MLS Rewind ...

• by Soccer America , Mar 20, 2012

[WEEK 3] Chivas USA pulled the biggest upset of the young MLS season when it won, 1-0, at Real Salt Lake on rookie Casey Townsend's goal, the Goats' first goal in three games. The Philadelphia Union dropped its third straight game, going down, 1-0, at the Chicago Fire. The New England Revolution (1-0 over Portland on Saer Sene's goal after 28 seconds) and Columbus Crew (2-0 over Montreal on goals by newcomers Milovan Mirosevic and Olman Vargas) both picked up their first wins of the 2012 MLS season Saturday afternoon. For all the highlights ...

RESULTS, SATURDAY
March 24 in Bridgeview, Ill.
Chicago 1 Philadelphia 0. Goal: Oduro (Pappa) 28.
Chicago -- Tornaghi; Gargan, Anibaba, Gibbs, Segares; Pause, Pardo (Paladini 70), Pappa (Puppo 90); Grazzini (Robayo 86); Oduro, Nyarko.
Philadelphia -- MacMath; Albright (McInerney 81), Valdes, Lopez; Gomez, Carroll, Daniel, M.Farfan, Torres (G.Farfan 46); Mwanga (Martinez 65), Pajoy.
Referee: Ricardo Salazar.
Att.: 18,075.



March 24 in Sandy, Utah
Real Salt Lake 0 Chivas USA 1. Goal:  Townsend (unassisted) 72.
Real Salt Lake -- Rimando; Beltran, Olave, Schuler, Wingert; Beckerman, Grabavoy, Velasquez (Morales 46), Gil (Steele 72); Paulo Jr. (Saborio 46), Espindola.
Chivas USA -- Kennedy; Jazic, Pearce, McKenzie, Riley; Vagenas (Zemanski 68), Minda, Courtois (Romero 82), LaBrocca, Smith (S.Gordon 75); Townsend.
Referee: Mark Kadlecik.
Att.: 20,415.



March 24 in Vancouver
Vancouver 0 D.C. United 0.
Vancouver -- Cannon; Lee, Bonjour, DeMerit, Rochat (Harvey 58); Chiumiento (Tan 87), Watson, Davidson, Camilo; Le Toux, Hassli.
D.C. United -- Willis; Russell, McDonald, Dudar, Woolard; Cruz, Saragosa, DeLeon (Pontius 58); Salihi (Wolf 81), Marcio Santos (Boskovic 63), De Rosario.
Referee: Kevin Stott.
Att.: 19,394.

March 24 in Toronto
New England 1 Portland 0. Goal: Sene (Tierney) 1.
New England -- Reis, Tierney, Soares, Joseph, Alston (Purdie 71), Nguyen, Rowe, Simms, Guy, Brettschneider, Sene (Cardenas 71).
Portland -- Perkins; Palmer, Brunner, Mosquera (Jean-Baptiste 24), Wallace (Perlaza 75); Alhassan, Chara, Jewsbury, Alexander (Songo'o 60); Boyd, Nagbe.
Referee: Hilario Grajeda.
Att.: 12,925.



March 24 in Toronto
Columbus 2 Montreal 0. Goals: Mirosevic (pen.) 30; Vargas (Francis) 66.
Columbus -- Gruenebaum, Miranda (Williams 75), Marshall, O'Rourke, Francis, Gaven, Mirosevic, Urso, Anor, Vargas (Finlay 89), Renteria (Schoenfeld  70).
Montreal -- Ricketts, Brovsky, Ferrari, Wahl, Gardner, Arnaud, Martins, Bernier (Warner 46), Mapp (Neagle 70), Nyassi (Corradi 46), Braun.
Red Card: Montreal -- Brovsky 18.
Referee: Mark Geiger.
Att.: 18,197.



March 24 in Toronto
Toronto FC 0 San Jose 3. Goals: Wondolowski (Cronin) 9, Salinas (Chavez, Beitashour) 56, Wondolowski (Baca, Cronin) 67.
Toronto FC -- Kocic, Morgan, Aceval, Harden (Maund 64), Eckersley, De Guzman, Dunfield (Koevermans 46), Silva, Plata (Soolsma 85), Johnson, Lambe.
San Jose -- Beitashour, Bernardez, Morrow, Corrales, Chavez (Stephenson 72), Cronin, Moreno, Salinas (Dawkins 85), Wondolowski, Lenhart.
Referee: Silviu Petrescu.
Att.: 20,070.



RESULTS, FRIDAY
March 23 in Seattle
Seattle 2 Houston 0. Goals: Estrada 23, Evans 27.
Seattle -- Gspurning, Scott, Ianni, Hurtado, Burch, Levesque (Gonzalez 81), Alonso, Evans (Carrasco 61), Fernandez, Montero (Sivebaek  90), Estrada.
Houston -- Hall, Hainault (Taylor 46), Boswell, Cameron, Ashe, Clark, Moffat, Watson (Luiz Camargo  67), Davis, Ching (Kandji 76), Bruin.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo.
Att.: 38,304.



OTHER RESULTS, SATURDAY
March 24 in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus reserves 1 Montreal reserves 2

Note: All times ET.

WEEK 3, SCHEDULE:
Sunday, March 25
New York vs. Colorado, 4 pm (ESPN)
Sporting KC vs. FC Dallas, 7 pm (Galavision)
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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
4 Chicago 1-0-1 2/1
3 Columbus 1-1-0 2/2
3 New England 1-2-0 2/4
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1 D.C. United 0-2-1 1/4
1 Montreal 0-2-1 1/5
0 New York 0-2-0 1/4
0 Philadelphia 0-3-0 2/6
0 Toronto FC 0-2-0 1/6

WESTERN CONFERENCE
PTS TEAM W-L-T- +/-
7 Vancouver 2-0-1 3/0
6 Seattle 2-0-0 5/1
6 Real Salt Lake 2-1-0 5/2
6 Colorado 2-0-0 4/1
6 San Jose 2-1-0 4/1
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4 Portland 1-1-1 4/3
4 FC Dallas 1-0-1 3/2
3 Los Angeles 1-1-0 4/4
3 Chivas USA 1-2-0 1/2
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WEEK 4, 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