MLS Results

• by Soccer America , Sep 14, 2009

The Columbus Crew regained the lead in the Eastern Conference with a 2-1 win over Western Conference leader Houston on Eddie Gaven's goal in stoppage time. Seven teams are separated by three points in the battle for the four wild-card berths in the playoffs. For all the weekend summaries, standings and leading scorers ...

Standings:
Sept. 9 in Washington, D.C.
D.C. United 1 Kansas City 0. Goal: Emilio 9 (unassisted) 39.
D.C. United - Wicks, Namoff, Simms, James (John, 62), Quaranta (Fred, 85), Gomez (Olsen, 46), McTavish, Wallace, Pontius, Emilio, Moreno.
Kansas City - Hartman, Leathers, Besler, Conrad, Harrington, Lopez, Hirsig (Zusi, 78), Jewsbury, Gomez (Myers, 46), Arnaud (Hercegfalvi, 69), Wolff.
Yellow Cards: D.C. United - Gomez 27, John 84, Wicks 93+; Kansas City - Harrington 69, Besler 74, Myers 81.
Red Card: Kansas City - Myers 86.
Referee: Terry Vaughn.
Att.: 8,033.
 
Sept. 12 in Toronto
Toronto FC 3 Colorado 2. Goals: De Rosario (Wynne) 19, White (De Rosario) 71, Attakora (Guevara) 74; Casey (Kimura, Cummings) 49, Holody 89.
Toronto FC - Frei, Wynne, Attakora, Garcia, Brennan, De Rosario, Cronin, Guevara, Vitti (Fellinga, 68), Barrett (Gomez, 87), Gerba (White, 68).
Colorado - Burpo, Kimura, Baudet, Moor, Harvey (Holody, 83), Peterson, Dalby, LaBrocca, Noonan (Palguta, 46), Casey (Diz, 76), Cummings.
Yellow Cards: Toronto FC - Attakora 21, Barrett 67.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo.
Att.: 20,521.
 
Sept. 12 in East Rutherford, N.J.
New York 0 Kansas City 1. Goal: Scoring Summary: Wolff 10.
New York - Coundoul, Boyens, Krupnik, Borman, Richards, Johnson, Rojas, Stammler, Oebster (Zimmerman, 64), Kandji, Wolyniec (Mbuta, 80).
Kansas City - Hartman, Leathers, Conrad, Hohlbein, Harrington, Gomez (Zusi, 64), Hirsig, Jewsbury, Lopez (Morsink, 92+), Arnaud, Wolff.
Yellow Cards:
New York - Stammler 37, Johnson 61;
Kansas City - Hirsig 41, Leathers 47, Jewsbury 74, Hartman 91+.
Referee: Mark Geiger.
Att.: 10,234.
 
Sept. 12 in Sandy, Utah
Real Salt Lake 1 Chicago 1. Goals: Olave (Williams) 72; Rolfe (Pappa, Banner) 44.
Real Salt Lake - Rimando, Wingert, Borchers, Olave, Beltran, Mathis (Alexandre 15; Morales, 62), Williams, Johnson, Findley, Campos (Movsisyan, 46), Espindola.
Chicago - Busch, Robinson, Brown, Conde, Banner, Pappa (Washington, 86), Lowry, Pause, Mapp (Nyarko, 69), McBride (Carr, 73), Rolfe.
Yellow Cards: Real Salt Lake - Beltran 23, Olave 27; Chicago - Lowry 32, Carr 79.
Referee: Alex Prus.
Att.: 17,615.
 
Sept. 12 in Carson, Calif.
Los Angeles 3 FC Dallas 6. Goals: Own goal 26, DeLaGarza 42, Buddle (Beckham) 90; van den Bergh 8, Cunningham (Harris) 25, McCarty (Cunningham) 71, Harris (McCarty) 82, Ferreira (Cunningham) 83, Cunningham (Shea, Harris) 86.
Los Angeles - Ricketts, DeLaGarza (Sanneh, 46), Berhalter, Gonzalez, Dunivant, Donovan, Beckham, Miglioranzi, Lewis (Klein, 74), Kirovski (Buddle, 69), Magee.
FC Dallas - Sala, Ihemelu, John (Wagner, 89), Ricchetti, Benitez, Ferreira, McCarty, Harris, van den Bergh (Shea, 69), Chavez (Hernandez, 46), Cunningham.
Yellow Cards: Los Angeles - Berhalter 6; FC Dallas - Ferreira 31, Ihemelu 33.
Referee: Hilario Grajeda.
Att.: 18,148.
 
Sept. 13 in Carson, Calif.
Chivas USA 2 New England 0. Goals: Santos (Braun, Talley) 10, Kljestan pen. 94+.
Chivas USA - Thornton, Talley, Bornstein, Cuesta, Flores, Padilla, Lahoud, Nagamura, Kljestan, Braun (Trujillo, 75), Santos (Lillingston, 51).
New England - Reis, Heaps, Barnes, Osei (Mansally, 75), Thompson, Larentowicz, Ralston, Alston, Phelan (Dube, 56), Jankauskas, Nyassi (Videira, 90).
Yellow Cards: New England - Osei 42, Thompson 73.
Red Cards: Chivas USA - Talley 70; New England - Jankauskas 70.
Referee: Ricardo Salazar.
Att.: 11,334.
 
Sept. 13 in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus 2 Houston 1. Goals: Hejduk 34, Gaven pen. 91+; Weaver (Ching, Cameron) 80.
Columbus - Hesmer, Hejduk, Brunner, Marshall, Padula (Moffat, 72), Gaven, Carroll, O'Rourke, Rogers (Ekpo, 76), Schelotto (Lenhart, 88), Moreno.
Houston - Onstad, Hainault (Waibel, 46), Boswell, Cameron, Chabala, Mullan, Clark, Holden, Ashe (Weaver, 76), Landin (Oduro, 58), Ching.
Yellow Cards: Houston - Ching 87.
Red Card: Columbus - Moffat 82;
Houston - Clark 82.
Referee: Jorge Gonzalez.
Att.: 14,306.
 
Standings:
EASTERN W L T GF GA P
Columbus 11 4 9 36 26 42
Chicago 10 6 9 34 29 39
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D.C. United 8 6 12 39 38 36
Toronto FC 9 9 7 33 36 34
New England 9 8 6 28 32 33
Kansas City 7 11 6 25 32 27
New York 4 17 4 20 42 16
WESTERN W L T GF GA P
Houston 11 8 7 32 24 40
Los Angeles 9 5 11 31 29 38
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Seattle 9 6 10 31 24 37
Colorado 10 8 6 38 30 36
Chivas USA 11 9 3 25 24 36
Real Salt Lake 9 9 7 36 28 34
FC Dallas 7 11 6 39 40 27
San Jose 5 12 5 27 40 20
 
Leading Scorers:
PLAYER (TEAM) GP G
Casey (Colorado) 18 13
Cunningham (FC Dallas) 22 12
Montero (Seattle) 22 11
Donovan (Los Angeles) 20 10
De Rosario (Toronto FC) 23 10
Schelotto (Columbus) 19 10
Findley (Real Salt Lake) 22 10