Alejandro Bedoya uses goal celebration to demand action on gun violence

Speaking to reporters after the game in video broadcast by MLS, Bedoya said: "It's absurd and I'm not going to sit idly (by). Before being an athlete and before being a soccer player I'm a human being and this stuff affects me.

"I'm dropping my kids off at school and I'm looking around, paranoid, thinking about an exit strategy. Something has got to be done, we've almost become numb to it.

"I thought 'I've got to say something and make a stand'. We're the only civilised nation where this is happening."

In the Western Conference, Sporting Kansas City kept their play-off hopes alive with a 3-2 away win over the Seattle Sounders.

Sporting midfielder Felipe Gutierrez found the net in the 12th minute, before adding his second from the spot just over 20 minutes later.

United States forward Jordan Morris hit back for Seattle before Erik Hurtado restored the two-goal advantage.

Morris added a second eight minutes from time but it was as much as Seattle could muster in their bid to salvage a result.

In the night's other game, Minnesota United claimed a 1-0 home win over Portland Timbers.