Week number 14 is in the books and honestly this was a tough week due to the lack of in-league games played. Only a few clubs saw league action this week while others were on break for SuperLiga or in Toronto’s case for the final match in the Canadian Cup against Montreal.

Due to that and the couple draws this week we ended up not seeing a whole lot of movement in the order here. Just one big jump that may be a bit much for some folks. For me I have no problem moving Colorado to where they are right now. With the amount of games in hand right now that they have and the number of upcoming home games on the menu we should see this club pile on some points.

Team	Rank (Last Week)	Record (W-L-T)	Comments
	1 (1)	8-2-4 28 pts.	Probably should have won at home over RSL but no need to even consider dropping them for it.
	2 (2)	8-4-3 27 pts.	Off in league play to SuperLiga. They lost 2-1 to Tigres due to a red-card and some sloppy play.
	3 (7)	5-2-5 20 pts.	I may be too quick to move the Rapids this high but I believe they are a true dark-horse in this year’s race.
	4 (3)	5-3-8 23 pts.	Not gonna knock them too much for losing on the road in Colorado. That place has been a death trap to them for a decade now. But they showed a lot of grit in the come back in Seattle.
	5 (5)	5-3-6 21 pts.	I think their time in SuperLiga will help bounce this club back into motion here in a good way. The win over San Luis was a quality one at that.
	6 (6)	5-3-7 22 pts.	Their defense is letting them down too much right now. To be honest they should have had six points this past week, not two.
	7 (4)	4-3-7 19 pts.	Dominated for 70 minutes but once Dallas fielded some young players with more energy this club went south quick.
	8 (8)	5-5-4 19 pts.	Amazing turn of events last week to see this club win 6-1 over Montreal to capture their first Cup.
	9 (9)	5-5-4 19 pts.	Looked pretty good in SuperLiga play. And congrats to Davy Arnuad for the Gold Cup preliminary call-up.
	10 (10)	4-4-4 16 pts.	Team breaks for SuperLiga and gets a quality result. Hopefully for their sake they rest Taylor Twellman through this tournament. No need to get him hurt in a meaningless event like this.
	11 (11)	4-6-4 16 pts.	Nice road point in Houston. But little meltdowns in the back are hurting this club in a big way.
	12 (12)	2-3-9 15 pts.	It’s official, this club really needs Landon Donovan.
	13 (13)	3-7-4 13 pts.	Finally we see some of Dallas’ younger players play and what do you know, a quality results comes from it.
	14 (14)	3-8-3 12 pts.	Good win over the Galaxy but not enough to move them up this week. Face it that wasn’t a win to get overly excited about here.
	15 (15)	2-10-4 10 pts.	This weekend just made things more official in the standings. They are officially the worst club in the league. Like you didn’t know that already.

Time once again for the goals of the week. Not as many MLS games this week to pick goals from but there were still plenty of quality goals out there this weekend to view.

Order of goals: Omar Cummings, Brian Ching, Eric Avila, Fredy Montero, Chirs Pontius, Osvaldo Alonso, Nate Jaqua, Fredy Montero, and Christian Gomez.

A lot can be said about this past week for Major League Soccer and soccer in the US in general. Going into the weekend most had written off the US national team until the Brazil-Italy result became a good one for us. Some folks had worries about the MLS clubs going into SuperLiga play but after a solid 2-1-1 record in the opening set of games, the league can probably bet on another all-MLS final this season.

I must say it was a busy weekend for me personally. I am a couple days away from becoming a homeowner for the first time so I honestly didn’t see nearly the amount of soccer that I wanted to because of that very reason. So excuse me if some of the recaps here are brief.

From the 3-0 win over Egypt for the US to the surprising results in San Jose and Dallas. This weekend had a lot to look at from every angle for a US soccer fan. Continue Reading…

This week has already been interesting and we’ve only seen one MLS game. The DC-Seattle game on Wednesday should have been a marquee thing but as we all saw ESPN and the family of networks dropped the ball a bit on getting the MLS game shipped over to another channel to make us MLS folks happy until the college world series game was over on the deuce.

Yes it was unfortunate but there was some good out of it. SoccerAmeria just posted a great article on the 80 seconds of silence that Glenn Davis and Kyle Martino did at the start of the broadcast when the game was finally shown on ESPN2. Looking back on the tape of that game I saw and heard those 80 seconds. Boy it was pretty neat to say the least.

Aside from the ESPN fail on Wednesday this week and weekend are pretty big. We’ve already seen Toronto FC blow away Montreal last night in the final game of the Canadian Cup to advance to this year’s edition of the CONCACAF Champions League tournament. MLS will now field five teams with Toronto now to take on Puerto Rico in the preliminary rounds with a chance to be grouped in with the Columbus Crew.

We also have another competition starting up for a few clubs this weekend as well. The 2009 edition of SuperLiga comes at a good time for teams like Chivas USA and Chicago Fire. Both clubs play on Saturday in their opening matches of the tournament. Kansas City and New England will see their first games on Sunday. All SuperLiga matches can be seen live on the SuperLiga website.

But let’s get down to business as far as the MLS weekend slate goes. Plenty of decent games on the menu for us including one that I am very interested in out in Colorado between the Rapids and DC United.

As always feel free to leave your score predictions below. Continue Reading…