[MLS REWIND: Week 2] Irish star Robbie Keane had his first two-goal MLS game to lead the Los Angeles Galaxy to a 3-1 win
over D.C. United. The Colorado Rapids earned a 2-1 win at the Philadelphia Union. Jaime Castrillon and Tony Cascio
scored for the Rapids, who finished with 10 men. Wins by Seattle over Toronto FC and Real Salt Lake over New York gave the Western Conference nine wins in 11 games with the Eastern Conference since
the start of the season. The exception: Houston Dynamo made it two in a row on the road in California with a 1-0 win over the San Jose Earthquakes. For all the weekend action ...
MLS WEEK 2, SUNDAY
March 18 in Carson, Calif.
Los Angeles 3 D.C. United 1. Goals: Keane (Dunivant, Magee) 45, Keane
(Donovan) 69, Sarvas (Beckham) 86; DeLeon (Saragosa) 87.
Los Angeles -- Saunders; Franklin, DeLaGarza, Boyens, Dunivant; Donovan, Magee (DeLeon 76),
Juninho, Beckham; Keane, Barrett (Buddle 68).
D.C. United -- Willis; Russell, Jakovic (Dudar 46), McDonald, Korb; Najar, Saragosa, King (Boskovic
61), Pontius (DeLeon 74); De Rosario, Marcio Santos.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo.
Att.: 18,466.
TAKEAWAY: D.C. United is one of four Eastern Conference teams to open 0-2-0 along with New England, New York and Philadelphia.
March
18 in Chester, Pa.
Philadelphia 1 Colorado 2. Goals: Pajoy (Torres 67); Castrillon (unassisted) 56, Cascio (unassisted) 62.
Philadelphia --
MacMath; Albright (Torres 63), Williams, Valdes, Lopez; Carroll (Martinez 79), M.Farfan, Daniel (Hernandez 73), Gomez; Mwanga, Pajoy.
Colorado --
Pickens; Kimura, Wynne, Moor, Zapata; Mastroeni (LaBauex 77), Larentowicz, Castrillon; Mullan, Cummings (Amarikwa 84), Cascio (Thompson 69).
Red Card:
Colorado -- Larentowicz 58.
Referee: Mark Geiger
Att.: 19,074.
TAKEAWAY: Homegrown signing Cristhian Hernandez, the 2011 U-17/U-18 Development Academy Player of the Year, debuted for the Union.
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MLS WEEK 2, SATURDAY
March 17 in
Carson, Calif.
Chivas USA 0 Vancouver 1. Goal: DeMerit (Camilo) 67.
Chivas USA -- Kennedy; Riley, McKenzie, Pearce, Jazic; Minda, Vagenas (Zemanski 75), LaBrocca; Smith (Bolanos 62), Townsend (Romero 62), Courtois.
Vancouver -- Cannon (Knighton 42), Lee, Bonjour, DeMerit, Rochat; Camilo (Harvey 72), Watson, Davidson, Chiumiento (Franks 83); Le Toux, Hassli.
Referee: Jair Marrufo.
Att.: 7,723.
TAKEAWAY: Joe Cannon
had to come out in goal for Vancouver late in the first half with a left quad injury.
March 17 in Sandy, Utah
Real Salt Lake 2 New York
0. Goal: Espindola (Paulo Jr.) 38, Gil (unassisted) 58.
Real Salt Lake -- Rimando; Beltran, Olave, Schuler,
Wingert; Beckerman; Grabavoy, Velasquez (Steele 85), Gil (Morales 62); Paulo Jr. (Saborio 62), Espindola
New York -- Meara, Solli, Keel, Holgersson,
Miller, Palsson (Cooper 46), Tainio (Ballouchy 46), Lindpere, McCarty, Richards, Henry.
Referee: Hilario Grajeda.
Att.: 16,738.
TAKEAWAY: Nearly 17,000 fans braved the
cold, windy weather at Rio Tinto Stadium for the RSL home opener.
March 17 in Seattle
Seattle 3 Toronto FC 1. Goal: Estrada (unassisted) 17, Estrada
(Fernandez, Burch) 51, Estrada (Fernandez) 63; Johnson (Aceval) 62.
Seattle -- Gspurning; Johansson, Ianni, Hurtado, Burch; Rosales (Levesque 79), Alonso,
Evans, Fernandez (Sivebaek 65); Montero, Estrada (Carrasco 87).
Toronto FC -- Kocic: Eckersley, Harden (Koevermans 46), Aceval, Emory; Frings (Maund
25), Dunfield, Silva; Soolsma, Johnson, Avila (Plata 57).
Referee: Ricardo Salazar.
Att.: 38,709.
TAKEAWAY: German Torsten Frings limped off in the first half with a hamstring injury. He'll be evaluated when he returns to
Toronto.
March 17 in Frisco, Texas
FC Dallas 1 Portland 1. Goals: Perez (unassisted) 22; Nagbe (unassisted) 51.
FC Dallas -- Hartman, Loyd,
Benitez, Ihemelu, Pertuz, Rodriguez, Jacobson, D. Hernandez, Leyva (John, 45), Villar, Perez.
