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Here’s your Week 2 cheat sheet. Don’t forget to set your Fantasy lineup and get those Predict 6 presented by BetMGM selections in!

Same as last week, none of this is my fault. Multiple MLS writers and voices voted in these rankings. I did not make them. However, Andrew Wiebe, Matt Doyle and some special guests, including yours truly had some hot debates over on Twitter Spaces.

The new season has begun. As is usually the case in MLS, home teams fared pretty well. Nobody, of course, fared better than the Sounders. Let’s start there:

This was supposed to be a pretty straightforward piece, a spring #content perennial: Which of Major League Soccer’s two conferences are the stronger and more competitive? West is best, or beastly East? Last year I gave the West side a narrow edge, though eventual MLS Cup victors Columbus Crew SC

Houston Dynamo FC vs. San Jose Earthquakes Friday, April 16: Kick off 8:08 pm ET - watch on MLS LIVE on ESPN+

MLS Predict 6 presented by BetMGM is back for the 2021 season! It’s FREE to play and takes only four steps for a chance to win $50,000: 1. Start at predict6.mlssoccer.com/picks 2. Pick the outcome of six matches 3. Next, predict the action. (Example: Who scores first?) 4. Submit your

As is now tradition, I'm starting the year with a tip of the cap to the great Zach Lowe for the inspiration, courtesy of his Annual Tiers of the NBA opus, to write this piece. What follows are not hard-and-fast Power Rankings, per se, but rather something a little more

We’re in the final few days of the 2021 preseason. Hope is springing eternal all over MLS, and with hope comes possibility: Can our guys do it? Is there a chance that Unfancied Team X can come out of nowhere and put together a dominant regular season?

Josef Martinez: I’m generally wary of “his absence reinforced how valuable he is!” arguments because I think, in a lot of cases, those arguments come down to “the coach is really bad at doing anything other than trotting out his first-choice XI and not screwing it up.” But in the

Preseason Record: 3W-1D-0L - March 13: Atlanta United 3, Tormenta FC 0 | Recap - March 20: Atlanta United 6, Charleston Battery 1 | Recap - March 24: Atlanta United 3, Chattanooga FC 1 - March 28: Atlanta United 0, Birmingham Legion FC 0

The 2021 MLS schedule is out, and some semblance of soccer normalcy is just around the bend. No doubt you’re already poring over your club’s 34-game slate, circling can’t-miss dates and plotting out a path to the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs. Might as well start planning those bubble watch parties

One of the effects of 2020's compressed schedule was that managers had to go further down their benches to find players who could contribute in the midst of heavy squad rotation. One of the silver linings to come of that was the number of players who, instead of crumbling, thrived

The full 2021 schedule for Major League Soccer is here. Highlighted by the anticipated debut of Austin FC, the opening of three new soccer stadiums, intense rivalries and the most expansive and accessible national broadcast schedule in the league’s history, the 2021 season promises to be a memorable one. See

When you’re lost in the desert, everything looks like an oasis. Fear not, my parched friends, you didn’t drag yourself through a long winter for nothing. We’ve got water bubbling up out of the sand. Not enough to quench our thirst, but enough to wet the lips and trust that

You, dear reader, no doubt either watched or read about Tim Weah's goal for Ligue 1-leading Lille in the Europa League on Thursday. You also probably know that Brenden Aaronson started for RB Salzburg in that same competition, as did Chris Richards for Hoffenheim. Sergino Dest, Tyler Adams and Weston

The US men's national team, on Tuesday afternoon, announced a March 28 friendly at Northern Ireland, the first of two friendlies in that particular FIFA window. These mark the first time head coach Gregg Berhalter has had a full roster* together since the pandemic started, one composed of both domestic and European-based

The silly season is coming to an end and the regular season looms. That means most MLS rosters have been refined or reloaded or entirely rebuilt over the past few months, and this is your one-stop shop to get a look back at how that process has played out.

Gregg Berhalter has selected a 25-player roster for the US men’s national team’s international friendly against Trinidad & Tobago, US Soccer announced Sunday. The USMNT will host the Soca Warriors Jan. 31 at 7 pm ET (FS1, UniMás, TUDN) at Exploria Stadium. The group was selected from an initial list

The US men's national team dropped two rosters on Tuesday afternoon ahead of the annual January camp. One of the rosters is composed solely of players age 24 and older, and the other is -- you've probably already guessed it -- for players 23 and younger. The message here is

A new year has finally arrived and North American soccer, like civilization as a whole, will look to turn the page on a challenging 2020. Unfortunately for those eager to plan out a 2021 calendar that's closer to pre-coronavirus norms, many aspects of the coming year’s events remain up in

Well, it’s that time of year again. Apparently. When I got asked to do this “again”, I didn’t remember doing this bit last year. But then I went back and looked and realized I had filed that memory away under “The one where everyone got mad at me.” Certainly everyone

Articles like this are always hard. In a season like this, they’re especially hard. In an incomprehensible amount of important things happened in MLS this season, how do you condense all that into 10 digestible pieces? And now I have to pick 10 as the most important? All I can say

So just how big is the task facing Los Angeles Football Club on Tuesday night? The sheer scale of MLS’s tortured history in Concacaf Champions League can be seen in the sobering numbers: 59 teams entered over 12-plus years, 11 semifinalists, just four trips to the championship final, and not

LAFC are 90 minutes away from making history. Should Bob Bradley's team beat Tigres UANL on Tuesday night (10 pm ET | FS2, TUDN) at Exploria Stadium, they'll become the first MLS team to win the Concacaf Champions League as it's currently composed. Three other MLS teams have reached this

When LAFC take on Tigres UANL in the Concacaf Champions League final Tuesday night (10 pm ET | FS2, TUDN), they’ll not only be chasing a first international trophy in the club’s young history, but also the first-ever for an MLS club in the CCL. While paying due respect to