Speaker 1: For that, we go to the man in his studio
Speaker 1: space and find out what's going on in the land
Speaker 1: of Nico Moreno.
Speaker 2: Look at you?
Speaker 3: What's going on? John?
Speaker 2: Is a late night for you, brother?
Speaker 3: Wasn't it extremely late? Got here about twelve thirty?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know, I had to upload some videos rewatch a
Speaker 3: little bit of the end of that Portland game. So yeah, man,
Speaker 3: I was up for quite some time. Is this my
Speaker 3: third cup of coffee? Hoping that it's gonna do me something? Well, something,
Speaker 3: do something, any I need to load something else. But
Speaker 3: that's all we have, Rightmond.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you can always crack open that window
Speaker 1: off your left shoulder and sit there and let the
Speaker 1: sun shine in and sit there and go, well, you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Like, what's what's what's up with that? You mentioned Portland before?
Speaker 1: We kind of get into League's Cup and Seattle is
Speaker 1: the top seed and everything else?
Speaker 2: What in the wide world of sports going on with
Speaker 2: Santi Moreno?
Speaker 1: Basically he wants to go to Flu and he just
Speaker 1: like he jetted. He's like, I'm out, I'm done, I'm
Speaker 1: out the door and didn't play last night.
Speaker 2: Didn't tell anybody apparently that he was leaving and so.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm leaving and I'm playing at this joint
Speaker 1: and y'all can't catch me. You know, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's the equivalent of the gingerbread man. Right now, you
Speaker 1: can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man. Santy Moreno has
Speaker 1: like flown the coop. What is going on with that?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I look, that was reported. Unfortunately I didn't
Speaker 3: catch on to it before that. But this is something
Speaker 3: that doesn't Tago Moreno. You know, he's dealt with issues like
Speaker 3: this with his clubs in the past, and you know,
Speaker 3: he is definitely a very talented player that unfortunately, and
Speaker 3: this is my opinion, he doesn't have the right circle
Speaker 3: around him. And I think that his agents and the
Speaker 3: people who you know, handle that sort of situation for him,
Speaker 3: don't necessarily have him take the best decisions. He has
Speaker 3: some issues with Americaya Kayli prior to coming to Portland,
Speaker 3: where you know, there was a whole bunch of issues
Speaker 3: with people who had like rights to his you know,
Speaker 3: player card and his move and a whole bunch of
Speaker 3: things that just happened. Whenever you're a young talented player
Speaker 3: that unfortunately has people around you that are probably looking
Speaker 3: for their own benefit rather than yours. So look, he
Speaker 3: clearly wants a move to a top team in South America,
Speaker 3: a team that you know right now has all eyes
Speaker 3: on them, right They are a team that just have
Speaker 3: recently moved a guy like John Arius down to the Premiere.
Speaker 3: You know, They're definitely a team that can be a
Speaker 3: stepstone to Europe, or it could just be a team
Speaker 3: that you are a powerhouse in his South America. So, uh,
Speaker 3: there's always ways around to get your way that way,
Speaker 3: but what he is doing right now is just unexcusable.
Speaker 3: It is unprofessional.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And more importantly, you know, when you have a team
Speaker 3: like Portland where there's a leader like Diego Chara, who
Speaker 3: I know, you know, has taken and had you know,
Speaker 3: had a lot to do with Santi Moreno's initial adaptation
Speaker 3: into Portland, Like that's a slap in the face for
Speaker 3: you know, someone like that. I will get a little
Speaker 3: bit more into this. I will reach out to some
Speaker 3: contexts that at Portland to figure out one, what is
Speaker 3: the group think about it? What are the players? You know,
Speaker 3: what's the feel of you know, your teammate just kind
Speaker 3: of leaving you, you know, high and dry like that
Speaker 3: in the middle of a tournament where now Lasstor is
Speaker 3: the one that's taken over that position and what's going
Speaker 3: on with him. But it is an unfortunate situation. I
Speaker 3: don't think that's the right way to go about it,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if even that's the right way
Speaker 3: to go against Portland. Portland might be willing to just say, hey, look,
Speaker 3: we don't want to trade you now. You're doing all
Speaker 3: these things and we're just gonna, you know, file something
Speaker 3: with FIFA or do whatever you want, but you're under contract.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so he's just added just to go a
Speaker 1: wall unexcused absence, ned grab a voice saying as much,
Speaker 1: and it's like, go, we don't want to sell him.
