foul in the area and Diaz calmly buried the penalty.

Orlando thought it had the equalizer in the 56th minute, but Pedro Ribeiro's goal was waved off after he was ruled offside.

Dallas struck again in the 64th minute. Castillo's through ball found Victor Ulloa, who made a left-footed feed to Texeira at the spot. Texeira then tapped it past Tally Hall.

Carlos Rivas missed a penalty in the 89th minute for Orlando City.

Dominic Oduro scored two goals and the Montreal Impact ended the Columbus Crew's four-game unbeaten run with a 3-0 victory.

Oduro and Marco Donadel scored in the first eight minutes, and Oduro added another goal late in the match.

Montreal stopped a three-game winless streak while earning a sweep of its two-game season series against the Crew.

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