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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

Published: October 28 2012 | 21:59

Last updated: October 30 2012 | 02:30

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	34	22	8	4	79	49	30	74
2	Columbus Crew	34	19	9	6	72	40	32	66
3	FC Cincinnati Cincinnati	34	18	5	11	58	48	10	59
4	Orlando City	34	15	7	12	59	50	9	52
5	Charlotte FC Charlotte FC	34	14	9	11	46	37	9	51
6	New York City FC NY City	34	14	8	12	54	49	5	50
7	New York Red Bulls NY Red Bulls	34	11	14	9	55	50	5	47
8	CF Montreal Montreal	34	11	10	13	48	64	-16	43
9	Atlanta United Atlanta	34	10	10	14	46	49	-3	40
10	DC United	34	10	10	14	52	70	-18	40
11	Philadelphia Union Philadelphia	34	9	10	15	62	55	7	37
12	Toronto	34	11	4	19	40	61	-21	37
13	Nashville SC Nashville	34	9	9	16	38	54	-16	36
14	New England Revolution New England	34	9	4	21	37	74	-37	31
15	Chicago Fire	34	7	9	18	40	62	-22	30

Western Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Los Angeles FC Los Angeles	34	19	7	8	63	43	20	64
2	Los Angeles Galaxy LA Galaxy	34	19	7	8	69	50	19	64
3	Real Salt Lake Salt Lake	34	16	11	7	65	48	17	59
4	Seattle Sounders Seattle	34	16	9	9	51	35	16	57
5	Houston Dynamo Houston	34	15	9	10	47	39	8	54
6	Minnesota United Minnesota Utd	34	15	7	12	58	49	9	52
7	Colorado Rapids Colorado	34	15	5	14	61	60	1	50
8	Portland Timbers Portland	34	12	11	11	65	56	9	47
9	Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver	34	13	8	13	52	49	3	47
10	Austin FC Austin	34	11	9	14	39	48	-9	42
11	Dallas	34	11	8	15	54	56	-2	41
12	St Louis City	34	8	13	13	50	63	-13	37
13	Sporting Kansas City Kansas	34	8	7	19	51	66	-15	31
14	San Jose Earthquakes Earthquakes	34	6	3	25	41	78	-37	21