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MLS Review: San Jose pulls off upset in Dallas, Martinez bags two more

Is the Western Conference headed for a shakeup as the regular season races toward a close and the playoffs near?

Saturday night's results suggest it very well could be, with table-topping FC Dallas falling to bottom-of-the-pile San Jose while the LA Galaxy were stunned by the Colorado Rapids and the Seattle Sounders jumped past Minnesota United with a comeback win. 

Dallas' result was the most shocking of the night, with a club that has been impossible to beat at home all season falling to a 3-1 loss against a side that had tasted victory just once on the road all season.

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In fact, the loss broke a home unbeaten run for the Hoops that stretched back more than a year to a July 29, 2017 clash against the Vancouver Whitecaps, with it snapped a 12-game winless run for the Earthquakes. 

To complicate matters on the left coast, the LA Galaxy also fell to the lowly Colorado Rapids, who found a stoppage-time winner through Sam Nicholson to complete the comeback. 

The Galaxy were playing without star forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic but had taken an early lead through Romain Alessandrini before being pegged back by the Colorado's newest star Kellyn Acosta. For LA, the 2-1 loss snapped a nine-game run without a defeat and left them stuck on 35 points as the playoff outsiders close in. 

One of those outsiders, the Seattle Sounders, stormed back from a goal down to claim a 2-1 win over Minnesota United, with both goals for the visitors coming in stoppage time. 

Darwin Quintero continued his fine form for MNUFC, but a penalty scored by Nicolas Lodeiro in the first minute of stoppage time paved the way for Will Bruin's late winner, extending the surging Sounders unbeaten run to seven matches. 

Real Salt Lake also picked up a 2-1 win over the Chicago Fire, while the Vancouver Whitecaps worked out a 2-2 draw with New York City FC, and the Portland Timbers rolled to a 3-0 win over leaving nine teams within 10 points of each other as the playoff race heats up. 

The Eastern Conference playoff race looks much less heated, though Toronto FC did find a way to earn a point in Atlanta, despite Josef Martinez scoring twice for the home side in a 2-2 stalemate. 

Martinez now sits just one goal back of the all-time MLS single season scoring record. 

Oralndo City and the New England Revolution played out a six-goal thriller, with Orlando's Scott Sutter netting a stoppage-time equalizer in a 3-3 draw, while the Montreal Impact and D.C. United played out a 1-1 draw. 

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