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Alert: The playoff race in Major League Soccer is actually narrowing.
It came about a month late, but we finally have some sort of idea of what the playoff race looks like. The bottom teams are — if not mathematically eliminated — realistically eliminated, and we know which teams are really fighting for a postseason berth.
In the East, the New England Revolution have a great chance to jump above the line and Inter Miami are still clinging to their puncher’s chance. In the West, the LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders are desperately trying to make their way into the playoffs and might just do it.
That is the playoff race. It makes sense. It is reasonable to track. It doesn’t require hundreds of permutations. It’s a proper fight. Finally, we understand what it looks like. As for, well, the entire league? Let’s rank ’em.
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Previous ranking: 1
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. Atlanta United, 3:30 p.m. ET
Scoring only five goals to beat Orlando? They’re slipping.
Previous ranking: 2
Next MLS match: Tuesday vs. Chicago Fire, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+
Another week, another comeback, this time against Columbus for a draw. But if it wanted to stop needing comebacks so often, that’d probably be a good idea.
Previous ranking: 3
Next MLS match: Tuesday vs. Minnesota, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN+
LAFC lost — again. And that’s bad. But the only thing you can really take from its defeat in Dallas is that getting a 13th-minute red card is not a good move, because that basically decided the match right there. So no more 13th-minute red cards, OK?
Previous ranking: 5
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. San Jose, 10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+
Paul Arriola rightly got a ton of credit for his clever-quick free kick to set up Dallas’ equalizer in its 2-1 win over LAFC, but, man, is Jesús Ferreira’s finish absurdly good. He’s at that place now where he’s finishing with such ease that you sometimes miss how difficult some of it is.
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