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MLS teams have opposite results in Champions Cup openersSoccer Betting Lines02/22/2007 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - When Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo and D.C. United competed in their respective first-leg CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal matches on Wednesday, they were able to get a good feel for where they are at this point of the preseason. The answer? D.C. look like a team that can do some damage in the tourney and the subsequent MLS season while defending league champion, Houston, looks like it has a lot of work to do. United earned a 4-1 victory over CD Olimpia in the Honduras behind two goals from reigning MLS MVP Christian Gomez and a goal apiece from Facundo Erpen and striker Luciano Emilio - a new signee who made his United debut against his former club. "For them it's still early, but the goals Christian scored were amazing goals and the goal Luciano scored ... we brought him here with the idea that he was going to put balls like that away," D.C. head coach Tom Soehn said on the team's website. "A near-post run, he did a great job with it. There is still progress to make but for our first game that meant something, I was real happy with it." Soehn also earned the win in just his first official game as the head coach of United after taking over in the offseason for Peter Nowak, who joined Bob Bradley with the U.S. U-23 Men's National Team. Houston fell in its opener, 1-0 to Costa Rican squad Puntarenas when Kurt Bernard scored in injury time. The shot didn't have much power but deflected off a Dynamo defender for the game-winner. Also of note, Dynamo defender Eddie Robinson was sent off the pitch in the 71st minute after receiving his second yellow card of the game after exchanging words with referee German Arredondo. Luckily for Houston, this was just the first game of its season and there is a lot of time to improve. Both games were away with the second-leg contests scheduled for March 1 at each MLS club's respective home site. To advance to the semifinal series in mid-March, Houston needs to win by two or more goals at the Aggie Soccer Complex in College Station, Texas, while D.C. just needs to lose by less than three in Washington D.C. at RFK Memorial Stadium.
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