Given all that, it seemed just a matter of time before the Sounders’ lineup – which included all three of their designated players – would take advantage. “But I think we’re all a bit disappointed because we put in a really good first half and had our chances in the second half to put them away”. MLS had insane results across the table this weekend, some helpful and some less helpful.
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Skipping the CCL from this week because…there’s a lot of MLS and all you really cared about was the Sounders 3-0 win over Vancouver.
Then they surrendered a late goal and had to content themselves with a road point from a 1-1 draw against Sporting Kansas City at sold out Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas. A win would’ve moved the Sounders into at least second place in the Western Conference, instead they sit in fourth. The Quakes are winless in four after stumbling 3-2 to New York City FC last Saturday.
“When a team plays a lot of reserve players, those guys are going to put forth their best effort”, Schmid said. Cyle Larin had a hat trick of goals and Kaka a hat trick of assists.
Montreal Impact 2 – DC United 0: Forgive me for not thinking that the win over Chicago guaranteed a good result against DC, even in Canada.
What’s more, that one training session didn’t include goalkeepers. It was a boring affair though, worth watching only if you other choice is paint drying. Portland stays above the red line and stays a single point ahead of San Jose. After a midseason injury, Obafemi Martins has quickly returned to form, scoring six goals in six matches since rejoining the club, and he has 13 for the season. Frank Lampard opened the scoring in the 27th and the game stayed fairly quiet with NYC controlling play throughout most of the match. Vancouver loses the #1 spot. I think we created some chances and played a good positional game, but at the end of the day we only have one point. Our reserve team was playing, so we had to have a session without goalkeepers. So there’s that. San Jose’s late victor over Real Salt Lake on Sunday tightened the screws on the playoff chase, and Seattle holds just a three-point edge on the last team now outside the playoffs. Dempsey directed another attempt, from almost the same spot as his earlier effort, inches wide of the post in the 85th minute and Dwyer snapped a header just off target three minutes later.
Both teams have plenty of missed chances to regret. Unfortunately, Kyle Beckerman and Tony Beltran were not on accumulation warnings, so their yellows are fairly meaningless.
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That puts coach Peter Vermes in the position of deciding which players he wants to use in a key league game against a primary playoff rival, while also deciding who he wants to leave fresh for a nationally televised midweek match for a trophy.Not quite sure where theyre going to be at in terms of their mindset, Schmid. LA got two quick ones scoring in the 11th and 14th minutes from their DPs Keane and Dos Santos. Frei did well to make a one-handed stop at his near post on a strongly-struck shot from Dwyer, then was rescued by Fisher with a goalline clearance after Mikey Lopez was first to the rebound. They kept pressing and nearly found the tying goal late but fell just short.
