Major League Soccer: Third Wright-Phillips hat-trick of season

Bradley Wright-Phillips scored his third hat-trick of the Major League Soccer season as New York Red Bulls beat Seattle Sounders 4-1.

The MLS's leading scorer pounced on Ambroise Oyongo Bitolo's initial blocked shot after just 29 seconds and scored from the penalty spot eight minutes into the second half after Lloyd Sam was tripped.

Wright-Phillips completed his hat-trick from close range and was replaced by Tim Cahill in the 58th, with the Australian striker scoring seven minutes later to stretch the lead to 4-0.

Clint Dempsey entered the game for Seattle in the 60th minute and scored a consolation goal two minutes later.

In the Western Conference, Alan Gordon headed in Robbie Keane's cross in the 84th minute to complete Los Angeles Galaxy's 2-1 comeback win over FC Dallas and clinch a play-off spot.

Earlier Keane had scored the equalizer in the 62nd minute with his 15th goal of the season to cancel out Blas Perez’s 54th-minute opener for Dallas.

Fanendo Adi scored twice in the Portland Timbers' 3-0 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps to move the Timbers ahead of Vancouver for the fifth and final play-off position in the Western Conference.

Diego Valeri opened the scoring in the 28th minute, volleying a cross from Jorge Villafana past goalkeeper David Ousted for his ninth goal of the season.

Adi scored his seventh and eighth goals of the season in the second half.

Elsewhere, Federico Higuain scored a 48th-minute free-kick as the Columbus Crew ended the New England Revolution's five-game winning streak with a 1-0 victory.

Higuain curled his free kick around the Revolution's wall into the upper-right corner for his 10th goal of the season.

Bobby Shuttleworth saved Higuain's penalty kick in the 85th minute to keep New England in the match, but the Revolution failed to find the equalizing goal in the final minutes.

At Bridgeview, Matt Watson scored from a deflected long-range strike in the 78th minute to give Chicago a 3-3 draw with DC United.                 

Quincy Amarikwa gave Chicago the lead in the 16th minute before Jeff Larentowicz converted the penalty kick for a 2-0 lead.

Luis Silva's penalty put DC on the board in the 39th minute, before levelling the contest in the 54th minute from a free-kick.

DC took the lead for the first time in the 68th minute as Bobby Boswell's strike before Watson's shot ricocheted off a defender and landed in the back of the net before Watson intervened.

Jack McInerney and Dilly Duka scored in the final 10 minutes to give the bottom-placed Montreal Impact a 2-0 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes.