St. Louis City SC has lost a lot of games in a lot of ways this season, many of them very well deserved.

On Saturday, City SC found an old way to lose but with a new twist. As is its wont, City SC gave up two goals after the 75th minute to turn what had all the trappings of an encouraging win turn into yet another maddening loss. This time, it was a 3-2 loss to Vancouver at BC Place for the team’s ninth straight defeat away from Energizer Park, which follows in the footsteps of a 3-2 loss to Chicago and, two weeks before that, a 2-1 loss to Minnesota.

What was different about this one how it ended. As the game entered the 100th minute, which should have been the last of 10 minutes of stoppage time, Vancouver’s Mathias Laborda was running just inside the penalty area chasing a ball that w

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