• Dwayne De Rosario was named the game's Most Valuable Player, the first two-time winner of the award in MLS Cup history. He was also the first player to score a second MLS Cup-winning goal, after scoring the golden goal in the 2001 final that gave the San Jose Earthquakes a 2-1 extra-time win against the Los Angeles Galaxy.
• De Rosario became the third player in MLS history to win as many as four MLS Cups, winning previously with San Jose in 2001 and 2003 and with Houston last year. Jeff Agoos won five MLS Cups (D.C. United 1996, 1997, 1999; San Jose 2001, 2003) and Jaime Moreno has been a part of all four of D.C. United's cup victories.
• New England Revolution striker Taylor Twellman became the second player to score in back-to-back finals, after scoring the Revolution's goal in the 2006 game. D.C. United's Tony Sanneh scored in both the 1996 and 1997 games, the goal in the '97 contest the eventual game-winner.
• For the fourth time in the last seven MLS Cups, the team that scored first failed to win, including the last two years. In the 12 MLS Cup Finals, the team scoring first has won seven. On average, the team that scores first has won three-quarters of all MLS regular-season and playoff games.
• Each team used just one substitution, the 24 players used the lowest ever in the 12 MLS championship games. Just once previously had a team made one or no substitutions in a final, in 1997, when all 11 starters for D.C. United played the entire 90 minutes in the win against the Colorado Rapids at RFK Stadium.
• Twellman and De Rosario became the fifth and sixth players to score more than one goal in the MLS Cup Final. Landon Donovan holds the record with three MLS Cup goals, in three games played.
• Twellman now has 10 career postseason goals, tied for sixth on the MLS all-time list, along with Preki. Carlos Ruiz is the all-time leader with 16 playoff goals.
• Houston's first goal on the day was the first allowed by the Revolution in this year's MLS Cup Playoffs, a span of 330 minutes. That was the second-longest postseason streak in the MLS annals, behind the Revolution's streak of 374 minutes set in the 2002 playoffs.
