Tonight is the night the Eastern Conference standings start to come into focus.
With four teams tied on 10 points, just two points behind East leaders Columbus, the Eastern Conference will be cleared up a bit when the Chicago Fire travels to New England and the Kansas City Wizards travel to Columbus to face the first-place Crew.
The West should gain some focus as well, with three intra-conference tilts on the schedule. Chivas USA travels to Texas to face Houston in the ‘We’re supposed to be better than this’ Derby, the offensively strong and defensively challenged LA Galaxy to meet a struggling Real Salt Lake side while first-place FC Dallas looks to rebound from its first loss by facing expansion strugglers San Jose.
If you will be watching tonight’s matches, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play by play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action.
My updates gotta stop for awhile.
FCD v SJ Gamecast at – http://soccernet-akamai.espn.go.com/gamecast?id=237790&league=USA.1&cc=5901
Donovan should have scored, instead he headed it right at Rimando. Tough header to be fair, but Donovan has enough ability where he should score that. Had that been Gordon, well, it would have been the shot of his career.
Both of SJ home games against LAG are being played at McAfee Coliseum (home of the A’s and Raiders) which has a capacity of 34,077 for soccer.
I’m pretty sure rimando accidentally saved that header, lol
Right on, thanks Jacob.
OK, Williams got his chance. Sorry, mate.
aristotle –
If you’re talking about past attendance (this season), it’s because they played in Oakland for some reason where the capacity is much greater.
Morales gets another chance to match up to Becks.
Dononvan seems to be performing his amazing disappearance act today
Casey – SopCast channel 31936
How did San Jose get 20,000 in a stadium that holds 11,500? I assumed they expanded it in some way, but doesn’t that still make the capacity 20,000?
BTW, usually every Galaxy game is on somewhere, sad to miss out on this one.
Yeah, one of the announcers is that Rogandino clown from FSC.
More chances for SJ.
Where’s Peguero?
If I were RSL I would be wary of Donovan at this point.
OMG these announcers for the RSL-LA game are poor.
apparently neither LA or RSL believes in playing defense in the midfield, its just attack after attack, at least it makes for a fun game to watch
Buck Shaw Stadium holds 11,500 and is like KC in that it was originally a baseball stadium that was also used as a football field and now is being used as a soccer stadium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Shaw_Stadium
I just Wiki-ed the San Jose stadium. 11,500 capacity.
I am now Youtube-ing the Benny Hill music so as to play it durnig any future replays of Alan Gordon/Galaxy defending.
The SJ stadium (which isn’t their future stadium) holds 10K or so. Smallll.
XII = XI
BTW, Starting XIIs
FCD-
Cooper, Alvarez, Toja, Ricchetti, Wallace, Saragosa, Rocha, Davino, Moor, Wagner, Sala
SJ-
Kamara, Glinton, Grabavoy, O’Brien, Corrales, Guerrero, Riley, Hernandez, Denton, Garcia, Cannon
Why is it so obvious to us how stupid that comment was, but not to the announcers?
Jacob are you thinking of K.C.’s stadium?
Modibo – LOL….for those of you who didn’t see it, Gordon, alone, on a rebound, straight in front of the goal, manages to head it WELLLLL wide.
That’s why Gordon is in there! These announcers are neanderthals. He’s in there to miss open goals?
I thought it was 10K at San Jose.
“that’s why Gordon’s in there” – to head wide?!?
Doesn’t that stadium hold at least 20,000?
I think it’s safe to say Morales is no Beckham.
The stadium is pretty decent looking, quite full, but obviously small. The pitch looks pretty good.
How’s the San Jose stadium looking?
I wish Beckham would shy away from a lot of tackles the way Donovan does. I hate to say that but it’s just not worth it.
aristotle – I was kidding. ESPN podcast had some fun this past week with the question of “club styles” – a way of playing for a club that continues even if they change managers, players, etc… They were saying that Chelsea was a more exciting side in the 70s, though obviously not as successful. I have NO idea if that’s true or not. But I’m not a Chelsea fan any more than I am a Galaxy fan. For this season, though, if I can see a Galaxy game I’ll watch. And the old lady doesn’t mind the goals, or the, er, Becks..
One Alan Gordon! There’s only one Alan Gordon! Onnnnnne Alan Gooooordon. There’s only one Alan Gordon.
I don’t like the way Beckham is shaking his head.
SJ is dominating play so far.
Modibo:
Actually, doesn’t Abramovich want them to play more like a “pub” team? (More entertaining?)
I knew someone was going to say that about Donovan! Of course he’s having a great year. We’re just talking about some of his weaknesses that have always stopped him from being consistently good. Like disappearing from games and missing chances that the elderly could score. Please don’t crack up. I’m not bashing Donovan.
aristotle – never seen a definition of “pub football.” Is that what Chelsea plays? j/k
Um, I’m pretty sure Donovan has been pretty unstoppable this year. What are you guys talking about?
Has MLS always done hockey assists? (two assists)
Modibo:
I think that’s pub football isn’t it? You play for fun and then go have a beer. I’m not sure that’s what the Galaxy organization was looking for though.
I think attendance may have something to do with weather. It’s cold as hell here in Chicago tonight and I can’t assume that Columbus is much different.
RSL’s new stadium is natural grass, I was reading about it on MLSnet this morning.
Attendance tonight: Revs – 10K; Columbus 10K.
Now, the Revs have been pretty unwatchable so far but Columbus actually have a pretty solid team. Have their years of mediocrity scared off the fans?
Just got back from the Columbus game, and I think one reason Sigi was trying to lay back was to keep his guys from getting hurt. The KC defense was just mauling people all night long, and the refs were oblivious. That wasn’t quite Ricardo Salazar bad, but close.
Condoul — terrible technique, positioning, decision making; great reflexes though. Better lucky than good though, I suppose.
Jacob that’s why I think the Galaxy should be higher in the “power rankings.” This is a fun team to watch. Will they win, will they lose? I don’t care. They make golazos! And let them in!
Is that sexy football? Not sure if that’s what Gullit means exactly.
I hope Donovan shows up for the second half. He’s up to his old tricks.
Jacob are you crazy? Condoul is a beast, its his defense that lets him down. And Beckham is getting it done, too bad Landon has gone insane