Speaker 1: You know it's a late night when it's another go
Speaker 1: round of SDH for Thursday thoughts, John, hear you there.
Speaker 1: I know it was a late night, and it was
Speaker 1: even later for those of us that were doing the
Speaker 1: postgame show, the full time report on ninety two nine
Speaker 1: the game of the Odyssey happened. It was even later
Speaker 1: for the team and for Mike and Jason as they
Speaker 1: were flying back. I'm guessing they might have gotten back
Speaker 1: into their own beds about five o'clock this morning. So
Speaker 1: it is a point on the road morning, Alex for
Speaker 1: at Lane United, Jamal ti Array ninety plus two after
Speaker 1: a Brandon Vasquez free kick from about twenty four or
Speaker 1: five yards out. That on the air that that Abe
Speaker 1: did make a point to say in the postgame show,
Speaker 1: we thought that Brandon Vasquez was not going to have
Speaker 1: that one on target. It was well struck and that
Speaker 1: was a one the elead. We'll go for the numbers
Speaker 1: and all of the the stats coming up here in
Speaker 1: just a little bit. Here's your layout for the morning.
Speaker 1: We're gonna We're not gonna waste a whole lot of
Speaker 1: time considering it is a double match week. Technically it's
Speaker 1: a triple match week with three games in eight days.
Speaker 1: Todd Lewis of the Free Kick Pod, which is attached
Speaker 1: to our friends in Philadelphia and Maryland's number one Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Union podcast.
Speaker 2: They think is how I think? Is how it is?
Speaker 2: I have to look it up.
Speaker 1: But Todd Lewis is gonna join us at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour and he's gonna break everything down. What
Speaker 1: happened with Philadelphia last night down to nil, tied it
Speaker 1: to and then if someone forgot to Mark Ti Berrobo
Speaker 1: at ninety plus six. So LA found another way to
Speaker 1: lose last night in Philadelphia. So we'll go over what
Speaker 1: happened in Philly, and we'll go over what the anticipation is.
Speaker 1: We'll go over what the season has been like in
Speaker 1: Philly with the Bradley Carnell now being in charge and
Speaker 1: just how different it is. And we'll go over what
Speaker 1: happened last night, and we'll go over Atlanta. And so
Speaker 1: we'll be kind of drifting in and out of what
Speaker 1: happened with Atlanta and Austin and what's going to be
Speaker 1: happening with Atlanta in Philadelphia. Ten o'clock in ten thirty
Speaker 1: is the Power Hour with Nino and Nico with Nino
Speaker 1: once again. You know Torres, our buddy from Goal TV.
Speaker 1: I have no earthly idea what he's bringing to the table.
Speaker 1: I have an idea, but I really don't know. So
Speaker 1: we'll find out when Nino joins us at ten and
Speaker 1: then at ten thirty we'll talk about a very very
Speaker 1: busy night in Major League Soccer, especially on the left
Speaker 1: coast for MLS after dark. That did not include what
Speaker 1: happened in Texas. It was a matchup that no surprise.
Speaker 1: If you had taken the over at five and a half,
Speaker 1: you would have been in pretty good shape. With Messi
Speaker 1: and friends. In San Jose, Naxie Falcones scored in the
Speaker 1: first minute. Chicho Roano was like, not so fast, my friend,
Speaker 1: Do I have a pencil? Do I have a pencil? No?
Speaker 2: Apparently I don't.
Speaker 1: So then it was back and forth and it finished
Speaker 1: up at three to three and Liono Messi got a
Speaker 1: yellow card for dissent after the final whistle. I'd like
Speaker 1: to thank the center f forgiving that because Leo Messi
Speaker 1: is my captain on my fantasy team this week, and
Speaker 1: you get docked points when you get a yellow, so
Speaker 1: so far it's pretty safe.
Speaker 2: Margin in fantasy.
Speaker 1: But we'll go over what happened all of yesterday with Nico.
Speaker 2: We'll go around the planet with Nino.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Philadelphia and what happened last night, and
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and what anticipates happening on the weekend with Todd Lewis,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2: Landy knighted at Austin.
Speaker 1: Here as we get you ready for the next twenty minutes, reminder,
Speaker 1: it's going to be another session of soccer is in
Speaker 1: session presented by our friends at Kaiser Permanente.
