Sunday, April 06, 2008

Fighting to keep El Capitan - 2008 campaign

Dallas visits Houston today. Dallas has lost every match it has played here in H-town, including 4 regular season matches, a US Open Cup match, and a playoff match where Dallas had a 2-0 aggregate lead. (Game preview.)

It's up the the Men In Orange to keep this streak alive. We need to do this not only to maintain dominance over our fellow Texans, and not only to keep El Capitan, but just to stay with the competition in the Western Conference, where Chivas already has 4 points, Colorado and LA have 3 points, Dallas and RSL have 1 point, and San Jose and Houston have the big ol' goose egg.

Time for a pointless question: If we have to choose between winning here versus Dallas and winning Wednesday versus Saprissa, which do you choose? Logic says Wednesday, because that's a win or go home affair, whereas we'd have other opportunities to overcome an early loss in league play -- even though it would be two losses in a row. Wednesday would be the logical response, but the emotional response would be hard pressed to accept a loss to Dallas. Good thing we don't have to choose. Let's go with winning both, deal?

Here's a preview from Fox Sports, and it's always best to start with the Chronicle.

Go DYNAMO!

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