MLS Week 12: Fire's Nikolic ups total to 10 goals

• by Soccer America , May 17, 2017

Nemanja Nikolic scored two more goals to give him a league-high 10 goals in 11 games and lead the Chicago Fire to a 3-0 win over the Colorado Rapids. The Philadelphia Union is suddenly one of the hottest teams in MLS. Its 2-0 win over the Houston Dynamo was its third straight shutout win.

MLS STREAKS:
UNBEATEN
9 FC Dallas (5 wins, 4 ties)
6 Toronto FC (6 wins)
5 Philadelphia (3 wins, 2 ties)
3 Chicago (2 wins, 1 tie)
3 LA Galaxy (1 win, 2 ties)
WINLESS
4 Seattle (3 losses, 1 tie)
4 Orlando City (2 losses, 2 ties)
3 NY Red Bulls (3 losses)
3 Atlanta United (2 losses, 1 tie)
3 Portland (1 loss, 2 ties)

MLS RESULTS, WEEK 12:
Wednesday, May 17
Philadelphia 2 Houston 0.
PHI: Fafa Picault (Chris Pontius) 17
PHI: Ilsinho (C.J Sapong, Chris Pontius) 38
Philadelphia -- Blake; Gaddis (Rosenberry 61), Elliott, Onyewu, Fabinho; Bedoya, Medunjanin; Pontius, Ilsinho (Creavalle 67), Picault (Herbers 76); Sapong.
Houston -- Willis; DeLaGarza, Machado, Leonardo, Beasley; Clark, Cabezas, Alex (Sanchez 56);  Manotas (Wenger 64), Torres, Quioto (Holland 78).
Att.: 15,234.



Wednesday, May 17
Chicago 3 Colorado 0.
CHI: Nemanja Nikolic (Brandon Vincent) 15
CHI: David Accam (Michael de Leeuw, Matt Polster) 57
CHI: Nemanja Nikolic (Michael de Leeuw) 74
Chicago -- Lampson, Polster, Kappelhof, Meira, Vincent, McCarty, Schweinsteiger (Mihailovic 76), Solignac (Campbell 70), de Leeuw, Accam (Juninho 60), Nikolic.
Colorado -- Howard; Hairston, Burling, Watts, Miller, Gashi, Azira, Powers (Hamilton 63), Saied (Gatt 63), Badji (Doyle 70).
Att.: 11,244.

Wednesday, May 17
Sporting KC 3 Seattle 0.
SKC: Gerso 56
SKC: Gerso 58
SKC: Gerso (Graham Zusi, Benny Feilhaber) 69
Sporting KC -- Melia; Zusi, Opara, Besler, Sinovic; Espinoza, Ilie, Feilhaber (Salloi 89); (Blessing 83), Dwyer, Medranda (Mustivar 79).
Seattle -- Frei; Delem, Marshall, Alfaro, Fisher (Evans 78); Fernandez, Roldan, Svensson (Shipp 72), Morris (Adekoya 77); Lodeiro, Bruin.
Att.: 20,139.



Wednesday, May 17
Real Salt Lake 2 NYC FC 1.
NYC: Sean Okoli 4
RSL: Albert Rusnak (Jefferson Savarino) 38     
RSL: Aaron Maund (Albert Rusnak) 51
Real Salt Lake -- Rimando; Wingert, Maund, Schuler, Schmidt; Mulholland, Beckerman; Savarino (Holness 88), Rusnak (Sunny 84), Plata; Movsisyan (Silva 46).
New York City FC -- Johnson; Brillant, Callens, Allen, White; Ring, Pirlo, Moralez; McNamara (Villa 54), Okoli (Stertzer 70), Camargo (Harrison 54).
Att.: 16,434.

Wednesday, May 17
San Jose 1 Orlando City 1.
ORL: Carlos Rivas (Victor Pagliari Giro, Kaka) 80
SJ: Chris Wondolowski (Tommy Thompson) 83.
San Jose -- Bingham; Sarkodie (Thompson 82), Jungwirth, Bernardez, Lima; Hyka, Godoy, Alashe (Ceren 65), Dawkins (Hoesen 64); Urena, Wondolowski.
Orlando City -- Bendik; Pereira, Giro, Aja, Sutter; Gil (Rivas 63), Carrasco (Higuita 85), Johnson, Barnes (Kaka 63), Perez Garcia; Larin.
Att.: 18,000.

MLS SCHEDULE, WEEK 12:
Friday, May 19
NY Red Bulls vs. Toronto FC 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 20
Montreal vs. Portland  3 pm
D.C. United vs. Chicago 4 pm  UniMas
Seattle vs. Real Salt Lake 5 pm
Atlanta United vs. Houston 7 pm
Philadelphia vs. Colorado 7 pm
Vancouver vs. Sporting KC 7 pm
FC Dallas vs. San Jose 8 pm
Sunday, May 21
New England vs. Columbus 2:30 pm
Minn. United vs. LA Galaxy 5 pm ESPN
Orlando City vs. NYC FC 7 pm FS1

MLS STANDINGS
Eastern Conference
PTS TEAM W-L-T GF/GA
25 Toronto FC 7-1-4 20/11
20 Orlando City 6-3-2 14/14
19 Columbus 6-5-1 19/17
18 Chicago 5-3-3 20/15
17 NYC FC 5-4-2 19/13
16 NY Red Bulls 5-6-1 12/18
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13 Philadelphia 3-4-4 17/14
13 New England 3-4-4 18/16
12 Atlanta United 3-4-3 20/15
11 D.C. United 3-5-2 9/18
10 Montreal 2-4-4 14/17
Western Conference
PTS TEAM W-L-T GF/GA
22 Sporting KC 6-2-4 16/7
19 Houston 6-4-1 21/16
19 FC Dallas 5-0-4 14/6
18 Portland 5-3-3 21/16
16 San Jose 4-4-4 13/14
13 Vancouver 4-5-1 13/16
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11 LA Galaxy 3-5-2 13/16
11 Minn. United 3-6-2 17/28
11 Real Salt Lake 3-7-2 11/23
10 Seattle 2-5-4 15/19
7 Colorado 2-7-1 8/15

MLS LEADING SCORERS:
G PLAYER (TEAM)
10 Nemanja Nikolic (Chicago)
8 Erick Torres (Houston)
7 Cyle Larin (Orlando City)
7 C.J. Sapong (Philadelphia)
7 Justin Meram (Columbus)
6 Fanendo Adi (Portland)
6 Juan Agudelo (New England)
6 Romain Alessandrini (LA Galaxy)
6 Jozy Altidore (Toronto FC)
6 Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC)
6 Ola Kamara (Columbus)
6 Christian Ramirez (Minn. United)
6 Maximiliano Urruti (FC Dallas)
6 David Villa (NYC FC)

MLS SCHEDULE, WEEK 13:
Friday, May 26
Toronto FC vs. Columbus 7 pm
Saturday, May 27
Seattle vs. Portland 3 pm Fox
Vancouver vs. D.C. United 7 pm
NY Red Bulls vs. New England 7:30 pm
Minn. United vs. Orlando City 8 pm
Colorado vs. Sporting KC 8 pm
Real Salt Lake vs. Philadelphia 8 pm
San Jose vs. LA Galaxy 10 pm  Univision
Sunday, May 28
Atlanta United vs. New York City 5 pm ESPN
FC Dallas vs. Houston 8 pm FS1