The Columbus Crew and Real Salt Lake both begin CONCACAF Champions League group play at home tonight as the past two MLS Cup winners look to join Toronto FC as MLS teams to get off to winning starts.
The Crew takes on CD Municipal (8pm, Fox Soccer Channel) while Real Salt Lake faces Arabe Unido in the nightcap (10pm, Fox Soccer Channel).
Toronto FC kicked off the group stage in impressive fashion with a 2-1 win against Cruz Azul at BMO Field. RSL will look to keep pace with TFC, which joins it in Group A.
If you will be watching tonight's CONCACAF Champions League action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action.
“Chivas scores late to give them selves a chance back at home in the 2nd leg… ”
Sorry to disappoint you, but this was the 2nd leg.
5-3 aggregate Internacional
With all due respect… WTF are you doing on a soccer site if you don’t want to know a result? I was very shocked that Ives did not have a special preview of the match..
Thanks for the spoiler…had it on the DVR you jackwagon
Espindola time!
Saw the replay. That was a great cross from Wingert
I take it nobody was watching the Copa Libertadores Final?
Talk about a match… 3-2 Internacional wins…Chivas scores late to give them selves a chance back at home in the 2nd leg…
At the end a melee breaks out with guys doing flying karate kicks at each other… very testy but entertaining match..
Ahh thanks
1st TFC, now RSL playing their best players? Finally!
EQUALIZER FOR RSL! yeah MLS!
Actually, buddy, your comment was moronic and you were called on it correctly. I’m sure all those die-hard supporters in St. Louis are why their D2 team can’t cover payroll. But but…Dallas doesn’t average 7k, and they are profitable.
Are you kidding me? Since when does Perovic dive? He got clipped by whoever the defender was. Then Ljunburg got in Barnes face after going down after undercutting him. Sounds like Ljunburg to me. Then absolutely fouls Barnes on the sideline and Kennedy gives Barnes a yellow? That was total BS. The game was chippy but it didnt start getting that way until Castillo elbowed Alston in the face. Which he was deseveredly give a yellow for.
I think that was one of the best reffed matches I’ve seen all season.
Khano Smith punched Baggio Husidic in the face and didn’t even get called for a foul.
Alston pushed Ljunberg twice then headbutted him in the chest followed by a push to the face. Ljunberg didn’t even retaliate.
and….Peropovic dove right outside the box.
Who cares though, The Fire dominated the match and deserved the 3 points.
Arabe Unido down to 10 men on a well deserved red card, this should be interesting.
Ljunburg pulling his usual tricks. Kennedy is the worst ref in MLS. Guy is a joke.
Final 2 – 1 Fire over the Revs
Didn’t realize that. Thanks for the good intel.
2 – 1 Fire, 85′ minute
deflection of a RSL defender, Rimando was nowhere near it since he wasnt expecting it to go that way. good play by Arabe though.
1-0 Real Salt Lake down. Didn’t see the goal
I can’t remember. I looked for it before I posted but couldn’t find it anywhere. I saw it last year and only remember being unimpressed. Sorry.
Do you know what the financial incentives are by chance? I think there should be bonuses per game players play, plus bonus for advancing through each round as well. Many players are so underpaid if they can make the extra bit they will play hard.
The Municipal goalie is the Panama National team goalie and had some stints in Europe. I remember him from the Gold Cup where Panama made the final. He would be a great pick up for an MLS team.
Chicago Fire and New England are tied 1-1 in MLS
Chivas just scored on a bicycle kick to take a 1-0 lead in Inter’s home stadium. Series tied 2-2 aggregate now.
Niice cutback
These Mun. defenders owe their goalie some beers.
Great save on the Ekpo shot
Crew fan is pathetic.
Yes, yes, yes and yes
It’s getting better, and will only improve as MLS improves and can regularly hold its own against Primera Division to create a real border rivalry, but a few ideas:
1) Real financial rewards to organizations, coaches, and players for success.
2) Cancel SuperLiga. There’s too much noise pollution between USOC, CCL, and SuperLiga. Focus your message and your competition.
3) Fund a marketing campaign for once. Hard to believe people don’t understand why a product doesn’t sell when it has basically zero marketing aside from individual game promos. It’s a neat tournament with a compelling story to tell. They need some slick 60-second advertisements explaining the tournament and highlighting the rich tradition of many of the teams involved.
4) Find a way to better coordinate scheduling, so MLS teams don’t have to weigh CCL success against domestic success.
And was that Darth Vader breathing into the mic at the end of the first half?
Looked like a penalty without seeing a replay
Still 1-0 Columbus
It was more a reference to Dallas, just happens that the Columbus game tonight has less fans in attendance than high school football games…I am well aware of their usual attendance figures…not really a stupid statement on my part buddy, maybe you should just agree that this games attendance is embarrassing.
Yeah, seriously, this guy needs someone to help him with pronouncing all the names but Hedge-dook is the best.
Haha this commentator on the CONCACAF channel is amazing! I’m going to say Hejduk like that from now on
Oooh tough challenge there from O’Rourke hahaa
He had surgery a few days ago. I think on his knee. According to his twitter (and twitpics).
People are starting to care about the CCL. There is way more coverage online and the MLS teams are playing better lineups and consequently getting commensurate results (minus LAG). Doyles, my local soccer pub is publicizing the matches right along w/ the UCL and with the same level of push. Sounders are expecting 20k for Marathon. All of this pleases more than any friendly could #trophiesnotfriendlies.
Please, there’s no way St. Louis is gonna draw more to group stage games in the CCL.
Cheers! I am not a crew fan, but hope an MLS team takes the Champions League this year 🙂
It’s really not that bad on Saturdays. Weeknight games sure do suck though
You should look up Crew attendance records before you make stupid statements like that.
Only time you’ll hear this NY fans say this. Go Crew
thing is Dallas is a huge soccer town, has amazing youth teams and such. The problem is the location is about 1 hour north of Dallas. The owner went cheap and built away from the city to save money, but its hurting because the commute is just awful.
http://www.concacaftv.premiumtv.co.uk/page/forcelogin/ChampionsLeaguePostLive/0,,12907~583993,00.html?
You have to register with concacaf (free) but they are streaming the game on their site.
Yeah this is bad. I think it’s time to consider moving teams like Columbus and Dallas. If you can’t drawing 7k weekly, I’m sure places like St. Louis would be glad to take your team.
so is Robbie Rogers hurt?
does any1 have a link to the crew game?
what does the MLS/Teams have to do to make the concacaf champions league important to the teams and the fans? The lack of fans is embarrassing.