Saturday
Atlanta @ Philly 7pm All Atlanta needs is 3 minutes to take apart a suspect defence. Philly has a suspect defence.
2-0 Atlanta
Colorado @ Montreal 7:30pm Montreal turning the corner? Maybe. Beating Colorado at home is not as much a test as a pop quiz.
3-1 Montreal
Seattle @ NER 7:30pm Seattle's new forward, who mightl boss this league like Seba did in 2015, on't start for a few weeks. So, in the meantime, the better organized NER will feast on that cruddy defence.
2-1 NER
Minnesota @ Houston 9pm Houston is better. Yes, the Loons were so happy to get that win against us. The good vibes come crashing down tonight.
3-0 Houston
Dallas @ Salt Lake 10pm Dallas is just a much better team all around (an example for us given their bad season end last year)
2-0 FCD
Chicago @ Vancouver 10:30pm The Fire are unbeaten in 5, mostly because they have figured out how to man mark opponents & pushed Schweinsteiger up into the attack a bit more. Vancouver sets up well against such an approach.
3-2 Vancouver
Columbus @ LAG 10:30pm Team who likes to control the ball vs. a scrappy cut and thrust team. Funny how LAG is the scrappy team now. Goals aplenty in this one.
3-2 win for LAG
Orlando @ LAFC 11pm Orlando is just not very good. Vela is going to take apart that defence. Reminder we play Orlando in a week.
4-1 LAFC
San Jose @ Portland 11pm Portland is on a big roll. SJE is not playing well on defence & will get taken apart.
2-0 Portland
Sunday
NYRB @ NYCFC 7pm Under their new coach, NYC is more pragmatic. That will lead to some unexpected goals from over the top balls that NYRB will have issues with NYRB will stick dogmatically to their press approach which will pay some dividends. Should be the GAME OF THE WEEK
2-2 draw