New York Red Bulls 2-2 Seattle Sounders

A Fredy Montero goal earns the Seattle Sounders a draw against the New York Red Bulls in the Eastern Conference.

Published: July 15 2012 | 23:11

Last updated: July 18 2012 | 17:15

New York Red Bulls have been held to a 2-2 draw at home to the Seattle Sounders FC in the Eastern Conference.

The visitors started brightly at the Red Bull Arena and after coming close on a number of occasions they found the opening goal in the 16th minute.

Adam Johansson produced a dangerous cross and Alvaro Fernandez managed to find space within the box to place his shot past Bill Gaudette.

However, the Sounders were not ahead for long as Sebastien Le Toux collected the ball just inside the area and smashed his shot home to make the scores level.

New York took control of the match following the goal and Thierry Henry started to become more prominent in the match but Seattle's defence remained firm to head into the break level.

The second half started in the same open fashion as the first period and Connor Lade should have put the Red Bulls ahead when he was put through by Henry but the midfielder couldn't hit the target with his shot.

New York did take the lead in spectacular fashion in the 61st minute when Joel Lindpere received the ball outside the box before unleashing an effort that flew past a helpless Bryan Meredith.

The hosts could not preserve their lead and the match was level just six minutes later when Fredy Montero converted Brad Evans's cross with a well placed shot.

Despite plenty of attacking play by both sides in the final stages, no more goals were scored and the points were shared.

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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