Time to wake the f--k up, Chicago - you’re home to the best soccer team in the United States of America. If you don’t have your tickets yet, you’re already screwing up. Wake up. Get there. This is happening.
We’ll spend the rest of the summer and most of the fall litigating this claim on the field, but on the evidence of the last six weeks, it’s not even all that close. Tonight in Foxboro, the Men in Red faced an experienced, talented New England side and produced the kind of tactical spine-cracking that we’ve seldom seen in this league, pulling the game and hard-working hosts limb-from-limb with intelligent spacing, persuasive movement and ruthless recognition of moments of opportunity.