Speaker 1: He said that he's leaving. He left, and so it's
Speaker 1: an unexcused absence. I just saw that come across my
Speaker 1: bottle last night and I'm like, oh, we got to
Speaker 1: file that one away. Your late night which has necessitated
Speaker 1: your third cup of coffee. Gave Seattle the top seed
Speaker 1: number one in the standings in the MLS side, and
Speaker 1: it is coming down to the last match day. More
Speaker 1: on the MLS side than the League AMECHI side. If
Speaker 1: I did the math correctly, I think basically Warez just
Speaker 1: needs not to lose and they become team number four
Speaker 1: and they would be the one to advance with just
Speaker 1: the extra point. Seattle takes care of business late last
Speaker 1: night and it's all good on that end, and so
Speaker 1: it's a two to one win and you end up
Speaker 1: with running the table highest goal differential, and it was
Speaker 1: a late red didn't necessarily make a whole lot of difference,
Speaker 1: as Massofski scored in the eighty seventh to make it
Speaker 1: to to one three for three and now you just
Speaker 1: wait for everybody else before you get back into playing
Speaker 1: mid week and weekend all over again.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, I mean Seattle was the most dominant team
Speaker 3: across both sides, both League AMEX and MLS win all
Speaker 3: their game's highest goal differential. They did it with rotating
Speaker 3: a lot of players, seeing a lot of new faces
Speaker 3: and trying to figure out what's next. And I think
Speaker 3: that's credit to Brian Smetzer. I think it's credit to
Speaker 3: this group of talented players. Yesterday, Brian Semester decides to
Speaker 3: give Osase his very first start, and he pays off
Speaker 3: the kid I thought played very well, I thought that
Speaker 3: he was good on the ball. He was good in
Speaker 3: hold up play. He initially was having a little bit
Speaker 3: of trouble getting on the ball, but eventually when he did,
Speaker 3: I thought he made a count a couple of nice
Speaker 3: little finesse plays that you know, are always good to
Speaker 3: see from a young player, well youngish right, youngish player,
Speaker 3: and they are all positive signs. Not to mention the
Speaker 3: fact that ultimately his biggest attribute, what Brian called was
Speaker 3: going to keep him in this league, is that tenacity,
Speaker 3: that ability to go and get the ball. He is
Speaker 3: just phenomenal when it comes to with an aerial duels
Speaker 3: and he does it consistently. He has great technique for it.
Speaker 3: He's shown it both at the Tacoma Defiance level as
Speaker 3: well as with the Seattle Sounders, and he pay off
Speaker 3: here today. I thought that Seattle, despite conceding first and
Speaker 3: get in a gut punch right before the end of
Speaker 3: the first half because they get a PK it's awarded
Speaker 3: to Seattle. Alber Rusnak gets on the ball and the
Speaker 3: penalty marker puts it on the left post. That was
Speaker 3: a big missed opportunity. And a minute after, right after
Speaker 3: that shows goes across and has a phenomenal shot on
Speaker 3: top of the eighteen that puts Tijuana with a one
Speaker 3: zero lead right before half. So it takes a confident team.
Speaker 3: He takes a team that can get to a situation
Speaker 3: like that, trust the system, make the adjustments in the
Speaker 3: second half, because they do think that the Seattle Saunders
Speaker 3: had a bit of a slower start than they wanted,
Speaker 3: and they're able to come in and have the right
Speaker 3: intensity to start off the second have they push all
Speaker 3: those back even farther than they already works. To be honest,
Speaker 3: I Loko Abreu was very comfortable just assuming pressure, holding
Speaker 3: through pressure, bunkering down and playing off of the counter.
Speaker 3: But Seato did right to break them down and started
Speaker 3: with alsace goal. Then later Danimasovski comes off the bench
Speaker 3: puts a second one away. You know, there is also
Speaker 3: another goal that gets taken off because of an offset position.
