MLS Week in Review – Round 10 - 24th Minute

Another cracking round of MLS action is in the books.

Leaving aside the extra midweek fixtures, the tenth weekend saw nine matches played, resulting in a whopping six away wins and a single lonely, albeit intense, draw between Portland and LA.

An impressive 35 goals were scored – three from the penalty spot and a pair of own goals - including a nine-goal thriller in New York, a seven-goal contest in Houston, and a five-goal romp in New England. Three teams tallied five goals this round and three players netted hat-tricks, while another four ended the round with a brace to their name.

A mere 25 yellow cards were shown, as well as three straight red cards, two of which had dramatic impacts (pardon the pun) on the outcome of their respective matches.

There were fans-a-booing (in two cities, at least – yes, the ones one would expect), a pair of rare goalkeeper assists – from Vancouver’s David Ousted and San Jose’s Jon Busch, an incidence of recent trades haunting the team who let a player move on, two sides put long winless road runs behind them, and for many sides, it was just one of those days…

Before the results, the goals of the round:[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]

With so many to choose from after a high-scoring round, four candidates for one’s viewing pleasure – in chronological order, Patrick Nyarko, Erik Hurtado, Michel, and Javier Morales.

Up first is Chicago’s Nyarko with his cross-shot that sailed over a helpless Luis Robles and turned out to be the game-winner in a hard-fought Eastern Conference clash between the first and second-cities:

He probably did not mean it, but hey, it worked.

Quick on his heels was Vancouver’s Hurtado. His speed is well-known, but the inability to make that final decision has dogged his young career; come Saturday he finally found his first MLS goal:

Not a bad way to introduce oneself – will be interesting to see if that confidence carries into the future.

Not to be outdone, Dallas’ Michel demands an answer to who is the best free-kick taker in the league – hint, it’s probably him, as this rocket against San Jose evidences:

Oh my.

And finally, Salt Lake’s Javier Morales, who has been quiet by his standards, reminded the league why his is still one of the best around. Fifteen seconds – yes, fifteen, is all it took for him to abuse Tally Hall with this delicate chip:

That is the stuff keeper’s nightmares are made of.

On to the results….

Midweek Results in a Sentence (or Two; maybe Three)

Dominic Kinnear’s Dynamo got one over on Eastern Conference foes Columbus, 1-0 on Wednesday night thanks to a 50th minute header, of sorts, from Will Bruin, courtesy of a Brad Davis corner kick - of course – notching his third goal in as many matches.

Gregg Berhalter’s Crew would again boss possession and the run of play, but could not find the back of the net, falling to a second-straight loss while extending a winless run to six matches – they have just three goals over that stretch.

Seattle continued their impressive form with a 2-1 win over visiting Dallas, despite falling behind to a 16th minute penalty kick, won by Blas Perez - for cutting across the line of Brad Evans and going to ground in a tangle, and converted by Michel.

Goals from Lamar Neagle and Kenny Cooper, who netted the winner against his former club in the 88th minute - each assisted by Obafemi Martins, were enough to extend Sigi Schmid’s Sounders winning-streak to five matches and unbeaten run to six.

Oscar Pareja’s Dallas, however, fall to a third-straight loss and have now won just once in their last five matches after going unbeaten through their first five matches.

San Jose and Colorado, who drew 0-0 in their previous meeting of the season on April 19, refrained that display – the less said about it the better, though were it not for a stellar outing from Clint Irwin, the Earthquakes should have taken the full points.

Results in Brief

Philadelphia 0 – DC 1

The round proper got underway on Saturday with Philadelphia welcoming DC United to PPL Park in Chester.

The Union were desperate for a win, having equaled a club-record of eight winless matches with last weekend’s loss in Seattle, but again a momentary lapse would cost them.

Six minutes in, Davy Arnaud hit a ball to the left-side of the box for full-back Christian. He hammered a drive into the heart of the goalmouth that was blocked by Ray Gaddis, The rebound, however, fell to Chris Rolfe, who was completed unmarked near the penalty spot.

Rolfe took his time, controlling on his chest, before lashing a left-footed volley low to the bottom right-corner of the goal, as Philadelphia were very slow to close him down and his early goal was enough for DC to see out a 0-1 victory.

Snake-bit, though playing well, Philly again won all the attacking categories – shots, corners, possession – but could not translate those advantages into the one stat that matters: goals. They have been shutout in three of their last four and have not scored from the run of play in five matches.

Ben Olsen and DC continue to put the miseries of the past behind them: first ending the winless run, then going on a positive run of their own, and finally picking up their first road win in over a year.

For John Hackworth, a third-straight loss and a new club-record for winless-ness (nine) are tough enough pills to swallow, but a chorus of boos from the Philly faithful and chants of ‘Fire Hackworth’ added an expected, but weighty gloom to his travails.

Montreal 0 – Kansas City 3

Boos and painful results – familiar medicine for a struggling Montreal side, who failed to build on their first win of the season last round (coincidentally over Philadelphia), falling to a rampant Sporting KC.

Already weighed down by a surprise midweek loss in the opening leg of the Voyageurs Cup to Edmonton, not to mention the extensive travel, Montreal’s spirits were further dampened when Collen Warner was sent off in the 17th minute with a red card.

The Impact were caught napping on a long Matt Besler throw that was met by Dom Dwyer at the near-post, drawing a fine save out of Troy Perkins. Uri Rosell knocked the rebound towards goal, where a falling Warner handled once by accident, then again on purpose, drawing the ire of the referee – even though Dwyer would eventually force the ball in after a poor collection from the keeper.

Warner was off and KC took the lead from the spot with Dwyer placing a left-footer low to the keeper’s right – Perkins would read his intention, but could not reach the well-taken spot kick.

Sporting would add a second goal in the 34th minute after an impressive, patient passing build-up capped by Chance Myers hitting a low cross across the top of the box through a crowd that fell to Paulo Nagamura, who coolly put a right-footer on goal.

Camera angles were not the best and Nagamura either miss-hit his finish or saw it kick up off the attempted block of Jeb Brovsky, but either way it handcuffed Perkins and bounced into the right-side of the goal.

Content to manage the match with ball-movement, Kansas City put on a clinic – racking up impressive numbers, setting new OPTA records (though they have only been collected since 2011) with Rosell, in particular, shining, completing an astonishing 160 of 166 passes on the night.

The guests would add a third to see out the 0-3 result in the 64th minute when Rosell played up to Toni Dovale, who used Karl Ouimette’s aggression against him, drawing out the centre-back and feeding Dwyer into the space vacated by the young Canadian.

In alone, Dwyer would complete his brace with a left-footer past Perkins to seal his side’s second-straight win, second win over Montreal of the young season, and a fifth clean-sheet.

Peter Vermes was more than pleased with the dominant performance, while Frank Klopas must not only address the failings of his side, but also deal with disgruntled fans and tweeting owners.

New York 4 – Chicago 5

Nine goal thrillers are rare enough, but this one was made doubly so with a pair of hat-tricks from Chicago’s stellar rookie Harrison Shipp and New York’s red-hot Bradley Wright-Phillips – marking the first time two hatties had been tallied in the same match in MLS history.

Shipp began the party after just four minutes in controversial fashion, when his pass for a clearly offside Mike Magee sailed past a frozen Luis Robles into the right-side of the goal. The linesman raised his flag immediately, and then retracted it, leaving both the Red Bulls and the commentators momentarily confused, until the Fire celebrated their good fortune.

Two minutes later Tim Cahill equalizer with a trademark towering header, posterizing poor, defenseless Greg Cochrane on a left-sided Eric Alexander cross to the back-post.

And Wright-Phillips would hand the home side a lead heading into half-time with a 39th minute strike – his sixth-goal in the last four matches after Thierry Henry gobbled up a loose ball from an under-pressure Benji Joya and blew past Jhon Kennedy Hurtado down the left-channel.

Unselfishly, Henry picked out Wright-Phillips with a lofted ball to the back-post that was right-footed past Sean Johnson by the in-form Englishman.

Undaunted, Chicago responded three minutes after the restart when Quincy Amarikwa’s diagonal run was excellently spotted and picked out by a long ball from Jeff Larentowicz, for a flicked header over Robles that leveled the match at twos.

And four minutes later Shipp reinstated Chicago’s advantage after New York centre-back dispossessed Amarikwa on the right-side of the box, only for Patrick Nyarko to return the favour and set up Shipp with a square ball, settled and then right-footed past Robles after making space for the shot.

Five minutes on Shipp completed his hat-trick, forcing a pass out of Jamison Olave, nicking in front of Kosuke Kimura to coast in unfettered down the end-line before cutting back to the edge of the six and slotting a simple right-footer past an exposed Robles for Chicago’s fourth.

