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Three of the four quarterfinals are over and the news for the MLS is mixed as FC Dallas pulled out
a win while Seattle destroyed Colorado in amazing fashion. In the lone USL vs. USL meeting,
Carolina held out against Richmond to advance to the semifinals.
However, the collapse of Colorado has got to be the story of the night. Down three at halftime,
they shifted to a three-man backline to increase their offense only to see things get even worse.
What a night for US Open Cup matches. All four had their moments of excitement and all could have
ended up just about any way. Going in, all four MLS teams were favored, even though a number of
them were playing mostly from reserves, but in the end only two will move forward.
The biggest shock of the night came out of Richmond where the USL second division Kickers stamped
out the LA Galaxy's hopes of returning to a third consecutive US Open Cup final.
While most the attention seems to be going to the LA Galaxy crashing out by the head of the
Richmond Kickers' David Bulow, Houston's loss to the Charleston Battery strikes me as the bigger
news. Maybe it's, as Fox Soccer put it (in a great headline), Richmond's "third-tier" status versus
the Galaxy's oxygen-sucking hype - but, against that, you have things like LA's loss to a ten-man
Columbus to make sense of these things.
The US Open Cup Quarter-final round gets under way tonight with three games on the schedule. The
big question going into the action is will the MLS clubs produce. After going 3 for 8 in the last
round, they are under pressure to make something happen. However, if results so far are any
indication of how things will turn out, it might be a difficult run for the top league in the
country.
I'm happy to say I managed to catch one of last night's quarterfinals in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open
Cup, the one pitting Major League Soccer's FC Dallas against the USL-1 Charleston Battery. Now,
normally, I'm the type who LOVES upsets; any other year and I would have been root, root, rooting
for the Battery, but [...]