Speaker 3: So Seattle, just in my opinion, continues to generate a
Speaker 3: whole lot of offense. For those of you that love stats,
Speaker 3: they had a XG of four point four. You know,
Speaker 3: they shot I believe twenty six times overall in this game.
Speaker 3: I thought that they dominated statistically this game and in
Speaker 3: the moments where maybe things looked a little dicey and
Speaker 3: shotos was a very physical team. Although I will say
Speaker 3: they also rotated. I mean they knew they were out.
Speaker 3: Uh Selah Stana bro knew that he had a game.
Speaker 3: Uh that is important for him in the domestic play,
Speaker 3: and therefore he rotated. No Hilbert tomorrow. You know a
Speaker 3: lot of changes there for that shows team. But Seattle
Speaker 3: takes care of business and that's what really matters here.
Speaker 3: I will say this to just conclude, I think that
Speaker 3: Seattle did a great job at finding out what they
Speaker 3: could use. Reed gets a start. I thought he was
Speaker 3: very good. Coloney got a start. I thought he was
Speaker 3: very good. Ryan Kent I thought it was okay, he's
Speaker 3: a guy that's still trying to find his feet. I
Speaker 3: thought that initially in the first half wasn't very effective.
Speaker 3: But another greedy performance by Ryan Kent gets the assist
Speaker 3: in the Osacea goal. So you know that that is
Speaker 3: credit to Ryan Kent. So Brian Smetzer moving the right
Speaker 3: levers now they move on, Uh, don't play the galaxy
Speaker 3: with some rest of a LECs as well. So I
Speaker 3: just think that Seattle and Brian Smetzer did a very
Speaker 3: good job at these group's h in league's play, and
Speaker 3: they are now the top team, and they'll figure out
Speaker 3: who they played next to the way you started the show.
Speaker 3: I will also say that if Juarez wings and they
Speaker 3: bid Red Bulls, they would become the thirteam and Seattle
Speaker 3: would be forced to play Tigris, Which that's kind of
Speaker 3: a bummer if you are the number one team in
Speaker 3: the Group States and you have to play Tigris. It's
Speaker 3: not the way you probably saw that going. So hopefully
Speaker 3: for Seattle's interest, you're probably rooting for Red Bulls.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, right now.
Speaker 1: Lega Mcki says, it is once again Juarez five points
Speaker 1: if like I said, if they end up with if
Speaker 1: they end up with the draw and losing the shootout,
Speaker 1: you finish with six and you're gonna keep that plus three,
Speaker 1: So that would put them ahead of Puebla and knock
Speaker 1: them in is the four if they if they win
Speaker 1: in PKS, two points still knocks Puebla out. Tea Grace
Speaker 1: is the four. Seattle would play on the crossover, and
Speaker 1: then if they win, it would be eight, and you
Speaker 1: would imagine greater than and so tea Grace once again
Speaker 1: drops and so you're staring at all these things and
Speaker 1: you're sitting there going, man, can things just stay the
Speaker 1: way that they are?
Speaker 2: Can Juarez lose?
Speaker 1: You are rooting for Red Bulls massively if you are
Speaker 1: Seattle coming into tonight, absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean, Tigre's is a quality team. They are clearly
Speaker 3: the more talented team, and they're a club that is
Speaker 3: used to winning this sort of tournament. So I definitely
Speaker 3: would not want to face them. Not to mention the
Speaker 3: fact that, for all things accounted last night, as we
Speaker 3: talked with other media members, if it's Puebla, Seattle would host,
Speaker 3: but if it's Tigres would choose the location of that
Speaker 3: particular game. So that's yet again another thing that Seattle
Speaker 3: would go and have a disadvantage of. I'll add two
Speaker 3: things about yesterday's game. Both coaches had some pretty thirsting quotes.
