Major League Soccer · 2026
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Nashville SC finish top of the regular season
With 1 to play, 74 points and a 13-point lead put Nashville SC out of reach. The title itself is decided by the play-offs.
Running hot, and living on luck4 · Nashville SC are 21.8 points ahead of their xG
Runs worth naming, and the clubs whose results have drifted from their underlying numbers.
Overperforming
Nashville SC are 21.8 points ahead of their xG
74 points from an expected 52.2. That gap is finishing and fine margins rather than chance creation, and it is the kind of lead that historically shrinks rather than holds.
Points74Expected52.2xG for55.1Underperforming
CF Montréal are 12.8 points short of their xG
26 points from an expected 38.8. The chances are being created; they are not being taken. On the same underlying numbers this is the profile that tends to improve.
Points26Expected38.8xG for42.9Form
New England Revolution have won 4 of their last 5
3rd on 58 points, and the run has taken them there.
FormW W W W LPosition3rdForm
St. Louis City have lost 4 of their last 5
4th on 51, and falling.
FormD L L L LPosition4th
The people who decide it3 · Jonathan Bamba
Players in form, and the dugouts under pressure.
Player
Jonathan Bamba
3 goals and 1 assist for Chicago, 2.0 involvements per 90. Over the last 40 of 495 matches.
Goals3Assists1Per 902.0Player
Joaquín Pereyra
2 goals and 1 assist for Minnesota, 2.0 involvements per 90. Over the last 40 of 495 matches.
Goals2Assists1Per 902.0Player
Bruno Caicedo
1 goal and 2 assists for Vancouver, 1.8 involvements per 90. Over the last 40 of 495 matches.
Goals1Assists2Per 901.8
These are assembled, not written. Every sentence is built from numbers in the loaded season — the metrics under each story are the ones it was derived from — so a claim here can be checked rather than trusted. Nothing on this page is generated prose.