MLS Week 15 Predictions

Thursday, June 23rd
Seattle Sounders - New York Red Bulls: Having lost only once in their past eight games and leaving BMO field with a late winning goal from the foot of Fredy Montero, I'd say that the Sounders are prime and ready for their rematch with a Red Bulls decimated do to several Gold Cup call ups of it's starters, injury to Luke Rodgers, and Thierry Henry red card ejection last week against the Timbers. That doesn't mean that the Red Bulls offense is completely lacking, they've recently received both Dane Richards and Dwayne De Rosario back after both their national teams got eliminated from the Gold Cup. Maybe I'm a little biased, but I'm calling this one in Seattle's favor.

Saturday, June 25th
San Jose Earthquakes - LA Galaxy: Up until last weekend the Earthquakes had been on something of a hot streak but fell against an emerging Sporting Kansas side thanks largely to lack of ability to finish (seemingly a very common problem these day among MLS teams). The Galaxy has also been on their own hot streak lately, having gone un-defeated in their last eight games even going so far as to pull out a 3-1 victory of the Colorado Rapids last week missing almost all of their star players. The Galaxy is without a doubt going to maintain their winning streak.

FC Dallas - Portland Timbers: Despite a late comeback, when FC Dallas met the Timbers up at JELD-WEN earlier this season, they couldn't draw level and ultimately fell to the Timbers. In this rematch look for the Timbers to continue their poor road form and winless streak and for FC Dallas to continue re-building their momentum after the drubbing they received by Sporting Kansas a few weeks back.

Sporting Kansas City - Vancouver Whitecaps: After an awful 1-6-3 start to the season Sporting Kansas are really beginning to turn things around, recording two wins within their last three games and advancing their current undefeated streak. Sporting Kansas aren't the only ones actively turning their season around, after the firing of head coach Teitur Thordarson the Whitcaps have begun to show signs of life, rescuing a 2-2 draw against the Sounders off of a beautiful volley by Eric Hassli and recording just theit second win of the season last week against the Philadelphia Union. This is a close one, but I'm gonna have to side with Sporting Kansas due to the home advantage they have in Livestrong Sporting Park.

Real Salt Lake - Toronto FC: RSL hasn't exactly had the best of form lately, managing only draws after their loss against the Columbus Crew. Toronto has been performing much worse, however, having not won in nine matches. Seeing as RSL has the advantage of the fortress that is Rio Tinto behind them, they wil no doubt take all three points.

Seattle Sounders - New England Revolution: The Revolution has the most losses of any MLS team so far this season (7), with three of them coming in their last five games. Meanwhile the Sounders have lost only once within their last eight games and have one of the best goal differentials of the league, having allowed more than one goal only on three occasions. The Revolution should pose very little threat to the Sounders.