Speaker 3: On the side of Bryan's Metzter, he called Dannymusovski the
Speaker 3: moosia that moose saya, and my job almost hits the
Speaker 3: floor where he said that. Obviously he said it jokingly,
Speaker 3: but he said, you know, he saved the team one
Speaker 3: more time and Sevastana brew Man. He went all in
Speaker 3: on He understands that the rules were said prior to
Speaker 3: this tournament, and that's why he's not making an excuse,
Speaker 3: but he said that Mexican teams are in a clear
Speaker 3: disadvantage and his team was in a clear disadvantage going
Speaker 3: into this game because the Seattle team players can't paraphrasing here,
Speaker 3: but they got to be home, They got to eat
Speaker 3: some pasta, some chickens, some nice salad, slipping their own beds,
Speaker 3: and then just kind of roll up here and just
Speaker 3: play this game while his team has been having to travel,
Speaker 3: be having to stay out, and he definitely thinks that
Speaker 3: with some meaner words, he said that, you know, they're
Speaker 3: kind of treated like a team that has to do whatever,
Speaker 3: while Seattle and the other MLS teams get to have
Speaker 3: all of the privileges and things like that. So interesting point.
Speaker 3: You know, I've said in the past, the League's Cup
Speaker 3: at some point is gonna have to make some adjustments
Speaker 3: and make it a little bit more of a two way,
Speaker 3: at least in the later stages. But as you and
Speaker 3: I both know, John, the money's here. LEAGUEX knows that
Speaker 3: they want those ticket sales here rather than in Mexico,
Speaker 3: so you know, sometimes it's it could be a double
Speaker 3: edged swort there for Legax.
Speaker 1: Yes, and that's one of the things that I'm hoping
Speaker 1: gets addressed at some point, with travel issues and trying
Speaker 1: to cross borders and things like that, where you can
Speaker 1: have those home matches in the group stay in sorry
Speaker 1: phase one, in the Phase one stage where you can
Speaker 1: be at some of those fantastic venues, whether it's the
Speaker 1: Estadio Akron, the Messio Diaz, the you know, the home
Speaker 1: of the crack in at Mazatlan, a lot of cool
Speaker 1: venues that I hope eventually get brought into this process
Speaker 1: when things can be a lot easier when you look
Speaker 1: at Phase.
Speaker 2: One in general.
Speaker 1: Now that we're wrapping up Phase one, what have been
Speaker 1: some of the surprises for you and what have been
Speaker 1: some of the disappointments for you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the surprises are mainly on the Liga
Speaker 3: m X side.
Speaker 2: Shoot.
Speaker 3: I would even say maybe Portland was a surprise, although
Speaker 3: they got a pretty easy draw. I would say, with
Speaker 3: the exception of obviously the last game, I thought that
Speaker 3: you know, s Louis, you know, it's a pretty easy
Speaker 3: there game that you can kind of manage. So I
Speaker 3: think that Portland has played probably above their weight class
Speaker 3: a little bit, especially with all of the injuries and
Speaker 3: some of the things that Nevels had to face there
Speaker 3: in Portland. So maybe they've been a bit of a
Speaker 3: surprise there in this tournament. But it's mainly on the
Speaker 3: side of got an X right. I mean, you got Puebla,
Speaker 3: a team that's in the bottom of the standings. You
Speaker 3: got jua Is another team that's at the bottom of
Speaker 3: the standings and they are kind of pushing, while the
Speaker 3: Grandes like Chievas, cruz Asou, Monterey all those are you
Speaker 3: know there and gone. So uh. In terms of disappointments
Speaker 3: on the side of MLS, I would say San Diego,
Speaker 3: you know, they fought hard, but they just seem to
Speaker 3: be a dollar short every single time in those things.
Speaker 2: To get doesn't need to get a red and lose
Speaker 2: his head either.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah, you don't have to kick the players. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, keep your head, you know, cool man, I
Speaker 3: mean you're an important player. What what what are we
Speaker 3: doing here?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: They are clearly a team that also lost a striker
Speaker 3: that they certainly need, and they felt that without a doubt.
Speaker 3: But you know Orlando too. Orlando is a team that
Speaker 3: even now there's still they're on the outside looking in
Speaker 3: despite putting you know a show one ni cosa, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, which Moodiel gets a hat trick, A guy
Speaker 3: that has his course since May a brace for Martino
Speaker 3: Hada that you know is one of the best camps
Speaker 3: in MLS right now. Uh So they're a team that
Speaker 3: was also interesting because I had them going through and
Speaker 3: they kind of struggle in their own way and now
Speaker 3: they're hoping to get some results or they would have
Speaker 3: had a very good last game, but with nothing to
Speaker 3: kind of show for it.
Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 1: Right, now that's do you have Leagues Cup Phase one done?
Speaker 1: We get to go to the knockouts and the quarters
Speaker 1: and go midwek weekend, midweek weekend. Guess what we still
Speaker 1: have matches now for the back to getting to normal
Speaker 1: in MLS. So nothing like having to do two things
Speaker 1: at once all over again. And this weekend time for
Speaker 1: Cliffhanger as it always is, and everybody's playing once again
Speaker 1: on Saturday Sunday. The folks that got to play later
Speaker 1: in the week because of League's Cup, they got the
Speaker 1: special dispensation to play on Sunday, and as you look
Speaker 1: at a couple of matchups, you've got some folks that
Speaker 1: are now in Thomas Mueller is now official up in Vancouver,
Speaker 1: so that's big news there. And it looks like Luccio
Speaker 1: Alcasta is out in FCD and it looks like he's
Speaker 1: heading to Flu I believe as a part of this
Speaker 1: transfer window that's got about another two weeks attached to it.
Speaker 1: I'm staring at matchups. NYC is an early favorite against
Speaker 1: NYC is at home. Crewe is a dog at a
Speaker 1: plus one seventy Toronto, with Georgia Mihailovich being traded over
Speaker 1: there to take over for you're hoping in senior and Bernardeski.
Speaker 1: It's like, we'd like some offense please, and Georgia Mahilovitch
Speaker 1: hopefully is part of that. Colorado's reeling and trying to
Speaker 1: figure out I guess what to do now? Yeah, with
Speaker 1: the with the eight million that they're gonna be getting,
Speaker 1: but then how do they invest in? I think that's
Speaker 1: the biggest question for Rapids fans is, Okay, you're getting
Speaker 1: all this money, what are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be a big question. I think for
Speaker 1: everybody in Colorado.
Speaker 3: What a gut punch for Colorado man, that that's that's tough.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: He kind of felt like Jordia was gonna be their
Speaker 3: their pillar to their offense, to uh, you know, bring
Speaker 3: in a little bit of stability, right. He was going
Speaker 3: to be the guy that's gonna be behind a guy
Speaker 3: like Navarro that you know you you can because he's
Speaker 3: such a very good finisher. But without having some of
Speaker 3: his components that get the ball to a guy like Navarro, man,
Speaker 3: it's it's difficult. I don't know if getting a guy
Speaker 3: for you know, X amounts, it doesn't matter. There's gonna
Speaker 3: be an adaptation, there's gonna be a learning curb. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that's tough for Colorado and Toronto. It's not like they're
Speaker 3: gonna go anywhere this season, but I guess they get
Speaker 3: their guy to help them rebuild the house on fire
Speaker 3: that that club and organization has been for the last
Speaker 3: five years. But I do like the the Columbus numbers.
Speaker 3: I would definitely take Columbus. I would take Columbus. I
Speaker 3: would take the goals on this one. The three and
Speaker 3: a half New York City look for all accounts. They
Speaker 3: are a team that you know. In this Leaks Cup
Speaker 3: they showed us once again how inconsistent they can be,
Speaker 3: how erratic they can be at times, how they can
Speaker 3: lose their heads a little bit, and probably the only
Speaker 3: sense of stability offensively it has been just their attacking points.
Speaker 3: But other than that, man, it's been you know, a
Speaker 3: longso is a one man's show up there. But other
Speaker 3: than that, man, I think that Columbus, especially coming off
Speaker 3: of a disappointing tournament here in Links Cup, I think
Speaker 3: they're gonna go all all in on just starting off
Speaker 3: to just change and turn that page. So I like Columbus,
Speaker 3: and I like the three and a half in that one.
Speaker 1: Plus one forty one. So it's a decent it's a
Speaker 1: decent number at the three. Yeah, So I mean to
Speaker 1: think it that's something that you can play with a
Speaker 1: little bit and sit there and get an early start
Speaker 1: on all the activity.
