MLS: 5 things you may have missed from Decision Day

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Manchester United’s goalkeeper Tim Howard celebrates victory (Photo by John Walton/EMPICS via Getty Images) /

MLS Decision Day featured 12 games across a hectic two-hour Sunday afternoon slate. Here are five things you may have missed across the league.

That’s it, Decision Day has come and gone and the 2019 Major League Soccer regular season is over. The playoff match-ups have been decided and all attention now turns to the postseason.

However, before we move ahead to that, let’s take a quick a quick look back at what took place on the final day of a superb 2019 MLS season.

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Here are five things you might have missed from another entertaining Decision Day.

LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 25: Carlos Vela #10 of Los Angeles FC celebrates his goal during Los Angeles FC’s MLS match against Los Angeles Galaxy at the Banc of California Stadium on August 25, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. The match ended in a 3-3 draw. (Photo by Shaun Clark/Getty Images) /

5. Record-breaking Vela seals Golden Boot

Have they made that new superlative to describe the 2019 iteration of Carlos Vela yet? No? Okay, well, we’ll try and do him justice anyway.

3⃣1⃣ + 🎩 = 3⃣4⃣

A record-breaking day for @11carlosV.#LAFC pic.twitter.com/FIdc7Wb5wp
— LAFC (@LAFC) October 6, 2019

For a short time on Sunday, the Mexican’s Golden Boot title looked under threat after Zlatan Ibrahimovic opened the scoring in LA Galaxy’s 4-2 defeat to Houston Dynamo after just nine minutes. However, all doubts were very quickly erased as Vela scored three brilliant goals in just 23 minutes to put LAFC in complete control against Colorado Rapids, sealing his Golden Boot and breaking Josef Martinez’s single-season goalscoring record, finishing up on 34.

That performance on Sunday was a perfect summary of Vela’s MVP season and in the process, was enough to deliver three more points to hand LAFC the MLS regular season points record with 72. Form rediscovered, can anyone stop them in the playoffs?

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