Nyarko would add a fifth in the 64th minute, with a cross-cum-shot that sailed over Robles from the right after Shipp had laid him down the flank.

Wright-Phillips drew one back for the hosts in the 67th, dummying a cross from Alexander on the left to Lloyd Sam before smashing the loose ball with a right-foot after Sam chested down the rasping service and rounded out his trio from the penalty spot in the 78th when Hurtado tangled with Henry in the box, wrestling the Frenchman to the ground.

But it was not enough as Chicago found their first win of 2014, 4-5 on the road, having gone winless through the first eight matches of the season, much to the delight of Frank Yallop, though the possibility of letting New York back into the match after taking a commanding lead still rankled.

Mike Petke held back criticism of his side – it was only their second loss in ten matches after all, admitting that on occasion, regardless of preparation and form, these things will happen.

Columbus 0 – Vancouver 1

With the fireworks well underway in New York, a struggling Columbus side kicked off a home match against Vancouver.

Much like Philadelphia, Columbus has impressed on the pitch, with their style and energy, but have failed to translate that flair into results.

Playing their third match in six days, Berhalter’s Crew were unable to find a breakthrough against an energetic Vancouver side, who took the lead in the 37th minute through Erik Hurtado.

Selected fifth-overall in the 2013 SuperDraft, Hurtado has impressed with his speed, but has failed to bring that dynamism to fruition, without a goal in his 21 league appearances to date for the side.

That all changed in his 22nd match, when goalkeeper David Ousted hit a long free-kick up the right-side of the pitch, which Hurtado won in a challenge with Columbus left-back, Waylon Francis, before turning towards goal. Tony Tchani half-heartedly gave chase as the Vancouver forward moved into the arc from whence he struck a sweetly-hit left-footed curler that eluded keeper Steve Clark en route to the top left-corner of the net.

A cracking hit.

Unable to muster the energy reserves for a comeback – Berhalter would criticize himself for failing to rotate his squad through the first months of the calendar – Columbus fell to a third-straight loss with the 0-1 result, stretching their winless run to some seven matches. They have not scored a goal through those three losses, held off the score-sheet for a running tally of 321 minutes.

For Carl Robinson and Vancouver, coming off a midweek loss at Toronto FC in the opening leg of their Voyageurs Cup series, it was their first away win of the season, extending their current league unbeaten run to four matches with a second-consecutive victory.

San Jose 2 – Dallas 1

Saturday’s late game was an all Western affairs, as two more sides coming off midweek exertions met at quaint little Buck Shaw Stadium.

The hosts would take the lead after 25 minutes, when Jon Busch’s long kick was flicked on by Clarence Goodson into the path of the speedy Cordell Cato. Cato would deftly slot his first goal of the season through the legs of Peruvian keeper, Raul Fernandez, with a calm finish.

One of the enduring trends of the young MLS season has been the crumbling of sides who go down a man, conceding to a blow-out rather than solidifying down a man.

San Jose, who lost Shea Salinas moments before the half-time whistle to a late challenge that caught Zach Loyd high and drew red, managed to avoid that fate, but not without a little luck.

They extended their lead in the 73rd when Dallas forward David Texeira struggled to cutout a Sam Cronin free-kick for Chris Wondolowski at the near-post, getting it all wrong, back-heeling off his own posterior as he turned aimlessly, ushering the ball past Fernandez.

Dallas would draw one back three minutes later, through a vicious Michel free-kick with his venomous left-footed strike from inside the arc kissing off the underside of the bar on its way past a Busch who could offer no resistance on this occasion.

But thanks in large part to the Earthquakes keeper, the visitors would not find another, falling to a fourth-straight loss, as Coach Pareja is forced to shuffle his pack with long-term injuries to Mauro Diaz and Kelyn Acosta.

Mark Watson was proud of the fight displayed by his side, singling out the performance of keeper Busch, who made several (a technical term) important saves, stretching their unbeaten home run to three matches.

Portland 1 – Los Angeles 1

Sunday began in fine fashion with the headline, American national broadcast of the round, pitting Portland against visiting LA.

What transpired was a close-fought affair that was paradoxically wide open for stretches, with the tight-match ballooning into wide open passages of play.

It has been a strange season for both these high-profile sides with the Timbers having only registered their first win of the season last weekend over DC, thanks to a stoppage-time Max Urruti winner in the 94th minute after eight winless matches.

