[WEEK 28] Only eight points separate the top five teams in the Eastern Conference, where first-place Sporting Kansas City hosts the fourth-place Houston Dynamo and third-place New York Red Bulls play fifth-place Columbus Crew at home. Trailing fifth-place Vancouver by four points and having played one more game, FC Dallas faces a must-win situation when it hosts the Whitecaps Saturday in a key Western Conference match. The Montreal Impact finds itself in the same boat in the Eastern Conference, needing to win at second-place Chicago Fire. For all the action ...

Note: All times ET.

WEEK 28, MLS SCHEDULE:
Friday, September 14,
Sporting KC vs. Houston, 8:30 pm NBCSN
LA Galaxy vs. Colorado, 11 pm Univision Dep.

Saturday, September 15, 2012
Toronto FC vs. Philadelphia, 1 pm
Portland vs. Seattle, 3:30 pm NBC
New York vs. Columbus, 7 pm
D.C. United vs. New England, 7:30 pm
FC Dallas vs. Vancouver, 8:30 pm
Chicago vs. Montreal, 8:30 pm
Chivas USA vs. San Jose, 10:30 pm

WEEK 28, MLS RESULTS:
Sept. 12 in Toronto
Toronto FC 1 Chicago 2. Goals: Hassli (Silva, Lambe) 79; Fernandez (Pardo) 13, Rolfe (unassisted) 42.
Toronto FC -- Kocic; Hall (Morgan 46), Eckersley, O'Dea, Emory (Avila 56’); Lambe, Maund, Silva, Wiedeman; Amarikwa (Stinson 75), Hassli.
Chicago -- Johnson; Anibaba, Friedrich, Berry, Segares; Nyarko, Pause, Pardo (Alex 76), Fernandez (Thompson 63); Rolfe, MacDonald (Oduro 71)
Referee: Ed Jurisevic.
Att.: 14,623.



STANDINGS:
EASTERN CONFERENCE
PTS TEAM W-L-T- +/-
50 Sporting KC 15-7-5 34/24
47 Chicago 14-8-5 37/32
46 New York 13-7-7 46/39
45 Houston 12-7-9 40/24
42 Columbus 12-9-6 33/32
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41 D.C. United 12-10-5 43/38
39 Montreal 12-14-3 43/46
28 New England 7-14-7 35/38
26 Philadelphia 7-13-5 25/30
21 Toronto FC 5-17-6 31/50

WESTERN CONFERENCE
PTS TEAM W-L-T- +/-
53 San Jose 16-6-5 56/32
47 Seattle 13-6-8 43/28
46 Real Salt Lake 14-11-4 38/33
43 Los Angeles 13-11-4 48/40
37 Vancouver 10-11-7 29/37
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33 FC Dallas 8-12-9 34/38
29 Colorado 9-17-2 36/41
28 Chivas USA 7-12-7 21/41
27 Portland 7-14-6 27/44

Note: All times ET.

WEEK 29, MLS GAMES:
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
New York vs. Sporting KC, 7 pm
Columbus vs. Chivas USA, 7:30 pm
San Jose vs. Portland, 10:30 pm

Thursday, September 20, 2012
Philadelphia vs. D.C. United, 8:00 pm ESPN2 ESPN Deportes

Saturday, September 22, 2012
Montreal vs. Sporting KC, 1 pm
New England vs. New York, 7:30 pm
Real Salt Lake vs. Portland, 8:00 pm NBCSN
Chicago vs. Columbus, 8:30 pm
Seattle vs. San Jose, 10:30 pm
LA Galaxy vs. Toronto FC, 10:30 pm

Sunday, September 23, 2012
Philadelphia vs. Houston, 4 pm
D.C. United vs. Chivas USA, 7 pm Galavision
Vancouver vs. Colorado, 7:30 pm