The Legion has never progressed beyond the conference semifinals in league play (twice) and the quarterfinals of the US Open Cup (once). This game, then, already equals the deepest playoff runs in tea...
A quickie rankings post this week due to time constraints. The good news about the scores this week is that no one below the top three in the Eastern Conference won, racking up 4 draws and 4 losses, d...
The most important part I’ve steered clear of last week’s debacle against Hartford Athletic; the less said about that the better. This weekend the Three Sparks do not have an opportunity to get back o...
Not quite the massive goalfest we saw last week but there was still a bunch of scoring going on. It helped that everyone was in action for once and moreover 6 teams had double-game weeks. Beyond that,...
The Legion desperately needed 3 points last week. The battle for the playoffs has become far too competitive to drop points against arguably weaker teams, especially teams in the other conference. The...
Despite two teams having double-game weeks, there were only 11 games in the USL Championship this week. Even so, the 20 teams in action managed to combine for 47 goals, an average of 4.27 per game. Th...
After the wild and wacky world of the Jägermeister Cup group finale we return to more normal league play. It’s heating up though; the West is just 11 points top to bottom and the East, after the...
With all the preparations for the final group round of the Jägermeister Cup, we never got around to publishing the Power Rankings from the prior week’s league play. With the exception of the Las...
So how chaotic was it this weekend in the Jägermeister Cup? Pretty crazy, as it turned out. And some of the end results were pretty funky. But that is in the nature of cup competitions structured this...
It comes down to this. The final round of Jägermeister Cup group games is this weekend. For the Legion it’s simple: win or go home. Preferably in regulation rather than in a shootout, which woul...