It's another weekend full of games for MLS. We begin with one game on Friday, as...
The San Jose Earthquakes host New York City FC. Josh Saunders and David Bingham protect the nets. The game ended 0-0, with no discipline and no scoring. Saunders was the man of the match for his four-save clean sheet.
The first of five Saturday games has DC United welcoming the Philadelphia Union. Andre Blake and Bill Hamid are the acclaimed keepers. Richie Marquez of Philadelphia had a fifth minute yellow card for his foul. DC led off with a sixteenth minute goal by Taylor Kemp. The Union tied it in first half stoppage time with a Tranquillo Barnetta goal. Philadelphia took the lead in the fifty-seventh minute with a Chris Pontius goal, via Ilsinho. Luciano Acosta of United took a yellow card for a fifty-eighth minute foul. The Union's Ken Tribbett had a yellow card for a sixty-third minute foul. DC retied it in second half stoppage time on a Steve Birnbaum goal, courtesy of Patrick Nyarko. The game ended 2-2, with Birnbaum the man of the match for the late equalizer.
In Canada, the Montreal Impact bring in the Houston Dynamo. Joe Willis and Evan Bush are the gloved men. Houston's David Horst took a yellow card for a forty-first minute foul. The Dynamo had a yellow card for a Sheanon Williams foul in the sixty-first minute. Montreal got going with a seventy-sixth minute Matteo Moncosu goal, assisted by Marco Donadel. Hernan Bernardello of the Impact took a yellow card for a foul in the eighty-sixth minute. The game ended 1-0, with Moncosu the man of the match for the winner.
Over in Ontario, Toronto FC hosts the New England Revolution. Bobby Shuttleworth faces a lesser foe in Alex Bono in goal. Toronto began in the twentieth minute with a Sebastian Giovinco goal. Toronto added on in the twenty-ninth minute with another Giovinco goal, coming off of Mark Bloom. New England's Gershon Koffie had a yellow card for a fifty-fourth minute foul. Toronto extended the lead as Giovinco finished his hat trick on a seventy-sixth minute penalty kick goal. The Revolution got on the board with a Teal Bunbury goal in the eighty-eighth minute, via Kelyn Rowe. Toronto iced it at 4-1 with a stoppage time goal by Jozy Altidore, passed from Michael Bradley. Giovinco was the man of the match after recording another hat trick.
Southwest to Colorado, where the Rapids welcome the Vancouver Whitecaps FC. David Ousted and Tim Howard are in the six-yard boxes. Vancouver's David Edgar took a twenty-ninth minute yellow card for a foul. Colorado opened in the forty-fourth minute on a Marlon Hairston goal, assisted by Marc Burch. The Rapids added on with a Dominique Badji goal in the sixtieth minute, set up by Hairston and Eric Miller. The Whitecaps had a yellow card assessed to Christian Bolanos in the sixty-fourth minute for his foul. Kendall Waston of Vancouver took a yellow card for an eighty-ninth minute foul. The game ended at 2-0, with the man of the match being Hairston for his goal and assist.
Saturday ends with Real Salt Lake bringing in the Chicago Fire. Matt Lampson and Nick Rimando are in goal. Salt Lake struck first in the fourteenth minute with an Olmes Garcia goal, assisted by Javier Morales and Joao Plata, but he also took a yellow card for delaying the restart of play. In the twenty-eighth minutes, Morales added to the Real lead with a penalty kick goal. Nick LaBrocca of Chicago had a yellow card for a thirty-fifth minute foul. The Fire got on the board with a fifty-eighth minute Arturo Alvarez goal, passed from LaBrocca and Michael Stephens. Salt Lake answered in the sixty-fourth minute with another Morales goal, coming off of Plata and Demar Phillips. The game ended at 3-1 for Real, with Morales the man of the match for contributing on all three goals.
On Sunday, the first game of three sees the Portland Timbers host Sporting Kansas City. Alec Kann and Jake Gleeson are the goalies. Portland went down to ten men as Diego Chara took a straight red card for violent conduct in the twelfth minute. Seth Sinovic of Kansas City had a yellow card for his foul in the nineteenth minute. Sporting also went to ten men as Soni Mustivar took a straight red card for his foul in the thirty-ninth minute. Roger Espinoza of Kansas City had a yellow card for a forty-seventh minute foul. The Timbers dented the scoreboard with a sixty-fifth minute Diego Valeri goal. Portland added on with an eighty-seventh minute goal from Jack Jewsbury, assisted by Darlington Nagbe. The Timbers extended the lead in stoppage time with a Fanendo Adi goal. The final stood at 3-0, with the man of the match being Valeri.
Next up, Orlando City SC welcomes the Seattle Sounders FC. Stefan Frei and Joe Bendik play goal. Orlando City started in the seventh minute on a Seb Hines goal, via Kaka. Seattle tied it in the fourteenth minute on a Clint Dempsey goal, courtesy of Tyrone Mears and Nicolas Lodeiro. Orlando City's Antonio Nocerino took a yellow card for a thirty-third minute foul. The Sounders added on with another Dempsey goal in the thirty-seventh minute, made possible by Jordan Morris and Cristian Roldan. Seattle extended the lead as Dempsey finished his hat trick in the forty-eighth minute, with the help of Morris and Lodeiro. Orlando City saw a fifty-eighth minute yellow card for Hines' foul. The Sounders had yellow cards assessed to Roldan for persistent infringement in the sixty-fourth minute, Osvaldo Alonso in the seventy-third minute for a foul, Lodeiro for dissent in the seventy-fourth minute, and Zach Scott for his seventy-sixth minute foul. Orlando City received a yellow card for a David Mateos foul in the eighty-fourth minute. The game ended 3-1, with the man of the match being Dempsey.
Finally, the Los Angeles Galaxy bring in the New York Red Bulls. Luis Robles and Brian Rowe are the solid goalies. New York saw a yellow card for an Alex Muyl foul in the sixty-first minute. The Red Bulls were first to score on a sixty-eighth minute Gonzalo Veron goal, assisted by Sacha Kljestan and Felipe. New York added on with a Sean Davis goal in the seventy-fourth minute, coming off of Felipe and Mike Grella. Los Angeles got on the board with an eightieth minute goal by Mike Magee, set up by Steven Gerrard and Giovani dos Santos. The Galaxy tied it in the eighty-ninth minute on an Ashley Cole goal. Kemar Lawrence of the Red Bulls had a yellow card for time wasting in stoppage time. Los Angeles' Baggio Husidic took a yellow card for a foul a minute later. The game ended in a 2-2 draw, with the man of the match being Felipe for helping set up both Red Bulls goals in a road draw.
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