By Jeremiah Paschke-Wood | Only Love Soccer Montreal 2 Portland 0. Montreal scores two late goals, one through a fairly harsh handball call and the subsequent penalty from Bernardo Corradi, and the other after backup keeper Joe Bednik failed to deal with a Davy Arnaud cross and Sinisa Ubiparipovic scored. Montreal dominated the match, which has … Continue reading MLS Weekend Recap: April 30
By Jeremiah Paschke-Wood | Only Love Soccer All times Pacific, as usual. Montreal (1-2-5) v. Portland (2-1-4). (11 a.m.) The Impact are looking for their second win of the season against a Portland team that ended a four-match losing streak last week by beating first-place Kansas City. Montreal play decent football, but give away too … Continue reading MLS Weekend Preview: April 28
Goals: Aurelien Collin (1), CJ Sapong (1) Kansas City becomes the first team to advance to the “conference semifinals” with a fairly easy win at home against Colorado. The Rapids were always going to be up against it having lost 2-0 at home to Kansas City and dealing with a ton of injuries, but they … Continue reading MLS Playoffs: Sporting Kansas City 2, Colorado Rapids 0 (KC wins 4-0 aggregate)
Goals: Teal Bunbury 2 (2) A miserable day for Colorado, who lose three players through injury, have Tyrone Marshall sent off and manage, I think, only one shot on goal. Teal Bunbury was just too fast and powerful for the Colorado backline, and hopefully performances like this will get him called up to the national … Continue reading MLS Playoffs: Colorado Rapids 0, Sporting Kansas City 2, first leg
By Jeremiah Paschke-Wood*Games to watch ^Games not to watch All times Pacific, as usual Saturday Seattle (6-3-2 at home) v Chivas USA (3-4-4 away). (1 p.m.) Seattle returns home after ending Kansas City’s 14-match unbeaten streak with a late 2-1 win last week and are currently in third place in the West. A win in … Continue reading MLS weekend preview: August 13-14
By Jeremiah Paschke-Wood The Galaxy won the biggest game in the MLS this weekend, beating Dallas 3-1 to consolidate their spot at the top of the table. Colorado was the other big winner, beating Columbus impressively to continue their recent good run of form. At the bottom of the table, Vancouver won the clash of … Continue reading MLS rankings: Week 21
By Jeremiah Paschke-Wood *Game to watch ^Game not to watch All times Pacific, as usual Saturday Vancouver v Real Salt Lake. (1 p.m.) I haven’t been able to find any information anywhere on the web about whether Vancouver expects to have Eric Hassli back for this game after missing the last two with injury, though … Continue reading MLS weekend preview: July 16-17
By Dan Hagan John Spencer is a Colorado Rapids legend who in just four years with the club became second all-time on the team in goals scored (37), third all-time shots on goal (115), second all-time in game winning goals (10), first all-time in penalty kick goals (9), second all-time in goals per game (.42), … Continue reading Spencer hopes to impose will on Timbers, Rapids in season opener
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