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With the European club calendar on hold for European Championship qualifying, the schedule of matches on TV this weekend is dominated by Major League Soccer.
MLS picked a good week to have some very intriguing match-ups. The Los Angeles Galaxy takes on the Chicago Fire in a battle of teams struggling for points, though the Galaxy have a few more in the bank. The Fre needs a win at home to push itself into serious playoff contention, while the Galaxy needs a win to avoid losing its grip on the league's best record.
In Utah, Real Salt Lake will play host to the New York Red Bulls tonight in what should be an entertaining match-up. Both teams are missing key players to international duty (A combined six between them), but there is still enough star power to make this one a thriller.
The Philadelphia Union will kick things off today as Peter Nowak's squad looks to defend PPL Park when it takes on the suddenly hot Kansas City Wizards at 3:30pm.
If you will be watching today's action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in these matches (and any others you are lucky enough to see) in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Today's TV schedule is after the jump):
TODAY'S SOCCER ON TV
3:30pm– DirecTV- Philadelphia Union vs. Kansas City Wizards
5:30pm– GolTV- Corinthians vs. Goias
4pm– Telefutura- Chicago Fire vs. Los Angeles Galaxy
7:20pm– GolTV- Tolima vs. Santa Fe
8:30pm– Univision- Mexico vs. Ecuador
7:30pm– Fox Soccer Channel- D.C. United vs. Columbus Crew
7:30pm– Direct Kick- New England vs. Seattle Sounders
8:30pm– Direct Kick- FC Dallas vs. Toronto FC
9pm– Direct Kick-Colorado Rapids vs. Chivas USA
9pm-MSG/Direct Kick- Real Salt Lake vs. New York Red Bulls
1am– Fox Soccer Channel- Newcastle Jets vs. Brisbane Roar
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What matches are you looking forward to today? Think the Red Bulls can win at Rio Tinto? See the Galaxy breaking its recent slide with a win at Toyota Park?
Share your thoughts below.
Case in point why Findley should never see the national team.
Also…
Tchani and Kandji are not very good.
Its a trend. RB Arena, the crown jewel of mls and Chivas new stadium, is supposed to be the most state of the art. They will always hae azteca.
How is it impossible to punch somebody when you’re behind him? haha Please explain I would love to hear it. You don’t have to revert to name calling, we can all try to be mature here. I know it might be hard for you.
The new stadium in Guadalajara is beginning to look like a waste of money. They can’t get good attendance for Chivas and they are getting horrible attendance for the national team. Seriously, I think the US national team could play Bhutan in a friendly and get better home attendance.
Henry has touched the ball once in the last 20 minutes or so.
Looks like Marquez is more important than people believe, or how most people on here overrate Tchani.
Real Salt Lake are quite good at theatre
Tim Ream almost entirely responsible for another goal, terribly out of position again.
Close Angel, close
Mexico gave up gosl to Ecaudor in 37 seconds but, since then they have been attacking well the way Chicarito is playing they are bound for a goal.
Yeah, and Joseph is an angel. Get real.
2-1 Revolution in the 73rd minute. Perovic. Sigi no happy
Revolution tie it up in the 70th minute. Header from Tierney
Man, Ianni and Montero are dirty
Quite a few Sounders jerseys in the crowd at the Revolution. Not traveling supporters group people either
I simply dont get why MLS coaches play a 4231….
As Is McBride…. He was back defend on many occasions truly a beast
Next Year though Chicago needs to play a 442 diamond with Castillo and John being fed by Ljungberg…. they will seriously cause damage
Sean Johnson is a stud.
I guess I should be happy we didn’t give up two goals in added time
+1
Though, maybe that’s a sign of things to come from Gonzo for the USMNT.
The pace and style of this Chicago-Galaxy game is like an EPL game right now
and…dang it.
GOOOOOLLLLLLL, FIRE!
You said you thought it was a red card until you saw a replay. So why is the ref a joke for thinking it was a red card? He reached the same conclusion you did with the initial information, and unlike you didn’t get to see replays.
Don’t worry, but I smell Galaxy homers!!!
In other news. A man up the Galaxy should be dominating and aren’t.
Are you saying that the Fire player did not swing his arm from behind and make contact with the Galaxy players face? More specifically the right side of his face. Look if you’re going to try to grab a player (technically a foul, but thankfully unless its ayso not called unless its a gross violation) don’t miss the grab and hit him in the face. You will get a red card if the ref sees it.
I just went back and watched the red card again, and I’m now even more convinced that it was not even deserving of a yellow card.
You could make a case for serious embellishment as well. Segares was trying to pull the guy back for position, and the guy bent over and got hit in the back of the head.
Idiotic call, ruined my Saturday afternoon. Thanks, Geiger.
You’re obviously not watching the Chicago Fire game, because that never happened.
Thank you.
That idiot above keeps saying that Sega punched the guy in the face… which is impossible because he was behind him.
He was trying to pull the guy back to get position.
Not an elbow. Clearly intentionally swung his arm/hand from behind towards a players face (chin) and made significant contact. Clear red.
and the Gal had his open hand on Segares’ face pushing him. The more I watch the replay, the worse the call gets.
I just watched the replay and that was a horrible call. Segares was reaching to grab the guy’s shoulder and barely tapped his cheek.
A dive for sure. I thought it was a red card until I saw the replay.
Geiger is a joke.
He was trying to pull the guy back, and the guy leaned forward so his head came down to arm height.
Alright it isn’t impossible, but it was definitely a punch. Even if it was an elbow, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t inadvertent. The ball wasn’t even near the spot where the foul occured, and you have to put in some effort to elbow forward when going up to head a ball.
The fire player was behind the guy.
That was definitely justified. Check the replay out
He punched him in the face! Right beneath the lower jawbone, you can see it on the replay. It was physically impossible for him to elbow him with his right arm on the right side of the players face.
He hit the guy with an inadvertent elbow, and it was in the back of the head, not the face.
MLS official just ruined the LA CHI game with a ridiculous red card in the 20th minute.
straight red to fire in the box. LD misses penalty. Not smart to punch a guy in the face.
Stuck at work and hoping for some decent coverage of the Fire/Galaxy game. Go Fire!
Lets go RSL!
Mapp and Jacobson are horrible compared to the other players in the mid and up front for PU.
By “rejected” do you actually mean could have seriously been an MLS team nickname and we just happen to be lucky that the coin flip landed on Mutiny, or Burn?
Work and lack of cable have been killing me! Need a soccer schedule friendly job and monies for tv and cble.
Go Fire!
Let’s cause some damage in Utah NY
where did the A-League teams get their nicknames? did they ask MLS for a list of rejected nicknames for the original teams? the “Roar”? seriously?
I’d love to watch the Red Bulls game, to bad I’ll be flying to AZ.