While the claim that the strength of schedule differences between conferences is real – the West has a tougher conference – is the claim that differences in the strength of schedule exist between teams supported by statistical analysis?
Five new players before the calendar rolls over? Wow! Has an aggressive offseason made the Union a better team? Plus, the international slots question and Keon Daniel’s status.
You know his name. You know his nickname. You know what he can do and how well he can do it. The only question left for Sheanon Williams is how much better he can get.
Faryd Mondragon helped solidify Philadelphia Union’s defense in 2011. But how long will it be enough to hold off young Zac MacMath? PSP has a season review on Mondragon and a look at what the future holds for him.
The Union scored just two goals in the air this season, but the solution isn’t to sign a veteran target forward. Rather, it’s time for Danny Mwanga to work on his aerial game. PSP explains.
Montreal fleeced Chivas, gave Brian Ching and Houston the ultimate boot to the face, took Justin Mapp off the Union’s hands, and made some really good expansion draft picks. PSP thinks Montreal might be the new evil geniuses in MLS.
Former Reading United star Zarek Valentin was left protected. PSP looks at him and and other big names available to Montreal in Wednesday’s expansion draft, as well as draft projections and a look back at the Union’s own expansion draft in 2009.
For the first time in too long, the best team in Major League Soccer won the MLS Cup. In a season in which MLS average attendance surpassed the NBA, NHL, and all but nine domestic soccer leagues in the world, that’s a great thing for professional soccer in America. PSP lays it out.
We talk Expansion Draft and more with Montreal Impact head coach Jesse Marsch.
Sunday at 9pm EST, the LA Galaxy host the Houston Dynamo in MLS Cup 2011. The league has done their best to insure that you won’t watch.
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