Five games into their second season, it’s becoming clear Spokane Velocity has taken a positive step forward. The side’s 4-1 victory against Texoma was the second four-goal display Velocity has put up this year, and there was little complacency in the performance. 

“We worked all week. We knew how they were going to come out and play, so we just executed,” said Grenada international Shavon John-Brown, who contributed a goal and assist. “It’s a convincing win and important moving forward.”

What we’re seeing out of Spokane is impressive. The side leads the league with an average of 1.87 Expected Goals per 90 minutes, a rise from a season ago, and it’s also dropped its Expected Goals Against mark to 0.97 per 90 minutes.

Despite that, over here at League One Power Rankings central, we’re making a change at the top.

Yes, it’s FC Naples’ time.

As you’ll remember, we had questions going into this season about how this was all going to fit together. Sitting as one of the two remaining undefeated teams in the league, all of those have been answered confidently on the field. Naples is also no slouch when it comes to underlying numbers. Through six games it has a league best +5.39 Expected Goal Differential – not quite as large as its actual +7 mark, but in some ways more impressive.

Coming through with another victory against the Richmond Kickers before a weekend-high crowd of 4,005 fans, Naples is now five points clear at the top one-fifth of the way through its inaugural regular season.

“You could tell that, as a team, we were ready to go,” said defender Julian Cisneros. “It was probably one of our most solid performances of the year. I think we just blocked all the noise out, all the outside factors, and just took care of business. We were ready to go.”

Here’s where things stand this week.