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Sunday: Landon Donovan's first goal since returning to MLS, two minutes after he entered the game, gave the LA Galaxy a 2-2 tie at Sporting Kansas City.
Saturday: The
resurgent New England Revolution moved into sixth place in the Eastern Conference with its third straight win, a 3-1 victory at Montreal. The Revs lead D.C. United and Orlando City by two points
though both teams have a game in hand. The Seattle Sounders kept their playoff hopes alive with a 1-0 win over the Vancouver Whitecaps that moved them into seventh place in the Western Conference.
WEEK 28: Friday, September 16 Chicago 2 D.C. United 2. DC: Rob Vincent (Luciano Acosta) 19 CHI: Razvan Cocis (Arturo Alvarez) 22 CHI:
David Accam (Razvan Cocis) 29 DC: Bobby Boswell 90+2 Chicago -- Johnson; Kappelhof, Campbell, Meira, Harrington (Vincent 76); Polster, Cocis, Alvarez (Calistri 88), Solignac, Accam;
Arshakyan (Thiam 70). D.C. United -- Hamid, Mishu (DeLeon 54), Birnbaum, Boswell, Kemp, Sarvas (Buescher 76), Vincent, Sam (Neagle 70), Acosta, Nyarko, Mullins. Att.:
13,807 ------------------------------------------------ Saturday, September 17 Seattle 1 Vancouver 0. SEA: Jordan Morris (Erik Friberg, Nico Lodeiro) 81 Seattle -- Frei; Mears, Torres, Marshall, J.Jones; Alonso, Roldan, Fernandez (Valdez 62), Lodeiro, Ivanschitz (Friberg 72); Morris (Scott 90+5) Vancouver -- Ousted; Harvey,
Waston, Smith, Edgar; Bolanos, Mezquida (Davies 71), Techera (Barnes 62), Laba, Morales, Hurtado (Perez 83). Att.: 47,111. ------------------------------------------------ Saturday, September 17 Portland 2 Philadelphia 1. POR: Diego Valeri (Darren Mattocks), 46 PHI: Chris Pontius (Fabian Herbers), 47 POR:
Fanendo Adi (Darren Mattocks), 53 Portland -- Gleeson, Powell, S.Taylor, Ridgewell, Vytas, Chara, Jewsbury, Nagbe, Valeri (Zemanski, 90), Mattocks, Adi. Philadelphia --
Blake, Rosenberry, Marquez, Fabinho, Yaro, Bedoya, Carroll (Alberg, 79), Pontius, Barnetta, Herbers (Ilsinho, 67), Sapong (Davies, 74). Att.: 21,144.
------------------------------------------------ Saturday, September 17 New York City 2 FC Dallas 2. NYC: Tommy McNamara (Jack Harrison, Ronald Matarrita) 8 DAL: Maximiliano Urruti (Mauro Rosales) 20 DAL: Michael Barrios (Mauro Rosales, Maximiliano Urruti) 52 NYC: Khiry Shelton (Jack Harrison) 78 New York City
-- Saunders; Matarrita, Mena, Brillant, Allen (Shelton 63); Iraola, Pirlo, Lampard (Mendoza 42); McNamara (Hernandez 82), Harrison, Villa. FC Dallas -- Seitz; Figueroa, Hedges,
Zimmerman, Hollingshead (Akindele 82); Acosta, Gruezo, Barrios, Rosales (Ulloa 61), Diaz; Urruti (Harris 85). Att.: 25,204. ------------------------------------------------ Saturday, September 17 Montreal 1 New England 3. NE: Kei Kamara (Kelyn Rowe, Juan Agudelo) 1 NE: Kelyn Rowe (Kei Kamara, Diego Fagundez) 27 MTL: Didier Drogba pen. 50 NE: Kelyn Rowe 59 Montreal -- Bush; Toia (Cabrera 46), Camara, Ciman, Oyongo; Donadel, Bernardello, Piatti, Shipp (Oduro 68), Ontivero
(Mancosu 60), Drogba. New England -- Knighton; Farrell, Tierney, Gonçalves, Woodberry; Fagundez, Agudelo (Bunbury 82), Rowe, Nguyen (Hollinger-Janzen 86), Caldwell; Kamara. Att.: 20,801.
