SEATTLE -- Nelson Valdez found a perfect moment to snap his scoring drought.Valdez scored his first MLS goal in nearly a calendar year on a header in the 88th minute to give the Seattle Sounders a 1-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City on Thursday night in the knockout round of the MLS Western Conference playoffs.With Seattle pressing for a winner in the closing minutes of regulation, Joevin Jones cross found Valdez at the near post and his quick header easily beat goalkeeper Tim Melia.Its felt like theres been a big mountain on top of me all season. Finally, with the goal, that mountain went away, Valdez said.It was Valdezs first MLS goal since Oct. 28, 2015, against the Los Angeles Galaxy in the knockout round of last years playoffs. Valdez has had numerous chances during the season but finally got one in the net, even though it appeared on replay he may have been offside on the winning goal. It was Seattles only shot on goal in the match and the only goal scored by the Sounders in three matches against Sporting KC this season.Seattle will face FC Dallas in the Western Conference semifinals. Game 1 of the two-leg series is Sunday in Seattle.I cant think of a better person to be rewarded for this moment, Seattle interim coach Brian Schmetzer said. He has worked so hard all year long.For Sporting KC it was another crushing postseason defeat that left coach Peter Vermes disappointed in the outcome and furious at the officiating.Vermes sternly said MLS owes his club an apology for the officiating, claiming Valdez was offside on his goal; Matt Besler was onside on a disallowed goal for Kansas City early in the second half; and Seattles Osvaldo Alonso should have been given a second yellow card and sent off midway through the second half.The statistics dont lie in this game. We dominated the game from beginning to end, Vermes said. Like I said they scored their goal on an offside play. Changes the outcome of the game. I would tell you in my opinion and for our organization, PRO and Major League Soccer owe our club an absolute apology because that game was taken away from us.Nearly a year to the day, Sporting KC was back in the knockout round of the MLS playoffs, again in the Pacific Northwest and trying to erase the memory of the memorable shootout loss to Portland that went through 11 rounds of penalty kicks before the Timbers finally won, the first step on their way to an MLS Cup title.Kansas City had the majority of the possessions and chances in the first half, pushing for an early lead and only being kept off the scoreboard thanks to Seattle goalkeeper Stefan Frei. Paulo Nagamura had two early chances that were punched away by Frei, the second save rebounded out for an attempt from Graham Zusi that beat Frei to the far post but ricocheted off the outside of the post and went out for a goal kick.Kansas City appeared to take the lead in the 53rd minute when Beslers diving header off Benny Feilhabers free kick beat Frei. But Besler was flagged for being offside and replays showed he was barely ahead of the Seattle defenders before the ball was played.Feilhaber was the best player on the field most of the night, causing headaches for Seattle wherever he roamed. He dribbled through most of Seattles defense in the 80th minute, only to be denied at the very end by another key save from Frei. Kanken Classic Backpack Sky Blue . Vettel was 0.168 seconds faster than Red Bull teammate Mark Webber around the Suzuka circuit. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg was two tenths of a second off Vettel. 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It also accused Chief Justice Thakur, who was part of the two-judge bench that passed the July 18 order, of having a prejudiced approach and said he should recuse himself.On Monday, a three-judge bench of the court had reserved its order on the status report filed by the Lodha Committee asking for the removal of all the BCCI office-bearers (president, secretary, joint secretary and treasurer under the boards existing constitution).During the course of Mondays two-hour hearing, BCCI legal counsel Kapil Sibal told the court that his client needed at least three more months to implement the reforms suggested by the Lodha Committee. Sibal also told the court that the Lodha Committee had crossed the lines of its terms as some of its actions suggested.It is as if the Lodha Committee wants to run cricket and that is not the purpose of its formation by this court... The committee is going beyond the judgment, Sibal was quoted as saying by The Hindu. 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Again, I repeat, I personally feel that the remedy will be worse than the disease... this the future will show. Sibal even offered to file a detailed affidavit highlighting the BCCIs grouses and practical difficulties and differences concerning the Lodha reforms. ' ' '