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Infographics of MLS Cup history

The 20th MLS season comes to an end Sunday, Dec. 6, at MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, as the Columbus Crew and Portland Timbers battle for MLS Cup (4 p.m. ET; ESPN, UniMas, RDS, TSN). The match will join MLS lore and the 19 title games that have come before it, and to commemorate that, MLS has joined forces with statistical outfit Opta and four artists to re-analyze every MLS Cup and present the results or key moments from those matches in a special, data-driven, graphical way.
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