For LA, with the stop-start nature of their first few months with Champions League, bye weeks, and a bizarre series of back-to-back matches, it has been neigh impossible to find their rhythm.

Late drama has been another trend in this season’s MLS panorama with over one-quarter of all goals scored in the final fifteen minutes of matches (69/258 – barring any mathematical errors),

Rarely does such late activity include three game-changing events, as it did in Portland early on Sunday.

First came Robbie Keane’s goal in the 92nd minute from a right-sided long-throw by Dan Gargan that sailed between the lines, freezing the Portland defenders and allowing the Irishman to pounce inches in front of goalkeeper, Donovan Ricketts, to redirect what appeared to be a late winner into the goal.

But then, with the Timbers pouring forward, Juninho was handed a breakaway from the halfway line, clear in on goal, only for the recovering Darlington Nagbe to bundle him over, punishing his indecision. Much to the chagrin of LA and Bruce Arena, no foul was called – it would likely have warranted a red – and Portland were allowed to continue their desperate search for the equalizer.

Finally, come the 95th minute, the final passage of stoppage-time saw Diego Valeri flick a long Ricketts kick to Will Johnson on the edge of the Galaxy area. He, in turn, flicked a ball over the LA back-line, where a well-out-of-position Futty Danso popped it up in the air for Johnson to corral. With his back to goal, the captain cheekily rolled a back-heel out of the crowd, picking out Valeri wide on the right and his low, right-footed blast was too much for Jaime Penedo to handle, getting a hand on the strike, but not enough to prevent the equalizer.

Arena was indeed incredulous with the decision to not penalize the supposed infraction; with the 1-1 draw his LA side must go without a win for a third-straight match – though he will be painfully aware that last season’s ghost of conceding late has cost them a further five points already this season.

Caleb Porter was similarly displeased with his side’s inattention to detail; pointing out that on at least three occasions the opponent’s most obvious target has broken free to punish their lack of stringency.

Colorado 1 – Chivas 3

It is hardly uncommon for a former player to return to haunt the club that deemed their services unnecessary, but rarely does such an event occur in the space of mere days.

On Thursday, it was announced that Marvin Chavez would depart from the Rapids for Chivas USA in a three-way trade, with Toronto’s Gale Agbossoumonde heading to Colorado and the Goats Luke Moore TFC-bound.

Come Sunday, Chavez would make his former employer pay with a two-goal outing that exhibited all his pace and guile.

But it was another released Rapids that drew first blood after an uneventful first half. Martin Rivero – who made his way to California at the start of April – picked out Erick Torres with a lovely cross from the right, which the in-form striker nodded past Clint Irwin for his eighth goal of the season in the 56th minute.

Eleven minutes later it was Torres who turned provider when he blocked the cross of Marc Burch, rebounding in the direction of Chavez faced with two Colorado defenders near the centre-circle.

Marvell Wynne bit, allowing Chavez to head over him and outpace Nick LaBrocca with a streaking run on goal fading to the right. Irwin raced out to challenge, but the revenge-minded Honduran skillfully chipped the on-rushing keeper to double his new side’s advantage.

He would add a third, rounding out his brace nine minutes later, by pressuring a weak back-header from Burch, latching onto the loose ball and again chipping past a helpless Irwin with a stab of the left-boot.

Colorado would find little nourishment from a 92nd minute consolation goal scored by Deshorn Brown, after Charles Eloundou’s pass deflected into the path of the wide attacker off Mauro Rosales and his shot kicked up off the sliding challenge of Bobby Burling to spoil Dan Kennedy’s clean-sheet.

Pablo Mastroeni’s Colorado, who had dominated the recent meetings – having not lost in eleven dating to 2009 and not been beaten at home by Chivas in the last six, back to 2008 – had one of those afternoons to forget, while Wilmer Cabrera’s evolving Chivas end an eight-match winless drought in style, picking up their first win on the road in over a year.

New England 5 – Seattle 0

As if there had not been enough goals already this weekend, New England put the sword to visiting Seattle, winning 5-0 on four first-half strikes and a Chad Marshall own-goal in the opening stages of the second half.

Patrick Mullins, who scored a cracker last weekend in Toronto and won the game-winning penalty kick, got the scoring started in the 14th minute, capitalizing on the rebound after Stefan Frei had tipped Teal Bunbury’s finish on to the post.

