Summer in MLS can be a rough time. You’re too far away from the real pressure of making or missing the playoffs, it’s hot and humid everywhere, teams are figuring it out after transfer window moves. It can feel very much like everyone’s biding their time for September and October.
Not August 6. MLS Madness™ took hold in nearly every corner of the country, with goals galore, teams scoring and conceding in the deepest depths of stoppage time, big-name stars scoring bangers, and everyone basically went bananas. It was a perfect advertisement for the league: fun, flawed, weird, and inexplicable.
For one thing, MLS broke a league record for goals scored in one night. Across 13 games Saturday night, teams combined for 57 goals, an average of well over four per game. The old record of 46 was left in the dust.
⚽️Record-Setting Saturday⚽️
In 13 @MLS matches played on Saturday, August 6, a total of 57 goals were scored.
The 57 goals scored are the most in a single day in the history of Major League Soccer, besting the previous record by 11 goals. pic.twitter.com/pyoPRt7pcv
— MLS Communications (@MLS_PR) August 7, 2022
As the league itself once said, This Stuff Kicks!
In chronological order, let’s go through one of the wildest nights in MLS history: