DC United has been in Mexico training for a week now leading up to tonites Concacaf Champions Cup semi-final 2nd leg with Chivas. Brazilian star and former A-league MVP Fred has recently joined the team and is available to play tonite. The DC United coach would not say weather Fred would start the game or if he would be on the bench, but he will be on the roster of available players one way or the other.
No MLS team has ever defeated a Mexican club at their home turf. I hope we are about to witness some history tonite. Although an MLS vs Mexico final would make it more exciting, I can’t cheer against any MLS team now and it looks like Houston Dynamo should go through to the final on Thursday night when they take their 2-0 lead into Mexico.
I predict a 2-1 victory for DC United, and a trip to the CCC final!
The Houston Dynamo home leg of the CCC semi-finals was postponed yesterday due to lack of electricity at their stadium. The game will be taking place today at 5pm (central time). Along with that rescheduled game DC United is hosting Chivas (the Mexican Chivas) in the other semi-final.
According to the Fox Soccer Channel online TV schedule they will be showing the Dynamo game 5pm and the DC United game directly afterwards at 7pm (both times are central time).
Hopefully we got 2 MLS victories tonight!
We are down to the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Champions Cup and it is 2 MLS vs Mexico semi-finals. Both of my predictions were right!
I didn’t get to see a lot of the DC game, but watched the whole Houston game. I was impressed with the chanting Dynamo fans throughout the game, but more impressed with the 2-0 victory. The Dynamo came out and got exactly what they needed to advance.
The Dynamo now will face Pachuca (Mexico) on March 14th in Houston and travel to Pachuca on April 5th.
DC United will go up against Chivas (Mexico) on March 15th at RFK and go to Chivas on April 3rd.
See the official bracket at the official CONCACAF website.
DC United and Houston Dynamo continue action in the CONCACAF Champions Cup tonite both in the 2nd leg of the quarterfinals. My predictions - DC United gets anoter convincing win to cruise into the semis. Houston wins a hard fought game to squeak into the semis.
Catch both games on Fox Soccer Channel tonite at 6pm and 8pm. DC is up first.
I had to DVR both the DC United and Houston Dynamo Champions Cup games earlier this week. That in itself was not a problem, but:
Before watching the Dynamo game, I had Fox Soccer Channel on watching FA Cup highlights I think. I see on the bottom of the screen ticker that the Dynamo lost. Dammit, but I watched anyway. I fell asleep and missed most of the 2nd half. What was up with the red cards there, anyone? And was that PK one of the least deserved PK’s you’ve seen in a long time?
Then last nite I was online playing some poker and my dad rang me up on IM. I sent him the message that I was about to watch the DC United game and to not tell me the results at almost exactly the same time his message showed up “good win for DC huh!”. Dammit dammit dammit, but I watched still. Good job DC. They didn’t look overly great, but I guess scoring 4 goals on the road is pretty damm good. I wish I could place shots like Gomez was, those were quite nice!
Overall I think both teams will advance to the semi-finals. I’m not sure if they could possibly play each other in the semi’s, but that would really be great if both MLS teams went to the final. DC would really have to screw up to not get into the semi’s.
Oh, and FYI those of you who did not see the games:
DC United 4 - 1 CD Olimpia
Houston Dynamo 0 - 1 Puntarenas
DC United and Houston Dynamo have important games tomorrow in the CONCACAF Champions’ Cup. DC United travel to Honduras to take on Club Deportivo Olimpia while Houston Dynamo travel to Costa Rica to take on Puntarenas Fútbol Club, a young club with goals of winning by a big margin. Both of the MLS teams will have tough games, but have the advantage of finishing the home and away series at home. Last year the Galaxy and the Revolution both lost out at this stage of the tournament, hopefully that is changed this year. It is time the MLS starts to show some CONCACAF dominance!
Robbie Fowler has been told that he won’t be with Liverpool again next year. If he couldn’t play at Liverpool again he’d consider retiring from football, but a potential move to the MLS may change his mind. Somehow he has been connected with a move to DC United.
This is part of the article from the Sunday Mirror
ROBBIE Fowler is ready to follow David Beckham into MLS and join DC United.
With Becks-mania hitting the US many of LA Galaxy’s rivals are looking to recruit high-profile European stars to exploit the new popularity of football in the States.
Earlier this week Freddy Adu and Nick Rimando were sent to Real Salt Lake in exchange for a major player allocation along with the right to goalkeeper Jay Nolly.
Great trade for Salt Lake was my initial reaction to reading this. Freddy Adu impressed me really for the first time this season, he could be something special in a few years but it is no secret that he wants to play in Europe. Nick Rimando would fit in good anywhere. I don’t know who Jay Nolly is but someday maybe we’ll see him playing in the all star game, shutting out Real Madrid or something like that.
It will be interesting to see how long Adu sticks around Salt Lake.
I really wish I could have watched the Dallas/Colorado game from this past weekend when the Rapids dumped FC Dallas out of the playoffs to see what waranted a six game suspension for FC Dallas goalkeeper Dario Sala. Six game suspension seems pretty harsh. I don’t remember there ever being a suspension longer (or even that long) in the history of the MLS. I have been a fan since the league started, but I do admit there were years that something like this could have eassily gone un-noticed by me.
Mike Petke, Ricardo Clark, Claudio Suarez and even Steve Nicol were all fined while Juan Pable Garcia got a two game suspension. That must have been an exciting couple of games last weekend.
I sure am looking forward to the games this Sunday! Predictions? Based solely on the play that I saw this last weekend I see NE Revolution vs Houston Dynamo playing for the MLS Cup. Based on what I think from my usually completely wrong instincts, I see DC United vs. Colorado Rapids. Final anwer: DC United vs Houston Dynamo.
The New York Red Bulls are not impressed with DC United according to a quote from one of the Red Bulls recently. DC United didn’t beat the Red Bulls in every meeting between the two teams this season, they did play the Red Bulls to a tie one more than one occassion, and all the games that were not even were won by DC United.
From what I saw today there is no reason anyone should be impressed with DC United, but they did all they had to do to go on to the Eastern Conference finals vs the New England Revolution. They’ll probably continue to do just what they need to do to get the MLS Cup in a few weeks. Who cares if NY is impressed or not?
