In part two of our season preview, Christopher Riordan and myself take a few minutes to focus on the play-in, wild-card, preliminary, extra, new, another tier of playoffs – why not? – round of Major League Soccer’s postseason cup tournament. Which teams do we see playing those final matches to make it into the eight-team, main part of the postseason tournament? Chris and I give our picks but also consider the implications of the play-in round, identifying which of the West’s Big Four is going to be playing days after the season’s last weekend and possibly moving over to the Eastern Conference for the playoffs.
