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The Chicago Fire won its first game on the road since July 2014 when it beat the Montreal Impact. 3-0. The bottom three teams in the overall MLS standings all won on the road. The Columbus Crew
defeated the New England Revolution, 2-0, while the Houston Dynamo won its first away game of the year with a 1-0 win at the San Jose Earthquakes.
WEEK 24: Friday, August
19 San Jose 0 Houston 1. HOU: Ricardo Clark 6 HOU: David Horst (Cristian Maidana) 50 SJ: Victor Bernardez (Alberto Quintero) 54 San
Jose -- Bingham; Cato, Wynne, Bernardez (Barrett 82), Stewart; Quintero, Godoy, Ceren, Salinas (Goitom 69); Amarikwa, Wondolowski. Houston -- Willis; Williams, Horst, Rodriguez,
Anibaba; Warner, Clark, Garcia (Alexander 86), Maidana (Wenger 59), Alex; Manotas (Bruin 64). Att.: 18,000. -------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 20 New York City 1 LA Galaxy 0. NYCFC: David Villa 6 LA Galaxy -- Diop; DeLaGarza, Steres, Van Damme, Cole; de Jong (Boateng 84), Husidic
(Lletget 63); dos Santos, Gerrard, Zardes (Magee 79); Keane. New York City -- Saunders; Brillant, Mena, Matarrita (Mendoza 85), Hernandez; Lampard (Bravo 83), Iraola, Pirlo; Villa,
McNamara (Allen 72), Harrison. Att.: 35,509. -------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 20 Philadelphia 1 Toronto FC 3. TOR: Sebastian Giovinco (Marky Delgado) 18 PHI: Ken Tribbett (Tranquillo Barnetta) 24 TOR: Drew Moor (Michael Bradley) 30 TOR: Jozy Altidore (Will
Johnson) 44 Philadelphia -- Blake; Fabinho, Marquez, Tribbett (Yaro 46), Rosenberry; Creavalle (Alberg 62), Bedoya; Pontius, Barnetta, Ilsinho (Herbers 74); Sapong. Toronto FC
-- Bono; Morrow, Moor, Zavaleta Beitashour; Delgado, Bradley, Johnson (Hagglund 71), Osorio; Giovinco (Chapman 81), Altidore (Ricketts 74). Att.: 18,271.
-------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 20 Montreal 0 Chicago 3. CHI: Luis Solignac (David Accam) 15 CHI: David
Accam (Arturo Alvarez, Michael de Leeuw) 73 CHI: Matt Polster (Arturo Alvarez) 89 Chicago -- Johnson, Kappelhof, Campbell, Meira, Vincent, Polster, Cocis (Thiam 58), Goossens
(Alvarez 72), de Leeuw (Harrington 80), Accam, Solignac. Montreal -- Bush, Toia, Ciman, Lefevre (Jackson-Hamel 79), Camara, Donadel, Bernardello (Bekker 81), Mallace (Salazar 46), Piatti,
Drogba, Mancosu. Att.: 20,801. -------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 20 New England 0 Columbus 2. CLB:
Ethan Finlay (Justin Meram, Hector Jimenez) 8 CLB: Federico Higuain (Ola Kamara) 49 Columbus -- Clark; Afful, Parkhurst, Naess, Jimenez; Trapp, Saeid (Saravia 76'); Finlay,
Higuain (Wahl 90+1), Meram (Duka 62); O.Kamara. New England -- Knighton; Farrell, Woodberry, Goncalves (Herivaux 90+4), Tierney; Koffie (Agudelo 68), Caldwell, Bunbury (Fagundez 56),
Nguyen, Rowe; K.Kamara. Att.: 20,224. -------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 20 Sporting KC 2 Vancouver 0. SKC: Jacob Peterson (Nuno Coelho, Benny Feilhaber) 39 SKC: Benny Feilhaber pen. 64 Sporting KC -- Kann; Zusi, Ellis, Besler, Medranda (Abdul-Salaam 70); Feilhaber,
Nuno Coelho (Mustivar 46), Espinoza (Nagamura 80); Peterson, Dwyer, Davis. Vancouver -- Ousted; Aird, Edgar, Waston, de Jong; Jacobson (Teibert 77), Morales, Bolanos, Mezquida (Davies
68), Barnes; Perez (Techera 68). Att.: 20,159. -------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 20 Colorado 0 Orlando City 0. Colorado -- Howard, Burch, Sjoberg, Burling, Miller, Cronin (Azira 81), Powers, Le Toux (Pappa 75), Gashi, Hairston, K.Doyle (Badji 90). Orlando City -- Bendik, Ambrose, Mateos,
Aja (Redding 76), Alston, Carrasco (Rocha 71), Nocerino, Shea, Kaka, Julio Baptista (Perez Garcia 63), Larin. Att.: 16,813.
