72 min: Beckham sends in a cross, which is weakly punched by Green, and almost put into his own goal by Julian Faubert. Beckham almost scores again off the resulting corner, instead earning another corner.
75 min: Rob Stone reports from the roof of BMO Field's press box, introducing, and I am not making this up, "Bitchy the Hawk." Bitchy is a hawk kept by Toronto FC to keep seagulls away from the field. Good stuff Rob, good stuff.
76 min: JP Dellacamera announces that Junior Stanislas is on for West Ham. No mention of who he replaced, so the only logical conclusion is that West Ham is playing with 12 players.
79 min: De Rosario makes a run at the West Ham defense, and loses possession. I like the feistiness though.
81 min: Apparently the balls that Shalrie Joseph plays are not sloppy or slow. Rather they are hard, and have conviction. Erm, yes. Meanwhile, De Rosario takes a shot which is blocked.
82 min: Jimmy Conrad is booked for a strong challenge on Luis Boa Morte. This game hasn't been as physical as one would have expected. Only a couple of cards, not too many fouls... the teams have still been playing some very exciting football.
85 min: Widdowson gets forward and tries a cross into the middle. It's picked off and played to Beckham to start the counter-attack.
87 min: Boa Morte attempts a header from about eight yards out. Right into the grateful hands of Pat Onstad though.
89 min: Scott Parker feeds Boa Morte into the box, but the angle is a little too severe for the Portuguese man. Narrowly misses.
90+2 min: Donovan fouled about 40 yards out. Beckham lines it up, but De Rosario takes it. He shoots, and only a great save from Green keeps the ball out. It appears to have taken a deflection off the wall.
Full time: MLS makes it five for five against foreign opposition, but this was by far the most exciting of the five matches. West Ham put up a great fight, and looked very sharp considering that they are only three weeks into their preseason.
Blanco and Beckham represented the MLS very well, and De Rosario gave the Canadian fans plenty of reasons to cheer.
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