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Federico Higuain brace earns Columbus Crew final day victory

Columbus Crew edge FC Toronto in a dead rubber on the final day of the regular season thanks to brace from Federico Higuain.

By Liam Power, Reporter | 28 October 2012

Columbus Crew earned a final-day victory over Toronto FC as the regular season comes to a close in Major League Soccer.

Both sides missed out on a post-season place and were left to play for pride in their last fixture of the campaign.

Federico Higuain, brother of Real Madrid striker Gonzalo, opened the scoring after 17 minutes when he slotted home a composed left-footed finish past Freddy Hall.

Toronto quickly levelled against the run of play when Andrew Wiedeman latched onto a header from Ryan Johnson just before the half hour.

A quiet second half hampered by heavy rain was brought to life when Higuain was fouled in the penalty area on 61 minutes.

The Argentine striker lashed home the spot kick to win the match with his fifth goal of the season.

Crew held on in the closing stages to confirm a sixth-place finish in the Eastern Conference while Toronto finish with the worst record in the entire MLS, earning just 23 points from 34 matches.

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Eastern Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Inter Miami Inter Miami	15	9	4	2	36	20	16	31
2	FC Cincinnati Cincinnati	14	9	3	2	19	11	8	30
3	New York Red Bulls NY Red Bulls	14	6	5	3	25	21	4	23
4	New York City FC NY City	14	7	2	5	18	16	2	23
5	Toronto	14	7	1	6	21	20	1	22
6	Columbus Crew	13	5	6	2	19	13	6	21
7	Charlotte FC Charlotte FC	14	6	3	5	14	13	1	21
8	Philadelphia Union Philadelphia	13	4	5	4	25	21	4	17
9	DC United	14	4	5	5	20	24	-4	17
10	Orlando City	13	4	4	5	15	20	-5	16
11	Nashville SC Nashville	13	3	6	4	17	20	-3	15
12	Atlanta United Atlanta	13	3	4	6	17	16	1	13
13	CF Montreal Montreal	13	3	3	7	17	31	-14	12
14	Chicago Fire	14	2	4	8	13	26	-13	10
15	New England Revolution New England	12	2	1	9	9	25	-16	7

Western Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Real Salt Lake Salt Lake	14	8	4	2	27	14	13	28
2	Minnesota United Minnesota Utd	12	7	3	2	21	14	7	24
3	Los Angeles Galaxy LA Galaxy	14	5	7	2	25	21	4	22
4	Austin FC Austin	14	6	4	4	19	17	2	22
5	Los Angeles FC Los Angeles	13	6	3	4	24	19	5	21
6	Colorado Rapids Colorado	14	6	3	5	24	23	1	21
7	Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver	13	5	4	4	19	15	4	19
8	Houston Dynamo Houston	13	5	3	5	12	13	-1	18
9	St Louis City	13	3	7	3	19	20	-1	16
10	Seattle Sounders Seattle	14	3	5	6	16	17	-1	14
11	Portland Timbers Portland	14	3	4	7	26	29	-3	13
12	Dallas	12	3	3	6	13	17	-4	12
13	Sporting Kansas City Kansas	13	2	5	6	21	24	-3	11
14	San Jose Earthquakes Earthquakes	14	3	1	10	22	33	-11	10