Diego Fagundez began the play laying a ball down the left for Chris Tierney, who hit a dangerous low ball through the goalmouth to the non-promise-keeper. Frei denied his right-footed touch, but could do little to prevent Mullins from putting the rebound in with a right-footer of his own from the doorstep.

Fagundez added the second himself, finally getting his first of the season, from a half-cleared Lee Nguyen corner kick. Tierney again played provider, playing a ball down the left-side of the box for the teenager, who shaped to right-foot across the keeper, but instead slotted to the short-side in the 29th minute.

Seven minutes on Bunbury got his goal, when Nguyen charged up the left-channel and threaded in the forward. His first attempt was parried, but Bunbury stuck with it, putting a right-footer from a very tight angle across the face of goal, only for it to deflect off the outstretched leg of Frei and into the Sounders goal.

Fagundez notched his second in the 41st minute, again from the left-side of the box after an excellent cross-field pass from Bunbury, this time indeed finishing across the keeper with his right-foot.

Stunned by the shellacking, the Sounders fell victim to another devastating Revolution attack, when Nguyen played wide right to Bunbury and his cross was redirected by the outstretched leg of Marhsall, beating Frei at the near-post in the first minute after half-time.

Sigi Schmid’s Seattle, who had entered the match riding a five-game winning streak, where humbled on an off-afternoon, having travelled across the continent after a midweek match, to face the league’s other hottest team.

Jay Heaps’ New England keep on rolling, picking up a third-straight win, while stretching their unbeaten run to four – putting themselves into a tie atop the Eastern Conference with leaders Kansas City.

Houston 2 – Salt Lake 5

And what better way to close out a goal-filled weekend than with more goals, as Houston and Salt Lake played to a seven-goal contest that was much tighter than the final score indicated.

It took just fifteen seconds for Javier Morales to kick off the final match of the round, collecting the ball on the right-side of the pitch above the box and placing a delicate, gorgeous right-footed chip beyond the reach of Tally Hall to the top, left-corner of the goal.

Sixteen minutes on he added a second, after Ned Grabavoy directed a Joao Plata corner kick towards the far-post from deep above, allowing Morales to pounce with a flying right-footed touch on the edge of the six over a defenseless Hall.

Rookie target forward Mark Sherrod would draw one back for the Dynamo in the 22nd, avoiding the attentions of centre-back Nat Borchers on a left-sided, out-swinging Brad Davis corner kick, to redirect the service on to the far-side of goal with a left-footed touch.

But any serious hopes of a comeback were stifled five minutes later when Servando Carrasco was dismissed for an industrial challenge on Morales.

Alvaro Saborio would reinstate Salt Lake’s two-goal lead in the 32nd minute, meeting a Luke Mulholland cross from the right at the near-post with a flicked header to the far-side of goal.

The hosts would then waste a chance to get back into the match when Giles Barnes put his attempt from the spot, after David Horst was shoved to the ground by Aaron Maund on another dangerous Davis corner kick, straight at Nick Rimando.

Barnes would make amends for his wastefulness in the second half when Houston drew one back through Sherrod. AJ Cochran pressured a poor pass out of Saborio, allowing Barnes to intercept, touching it away from Mulholland to Sherrod, who slotted a right-footer past Rimando at the near-post.

Salt Lake quelled any concerns with a fourth goal in the 78th minute, when Morales played a visionary ball that sprung Mulholland in alone, where he rounded the keeper and slotted in from a tight angle and completed the performance with a fifth in the 89th minute from the penalty spot – Morales completing his hat-trick after Devon Sandoval’s leg was bear-hugged by Hall, after the Houston keeper failed to hold onto a rasping shot.

Jeff Cassar’s Salt Lake continue their unbeaten start to the season, now ten matches – just two short of equaling LA’s twelve-match run at the start of the 1996 season (though, thanks to the shootout, LA’s record was a perfect twelve wins from twelve).

For Dominic Kinnear, who had seen his side turn a six-match winless run into three results, the failure to compete at home, as well as conceding four-plus goals for the fourth time this season, will be a major concern.

CanCon

As usual, the extended review of the Canadian performances will be posted tomorrow (Tuesday) midday, featuring a first start from Tesho Akindele, a near-all-Canadian back-line in Montreal, and a touch of class from Will Johnson, as well as some notes from the first legs of the Voyageurs Cup.

