These MLS Teams Are Good!

Kansas City Wizards 2 - Manchester United 1

The title says it all. The result is a little bit disappointing, but take nothing away from the Wizards. It's a huge victory for them, especially having to deal with 10 men for the entire second half.

As with the previous couple of games, we started with a youthful backline and they were given a torrid time against a very physical and fit Wizards team. Rafael and De Laet were given the run around the entire first half. Evans and Smalling did better but couldn't prevent both the Wizards goals.

Wizards opened the scoring early after beating the offside trap. They then got into abit of a bother when defender Conrad got his marching orders for a foul on Berbatov in the box. Berbatov equalized from the spot but Wizards went back into the lead before our celebrations were over.

We couldn't prise open the Wizards defense in the second half despite having the lion's share of the possession. All in all, we didn't have a good game, but once again Wizards impressed me, and we're not even talking about a top MLS team.

Our next game is on Thursday against the MLS Allstars. I expect a much easier game. These last two games had a very competitive feel to them, with both teams in mid-season form and playing for pride. Thursday game will have an exhibition feel towards it, and it may work to our favour with so many youngsters in the team.

Personally, I can't wait for all the remaining players return. From what I've seen so far, this is not the 95-96 season. This current crop of youngster are good, but not that good, partly due to the fact that most of the teams in the EPL have improved by leaps and bounds since then. Secondly, most of our play so far involving our youngsters has been rather immature. That group of Scholes, Butt, Becks and the Neville brothers had veteran heads on their then young shoulders.

And on a ending note, Carrick would look sweet on the Kansas City Wizards. Plenty of opportunities to don his superman costume. Wonder if they can afford him....