Up next for Chivas USA: Saturday vs. D.C. United

When: 7:30.

Where: Home Depot Center.

On the air: TV: KDOC, KWHY (Spanish); Radio: 690.

Records: Chivas USA 7-10-10; D.C. United 7-7-10.

Record vs. D.C. United (2010): 1-1-0.

Update: This is the first of two crucial meetings in 11 days between these teams; they are tied with 31 points each, just one short of the final MLS playoff spot. Chivas has lost consecutive games by a score of 1-0 but has won four of its last seven meetings with United, which had its four-match unbeaten streak snapped in its 1-0 loss Sunday to Sporting Kansas City. In honor of Sunday’s 10-year anniversary of 9/11, all Southern California-based military personnel, police, firefighters, paramedics and their families will receive free admission.

— Baxter Holmes