MLS Provides an Exciting Saturday Nighcap

by Kartik Krishnaiyer on June 17, 2007 · 4 comments

After the bore pro­vided to us cour­tesy of the US National Team, Major League Soc­cer had about as excit­ing a night any league this side of LaLiga would pro­vide. New Eng­land raced out to a 3–1 lead over Colum­bus by minute 30, but Guillermo Bar­ros Sch­e­lotto, one MLS’ high pro­file inter­na­tional sign­ings scored his first league goal and then set the equal­izer with a won­der­ful cross to net a 3–3 draw.

The two best teams in MLS played to a 3–3 draw at the Mead­ow­lands. The Red Bulls jumped out to a 2–0 lead early, but Kansas City than answered with three straight goals, two from young­ster Yura Mov­sisyan. Con­tro­versy ensued in minute 90 with a con­tro­ver­sial late penalty call which allowed Juan Pablo Angel to equal­ize and keep the Red Bulls on top of the east.

DC United seems to be get­ting things going at the right time. Fred is finally look­ing com­fort­able and Luciano Emilio scored twice in an easy 3–1 win over Chicago. Chivas USA con­tin­ued its excel­lent run with a 2–0 win at the Home Depot Cen­ter over Col­orado. One wor­ry­ing note is that the atten­dance of just over 10,000 is Chivas fourth home date with less than 13,000 this year. It seems to loss of Mex­i­can super­starts Ramon Ramirez and Paco Palen­cia has had a very neg­a­tive affect on the fan base even if the team’s qual­ity is higher than its first two seasons.

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1 MJ June 17, 2007 at 10:49 am

The “bore provided to us courtesy of the US National Team”?? Are you serious? You and I must not have been watching the same game because the US-Panama game was a good, exciting 90 minutes. Both teams had excellent chances and there were hard tackles and yellow cards galore. The US looked good until some sloppy defending towards the end, but Panama's goal was a world class finish that I'm not sure any goalkeeper could've done anything about. Boring?? Please.

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2 Allen June 17, 2007 at 11:15 am

Good to see some MLS talk here instead of chatter about the Gold Cup.

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3 MJ June 17, 2007 at 4:49 pm

The “bore provided to us courtesy of the US National Team”?? Are you serious? You and I must not have been watching the same game because the US-Panama game was a good, exciting 90 minutes. Both teams had excellent chances and there were hard tackles and yellow cards galore. The US looked good until some sloppy defending towards the end, but Panama’s goal was a world class finish that I’m not sure any goalkeeper could’ve done anything about. Boring?? Please.

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4 Allen June 17, 2007 at 5:15 pm

Good to see some MLS talk here instead of chatter about the Gold Cup.

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