0 comments by Dustyn Richardson on 3/21/2012
Before the match against the Houston Dynamo, Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop commented, “Houston is fantastic on set plays, so we can’t have everybody 5-foot-6 playing.” And after the 1-0 loss, Yallop said, “There’s a reason why we didn’t score, and I don’t know exactly what it is, but we didn’t score a goal.” Puzzling. The stats […]
0 comments by Dustyn Richardson on 3/20/2012
I am (to the best of my knowledge, unless I’ve been replaced…) the Total-MLS writer who covers Sporting KC. However, my March schedule, being a college-town-sports-guy-bartender-at-an-Irish-pub is murderous. I had a Big XII Tournament run to deal with during SKC’s FirstKick opener against DCU. And then, for our home opener, the game I looked forward […]
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The Montreal Impact played to a 1-1 draw against the Chicago Fire in front of 58,912 at Olympic Stadium this past weekend. That attendance mark set a record for professional soccer in Quebec. “There were a lot of good individual performances, but as a team, we had a good night,” Impact head coach Jesse Marsch […]
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In Seattle’s last game it saw them go crashing out of the CCL with a 6-1 thumping, meaning that the MLS home opener against Toronto FC was a highly anticipated game for the Sounders faithful. The Sounders fans must have hoped for a strong response, and they got that in the form of David Estrada. After […]
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Sporting Kanas City’s acclaimed offense pushed and shoved and beat the New England Revolution 3-0. The story of this game begins ahead of those three goals. Those three goals may suggest something of the character of this SKC team. For the Revs, though, this game is unlikely to be considered a significant demonstration of the […]
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It wasn’t a pretty night for DC United fans as they had to suffer a 3-1 loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy. Robbie Keane scored two goals and was a constant threat all night against the Black and Red. DC was able to get one back at the end, but it barely consoled the fans […]
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The headline’s a tad harsh, to be fair. No one saw Portland’s goal coming. Not Schellas Hyndman. Certainly not John Spencer (he was giving a TV interview at that exact moment). Definitely not Darlington Nagbe, the eventual goalscorer, who found a gift-wrapped back pass via Daniel Hernandez (if we can even call it that) inside […]
0 comments by Dustyn Richardson on 3/19/2012
The MLS season continued this weekend with another series of games in the books. Similar to last weekend the difficulty to pick up wins on the road was again highlighted this week as only three out of the nine away teams picked up three points away from home. Houston, for the second straight weekend, along […]
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The New York Red Bulls faced a tough Salt Lake side Saturday night and came away with nothing to show for it. The Red Bulls (0-2-0) lost 2-0 to Real Salt Lake (2-0-0) with defensive errors once again being the downfall for NY. Hans Backe had a game plan in mind going into Salt Lake. […]
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For the second week in a row Chivas USA suffered a 1-0 defeat at the Home Depot Center. Last weekend it was Houston Dynamo, this week it was the Vancouver Whitecaps. Everything was all too similar in a game that was Chivas USA’s chance to learn from their mistakes against Houston. It wasn’t a stoppage […]
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California has been kind to the Houston Dynamo in the 2012 season. After a win over Chivas USA in Los Angeles last week, the Dynamo made it 2 wins in 2 games in the Golden State after beating the San Jose Earthquakes in San Francisco. A first half penalty kick from Brad Davis was the […]
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Even the weather seemed determined to make Real Salt Lake’s home opener at Rio Tinto perfect. RSL Fans had a new song to sing, we were still riding high after last week’s win at the Home Depot Center and the nasty rain and wind forecasters promised didn’t materialize until early Sunday Morning. Fabián Espíndola scored […]
0 comments by Dustyn Richardson on 3/18/2012
Playing a match against the Los Angeles Galaxy hasn’t been easy these past few years. Playing a match against the Galaxy after they have been knocked out of the Champions League by Toronto could possibly be even harder. That is what DC United faces this Saturday when they head to the Home Depot Center to […]
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Confidence will be at an all-time high for Toronto FC tonight when they travel to Century Link Field to take on the Seattle Sounders. Toronto is coming off a mid-week win at the Home Depot Center over the LA Galaxy. The win was monumental for the club for a number of reasons. First off, it saw […]
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In front of a record-setting sellout crowd at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, Chicago Fire began their 2012 campaign against expansion side Montreal Impact, in a setting that is all too familiar to Fire fans in Chicago and abroad. The result, in tough conditions and facing an energized Impact side, was a 1-1 draw to start 2012. […]
