How are FC Cincinnati sixth when their standing suggests 25th?
FC Cincinnati have turned a projected 25th-place standing into sixth in Major League Soccer, with 23 points from 12 matches.
The table offers a neat contradiction: FC Cincinnati are sixth, while the standing suggested for them was 25th. Twelve matches into the Major League Soccer season, they have made that gap look less like a forecast and more like a warning to anyone who trusted it.
Their haul is 23 points, and the latest run reads WWLWW. Four wins in five matches have carried them into sixth, with only one defeat in that sequence.
This is not a case of a slow start finally finding its feet. The season has already supplied enough evidence to make sixth a position earned, not an early-season flicker: 12 matches played, 23 points collected, and a form line that has contained four wins since its single loss.
Kevin Katofsky has been in charge since January 2055, a tenure long enough for this start to feel less like a novelty and more like a statement. His side have put their results where the projected standing did not expect them to be.