Speaker 2: I mean, most of.
Speaker 1: The matchups on Saturday are kind of haves and have
Speaker 1: have not Philly, Toronto, Austin, Houston, in Cope, Tejas, Chicago
Speaker 1: and lafc oh I forget to ask about Young Men's
Speaker 1: son for you and Sonny coming for twenty to twenty
Speaker 1: six by the time it's done.
Speaker 2: What'd you think.
Speaker 3: I think it's a phenomenal move for MLS. It brings
Speaker 3: an entire are their fan base, a fan base that
Speaker 3: has shown that they are soccer folks. You know, if
Speaker 3: you sign anything in a club World Cup, is some
Speaker 3: of that Asian influence. At think that there's a lot
Speaker 3: of Asian influence in the United States, and you know,
Speaker 3: Son is the most talented and popular Asian player that
Speaker 3: I can think of at this at least the last decade,
Speaker 3: and that part is phenomenal. So I think that he's
Speaker 3: a top five influence, influential move for MLS. I don't
Speaker 3: like to hear that, you know, he's the top five
Speaker 3: signing of all time and all these things, because there's
Speaker 3: just so many more components to it. Obviously, in terms
Speaker 3: of success and name recognition, you still have to go
Speaker 3: with Beckham, Messi, Ibrahimovich, David Villa, Terry Henry. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's been just so many of those high caliber guys
Speaker 3: that have won World Cups, have won champions leagues. But
Speaker 3: Son is a guy that's gonna come in and be
Speaker 3: a difference maker for LAFC. I think that he's still
Speaker 3: a guy that has at least three more years of
Speaker 3: very good, very high level soccer. He's one of the
Speaker 3: best finishers in Premier League with Tottenham, with a very
Speaker 3: poor Tottenham team that if I'm not mistaken, they were
Speaker 3: like seventeenth or something last season.
Speaker 2: And they but they did win Europa League though they.
Speaker 3: Did with your Roppa League. And is at the hands
Speaker 3: of a guy like like sonis and not to mention
Speaker 3: the fact that he has all the intangibles, and that's
Speaker 3: something that you see sometimes doesn't go for right. They
Speaker 3: like the big name, they like the showmanship, they like
Speaker 3: the things that go in the field. But Son's a
Speaker 3: guy that he's a locker room favorite, he's a fan favorite,
Speaker 3: and he's done it for a very long time at
Speaker 3: a very consistent level. So I think it's a hell
Speaker 3: of a signing, without a doubt, the best signing of
Speaker 3: this summer window so far. I would have even put
Speaker 3: it slightly above Rodrigo de Paul because of the global
Speaker 3: scale of it. Rodrigo de Paul has been phenomenal for
Speaker 3: Inner Miami, of course, but Son just has a little
Speaker 3: bit more of that amplifier and of just globalizing MLS
Speaker 3: and bringing more ice to the league.
Speaker 1: You've got FCD hosting Portland, All Caps hosting Nashville Sporting
Speaker 1: hosting San Diego, San Jose hosting Vancouver. Better matchups are
Speaker 1: on Sunday since he hosting, Charlotte, Minnesota hosting Colorado Red
Speaker 1: Bulls and RSL. But it ends up with Purple Team
Speaker 1: and Messian Friends. We still don't know where Leo is
Speaker 1: in his recovery. Luis Suarez comes up big last night,
Speaker 1: put on a hat after he scored a goal, and
Speaker 1: you know, hey, look, leagues Cup have fun. That's perfectly
Speaker 1: cool with me. Purple Team is actually favored at home
Speaker 1: a minus one thirty two on the quick turn, going
Speaker 1: up against Messian Friends who are almost a plus three
Speaker 1: hundred right now. Wow, on the road a plus two
Speaker 1: nine seven in the composite draws a plus three h
Speaker 1: nine with the Purple Team.
Speaker 2: What do you think they're.
Speaker 3: That's a uh, that's a surprising numbers. Uh, to be honest, wow. Uh,
Speaker 3: let me get the go composed as I try to
Speaker 3: figure this out. Look, I understand that Orlando City uh
Speaker 3: has a very good roster and that offensively they've been outstanding.
