The Major League Soccer 2009 Playoffs continued on Saturday, November 7, 2009 with the second leg between the Chicago Fire and New England Revolution. The Revolution were up 2-1 after the first leg but the Fire hosted the second leg on Saturday. The winner would go on to face Real Salt Lake next weekend, who earlier beat the Columbus Crew 4-2 on aggregate. Here’s a recap of the match along with video highlights.
Chicago Fire beats New England Revolution 2-0 (3-2 on aggregate) – Video... Read Full Story
Real Salt Lake won the first leg 1-0 on Halloween afternoon but the biggest trick would come on Thursday night when Columbus would jump out to a 2-0 lead and looked like they would live on to defend their 2008 Championship, ... Read Full Story
The two remaining MLS Conference Semifinal series were decided today, with the Houston Dynamo and the L.A. Galaxy earning their places in the Western Conference Final. The teams booked their tickets to the final -- which will be played ... Read Full Story
USA Major Soccer League United States The MLS, Major Soccer League from the United States. Houston Dynamo vs Seattle Sounders FC. Match scheduled: dated: 08-11-2009 Time:from 20:00 until 22:00(GMT) Western Conference Semifinal Read Full Story
Landon Donovan took it as usual and scored his 16th Galaxy playoff goal in 20 games to leave him tied with Carlos Ruiz for the lead in post-season goals for L.A. and the Galaxy ahead of Chivas USA in this playoff game with 17 minutes ... Read Full Story
The Major League Soccer Playoffs will finish up the second legs of the Western Conference semifinals with two matches on Sunday, November 8, 2009. The derb... Read Full Story
The Major League Soccer Playoffs continue on Thursday, November 5, 2009 with the second leg of the Columbus Crew and Real Salt Lake. RSL had a 1-0 lead on aggregate heading into this match. So, who won and advance to the Conference Finals? Here’s a recap of the match along with video highlights.
Real Salt Lake beats the Columbus Crew 3-2 (4-2 on aggregate) – Video Highlights
1st Half
Real Salt Lake nearly took the lead in the 10th minute as a through ball was sent for Andy Williams... Read Full Story
The Major League Soccer Playoffs continue on Thursday, November 5, 2009 with the second legs of the Conference Semifinals. The one match scheduled for Thursday if the Columbus Crew v Real Salt Lake. Free Live Sports TV will be providing live coverage at the following link. Kickoff is scheduled for 20:00 EST or 01:00 GMT. Read Full Story
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*Don't forget, the second MLS playoff game between the Columbus Crew and Real Salt Lake is scheduled for 5 o'clock today on ESPN2.
*The Cal State Northridge men closed in on a post-season berth Wednesday with a 1-0 victory over Cal State Fullerton with the goal coming in the sixth minute of OT and now hold the tiebreaker over the Titans going into the final game of the regular season Saturday against UC Irvine.
*Riverside's Chad Marshall was named MLS Defender of the Year... Read Full Story
I guess the play-offs themselves merit an explanatory post seeing as those outside of the US (like myself) are probably scratching their heads at this alien method of establishing a top team.. In essence the MLS is split into two geographical 'conferences' (East and West), they are however part of a single 'league' and play against teams of both conferences. At the end of the year the top teams from each conference are pitted against each other in a play-off scenario which for 2009, started... Read Full Story