------------------------------------------------ Saturday, September 17 Orlando City 1 Columbus 4. CLB: Ethan Finlay (Ola Kamara) 6 CLB: own goal (Seb Hines) 22 CLB: Ola Kamara (Ethan
Finlay) 44 ORL: Cyle Larin (Servando Carrasco) 79 CLB - Ola Kamara (Ethan Finlay) 90+5 Orlando City -- Bendik, Boden (Ambrose 46), Redding, Hines, Alston, Rocha
(Rivas 46), Carrasco, Perez Garcia (Shea 68), Molino, Kaka, Larin. Columbus -- Clark, Jimenez (Ashe 77), Sauro, Parkhurst, Afful, Saeid, Naess (Saravia 93), Duka (Jahn 68), Finlay, Meram,
Kamara. Att.: 30,218 ------------------------------------------------ Saturday, September 17 Colorado 0 San Jose 0. San Jose -- Bingham;
Wayne, Bernardez, Imperiale, Stewart; Cato (Amarikwa 73), Alashe, Ceren, Quintero (Salinas 58); Dawkins (Thompson 84), Wondolowski. Colorado -- Howard; Miller, Watts, Sjoberg, Burch;
Cronin (Calvert 83), Azira, Hairston (Pappa, 90), Powers, Le Toux (Gashi 63); Badji. Att.: 17,645. ------------------------------------------------ Saturday, September
17 Real Salt Lake 0 Houston 1. HOU: Alex (Ricardo Clark) 36 Real Salt Lake -- Rimando; Beltran, Glad (Holness 79), Olave, Phillips; Beckerman, Stertzer
(Allen 51); Martinez, Mulholland (Garcia 69), Plata; Movsisyan. Houston -- Willis; Williams, Rodriguez, Anibaba, Beasley; Warner; Garcia, Clark, Alex (Wenger 57'), Maidana (Alexander 75);
Manotas (Bruin 84). Att.: 19,795. ------------------------------------------------ Sunday, September 18 Sporting KC 2 LA Galaxy 2. LA: Alan
Gordon (Emmanuel Boateng, Sebastian Lletget) 7 SKC: Jacob Peterson (Dominic Dwyer) 50 SKC: Dominic Dwyer (Saad Abdul-Salaam, Benny Feilhaber) 69 LA: Landon
Donovan (Robbie Rogers) 76 LA Galaxy -- Rowe; Rogers, Steres, Van Damme, Cole; Mendiola (Donovan 74), Larentowicz, Lletget, Boateng (Garcia 83); Gordon (Husidic 74), Keane Sporting KC -- Melia; Abdul-Salaam, Ellis, Besler, Medranda (Nuno Coelho 87); Feilhaber, Mustivar, Espinoza; Peterson, Dwyer, Davis (Rubio 64). Att.: 19,480.
------------------------------------------------ Sunday, September 18 Toronto FC 3 NY Red Bulls 3 NY: own goal (Steven Beitashour) 12 NY: Bradley
Wright-Phillips 31 TOR: Michael Bradley (Justin Morrow, Jonathan Osorio) 41 NY: Bradley Wright-Phillips (Sacha Kljestan, Alex Muyl) 48 TOR: Jozy Altidore 68 TOR: Jozy Altidore (Michael Bradley) 86 NY Red Bulls -- Robles; Lawrence, Perrinelle, Collin, Duvall, Davis (McCarty 81), Felipe, Royer (Grella, 60), Kljestan, Veron, Muyl
(Zizzo 69), B.Wright-Phillips Toronto FC -- Bono; Zavaleta (Endoh 64), Moor, Beitashour, Morrow, Osorio, Delgado (Cooper 53), Bradley, Johnson (Lovitz 63), Altidore, Hamilton Att.: 24,078. MLS Standings: EASTERN CONFERENCE PTS TEAM W-L-T
GF/GA 47 (29) Toronto FC 13-8-8 44/32 45 (30) NY Red Bulls 12-9-9 52/40 45 (30) New York City 12-9-9 51/52 41 (30) Philadelphia 11-11-8 49/47 38 (29) Montreal
