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The Impact played a terrific 89 minutes of soccer in the gloomy confines of the Big O Saturday afternoon.

But the one minute when they were caught running around the box like commuters trying to grab the last seat on the métro? That one hurt.

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The superbly gifted Kaka — the Brazilian who won the Golden Ball Award as the best player on the planet as recently as 2007 when he played for AC Milan — was kept bottled up by the Impact through the first 20 minutes and most of the second half. But in a one-minute sequence midway through the first half, Kaka flashed gifts the average Major League Soccer player can only dream of while leading his Orlando City team to a 2-2 draw.

“I don’t feel like we won a point today,” former Impact captain Patrice Bernier said afterward. “I feel like we gave two points away.”

Perhaps. But the Impact also showed more sizzle in this one match than last year’s version produced in an entire season. Except for a stretch in the first half when they sagged back too far and gave Kaka and his Brazilian running mate Pedro Ribeiro room to run, the Impact had the better of the ball and were the dominant team on the day.