📰 MLS Headliners: Dramatic endings! Evergreen Chicharito! Heads up! | OneFootball

It was another critical Sunday in Major League Soccer as the jostling for play-off positions continues.

Here are some of the best storylines to emerge from the action!

Super sub

If Orlando City do claim a spot in the play-offs, it will be due in large part to the heroics of Tesho Akindele.

The Canada international came off the bench to score an 89th-minute winner away to Charlotte last weekend, his first goal in 20 league appearances this season.

And he repeated the trick on Sunday as he snatched all three points for the Lions when he glanced home from a corner in the 96th minute at home to New York City FC.

We think that qualifies him as a ‘super sub’!

Better late than never

Akindele’s timely intervention is in keeping with a feature of this campaign.

Late goals have become commonplace in the league, with the Orlando man’s heroics the 14th time a critical goal has been scored in the 95th minute or later.

It’s not worth beating the traffic in the current climate!

Like a fine wine

Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández may be ripe old age of 34 now, but the veteran striker is still producing the goods for LA Galaxy.

His perfectly weighted through ball set Daniel Aguirre up for his first goal for the club at New England Revolution.

And the former Manchester United man netted his side’s second shortly after as he maintained his nice habit of both scoring and assisting in the same game.

It proved to be the match winner as the Galaxy held out for a 2-1 win.

It’s true what they say that age is just a number!

Keeping their heads

It has been far from an enjoyable season for Atlanta United, with inconsistency plaguing Gonzalo Pineda’s men throughout.

But a 3-2 win over struggling DC United could prove important in terms of their rejuvenated play-off hopes.

The Black and Gold are still three points outside the top seven, but two wins, two draws and just one defeat in their last five games is cause for optimism.

As the nature of their goals against DC suggests, Atlanta are definitely heading in the right direction.