After a long break for national team matches, lto MLS returns this weekend with a day in which LAFC and the New York City start as Western Conference leaders y It isrespectively.
With the exception of some loose games that have been played in the last three weeks, MLS hasn’t had a full day since the weekend of May 28-29but since then quite a few things have happened in the league.
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For example, him LAFC has announced in this break the incorporation of Giorgio Chiellinia great reference for Juventus and the Italian team and who will now contribute his experience to the defense of the Los Angeles team led by Mexican Carlos Vela.
Nevertheless, the italian still has not been officially presented and It wont be available for LAFC’s visit to Los Angeles Seattle Sounders in the meeting that will open on Saturday this day number 15 of the MLS.
It will not be an easy meeting for him. LAFC since Seattle, which this year became the first MLS team to win the CONCACAF Champions League Since this tournament replaced the Concacaf Champions Cup in 2008, they have won four of their last five games in domestic competition.
The Sounders will have a very important loss to face LAFC since they will not be able to count on the Peruvian Raúl Ruidíaz, who has hamstring problems.
Six points from LAFC and with an increasingly narrow margin of error, Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández’s LA Galaxy will host the Portland Timbers in the Californian city, who have accumulated three straight defeats.
For his part, the New York City He resumes action in the MLS without his coach Ronny Deila, who has signed for the Belgian Standard de Liège and who has given the witness on the New York bench to Nick Cushing.
Before the break in the calendar for the FIFA dates and this surprising change of coach, the New York City He was going like a rocket, since he had seven wins in his last eight games, and this Sunday he will face the Colorado Rapids on his field.
Second in the East and with one more game than New York City, the Philadelphia Union will try not to let the head of the conference escape and will look for the three points in their match against Cincinnati.
Lastly, another outstanding duel of the day is the match between Atlanta United and Argentinean Gonzalo Higuaín’s Inter Miami.
Program of the day:
Saturday June 18 and early morning 19:
21.00 Seattle Sounders – LAFC
23.00 LA Galaxy – Portland Timbers
01.00 New York Red Bulls – Toronto
01.30 Columbus Crew – Charlotte
01.30 Montreal – Austin
01.30 Philadelphia Union – Cincinnati
01.30 Orlando City – Houston Dynamo
02.00 Chicago Fire – DC United
03.00 Dallas – Vancouver Whitecups
03.30 Real Salt Lake – San Jose Earthquakes
Sunday June 19:
21.00 Atlanta United – Inter Miami
23.00 New England Revolution – Minnesota United
23.00 New York City – Colorado Rapids
00.00 Nashville – Sporting Kansas City.