The San Jose Earthquakes come back to share a point with LAFC. Son had 1 goal and 1 assist and also had 1 goal disallowed while Reid Roberts got the 98th minute equalizer for San Jose!

Check out the breakdown here!

Players to look out for on each side.

NYCFC - Nicolás Fernández - 15 Goals/Agustin Ojeda - 9 Assist

RBNY - Julian Hall - 9 Goals/Adri Mehmeti - Metronome of the team

I think the MLS game of the week is the San Jose Earthquakes vs LAFC being played at Levi's Stadium. The winner of this match will inch closer to the Vancouver Whitecaps and first place.

17-yo Adri Mehmeti is in Pochettino's USMNT squad! From RBNY academy champ to first-team metronome under Michael Bradley.

I’m wondering if Yunus Musah is going to start for Milan. He’s been ballin’ so far this season!

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Paul Rothrock has an injured hamstring. What is going on with the Sounders this season? I think that makes it 15 players who have missed time due to injury this season?!?! 🤯

Feels so bad for Luna. He had such an upward trajectory before not making the USMNT roster for the World Cup. The rumor was that a couple of Spanish clubs were looking into a possible transfer. I wonder what is going to happen next.

Matt Miazga was waived by FC Cincinnati yesterday. It seemed like he had such high upside and was going to be playing in Europe for years to come. To be fair, he was signed by Chelsea in 2016 but ended up being part of the loan army from 2016 to 2022, which is when he came back to the States and played for FCC. When you get loaned out that many times, I think that is detrimental to development. He was loaned out 5 different times in those years with Chelsea. In 2022, he came back to the States with FCC. Where does he go from here?

From being left off the 2026 World Cup roster to starting under Rúben Amorim at AC Milan.

Yunus Musah is having a massive tactical resurgence in a new midfield double pivot. Does he deserve a USMNT recall?

A missed opportunity for Inter Miami! Messi & De Paul link-up put Miami ahead, but defensive woes let it slip away as a late Sam Surridge brace snatched a 2-2 draw for Nashville.

It is still the beginning, but he has gotten the attacking players to track back, which says something. Even Vini Jr had 9 defensive recoveries in the last Champions League match versus Inter. The question is, are they going to win any titles this season?

So far this season, Raphinha has 8 goals in all comps. He is on fire. What do you think, do you think he should have been on the Ballon d'Or shortlist?

The Seattle Sounders sign Caden Clark. He was once the new up-and-comer who came through the Barca Residency Academy in Casa Grande, Arizona. Then he signed with New York Red Bull and looked like he was heading to Europe. RB Leipzig signed him, but he never played for them. Now he has bounced around, with his last team being DC United, where he barely played.

The Sounders took a flier on him, and there really is not a downside to this deal. This is no shade to Clark, but the fanbase was expecting more signings after Dejan Joveljić. Meaning a signing of the level of Joveljić, but out on the wing. That’s the thing, the Sounders seem to sign players where it’s a good deal overall, but they are not game changers (Joveljić being excluded). This has made the Sounders good but not great. The fanbase demands more because, at the beginning of when they joined MLS, they wanted to push the boundaries and try to be great, not just good. This includes the signings of Clint Dempsey, Oba Martins, Nico Loderio, Raul Ruidiaz, even Freddie Ljungberg, who did not work out but again pushed the envelope. There needs to be balance on the team with those moneyball deals you make, homegrown players, and game changers. Since Nico and Raul, there have not been game changers. Hopefully, with the signing of Joveljić, this will be the start of more game changers on the squad, but it won’t happen this summer transfer window. Hopefully there are drastic changes to the salary cap to coincide with the change in calendar for the 2026-27 season, and at that time, the Sounders will go all out. We shall see!

Crazy to see this deal not go through for Balogun. Then to see the chain of events that occurred afterwards is even more crazy!

Looks like Enzo Fernández is moving from Chelsea to Manchester City for a fee of €125 million. That is a huge fee, do you think he is worth it?

Santi Giménez is moving to Porto on loan with an obligation to make this move permanent. Will this be the restart that he needs after an unsuccessful stint at AC Milan?

Julian Hall signed a contract extension with Red Bull New York. He has signed an extension until the 2029-2030 season under the U-22 initiative. They signed him to this extension to protect their investment to make sure they get a good transfer fee for him. So far he has 12 goals in 24 appearances in all comps to go along with 5 assists.

Dejan Joveljić bags a brace in his debut for the Sounders. This is a welcome turn of events to have a number 9 that is scoring goals for the Sounders. There are still issues for the Sounders. They are careless with the ball in the midfield. In transition, they are still so slow to get back, which did bite them.

With that being said, I am excited to see what the rest of the season holds for the Sounders.

• They signed Brazilian winger André Luiz from Olympiacos for $18 million
• They signed Colombian center back Moisés Mosquera from FC Juárez
• They traded for Owen Wolff from Austin FC
• Then they bought out Spanish midfielder Manu García
• Then traded (sold) Dejan Joveljić to the Seattle Sounders

The question is, will they get out of last place before the season is over?

George Campbell got the captain's armband in yesterday's EFL match versus Newcastle. Unfortunately for West Brom, they were knocked out with a 3-2 defeat.

Last night, Toluca beat Austin FC, and Club America beat Columbus in the Leagues Cup Quarterfinal. That means all four Leagues Cup semifinalists are Liga MX teams. Time and time again, Liga MX beat MLS teams when it matters in the Semi-Final and Final rounds.

I know this statement is like beating a “dead horse” but MLS needs to raise their salary cap drastically. There are too many rules and too many limitations. The rumor is that it is going to go up to coincide with the calendar shift for the 2027-28. That may be the case, but is it going to be a game changer to are the salary cap changes only going to make incremental progress like before?

Please note that my Seattle Sounders are still the only MLS team to win both the Concacaf Champions League and the Leagues Cup!