It was a wild weekend in Main League Soccer because the league’s 30 groups lined up for the tenth matchday of the season. The Japanese Convention stays perilously tight, with simply six factors separating first-place FC Cincinnati from seventh-place Orlando Metropolis.
The Western Convention, however, is rather less tense. The Vancouver Whitecaps, the league’s shock bundle of the rationale, are working away with issues.
How did issues shake out on Matchday 10? Listed here are the largest tales from across the league:
Nashville — yup, that Nashville — put seven objectives previous a beleaguered Chicago
Nashville SC has been comparatively quiet in 2025: it’s been stable however not spectacular, helpful however not unbelievable. That every one modified this weekend. Nashville beat the Chicago Fireplace, 7-2, in a wild evening at Geodis Park, scoring 5 unanswered objectives within the first half earlier than backing off within the last 45 minutes. It eclipsed San Jose’s six-goal rout in opposition to D.C. United to grow to be the largest one-team goalscoring efficiency of the season.
English Designated Participant Sam Surridge scored 4 of the seven for Nashville, and in a method, that should’ve come as an enormous aid for him and his teammates. He’s usually thought-about one in every of MLS’s weaker Designated Gamers and he wanted this star-making efficiency to justify his place on the high of Nashville’s roster.
Sure, he doesn’t precisely maintain as much as scrutiny when positioned subsequent to Lionel Messi or Christian Benteke, however he’s a helpful ahead and one the league is fortunate to have. He greater than deserved this second within the highlight.
Additionally deserving of his second? Nashville coach B. J. Callaghan. He took on his former USMNT boss in Chicago coach Gregg Berhalter and took him down in gorgeous vogue.
“Gregg [Berhalter] and I’ve an unbelievable relationship,” Callaghan said after the win. ”Tonight wasn’t about Gregg vs. B.J. It was about Nashville vs. Chicago, and we wanted to bounce again after the loss in Seattle. And we did that.”
