There is a big gap between MLS's two conferences -- the Western Conference is plus-14 in interconference play -- but the difference between the top and bottom of the Western Conference isn't much. The top five teams all played bottom five teams this weekend, and the bottom five teams won four of five games.
Streaking ...
UNBEATEN STREAK
New England, 5 games (WTWWW)
San Jose, 4 games (WWWW)
Columbus, 4 games (WDWW)
Colorado, 3 games (WWW)
WINLESS STREAK
Orlando City, 5 games (LTLLT)
Montreal, 4 games (TLLL)
D.C. United, 3 games (LLL)
Sporting KC, 3 games (LLL)
New York City, 3 games (TLL)
San Jose began the weekend with a convincing 1-0 win over the LA Galaxy for its fourth straight win. But the Quakes were still in seventh place at the end of the weekend as the Seattle Sounders beat the Portland Timbers, 2-1. Houston and Colorado beat Vancouver and Sporting KC, respectively. Real Salt Lake was the only bottom five team that lost, and the defeat sent it into the cellar.
In the Eastern Conference, the three top five teams that played bottom teams all won. Orlando City's 1-1 tie with Chicago was enough to move it into sixth place ahead of slumping Montreal. The Impact still has three or four games in hand on the other four teams in the bottom half of the conference in which just two points separate the five teams.
MLS, Week 26 Results:
Sunday, August 30
NY Red Bulls 3 D.C. United 0.
NY: Lloyd Sam (Bradley Wright-Phillips, Kemar Lawrence) 33
NY: Bradley Wright-Phillips (Mike Grella, Felipe Martins) 42
NY: Bradley Wright-Phillips (Sacha Kljestan) 64
Att.: 22,645.
Seattle 2 Portland 1.
SEA: Obafemi Martins 6
SEA: Brad Evans pen. 42
POR: Jake Jewsbury (Diego Valeri) 58
Att.: 64,358.
Saturday, August 29
Toronto FC 2 Montreal 1.
TFC: Michael Bradley (Jonathan Osorio, Sebastian Giovinco) 35
TFC: Jozy Altidore 55
MTL: Dominic Oduro (Andres Romero)
Red Card:
MTL: Laurent Ciman 77
Att.: 30,266.
New York City 1 Crew SC 2.
CLB: Federico Higuain (Wil Trapp) 10'
NYC: Andrew Jacobson (Patrick Mullins) 29'
CLB: Justin Meram (Federico Higuain) 83'
Att.: 30,018.
Philadelphia 0 New England 1.
NE: Diego Fagundez (Charlie Davies) 51
Red Card:
PHI: Cristian Maidana 94+
Att.: 17,117.
Orlando City 1 Chicago 1.
CHI: David Accam (Razvan Cocis) 30
ORL: own goal 37
Att.: 28,921.
Colorado 2 Sporting KC 1.
SKC: Dom Dwyer (Krisztian Nemeth) 47
COL: Maynor Figueroa (Vicente Sanchez) 53
COL: Kevin Doyle (Vicente Sanchez) 76
Att.: 16,480.
FC Dallas 2 Real Salt Lake 0,
DAL: Tesho Akindele pen. 51
DAL: Fabian Castillo (Michael Barrios) 79
Att: 18,172.
Houston 2 Vancouver 0.
HOU: Ricardo Clark (Sheanon Williams, Erick Torres) 34
HOU: Raul Rodriguez (Brad Davis) 87
Red Cards:VAN: Kendall Waston 56
VAN: Matias Laba 64
Att.: 21,257.
Friday, August 28
San Jose 1 LA Galaxy 0.
SJ: Shea Salinas 18
Red Card:
LA: Leonardo 47.
Att.: 18,000.
Wednesday, August 26
Chicago 3 NY Red Bulls 2.
NY: Sacha Kljestan pen. 10
CHI: Kennedy Igboananike (Gilberto) 22
CHI: Patrick Nyarko (Mike Stephens, Gilberto) 41
NY: Ronald Zubar (Sacha Kljestan) 50
CHI: Kennedy Igboananike (David Accam, Eric Gehrig) 73
Att.: 11,196.
Colorado 2 Houston 1.
COL: Vicente Sanchez pen. 20
HOU: Brad Davis pen. 37
COL: Kevin Doyle (Sean St. Ledger, Dillon Serna) 79
Att.: 10,439.
MLS Standings:
EASTERN CONFERENCE
PTS (GP) TEAM W-L-T GF/GA
44 (28) D.C. United 13-10-5 35/34
42 (25) NY Red Bulls 12-7-6 43/28
41 (27) Crew SC 11-8-8 45/44
37 (25) Toronto FC 11-10-4 44/42
37 (25) New England 10-9-7 35/36
29 (27) Orlando City 7-12-8 33/47
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28 (23) Montreal 8-11-4 30/34
28 (27) New York City 7-13-7 38/46
27 (26) Chicago 7-13-6 31/38
27 (27) Philadelphia 7-14-6 33/44
WESTERN CONFERENCE
PTS (GP) TEAM W-L-T GF/GA
46 (28) LA Galaxy 13-8-7 49/33
45 (27) Vancouver 14-10-3 38/28
41 (25) FC Dallas 12-8-5 35/30
40 (25) Sporting KC 11-7-7 40/35
40 (27) Portland 11-9-7 29/32
38 (27) Seattle 12-13-2 32/30
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38 (26) San Jose 11-10-5 32/29
35 (27) Houston 9-10-8 35/34
33 (26) Colorado 8-9-9 25/27
32 (27) Real Salt Lake 8-11-8 29/40
Leading MLS Scorers:
G PLAYER (TEAM)
18 Kei Kamara (Crew SC)
17 Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC)
15 David Villa (New York City)
15 Robbie Keane (LA Galaxy)
13+2 Bradley Wright-Phillips (NY Red Bulls)
12 Chris Wondolowski (San Jose)
11 Cyle Larin (Orlando City)
10+1 Obafemi Martins (Seattle)
10 Will Bruin (Houston)
10 Fanendo Adi (Portland)
9 Octavio Rivero (Vancouver)
9 Chris Rolfe (D.C. United)
9 Charlie Davies (New England)
9 Kaka (Orlando City)
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