Concacaf Champions Cup Columbus Crew: at Deportivo Arabe Unido (Panama) 2pm ET Audio Links: English by Dwight Burgess Spanish feed Listening Party L.A. Galaxy: at CD Motagua (Honduras) 7PM ET San Jose Earthquakes at CSD Guatemala 5PM ET edit: fixed times
Re: Concacaf Champions Cup The same station that webcast audio for the U-17 tournament should carry this match. They carried the match last year when the FIRE played Municipal in Guatemala. http://www.lared.com.gt/
Re: Re: Concacaf Champions Cup These guys have been referring to the cup for a while now (talking about last year's games against Chicago, etc). Now we're getting rosters.
results of first two matche quakes lost 4-2 (corrales, donovan) crew lost 2-1 (buddle) quakes lose mulrooney and dayak for the next game because of being ejected, crew lose cunningham for the next game for being ejected
there's some mention over on the Galaxy board that the game has already finished (and did not in fact begin at 7pm est). a draw, 2-2, and that ruiz also picked up a red. (don't know who scored the galaxy's goals.) sort of rumor and speculation at this point; no one really seems to know.
Its a little ridiculous that we have to sit here and wonder about the result of the Galaxy game on the basis of some snippets of commentary on the Spanish broadcast of the Quakes. The Galaxy website states the match didn't even start until 7PM EST. Kudos to the Crew for sending Dwight Burgess to Panama for a webcast. SJ and LA need to do better- at least have someone do a text play-by-play so the fans don't have to wonder about the result. How do they expect us to take these cup matches seriously if this is the treatment they're going to give them.
Here're some match reports from CONCACAF: Motagua come back twice to salvage 2:2 draw with L.A. Galaxy: http://www.concacaf.com/news/article.page/1273 Municipal race to four-goal lead, hold on for win against San Jose : http://www.concacaf.com/news/article.page/1272 Arabe Unido defeats 10-man Columbus Crew by 2:1 scoreline: http://www.concacaf.com/news/article.page/1271
For all the sky is falling people, a 2-0 win by San Jose has them win the series based on away goals. A 1-0 win by the Crew does the same, and a 0-0 draw gets the Galaxy through. That is if they're using the same type of rules they use in the Champion's League.
away goals are *not* a tie breaker it's (in order) points, goal aggregate, 30 minutes of golden goal (only after 2 games have been played), then pks to determine who goes on to the next round
That sucks. Still, the MLS clubs can force overtimes with my results at the very least. Why haven't the MLS teams been playing a more aggressive friendly schedule pre-season?
It's so completely laughable that anyone could take this competition seriously. How many matches away from the USA result in what can only be called abominations of refereeing? Good grief, it's a story when a US team doesn't get at least one or two sent off for breathing in the wrong way. I know home-cooking is a fact in most every sport, but total corruption needs to be addressed by CONCALAUGH before this tournament will ever mean anything. YMMV. Kevin
well, i would say that the quakes and galaxy have done quite well with their preseason matches... playing the la manga tournament in spain the revolution (play their first game later this week) have been to brazil the crew have gone to portugal so i don't think things have been that bad for putting together preseason matches... it's just that it's preseason and you are trying to put it all together again... getting players in shape and team mates comfortable with one another... it's rare that teams click right away, and often a sign of peaking too soon
-fish celebrates "The return leg of the tie will be played on Saturday night at Titan Stadium in Fullerton, California." return leg for the quakes is in 10 days (next wednesday) at spartan stadium "The two teams play the second leg of the series next Sunday at Columbus Crew Stadium"
Simply look at what's happened in the history of MLS playing in this competition. Why should this years travesties of officiating be any different than past years? Or do you deny that the MLS teams have been summarily screwed by CONCACAF refs on the road? You may not think so, but I do. I think past performance is pretty damning in this matter. Kevin