-------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 20 Real Salt Lake 1 FC Dallas 0. RSL: Jamison Olave 78 Real Salt Lake --
Rimando; Beltran, Glad, Olave, Phillips; Beckerman, Mulholland (Stertzer 68); Martinez (Garcia 69), Morales, Plata; Movsisyan (Holness 90). FC Dallas -- Seitz; David, Hedges, Zimmerman,
Figueroa; Ulloa (Akindele 46), Gruezo; Acosta, Diaz (Hollingshead 69), Barrios; Urruti (Getterson 65). Att.: 19,939. -------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 21 D.C. United 2 NY Red Bulls 2. NY: Bradley Wright-Phillips (Mike Grella, Alex Muyl) NY: Felipe DC:
Marcelo Sarvas pen. DC: Patrick Mullins (Steve Birnbaum, Taylor Kemp) D.C. United -- Hamid; Kemp, Boswell, Birnbaum, Franklin; Sarvas; Nyarko, Acosta, Jeffrey (DeLeon 65),
Sam (Neagle 80); Mullins (Igboananike 84). NY Red Bulls -- Robles; Duvall, Zubar, Collin, Lawrence; Felipe, Grella (Royer 76), Kljestan, Muyl, Davis; B.Wright-Phillips (Veron 90+4). Att.:15,139. -------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 21 Seattle 3 Portland 1. SEA: Clint Dempsey pen. 61 SEA: Clint Dempsey (Cristian Roldan) 80 SEA: Cristian Roldan (Brad Evans, Nicolas Lodeiro) 83 POR: Fanendo Adi (Alvas Powell) 90+3 Portland -- Gleeson,
Powell, Taylor, Ridgewell, Vytas, Chara, Jewsbury (Grabavoy, 81), Melano (Adi, 72), Nagbe, Valeri, McInerney (Barmby, 78) Seattle -- Frei, Mears, Evans, Marshall, Jones, Alonso, Roldan,
Lodeiro, Dempsey, Ivanschitz (Friberg, 71), Morris (Anderson, 89) Att.: 53,302.
MLS Standings: EASTERN CONFERENCE PTS TEAM W-L-T GF/GA 41 New York City 11-7-8 44/43 40 Toronto FC 11-7-7 37/26 37 NY Red Bulls 10-9-7
45/35 34 Philadelphia 9-9-7 43/40 33 Montreal 8-7-9 38/37 28 D.C. United 6-8-10 26/30 -------------------------------- 28 Orlando City 5-6-13 38/41 26 New England 6-11-8 29/46 23 Columbus 4-8-11 31/38 22 Chicago 5-11-7 25/32
WESTERN CONFERENCE PTS TEAM W-L-T GF/GA 45 FC Dallas 13-7-6 39/34 43 Colorado 11-3-10 27/20 40 Real Salt Lake 11-8-7 37/36 38 Sporting KC 11-11-5 32/30 38 LA
Galaxy 9-4-11 38/24 32 Portland 8-10-8 37/39 -------------------------------- 31 San Jose 7-7-10 26/27 30 Seattle 9-12-3
29/31 30 Vancouver 8-12-6 34/43 24 Houston 5-10-9 27/30
Leading Scorers: G PLAYER (TEAM) 16Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC) 16 David Villa (New York City) 15
Bradley Wright-Phillips (NY Red Bulls) 13 Ignacio Piatti (Montreal) 12 Dom Dwyer (Sporting KC) 12 Cyle Larin (Orlando
City) 12 Fanendo Adi (Portland) 10 Chris Pontius (Philadelphia) 10 Ola Kamara (Columbus) 10 Diego Valeri
(Portland)