9-9-11 43/46 36 (30) New England 9-12-9 37/49 -------------------------------- 34 (29) D.C. United 7-9-13 39/40 34 (29)
Orlando City 7-9-13 48/53 29 (28) Columbus 6-11-11 40/46 27 (28) Chicago 6-13-9 35/44
WESTERN CONFERENCE PTS (GP) TEAM W-L-T
GF/GA 52 (30) FC Dallas 15-8-7 47/39 48 (30) LA Galaxy 11-4-15 51/34 47 (28) Colorado 12-5-11 29/24 44 (30) Real Salt Lake 12-10-8 42/42 41 (30) Portland 11-11-8
45/45 40 (30) Sporting KC 11-12-7 37/37 -------------------------------- 35 (28) Seattle 10-13-5 34/37 34 (30) Vancouver
9-14-7 37/46 34 (28) San Jose 7-8-13 27/30 29 (28) Houston 6-11-11 33/37
Leading Scorers: G PLAYER
(TEAM) 20 Bradley Wright-Phillips (NY Red Bulls) 18 David Villa (New York
City) 16Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC) 15 Fanendo Adi (Portland) 14 Ignacio
Piatti (Montreal) 14 Giovani dos Santos (LA Galaxy) 14 Cyle Larin (Orlando City) 14 Dominic Dwyer (Sporting KC) 13 Ola Kamara
(Columbus) 12 Frank Lampard (New York City) 12 Diego Valeri (Portland) 11 Chris Pontius (Philadelphia)
WEEK 29: Friday, September 23 8 pm New York City vs. Chicago UniMas Saturday, September 24 5 pm Toronto FC vs. Philadelphia 7 pm Vancouver
vs. Colorado 7 pm NY Red Bulls vs. Montreal 7 pm D.C. United vs. Orlando City 9 pm Houston vs. Portland 9:30 pm Real Salt Lake vs. FC Dallas 10:30 pm San Jose vs.
Sporting KC Sunday, September 25 4 pm LA Galaxy vs. Seattle ESPN, ESPN Deportes 7 pm Columbus vs. New England FS1, Fox Deportes
WEEK 30: Wednesday, September 28 7:30 pm Montreal vs. San Jose 7:30 pm Toronto FC vs. Orlando City FS1, Fox Deportes 7:30 pm D.C. United
vs. Columbus 10:30 pm Seattle vs. Chicago Friday, September 30 8 pm Houston vs. New York City UniMas Saturday, October 1 7 pm NY Red Bulls vs.
Philadelphia 7:30 pm Columbus vs. Chicago 7:30 pm New England vs. Sporting KC 7:30 pm Toronto FC vs. D.C. United 9 pm FC Dallas vs. LA Galaxy 9 pm Colorado vs.
Portland 10:30 pm San Jose vs. Real Salt Lake Sunday, October 2 1 pm Orlando City vs. Montreal ESPN, ESPN Deportes 8 pm Vancouver vs. Seattle FS1, Fox Deportes
WEEK 31: Saturday, October 8 8:30 pm Houston vs. Colorado
WEEK 32: Wednesday, October 12 10:30 pm Seattle vs. Houston Thursday, October 13 8:30 pm
Chicago vs. Columbus 9 pm Colorado vs. San Jose Sunday, October 16 3 pm D.C. United vs. New York City 3 pm NY Red Bulls vs. Columbus 3 pm Chicago vs. New
England 3 pm Montreal vs. Toronto FC 3 pm Philadelphia vs. Orlando City 5 pm FC Dallas vs. Seattle 5 pm Houston vs. LA Galaxy 5 pm Real Salt Lake vs. Sporting KC 5
pm San Jose vs. Vancouver 5 pm Portland vs. Colorado
WEEK 33: Sunday, October 23 4 pm Sporting KC vs. San
Jose 4 pm Toronto FC vs. Chicago 4 pm Vancouver vs. Portland 4 pm LA Galaxy vs. FC Dallas 4 pm Orlando City vs. D.C. United 4 pm New England vs. Montreal 4 pm
Seattle vs. Real Salt Lake 4 pm Philadelphia vs. NY Red Bulls 4 pm Colorado vs. Houston 4 pm New York City vs. Columbus