Before the weekend we get some not so exciting matchups.
Wednesday red hot DC United host 2nd to the bottom Real Salt Lake. Weird things can happen, but not in this game, DC should win eassily.
Thursday nite ESPN2 brings us another Galaxy game, another SuperClasico. Chivas are pretty hot right now and the Galaxy are in dead last place. With the Galaxy still missing so many players due to injury, Chivas will probably clean up.
Saturday things start to get a little more interesting.
First pitiful Real Salt Lake and injury ravaged Toronto FC will face off in a battle of the cellar dwellers. Lose this game and you might be the unlucky team to get passed by LA if they ever get going.
Next up is FC Dallas and New England Revolution. FC Dallas has fallen out of the 2nd seed in the west position and would surely love to pass up Chivas USA to move up in the table. The Revolution have lost their top spot in the East because nobody (Revolution included) can stop DC United. An FC Dallas win could bring them into a 3 way tie for 2nd overall and potentially a tie for top seed in the west with defending champs Houston Dynamo.
The we get the Columbus Crew and the Kansas City Wizards. The Wizards were once on top of the league, but now they is only one team between them and another year of watching the playoffs on TV or whatever the teams that don’t make the playoffs do. The Crew are that team that is right below the last playoff spot trying to get back up into it. A Crew win would put them only 2 points below the Wizards and potentially into a playoff position depending on what Chicago does. A Wizards win could move them up even with the New York Red Bulls, depending on what they do against Chicago Fire.
Chicago Fire and New York Red Bulls currently hold 2 of the bottom 3 remaining playoff spots, so this game is huge. Chicago could easily drop out of that last playoff spot, or the Red Bulls could move a little further away from that cutoff line. This game along with the Columbus/Kansas City game could really shake things up.
Sunday Chivas play the Colorado Rapids. The Rapids are right there with the Columbus Crew trying to take over that last playoff spot that Chicago Fire are currently occupying. The Rapids have not been doing to well and Chivas are hot, so I suppose the Rapids will somehow leave this game with points.
The last game is West leading Houston Dynamo and West’s Worst LA Galaxy. I bet Nate Jaqua wishes he could have saved his hat trick for this game. Dynamo will win in LA.
It is starting to get interesting around here!
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I’ve started watching the MLS in the UK on Channel Five and think it’s really going to take off. How much of that is down to the arrival of David Beckham I don’t know, but time will tell whether the sport sticks.
MLS Football Shirts aren’t bad either I must say