The second week of the MLS season kicks off tonight with a pair of Western Conference showdowns among four 2009 playoff participants.
Defending champions Real Salt Lake face their first tough test of the new season by traveling to Robertson Stadium to take on the Houston Dynamo (9pm, ESPN2). The Los Angeles Clasico, otherwise known as the 'SuperClasico', plays its latest edition as the Los Angeles Galaxy face Chivas USA at Home Depot Center (11pm, ESPN2).
If you are wondering what my picks are for tonight's matches, I have the Dynamo knocking off RSL, 2-1, while the Galaxy dispose of Chivas USA to the tune of 3-1. Look for an SBI preview of the weekend's MLS action on Friday.
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.
Apparently Maicon Santos didn’t get the memo.
Espindola is a dirty player, and he has had prior run-ins with Houston (Hainault)
world class from donovan, buddle just had a to get his foot on the ball which if he was on chivas would be difficult
perfect pass from Landon…. picking up right where he left off at Goodison Park
World class goal by Landon and Buddle.
I’m very confused at how Chivas has escaped any severe punishment. They seem to take more cheap shots then any team in MLS.
Donovan elbowed in the face off ball, and it only gets a delayed foul call.
nice pass by kljestan too bad the rest of the team struggles.
No offense but you generalize an entire sector of the population? How’s this: take your pimply, fat behind away from the computer in your parent’s basement for a second and actually think before you type (no offense).
WOW and i thought tfc couldn’t finish
Good God nice finishing
Santos was offsides the entire time, so miss or not, it should not have counted.
Anyone know how much extra is paying for the Chivas sponser.
well that was an embarassing game for the MLS. Did Houston manage ONE shot on goal during the run of play the entire game- yet score 2 goals? The first PK was an absolute joke the ball was going out of bounds-let that contact go Sir. 2nd PK was classic Latin diving(no offense mi amigos) but it was a very dumb slide/contact by Olave.
Neither team was impressive.
Hm, I initially missed that football tackle by Espindola.
I believe that will earn a multi-game suspension.
I don’t think I have ever seen 4 minutes of extra time, in the first half.
Is the 5280 on your jerseys the number of games played without winning a cup?
I’m not sure what game this official is watching, but I don’t think he is seeing any of the fouls against LA.
Chivas just can’t handle Buddle…
I fail to see how Buddle deserves a yellow.
Kletjstan was being the loser that he normally is.
A lot of nice creativity mixed in with some rough edges.
rad prediction dude, don’t pick the three best players suiting up tonight or anything.
Man, that toronto v philly game on national tv is going to be UGLY.
Bornstein is not a CB, and noone on chivas seems to want to try the leftside except when the entire galaxy team is covering kljestan. Honestly the only time he has a chance to get the ball is when hes chasing people
nice by buddle!
Inches away from a PK.
Announcers talking so much they miss some good dribbling. Though they are heads and shoulders better than the first two…
Weird injuries today.
Wow… Ricketts seems particularly injury prone.
I agree. Maybe they will go with blue shorts from now on…
They’re definitely better than Philadelphia’s. Something about those off gold shorts doesn’t quite work.
By the way, am I in the minority in liking the Chivas jerseys?
Great passing and goal…
Do we need to give Buddle a look now?
chivas got a sponsor!
Nothing fully confirmed, it is either a strained hamstring or torn hamstring
I’ve noticed something recently.
Why is it that MLS players always cross high, but most top Euro teams cross low?
You mean the guy that just said that Bornstein’s ability to play left mid and center back are the reasons he will be at the WC?
Right, but the NY team is a transition all of its own…and Chicago looked good out there at any rate and were unlucky to not score.
or I should say they may
NY turn out to have a Crew/Galaxy-like turnaround, but remember they have only played one match against a Fire team undergoing major transition.
How the hell did Max Bretos get on TV in the first place? Terrible. I even saw him on ESPN News NCAA tourney commentary a week ago. Guy sucks. It’s like he’s just realized he’s had his first erection and can’t keep his mind straight, bumbles everything
Definitely second the Ching injury…don’t need that. I thought Houston recovered well enough the second half and the game was a lot more interesting (i don’t have a dog in this fight). The double penno seemed undeserved, though I could see one.
Thornton is in shape, holy cow!
I agree with you here. NY looks scary…
Yeah that game was, largely, hard to watch.
Nice crowd support. Great ‘skill’ from Landin. I guess artistic collapse is one of the skills DPs get the big bucks for. Be sure to send that clown overseer a nut pack at Christmas, and yes, Espindola should have been shown straight red for that buggery move.
After seeing a few games so far, I have this opinion to add.
Chicago and NY are playing on another level entirely from most of the other MLS teams.
I think that NY had made a ridiculous turn around.
Doesn’t matter if it was a dive or not Olave still fouled him. It would be called a foul outside the box so it must be called inside, same with the first trip up. It was two easy calls and I honestly can’t believe Olave committed both of them, just stupid.
That game was ugly. Shameful really.
It makes it sound fancier.