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The Broad Strokes
MLS Week 2 served up a healthy heaping of surprises – mostly in the form of eye-catching road wins, but I bet the current Los Angeles FC roster will talk about that snow game for half as long as their fans do (i.e., a damned long time). Somewhat related, I pissed away an hour watching MLS Wrap-Up – so, obviously, don’t recommend. If you like that show, no judgment, gods bless and carry on. I just fill up on hot takes faster than most and I hit my limit before they got halfway through the obligatory-till-His-retirement opening segment on Messiami.
Miami deserved more of the praise than I’d like to admit, but I also don’t know what the fuck Orlando was doing out there besides wasting everyone’s time….wait…fuck me. They made me do it too. I started with fucking Miami. Got played like conservatives play the New York Times…
Result(s) of the Week
I’m going with Club du Foot Montreal’s pretty dang legit (looking) win down in Dallas, with honorable mention going to DC United for wearing down (my) Portland Timbers, Red Bull punching points out of Houston Dynamo FC and both sides of the New England Revolution’s loss at home against Toronto FC. That lopsided sin over LAFC probably should have made the cut - particularly given how it played out -but X-factors make me skittish, so....
Right. Here’s what happens next. The list for all of the scores from MLS Week 2 are listed below, with links to The Mothership’s game summaries under each (i.e., the numbers in the middle). I’ve included a key for how closely I watched (or didn’t watch) each game after said list of scores and, after that, I provide some very short notes that include: 1) a one(-ish) sentence summary of each game/highlight reel; 2) mention one thing that might not have been picked up in summaries and highlight shows; and 3) close with a short note on where I see both teams in the today, or maybe sometime next week. I don’t know how much readers will value it, but all that will make sense. Let’s start with the scores:
Minnesota United FC 1-1 Columbus Crew SC (H)
Real Salt Lake 3-0 Los Angeles FC (H)
Inter Miami CF 5-0 Orlando City SC %
Vancouver Whitecaps 1-1 Charlotte FC *
Chicago Fire FC 1-2 FC Cincinnati %
FC Dallas 1-2 Club du Foot Montreal %
Houston Dynamo FC 1-2 Red Bull New York %
Sporting Kansas City 1-1 Philadelphia Union (H)
St. Louis CITY FC 2-0 New York City FC * (I still have to sit through this one; notes later)
Colorado Rapids 1-1 Nashville SC *
Portland Timbers 2-2 DC United (full game; link below)
San Jose Earthquakes 1-3 Los Angeles Galaxy %
Seattle Sounders 0-0 Austin FC *
New England Revolution 0-1 Toronto FC (H)
