It was a bad weekend for Soccer in Chicago and a bad weekend for America. The Fire’s loss in Ohio was compounded by Eastern Conference rivals having fun in the sun, while the defending champions out West seem to have gotten their shit together. Let’s take a break from punching Nazis to catalogue all the ways MLS let us down this weekend.
I didn’t expect Portland to be able to get a point on the road against the best team in the league, but even so, this was demoralizing.