The (Almost) Shutout of Road Teams

Discussion in 'MLS: General' started by henryo, Jul 22, 2012.

  1. henryo Member

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    Jun 26, 2007
    Noticed that among all the road teams in action on July 21st, only Chivas USA managed to score a goal against L.A.,if SJ do not score in the game vs VW, would that constitute a new record for the lowest numbet of goals collectively scored by road teams over a weekend (or mid week) of actions?
          
  2. henryo Member

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    Jun 26, 2007
    SJ scored one more in the loss to VW on July 22, bringing the total goal scored by road teams to 2. The total points earned by road teams was just 1 point out of a possible 21.

    Could these be new records for weekend/mid-week actions where more than half of the teams in the league were involved?
  3. EvanJ Member

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    If you count Sunday's game there were 8 games so road clubs got 1 point out of 24.
  4. henryo Member

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    Jun 26, 2007
    Yes you are right, my bad...

    Any one knows if this is the worst weekend for road teams in MLS history? (1 point from 8 games, 2 goals scored)

    22 2012-07-21 Los Angeles Galaxy - CD Chivas USA 3 - 1
    22 2012-07-21 Real Salt Lake - Colorado Rapids 2 - 0
    22 2012-07-21 FC Dallas - Portland Timbers 5 - 0
    22 2012-07-21 Houston Dynamo - Montreal Impact 3 - 0
    22 2012-07-21 Columbus Crew - D.C. United 1 - 0
  5. henryo Member

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    Jun 26, 2007
    Having looked through 2012 records, July 21-22 is indeed by far the worst for road teams in terms of average points and goals scored.

    The other weekends that came in close so far were:

    May 26-27 (2 points from 9 games, though 11 goals were scored):

    13 2012-05-26 Houston Dynamo - Los Angeles Galaxy 2 - 1
    13 2012-05-26 Toronto FC - Philadelphia Union 1 - 0
    13 2012-05-26 Columbus Crew - Chicago Fire SC 2 - 1
    13 2012-05-26 D.C. United - New England Revolution 3 - 2
    13 2012-05-26 Real Salt Lake - FC Dallas 3 - 2
    13 2012-05-26 Colorado Rapids - Montreal Impact 3 - 2
    13 2012-05-26 CD Chivas USA - Seattle Sounders FC 1 - 1

    July 7-8 (5 points from 9 games, but just 4 goals were scored):

    19 2012-07-07 Seattle Sounders FC - Colorado Rapids 2 - 1
    19 2012-07-07 FC Dallas - San Jose Earthquakes 0 - 0
    19 2012-07-07 Real Salt Lake - Portland Timbers 3 - 0
    19 2012-07-07 Sporting Kansas City - Houston Dynamo 0 - 0
    19 2012-07-08 Montreal Impact - Columbus Crew 2 - 1
    19 2012-07-08 Philadelphia Union - Toronto FC 3 - 0
    19 2012-07-08 Chicago Fire SC - Los Angeles Galaxy 0 - 2
  6. henryo Member

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    Jun 26, 2007
    The past week (Aug 3-5, 2012) hasn't been kind to road teams as well (4 points & 3 goals out of 8 games):

    24 2012-08-03 Houston Dynamo - New York Red Bulls 2 - 0
    24 2012-08-04 Montreal Impact - Philadelphia Union 2 - 0
    24 2012-08-04 D.C. United - Columbus Crew 1 - 0
    24 2012-08-04 New England Revolution - Sporting Kansas City 0 - 1
    24 2012-08-04 Chicago Fire SC - Toronto FC 2 - 1
    24 2012-08-04 Colorado Rapids - Real Salt Lake 1 - 0
    24 2012-08-05 Portland Timbers - FC Dallas 1 - 1
    24 2012-08-05 Seattle Sounders FC - Los Angeles Galaxy 4 - 0

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