MLS Week 4 Summary

Sorry for posting this late, I never got around to it, but before I get to the actual games played, let me take a moment to congratulate Ellinger for retiring. We have all been looking forward to this moment, and we hope to god that Kreis will be our Bob Bradley.

RSL Game Summary:
Well, what can one say? Abbey Okulaja must be a complete RETARD!!!!! What does one expect, though? Has he ever reffed a good game in his life? Maybe, but not at Rice-Eccles. Despite the fact that he gave us the DC win last year, he hasn't impressed me. That second goal, that may have been a passback, but I have seen passbacks 1000x more obvious be let go. Whatever. We lost, no changing that. I would be doubly pissed if we would've scored later on, making that FLUKE of a goal be the GWG. Whatever. If Okulaja refs the other three RMC games, we can throw our chances of that out the window.

RSL Game Report:

Goal Summary

Real Salt Lake
No Goals Scored

Colorado cRapids
Brown (unassisted) 71'
Beckerman (unassisted) 75'

Card Summary

Real Salt Lake
No Cards Receives

Colorado cRapids
Yellow - Vanney (78')

Around the MLS:

(3-1-0/9/3 East) KC 3 : 0 TOR (0-4-0/0/7 East)
(2-3-1/7/2 West) DAL 0 : 1 NY (3-0-1/10/1 East)
(0-4-0/0/7 East) TOR 0 : 1 KC (3-1-0/9/3 East)
(1-0-3/6/5 East) CLB 1 : 0 DC (0-3-0/0/6 East)
(2-2-0/6/3 West) CHV 1 : 3 LA (1-1-1/4/4 West)
(2-3-1/7/2 West) DAL 0 : 1 NE (2-1-1/7/4 East)

My Fantasy Team Update:

JUFC has been threatening to quit from the beginning due to my early dominance, but now retracts that because of his goalkeeper, Kevin Hartman, KC, who he put the captain mark on and earned him 156 pts. (Hartman ended up being captain of the Dream Team Week 4) Oh well, it's still fun. To be frank, I sucked. I was terrible last week. Whatever.

GK Bouna Coundoul (COL) : 39 points (9 pts Playing Time, 20 pts Clean Sheet, 10 pts Team Win)
DF Craig Waibel (HOU) : 0 points
DF Marvell Wynne (TOR) : 10 points (10 pts Playing Time)
DF Kelly Gray (HOU) : 7 points (7 pts Playing Time)
DF Lawson Vaughn : 3 points (3 pts Playing Time)
MF Pablo Mastroeni (COL) : 19 points (9 pts Playing Time, 10 pts Team Win)
MF Mehdi Ballouchy (RSL) : 9 points (9 pts Playing Time)
MF Freddy Adu (RSL) : 9 points (9 pts Playing Time)
MF Fred (DC) : 4 points (4 pts Playing Time)
FW Jeff Cunningham : 9 points (9 pts Playing Time)
(C) FW Josmer Altidore : 46 points (should be 8 pts Playing Time but they only gave me 3, 10 pts Assist, 10 pts Team Win, x2 Captainage)

League Scoreboard
rslnerd: 586 pts, #5975 overall
Jeppson United FC: 663 pts, #3741 overall

My Pick 'Em Update
As he did in Fantasy, JUFC had a breakout in Pick 'Em too, scoring eight to my three. My money was on Toronto winning their home opener 1-0 as RSL did two years ago. His money was on the same game, but he had Kansas City winning 1-0. That's exactly what happened. Oh well.

After 4 Weeks:
rslnerd: 10 pts
Jeppson United FC: 0 pts

Playoff Picture

Top Two East: New York, Chicago
Top Two West: Colorado, Dallas
Four "Wild Card": Kansas City, New England, Columbus, Chivas USA

MLS Performance Factors:

1. New York - 2501251
2. Chicago - 2500751
3. Kansas City - 2251252
4. New England - 1751002
5. Colorado - 1750252
6. Chivas USA - 1500752
7. Columbus - 1500251
8. Los Angeles - 1333668
9. Dallas - 1166335
10. Houston - 999750
11. Salt Lake - 498501
12. DC United - (-1332)
13. Toronto - (-2500)

rslnerd's Power Rankings

1. New York
2. Chicago
3. Kansas City
4. New England
5. Chivas USA
6. Columbus
7. Los Angeles
8. Colorado
9. Houston
10. Salt Lake
11. Dallas
12. DC United
13. Toronto

MLS Goal Leaders:

Taylor Twellman (NE) - 4
Eddie Johnson (KC) - 3
13 Players tied with 2

MLS Points Leaders:

Taylor Twellman (NE) - 8
Eddie Johnson (KC) - 8
Chris Rolfe (CHI) - 7

Next for RSL:

vs. New York, 5/5/07, Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City UT, 7:00 PM MST

RSL faces the most impressive team in the league, a team who hasn't given up a goal this season, as they go for more points, trying to increase their credibility as a good team in this league.

Next Week's Games:

5/3
NE @ DC

5/5
CLB @ KC
NY @ RSL
HOU @ COL

5/6
CHV @ DC
CHI @ NE

RSL Schedule

4/7 vs. Dallas T 2-2 (0-0-1/1/T3 West)
4/14 vs. Columbus T 0-0 (0-0-2/2/5 West)
4/21 @ Chivas USA L 0-4 (0-1-2/2/5 West)
4/30 vs. Colorado L 0-2 (0-2-2/2/5 West)
5/5 vs. New York
5/10 @ Colorado
5/20 @ Dallas
5/27 @ Chicago
6/2 @ New England
6/14 vs. Dallas
6/17 @ Los Angeles
6/23 vs. DC United
7/4 vs. Toronto
7/7 @ Columbus
7/14 @ Kansas City
7/28 vs. New England
8/4 vs. Houston
8/18 vs. Chicago
8/26 @ Chivas USA
8/29 vs. Kansas City
9/1 @ Los Angeles
9/8 @ Houston
9/15 @ Toronto
9/19 vs. Los Angeles
9/22 vs. Colorado
9/26 @ D.C. United
9/29 @ New York
10/6 vs. Chivas USA
10/13 vs. Houston
10/20 @ Colorado

Email me at rslnerd@gmail.com