Speaker 3: They are a team that can definitely and has always
Speaker 3: given Inner Miami the business. Uh, they have the midfield
Speaker 3: to contain and bother a lot of the high profile
Speaker 3: players that they do. They're gonna make Giordillo defend the
Speaker 3: whole lot because Orlando does get great with from Guyslac
Speaker 3: and Goola and Freeman. I mean, you saw yesterday that
Speaker 3: Freeman balt Wha for the first gorgeous goal that they had,
Speaker 3: So they definitely have the the weapons to make Inner
Speaker 3: Miami defend and kind of push them to the limit there.
Speaker 3: I think there's gonna be a heavy scoring goal sort
Speaker 3: of game. I actually like the draw, and I like it, Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, at three and a half at the very least,
Speaker 3: I'm sure that the numbers won't be great for that
Speaker 3: because they're not.
Speaker 2: It's a minus one on one, basically a break even
Speaker 2: at three and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly exactly. But I think it's gonna be an
Speaker 3: interesting game. I don't know if I would necessarily take
Speaker 3: Inner Miami because I do think that even with the
Speaker 3: Roger good DePaul factor, Orlando is just a better team.
Speaker 3: And Orlando is in great form. Uh, and if Louis
Speaker 3: Mouriel can continue to be this effective and be this good.
Speaker 3: I mean that that that Orlando team is gonna shoot
Speaker 3: like a cannon here for the rest of the season.
Speaker 3: Not to mention the fact that they have so many
Speaker 3: options with and Rique and they're a very deep team.
Speaker 3: So but I like to draw on this one, to
Speaker 3: be quite frank, but it's gonna be an interesting game.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Three and a half is a minus one oho one four.
Speaker 1: No one's taking it. Four and a half right now
Speaker 1: is a plus two to twenty too. The last matchup
Speaker 1: on the weekend is the one that you get to
Speaker 1: focus on. You get to kind of sleep in a
Speaker 1: little bit on your Sunday ten ten Eastern timekick seven
Speaker 1: ten out on the West Coast, Dignity Hell Sports Park, Carson, California.
Speaker 2: I don't know the zip off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: Galaxy A plus one twenty nine in the composite Seattle
Speaker 1: A plus one seventy nine draws a plus two sixty four.
Speaker 1: I guess my first question is is it still Andrew
Speaker 1: Thomas or Stephan Fry gonna get starting now that we're
Speaker 1: out of League's Cup.
Speaker 3: That's a great question. I think that he will be
Speaker 3: Stephen Fry. Brian's Metzer basically said that he's going to
Speaker 3: give Andrew Thomas this tournament. Uh talking about Leak's Cup. Uh.
Speaker 3: So in that sense, I would think that Stephen Fry
Speaker 3: will be back against the LA Galaxy. We'll have to
Speaker 3: wait and see if he gets another full day of training,
Speaker 3: but he's off the protocol. He has been training. He
Speaker 3: was on the bench, of course, unavailable yesterday against show
Speaker 3: US at Tijuana. So if I was a betting man,
Speaker 3: which I am, I think that it will be Stephen
Speaker 3: Fry on net in the In that one, I actually
Speaker 3: think that Seattle is gonna go with their best starting
Speaker 3: eleven and they're gonna go to l A. They're gonna
Speaker 3: make a statement that what you've seen both from this
Speaker 3: team in leagues play, after the Club World Cup and
Speaker 3: during League's Cup, that you know they're the team to
Speaker 3: watch in the Western Conference. So to me, I'm taking Seattle.
Speaker 3: I'm taking Seattle on the road. I think that they're
Speaker 3: gonna have a multiple goal winning game. Pedro de la
Speaker 3: Vega was a guy that when I as soon as
Speaker 3: I saw that he wasn't gonna start against Cruisou, I
Speaker 3: knew he was going to be a started against the
Speaker 3: LA Galaxy, so uh, to me, despite LA Galaxy probably
Speaker 3: tonight trying to figure out if they can get enough
Speaker 3: goals to advance in League's Cup because there is a
Speaker 3: possibility there. I think that's their best way to have
Speaker 3: some going to rescue this twenty twenty five season. So
Speaker 3: they're going to be focused on that, and against the Sounders,
Speaker 3: I just feel like they're gonna have some tire legs,
Speaker 3: They're gonna have some mix of emotions back into the
Speaker 3: league play, and therefore I think Seattle will win that game.