Portland -- Perkins, Brunner, Wallace, Palmer, Mosquera,
Alhassan, Jewsbury, Alexander (Marcelin, 77), Chara, Boyd, Perlaza (Nagbe 46).
Referee: Jorge Gonzalez.
Att.:
12,203.
TAKEAWAY: Homegrown player Bryan Leyva earned his first start
for FC Dallas.
March 17 in Kansas City, Kan.
Sporting KC 3 New England 0. Goals: Zusi (Kamara) 28, Kamara (unassisted) 39, Sapong (Sinovic, Zusi) 47.
Sporting KC -- Nielsen, Myers, Collin (Olum 59), Besler, Sinovic; Julio Cesar (Sassano 76), Espinoza, Zusi (Nagamura 57); Kamara, Sapong, Convey.
New England -- Reis, Tierney, Soares, McCarthy, Alston, Nguyen, Joseph, Feilhaber (White 61), Simms, Rowe (Guy 46), Sene (Fagundez 57).
Red card: New England -- McCarthy 13.
Referee: Silviu Petrescu.
Att.:
19,777.
TAKEAWAY: New England's Stephen McCarthy picked up the first red card of the 2012 MLS season.
March 17 in Montreal
Montreal 1 Chicago 1. Goals: Arnaud (Nyassi) 56; Oduro (Grazzini, Nyarko) 71.
Montreal
-- Ricketts, Brovsky, Ferrari, Wahl, Gardner, Arnaud, Martins, Bernier (Neagle, 82), Mapp (Wenger, 68), Nyassi, Braun (Corradi, 77).
Chicago --
Tornaghi, Gargan, Anibaba, Gibbs, Segares (Jumper, 68), Pappa (Puppo, 62), Pardo, Pause, Grazzini (Paladini, 79), Oduro, Nyarko.
Referee: Kevin
Stott.
Att.: 58,912.
TAKEAWAY: In his MLS debut, Italian keeper Paolo Tornaghi deflected Josh
Gardner's shot off the far post seconds before the final whistle to preserve the tie.
March 17 in San Francisco
San
Jose 0 Houston 1. Goal: Davis 1 (pen.) 14.
Houston -- Hall, Hainault, Boswell, Cameron, Taylor; Clark (Sturgis 82), Moffat, Watson, Davis; Ching
(Weaver 67), Bruin (Carr 67).
San Jose -- Busch; Beitashour, Bernardez, Morrow, Corrales; Salinas, Cronin (Guvenisik 81), Stephenson (Moreno 63), Baca
(Chavez 46); Wondolowski, Lenhart.
Referee: Chris Penso.
Att.: 21,816.
TAKEAWAY: Houston has already matched its win total on the road in 2011 when it went 2-6-9.
OTHER RESULTS, SATURDAY
March 17 in
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus 5 Michigan State Univ. 1
Columbus 1 West Virginia Univ. 0
TAKEAWAY: New Chilean signing Milovan
Mirosevic led Crew with two goals against Michigan State.
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STANDINGS:
EASTERN CONFERENCE
PTS TEAM W-L-T- +/-
6 Sporting KC
2-0-0 4/0
6 Houston 2-0-0 2/0
1 Chicago 0-0-1 1/1
1 Montreal 0-1-1 1/3
0 Toronto FC 0-1-0 1/3
0 Columbus 0-1-0 0/2
0 Philadelphia 0-2-0 2/5
0 D.C. United
0-2-0 1/4
0 New York 0-2-0 1/4
0 New England 0-2-0 0/4
WESTERN CONFERENCE
PTS TEAM W-L-T- +/-
6 Real Salt Lake 2-0-0 5/1
6 Colorado 2-0-0 4/1
6 Vancouver 2-0-0 3/0
4 Portland 1-0-1 4/2
4 FC Dallas 1-0-1 3/2
3 Seattle 1-0-0 3/1
3 Los Angeles 1-1-0
4/4
3 San Jose 1-1-0 1/1
0 Chivas USA 0-2-0 0/2
WEEK 3, SCHEDULE:
Saturday, March 24
Toronto FC vs. San Jose, 1 pm
New England vs. Portland, 4 pm
Columbus vs. Montreal, 4 pm
Chicago vs. Philadelphia, 8:30 pm
Real Salt Lake vs. Chivas USA, 9 pm
Vancouver
vs. D.C. United, 10 pm
Sunday, March 25
New York vs. Colorado, 4 pm (NBC SN)
Sporting KC vs. FC Dallas, 7 pm (Galavision)
WEEK 3, SCHEDULE:
Friday, March 30
D.C. United vs. FC Dallas, 7:30 pm (NBC SN)
Saturday, March 31
Toronto FC vs. Columbus, 2 pm
New York vs. Montreal, 4 pm
Philadelphia vs. Vancouver, 7 pm
Portland vs. Real Salt Lake, 10 pm
Seattle vs.
San Jose, 10 pm
Los Angeles vs. New England, 11 pm (NBC SN)
Sunday, April 1
Colorado vs. Chicago, 7 pm (Galavision)
Chivas USA vs.
Sporting KC, 9 pm

Philippe Fontanelli


