Sam named MLS Player of the Week; The 11’s vote went to Joe Bendik 5 Aug 2013 Lloyd Sam played just a little more than a half-hour on Saturday — and it was enough to earn the New York Red Bull the Player of the Week Award.
The Bizarro world of the Montreal Impact: Beats the good teams, loses to the bad ones 5 Aug 2013 If Marco Di Vaio and co. are facing the league’s top teams, they don’t lose. And, a stretch of the schedule filled with games against Columbus, FC Dallas, Chivas USA and Toronto FC is more deadly for the Impact than a stretch of games against the top two teams in each conference.
Early red card seals Thunder Bay’s fate in PDL final; Ottawa’s Chad Bush named top keeper 5 Aug 2013 The Thunder Bay Chill got the opening goal in the second, had its keeper sent off in the third, and gave up the game-tying penalty-kick goal in the seventh. With only 10 men on the pitch, the life was sucked out of the Canadian side’s title challenge, and the Chill fell to the host Austin Aztex 3-1 on Sunday night.
Missed chances, balls cleared off the line; New England’s wastefulness allows TFC to win again 5 Aug 2013 But a two-game winning streak? Start the parade. And, for the long-suffering supporters of this franchise, they shouldn’t try to analyze things too much. Just enjoy it — they deserve some triumphs, after all. And, for a franchise that has suffered so many suckerpunches late in games, maybe it’s time for a karmic shift, to see the opposition blow so many chances they should have converted.