MLS Week 11, early reactions and predictions

The Game Room
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I haven’t the foggiest notion who here follows MLS soccer, but I figured I’d give it a shot.
First off, good lord. NYCFC manages to play a game, for 45 minutes at any rate, and they do it with ten men. That’s the sort of draw that feels like a win, top to bottom. Good turnout at Yankee Stadium, too. I’ll be impressed if they can keep those numbers up after their inaugural season.

Speaking of keeping up attendance, I just watched the highlights of the Montreal-RSL game that just wrapped up. Looks like Beckerman got schooled in midfield, the entire RSL defense looked like a youth league, and poor Nick Rimando got owned (except for a brilliant PK save, holy shit that man is good). I’m not sure if this is really a new Montreal, and a sign of things to come, or a one-off post-CONCACAF-shellacking fluke.

For today and tomorrow, I think SKC rolls over Colorado, Orlando humiliates LAG, and DCU makes Philly look like chumps.

Beyond that, I can only guarantee there will be no Cascadia sweep this week. I have to take Vancouver over Seattle, though. Not only because I think the 'Caps are playing brilliantly, not only because it looks like Oba will not start, but also because fuck Seattle. RCTID.

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Dom Dwyer misses two gimme’s and thenputs in an impossible as Sporting KC rolls over NE.

Hopefully, this finally gets him rolling again this year.

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I just have no idea which teams are the class of the league - because as soon as I “figure it out”, they end up losing. It seems like this week it’s D.C. United, FC Dallas, and Seattle… but we’ll see. It does seem, however, that once again the West is the better conference, but that was expected. The West was better last season and then two middle table squads moved from the East to the West to make room for two expansion sides (Orlando City SC and NYCFC). I can’t really see any end to the West’s dominance any time soon, especially seeing as how FC Dallas and Vancouver have made great strides over the last few years.