Overheard

Plenty of sound-bytes this weekend, starting with Joey Saputo’s unhelpful tweet:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Nos supporters méritent mieux. Il y aura des changements, je vous le garantis. Our fans deserve better. Changes will be coming, guaranteed.</p>— Joey Saputo (@JoeySaputo) <a href="

">May 10, 2014</a></blockquote>

It is great to have a passionate owner, but with three managers in three seasons, and Frank Klopas already on the hot-seat after a sedentary off-season from the club management, they are starting to enter TFC territory for managerial turnover.

Sometimes there are games one just wants to forget – a sentiment echoed by three voices this round:

New York’s Mike Petke, who responded thusly, when asked if there were any positives to be had, “Yes, I’m going to go and have a vodka. That is a big positive. Let me be clear, very clear. It’s tough for me to be critical of my team to be quite honest because every year you’ve got to allow yourself for a game like this, maybe two, and I’ve been there before.

“That’s what I told them in the locker room. … It’s hard for me to yell at them and hard for me to blow up. I’ve been on the losing end of a game like this and I’ve been exhausted at the end like these guys are because they did everything they could to come back. I commend that, but we’re a better team than that.”

Colorado’s Shane O’Neill similarly offered, “It was just one of those days you want to forget about… This is just one of those games you want to forget about. Move on.”

And Seattle’s Sigi Schmid, “It was just one of those days, you know. We know we’re going to lose some games this year, but I thought we threw too many people forward, left ourselves exposed for the counter. I thought they did a good job of countering today. They executed well when they got forward, and it’s just a game that we got to forget about.”

Then there was an amusing little twitter spat between Dax McCarty and hat-trick rookie Harrison Shipp.

Gregg Berhalter has been a breath of fresh air for a stale Crew, as was his honesty after their loss to the Whitecaps, "If I'm critical of anything, it might be my team selection, of not rotating more guys and getting some fresh legs in there. To me, that was clearly the difference. [Vancouver] were just more physical and were able to run more."

And he offered another football truth, when discussing having held one-on-one meetings to determine if the players were ready to go for a third match in six days, “You rarely get players that are going to tell you, 'No coach, I'm not ready'. We tried to have serious conversations. But guys wanted to play. They wanted to make up for the game in Houston, and unfortunately they didn't have it, physically, to be able to do that."

San Jose’s Jon Busch got into the spirit of the NHL playoffs when queried about his miraculous save on Dallas’ Blas Perez (see below), “We don’t have to call Toronto [to analyze the replay]. We don’t have that yet, so thank God.”

And finally, Caleb Porter lets his frustrations soar with some disturbing imagery when analyzing Portland’s failure to track their most dangerous opponents, “Robbie Keane runs through our box naked and heads the ball in the goal. For me, I don’t understand how that happens, and it’s been a trend. I’m sounding like a broken record after the games because most of the goals we’re giving up are on simple crosses.”

See It Live

A contracted section this week, given so much verbal content above – but what was up with Portland’s Paa Modou Kah hacking into his boots, all helter skelter, with a pair scissors during an injury break for Diego Chara – blisters on the heels?

Controversy

Brad Evans was not best pleased at the penalty kick he conceded to Blas Perez, who used a bit of CONCACAF-esque trickery in their midweek clash.

What to make of

that was allowed to stand in New York despite Mike Magee clearly affecting the play from an offside position?

And what about that ‘foul’ on Juninho that allowed Portland a chance to go back up to the other end of the pitch for a dramatic late equalizer? Clip unavailable, but watch for Simon Borg’s Instant Replay, which should be posted this evening or tomorrow.

And did karma come back to haunt the Panamanian Perez, who was denied by the miracle save from Jon Busch that may have need a goal-line camera (or two) to determine whether it had crossed the line?

Upcoming Fixtures

Another midweek fixture next Wednesday, the same night as the return legs of the Voyageurs Cup – with Montreal hosting Edmonton, trailing 2-1 after the away leg and Vancouver hosting Toronto, in arrears by the same margin. Followed by nine matches on the weekend: eight Saturday and a sole Sunday fixture.

Wednesday: Kansas City-Philadelphia. Saturday: Toronto-New York; Philadelphia-New England; DC-Montreal; Houston-Los Angeles; Dallas-Chivas; Salt Lake-Colorado; Seattle-San Jose; Portland-Columbus. Sunday: Chicago-Kansas City.

All videos and quotes courtesy of MLSsoccer.com

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