1. Colorado (4-2-3). Will challenge for Western crown all season.
2. New York (5-1-2). Juan Pablo Angel is easily the Red Bulls' best offseason acquisition.
3. Kansas City (5-2-1). How scary will this team be if Eddie Johnson can keep his play at this level all season?
4. New England (5-2-2). What was that?
5. FC Dallas (5-4-1). All losses have been by shutout.
6. D.c. United (3-3-1). Did what they needed to: beat a crappy opponent at home.
7. Chivas USA (3-3-2). This team ain't half bad. Now, they just need a few more pieces to vault to the list of contenders.
8. Chicago (3-4-2). Blanco can't get here soon enough.
9. Columbus (1-2-5). Five ties in eight games won't get you to the playoffs.
10. Galaxy (1-3-2). Why did the Galaxy trade Herculez Gomez and Ugo Ihemelu again?
11. Toronto FC (2-5-1). The first tie in club history! Uh, okay, so that's not too momentous of an occasion, but a road point is nice for them.
12. Houston (2-5-1). Imagine what this team will look like when they lose some players for the Gold Cup.
13. Real Salt Lake (0-3-5). A shame such fervent support is wasted on such a bad team.
7 comments:
Point wise? Fifth best
Goals scored? Sixth best
Goals against? Tied for fifth best
Sideline View Rank? First
Trying to wrap my head around this one, Luis.
How does a two-loss Rapids team rate ahead of RBNY at this stage of the season? (Granted, they are the only side to beat RBNY this year, but still...) Better yet, how do they rate ahead of KC and New England??
Quit hating and give RBNY their due. It's early, but I'm pointing to the bleachers and calling my shot: RBNY dominates the table in 2007...
The tiebreaker between Colorado and New York was the Rapids' 1-0 win over RBNY at Giants Stadium.
Still, I considered the whole body of work thus far this season and I've been impressed with the Rapids.
How you can be impressed more with the Rapids than the three Eastern Conference teams beats me.
Does that "whole body of work thus far" include getting beat 3-1 by both Houston and Dallas (two teams the Red Bulls have beaten this year) and tying with Real Salt Lake?
Sure, Colorado beat the Red Bulls, but does that mean that, until RBNY beats Colorado, you'll rank Colorado ahead of New York? Especially considering that, since that game, New York has been a better team (1-0-1, 2 GF, 1 GA for Colorado, 2-0-0, 7 GF, 0 GA for NY)?
Saying Colorado is the best team in the league, over teams like NY, Kansas City and New England, smacks of the weaksauce.
Pretty much sums it up here. Colorado has been decent and won some games, but theyve been ugly wins and theyve lost pretty ugly too. There is no way you could say they have played better than NY or NE this year. Its not even close. If they finish the season 15 points behind NY and are undefeated against them does that somehow mean your "tiebreaker" puts them as the best team in the league? Of course not... a tiebreaker implies a tie, which there clearly is not.
Finally, some West Coast bias. You eastcoaster need to chill out. Especially the NY people. I'll give NY their due once they win it all - I will give them their due, however, for getting JPA, that guy is something else.
And, Luis, I thought JPA was an in-season acquisition?
Oh, well. War the West, War Herc and War Chilangos coming to the MLS and taking over the league.
This seems to be a little more accurate, though I'd slot the Rapids 4th instead of 6th:
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/powerranking?league=USA.1&season=2007&week=8&cc=5901
BTW, my comment (#2 above) is coming from a Tejano; I just recognize RBNY's dominance without being a homer...
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