PAINTING THE PLAY STRUCTURE, CA -- Toronto FC and the New England Revolution played to the 3rd
scoreless draw of the tournament sending both to the Round of 16. However, it will be the what-ifs that could haunt either team as TOR edges NE for the tiebreaker (either 1st/2nd or 2nd/3rd depending on DC's match later). One TOR PK was correctly taken away by VAR as the foul was just outside the box but each team had typical normally penalty that wasn't called. An apparent takedown by TOR was not called a penalty for NE in the 80' and an apparent TOR handball wasn't called in the 89'. If in the first 15 minutes, most likely they are both called a foul.
The collapse of Atlanta United FC is complete failing to score in any of their three matches in their 3rd straight
1-0 defeat, this time to Group E winner Columbus Crew SC. CLB recorded their third straight shutout with three different lineups.
D.C. United couldn't rally for a third time and
fell 1-0 to Impact de Montreal, eliminating DC from the Knockout Round. MTL keeps their hopes alive and vaults ahead of NYC who also have 3 points in 3rd place. By the virtue of two completed groups having 3rd place teams with just 3 points, it sends all the teams with 4 points into the Round of 16: Real Salt Lake and Minnesota United FC in Group D and LAFC in Group F. No one gets points for these last three until Groups D and F are complete.
VAN's GK which got his
glove stomped on against SEA is out with a fractured hand. Ouch.
And
LA will get a NWSL team in 2022. With Natalie Portman ("
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace") and Mia Hamm as two of many owners (Hamm is also an owner of LAFC, which is notably absent from this announcement), we'll see if Angel City sticks as the team name. The NWSL has some weird names and I couldn't figure out for the longest time what
OL Reign was... Olympia? It's for Olympique Lyonnais Group which bought the Tacoma team. Well, my guess of Olympia was close then.
In the pool,
no one got the TOR-NE tie, two got CLB (
Deutschland = Koenig and
Coronovirus_Sucks!), and 7 got MTL right.
Deutschland = Koenig got 2 of the 3 matches correct and 6 got none. All 15 got TOR into the Round of 16 and 5 got NE. All 15 lost ATL but more importantly 5 lost their champion and 4 more lost them in the Final. By far the biggest disappointment, so the LA Galaxy can only be at worst the 2nd biggest disappointment of the tourney. While still early, LA at least needs to win by 4 to top both MTL and NYC for 3rd place contenders (by 3 to top just NYC but that's cutting it close). So LA will have their destiny in their hands when they play on Thursday.
OK, back to the pool.
Bobby Cee Racer and
Go Chivas picked up 7 points to move
into a tie for first with 21 points.
TomJ (3rd-Tied, 19) and
Hereforthecommentary (5th, 18) also picked up 7 points. Six picked up just 3 points on the day.
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