Previous ranking: 16
You wonder what could have been if Sigurd Rosted didn’t have the ball taken off his foot to gift New England an easy goal and let the Revs play from ahead, but he did and Toronto never really found a way through.
Previous ranking: 19
The Galaxy were, as always, a mess, but what stood out on Saturday was how well set up the Rapids were to capitalize on LA’s mistakes. That’s what Robin Fraser has built in Colorado: a coherent, sound team that will not let you off the hook. And they took another three points because of it.
Previous ranking: 14
Losing to Montréal is bad, but the Lions have been alternating wins and losses for nearly two months, so this was just them staying on schedule.
Previous ranking: 17
A loss in Charlotte leaves the Pigeons still winless on the road with two more away from New York on deck.
Previous ranking: 20
A loss in Cincy has us once again wondering where D.C. can get a bit more quality from to push them into a comfortable playoff team, but consider where this club was at this time last season. We were talking about how bad they could be, not how good they could be. Things are moving in the right direction.
Previous ranking: 21
The 1-0 loss to Philly marked the end of Struber’s time as Red Bulls boss. They continue to play decent soccer, but they don’t score, they don’t win and now they don’t have a coach.
Previous ranking: 22
The Timbers are much better than they were earlier this season, but their defense is still a problem. It’s why they had to settle for a 2-2 draw with Austin when they very easily could have won.
Previous ranking: 23
The Verde drew in Portland and still haven’t won since way back on March 11. If they don’t beat Dallas in Austin next week, expect the heat to be turned up.
Previous ranking: 18
Hendrickson avoided being the first manager fired this season by mere hours, but that’s probably little comfort after the Fire’s 3-0 loss to Nashville — that wasn’t as close as the scoreline suggested — ended his spell in Chicago.
Previous ranking: 24
The bright side of starting the season as badly as RSL did is there is nowhere to go but up, and they are certainly getting better. They were every bit as good as the Dynamo in Houston and now have points from four of their past five matches.
Previous ranking: 27
The Crown still can’t defend, but it doesn’t matter much when they attack the way they did in beating NYCFC.
Previous ranking: 26
Martínez saw the Five Stripes across the pitch and de-aged himself five years. All Inter had to do was sit back and let him bring them three points.
Previous ranking: 28
Don’t look now, but CFM are on a three-match win streak. Orlando was their latest victim and the timing couldn’t be better with the Canadian Classique on tap.
Previous ranking: 25
Greg Vanney has escaped a lot of criticism because Chris Klein has been the deserved subject of all Galaxy-related ire, but it’s not like he’s doing a very good job either. The Galaxy are a mess in every aspect and it showed in Saturday’s loss to Colorado, which had Chicharito fed up with the mess in LA.
Previous ranking: 29
The only thing more surprising than it taking SKC 10 weeks to pick up their first win of the season was that they finally got off the schneid against Seattle.