Speaker 3: Not to mention the fact that I think, uh, Seattle,
Speaker 3: and we'll see what happens on Friday, but you know,
Speaker 3: they're staying pretty healthy now that Stephan Fry's back. You're
Speaker 3: still waiting on Jordan Morris, of course, Uh, but s too.
Speaker 3: Hawkins is getting a lot of closer. You're getting a
Speaker 3: lot of guys back. JP he should be available for
Speaker 3: for all senses, not just yet against all the Galaxy,
Speaker 3: but soon enough next week. So I think Seattle, Man,
Speaker 3: they're they're they're starting to trend. They're me turned in
Speaker 3: the right direction. But in terms of physical and getting
Speaker 3: away from the injuries, Uh, we'll see that.
Speaker 2: Clearly.
Speaker 3: There were two big ones yesterday that we're still going
Speaker 3: to have to figure out. And that's what I mean
Speaker 3: by we'll see what happens Friday, because Albert Rusnak went
Speaker 3: down with a hamstring injury that seemed pretty serious. I mean,
Speaker 3: you just don't usually see him that discomfort as he
Speaker 3: comes off, and then Ryan Kent. Clearly Albert Rusnik is
Speaker 3: the bigger injury out of the two. I think Ferreira
Speaker 3: did a good job at playing that tenth position yesterday.
Speaker 3: He's played it before. He's a guy that's a cerebral
Speaker 3: guy that is a very good passer, so I think
Speaker 3: that he could hold the four while Albert Usnak comes back.
Speaker 3: But those are kind of the two that we'll be
Speaker 3: looking at going into Friday.
Speaker 1: Absolutely true, And so cut the promo for me. What's
Speaker 1: going on? What the folks need to expect? Where can
Speaker 1: they watch you? Letting folks know what's going on on
Speaker 1: the TVs and all the things.
Speaker 2: Where can they go?
Speaker 3: Yep? Of course we're going to have as always what
Speaker 3: we learned this week with Jeremiah Sham will break down
Speaker 3: Wednesday's game, yesterday's game as well as we'll give you
Speaker 3: the latest on both of those injuries that I just
Speaker 3: talked about. We'll try to figure out what the lineup's
Speaker 3: going to be against Elle Galaxy, and then on Monday
Speaker 3: we'll do Loving Scorches kickoff with our line wall. I
Speaker 3: was also on their live feed last night right after
Speaker 3: the game, where we talked about a couple of these things,
Speaker 3: so go ahead and check that out too. In Love
Speaker 3: It's Courches and of course all the stuff in Pulso Sports.
Speaker 3: If you want to hear from Sewastiana Loko Abreu about
Speaker 3: the defeat about League's Cup but the fact that he
Speaker 3: played in Prosida Central with Ymargumz and drive it back
Speaker 3: in twenty thirteen. You know, everybody knows that at Loko
Speaker 3: is a guy that played for thirty one or thirty
Speaker 3: two teams in his playing career, a very long career.
Speaker 3: So the all those things you'll find at pussl Sports.
Speaker 1: And you will find out the best of the information
Speaker 1: and the intel up at the Providence in Swedish Hair
Speaker 1: and Porium and delicatessens as you always do. I love you,
Speaker 1: my friend very much. Be safe, get some rest, enjoy
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee number three up there, and as
Speaker 1: you balance life in Seattle and the polue, and we'll
Speaker 1: catch up with you next week.
Speaker 2: It's great to catch up.
Speaker 3: You demand, John, And I'm really hoping that dad, last
Speaker 3: little game, the first League's Cup win for Atlanta United,
Speaker 3: pushes this team in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you and everybody else down here in the Southeast,
Speaker 1: my friend will catch up soon.
Speaker 3: I'm a gooding all right.
Speaker 2: There goes Nico Moreno.