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MLS Weekly Roundup

  • Posted on April 7, 2016
  • by kcou-admin
  • in Sports

By: Matt Vereen

 

If you’re reading this on a laptop or mobile device, do me a favor: open up a new tab and search “antonym for exciting.”

Dull. Uninspiring. Boring.

Odds are if you turned on a game this past weekend that’s exactly the type of match you watched.

Luckily for me, I don’t pay for the MLS game package so the only match I saw was the Sunday game between Orlando and Portland, which turned out to be one of two games with a club that scored more than one goal.

This is all my opinion of course. Here are the results so you can judge for yourself. First the updated tables:

 

EASTERN CONFERENCE

  1. Orlando SC (2-2-0) 8 points
  2. Montreal (2-0-2) 6 points
  3. Philadelphia (2-0-2) 6 points
  4. New England (1-3-1) 6 points
  5. NYCFC (1-2-1) 5 points
  6. Chicago (1-2-1) 5 points
  7. Toronto (1-1-2) 4 points
  8. NY Red Bulls (1-0-3) 3 points
  9. DC United (0-3-2) 3 points
  10. Columbus (0-2-2) 2 points

 

WESTERN CONFERENCE

  1. FC Dallas (3-1-1) 10 points
  2. Sporting KC (3-0-1) 9 points
  3. Real Salt Lake (2-2-0) 8 points
  4. LA Galaxy (2-1-1) 7 points
  5. Colorado (2-1-1) 7 points
  6. Vancouver (2-1-2) 7 points
  7. San Jose (2-1-1) 7 points
  8. Houston (1-1-2) 4 points
  9. Portland (1-1-2) 4 points
  10. Seattle (1-0-3) 3 points

 

New England 1-0 New York Red Bulls

The Revolution earned its first win of the season thanks to a goal from Diego Fagundez. A red card to New York’s Felipe helped the Revs hold the lead for 90’.

Chicago 1-0 Philadelphia

 The Fire also notched its first victory in the midst of a sudden blizzard against a 10-man Union squad. Kennedy Igboananike with the lone goal in the 51st minute not long after Philly’s Warren Creavalle received the straight red.

Colorado 1-0 Toronto FC

The visiting Reds found themselves down a man after just 13 minutes. Then they found themselves down a goal five minutes later behind a goal from Luis Solignac, which held for the remainder.

Real Salt Lake 2-1 Sporting KC

FINALLY. A GOOD GAME. RSL shock the 3-0-0 KC at Sporting Park, and during Benny Feilhaber’s return to the pitch no less.  A late KC goal in stoppage time makes it look closer on the score than it actually was.

FC DALLAS 1-1 COLUMBUS

Things looked bright for the Crew nine minutes in thanks to an early Justin Meram goal. However, dreams of Columbus’ first win of the year were shattered in the 77’ thanks to Tesho Akindele. Maybe next week, Columbus.

Seattle 1-0 Montreal

Not only the first win, but the first points for the Sounders thanks to the lone goal from Clint Dempsey. Who’d have thought it would take Montreal to get Seattle going?

Vancouver 0-0 LA

Moving on…

San Jose 1-1 DC

 The Quakes rob United of its first win of the season with a late goal behind Adam Jahn. United gets its third draw of the year as scoring struggles continue. DC currently has the worst goal differential of the league at -6.

Orlando 4-1 Portland

Kaka returns to the pitch and wastes no time getting back in the spotlight. His goal and two assists help the Lions dominate the defending champs in front of a huge Orlando crowd. The Lions are one of just two remaining undefeated teams along with Real Salt Lake with both sitting at two wins and two draws.

 

Let’s put week four behind us and look ahead at week five instead. Here’s the complete list of matchups along with my predictions so you can put my words to the test.

 

Orlando @ Philadelphia

My prediction: 2-1 PHI

 

Sporting KC @ New York Red Bulls

My prediction: 1-1 draw

 

Toronto FC @ New England

My prediction: 3-1 NE

 

Columbus @ Montreal

My prediction: 2-0 MTL

 

Vancouver @ DC

My prediction: 1-0 VAN

 

San Jose @ FC Dallas

My prediction: 2-1 FCD

 

Colorado @ Real Salt Lake

My prediction: 1-1 draw

 

Seattle @ Houston

My prediction: 1-1 draw

 

Chicago @ NYCFC

My prediction: 1-1 draw

 

Portland @ LA

My prediction: 2-1 LA

 

We’ve got four different writers on MLS weekly roundup this season so be sure to come back each week for a different perspective, but definitely check back every four weeks to hear my insight.

Tags: footy, MLS, Soccer, Sports

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