MLS Week 25: Results & Standings

Toronto FC moved into the lead in MLS's Eastern Conference when it won, 2-1, at Orlando City. Sebastian Giovinco recorded his 12th and 13th assists of the season, setting up Tosaint Ricketts and Jozy Altidore, who has scored in five of the last six games.

TFC opened up a two-point lead on New York City FC and a four-point advantage on the New York Red Bulls and Philadelphia Union now tied for third after the Union's 2-1 win at Columbus, which dropped to last place in the overall MLS standings.



WEEK 25:
Wednesday, August 24
Montreal 1 D.C. United 1.
DC: Lamar Neagle pen. 39
MTL: Hassoun Camara (Marco Donadel) 77
Montreal -- Bush; Oyongo, Ciman, Camara, Toia; Bernardello, Donadel; Venegas (Oduro 61), Piatti, Salazar (Mancosu 65); Drogba.
D.C. United -- Hamid; Mishu, Opare, Birnbaum, Franklin (Kemp 46); Vincent; Nyarko (Marcelo 62), Buescher, DeLeon, Neagle; Igboananike (Mullins 79).
Red Card: D.C. United -- Opare 89.
Att.: 19,740.
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Wednesday, August 24
Columbus 1 Philadelphia 2.
PHI: Fabian Herbers 60
CLB: Adam Jahn 73
PHI: Keegan Rosenberry (Tranquillo Barnetta, Roland Alberg) 74
Columbus -- Clark; Afful, Parkhurst, Naess, Jimenez (Ashe 68); Trapp, Tchani; Finlay (Duka 63), Higuain, Meram; Kamara (Jahn 60).
Philadelphia -- Blake; Rosenberry, Yaro, Marquez, Fabinho; Bedoya, Creavalle; Herbers (Alberg 66), Barnetta, Pontius (Davies 81); Sapong.
Att.: 13,114.
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Wednesday, August 24
Orlando City 1 Toronto FC 2.
TOR: Tosaint Ricketts (Sebastian Giovinco) 7
ORL: Cyle Larin (Luke Boden) 56
TOR: Jozy Altidore (Sebastian Giovinco) 86
Orlando City -- Bendik, Boden, Hines (Mateos 81), Redding, Alston, Rocha, Nocerino (Carrasco 69), Molino (Shea 75), Kaka, Perez Garcia, Larin.
Toronto FC -- Bono, Williams (Johnson 75), Moor, Hagglund, Delgado, Chapman (Zavaleta 46), Bradley, Osorio, Lovitz, Ricketts (Altidore 58), Giovinco.
Att.: 23,802.
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Wednesday, August 24
Chicago 2 LA Galaxy 2.
LA: Gyasi Zardes 31
CHI: Arturo Alvarez 34
CHI: David Accam pen. 39
LA: Giovani dos Santos (Alan Gordon) 69'
Chicago -- Johnson, Kappelhof, Campbell, Meira, Vincent, Thiam (Stephens 82), Polster, Alvarez (Goossens 73), de Leeuw, Accam, Solignac (Calistri 87). 
LA Galaxy -- Diop, DeLaGarza, Steres, Van Damme, Romney (Cole 85), Lletget, Larentowicz (dos Santos 60), Husidic, Boateng (Gordon 66), Zardes, Magee.
Att.: 16,179.
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Wednesday, August 24
Houston 1 Seattle 1.
HOU: Andrew Wenger (Ricardo Clark, Will Bruin) 75
SEA: Nicolas Lodeiro (Joevin Jones, Andreas Ivanschitz) 90+4
Houston -- Willis; Williams, Horst, Rodriguez, Anibaba; Warner, Alex; Garcia (Alexander 90), Clark, Maidana (Wenger 61); Torres (Bruin 60).
Seattle -- Frei; Remick (Ivanschitz 78); Scott, Evans, Mears; Friberg (J.Jones 58), Alonso; Fernandez, Lodeiro, Roldan; Valdez (Morris 57).
Att.: 16,125.
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Wednesday, August 24
San Jose 0 New England 0.
New England --
Knighton; Farrell, Watson, Koffie, Tierney; Caldwell, Nguyen, Agudelo (Bunbury, 55), Kamara, Rowe; Fagundez (Kobayashi 93).
San Jose --
Bingham; Cato, Wynne, Bernardez, Stewart; Quintero (Salinas 76), Ceren, Godoy, Dawkins; Wondolowski, Amarikwa (Barrett 34; Goitom 76).
Att.:
18,000.
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Friday, August 26
8:00 pm Real Salt Lake vs. Colorado, UniMas
Saturday, August 27
7 pm Philadelphia vs. Sporting KC
7 pm D.C. United vs. Chicago
7:30 pm Toronto FC vs. Montreal
7:30 pm Columbus vs. San Jose
9 pm Houston vs. FC Dallas
10:30 pm LA Galaxy vs. Vancouver
Sunday, August 28
2:30 pm NY Red Bulls vs. New England ESPN, ESPN Deportes
5:00 pm Portland vs. Seattle ESPN, ESPN Deportes
7:00 pm Orlando City vs. New York City FS1, Fox Deportes

MLS Standings:
EASTERN CONFERENCE
PTS TEAM W-L-T GF/GA
43 Toronto FC 12-7-7 39/27
41 New York City 11-7-8 44/43
37 NY Red Bulls 10-9-7 45/35
37 Philadelphia 10-9-7 45/41
34 Montreal 8-7-10 39/38
29 D.C. United 6-8-11 27/31
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28 Orlando City 5-7-13 39/43
27 New England 6-11-9 29/46
23 Chicago 5-11-8 27/34
23 Columbus 4-9-11 32/40

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
39 LA Galaxy 9-4-12 40/26
38 Sporting KC 11-11-5 32/30
32 Portland 8-10-8 37/39
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32 San Jose 7-7-11 26/27
31 Seattle 9-12-4 30/32
30 Vancouver 8-12-6 34/43
25 Houston 5-10-10 28/31

Leading Scorers:
G PLAYER (TEAM)
16 Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC)
16
David Villa (New York City)
15 Bradley Wright-Phillips (NY Red Bulls)
13 Ignacio Piatti (Montreal)
13 Cyle Larin (Orlando City)
12 Dom Dwyer (Sporting KC)
12 Fanendo Adi (Portland)
10 Chris Pontius (Philadelphia)
10 Ola Kamara (Columbus)
10 Diego Valeri (Portland)

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