Speaker 2: At noon.
Speaker 1: We're going to try and catch up with as many
Speaker 1: champions from yesterday as possible. We do know Judson Hamby
Speaker 1: from a Cony County is going to join us at
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen. Kick off of that show is at noon
Speaker 1: Judson Hamby at twelve fifteen. We have reached out to
Speaker 1: coach Kerns at Love It Into Frank Zamora at Johnson
Speaker 1: gainsl and we'll see if they can join us in
Speaker 1: the noon hour and break it all down with what
Speaker 1: happened yesterday with championships. We'll go over brackets and let
Speaker 1: you know what's going on today. Jarrett and I will
Speaker 1: be at mckeecheren for the six A Finals at five
Speaker 1: and seven thirty Walton and Beauford, and it is on
Speaker 1: the boys' side in six A it is going to
Speaker 1: be Campbell and Grayson. So we'll catch up, we'll catch
Speaker 1: up with all your brackets, we'll get ready for your matchups,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and it's going to be a busy
Speaker 1: day on the NFHS network. But like I said, Jarrett
Speaker 1: and I are going to be upt McKeay and giving
Speaker 1: you the six A Finals at five and seven thirty.
Speaker 1: So if you are so inclined and you want to
Speaker 1: go sit in the sun at mckeechern, because apparently, according
Speaker 1: to our buddy Justin Hanover, you can't sit under the
Speaker 1: press box because they are addressing some structural issues at
Speaker 1: Cantrell Stadium and Dorsey Field. So everybody's sitting in the
Speaker 1: sun over across from the press box and so that's
Speaker 1: why you see the stands being what they are, split
Speaker 1: down the middle at fifty to fifty on the far
Speaker 1: side over at mc keechen. Jessica Charman was on a
Speaker 1: part of the call yesterday. She was doing the private matchups.
Speaker 1: Ais goes back to back on the boy's side, love
Speaker 1: It beats GAC on the girl's side. That was probably
Speaker 1: a bit of a shocker and in some circles, but
Speaker 1: love It gets the one nil win. Johnson gaines Will
Speaker 1: gets the one nil win against Northwest Whitfield. Talk about
Speaker 1: all that at noon and we'll break all of that
Speaker 1: stuff down and we'll try and track down coaches and
Speaker 1: get you ready for what's going on today later today
Speaker 1: on tape that'll be released on the weekend, We're going
Speaker 1: to catch up with the USLW League Tormentous side and
Speaker 1: find out what's going on there with their season getting underway.
Speaker 1: Sporting Jackson's season got underway for those of you here
Speaker 1: in the Southeastern footprint, and they played their first match
Speaker 1: at gene Cox Stadium in Tallahassee yesterday against the Reckoning
Speaker 1: I believe is the team name there in Tallahassee. So
Speaker 1: Sporting Jack's got two goals in a hurry and I
Speaker 1: think they ended up with the Duke. So it's a
Speaker 1: successful day for Sporting Jacks. They unveil their jerseys, they
Speaker 1: unveil their their squads, and they're often running. So that's
Speaker 1: all that we got going on today. Tomorrow once again
Speaker 1: is the standard tomorrow where we get you ready for
Speaker 1: the weekend. We'll go back over juice boxes and we'll
Speaker 1: get you ready for everything more in depth and previews
Speaker 1: and things like that, and we'll get you ready for
Speaker 1: Atlanta nighted on the quick turn as they're going up
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia. That one is on Saturday night at seven
Speaker 1: thirty translation seven forty, and we'll break up that one
Speaker 1: all down for you. So all right, let's get into
Speaker 1: what happened last night. And it was once again an
Speaker 1: Atlanta United in control for say, you know, thirty minutes
Speaker 1: or up until the hydration break, and you had three
Speaker 1: key passes from Latte Lot, you had a couple of
Speaker 1: chances on net, you had one from you had a
Speaker 1: couple from Alexi, you had one from Ronald Hernandez. And
Speaker 1: then at the hydration break, then it turned into pretty
Speaker 1: much everything in Philadelphia, I mean, Phillip while that's that's
Speaker 1: a Freudian slip, but everything Austin. So let's go back
Speaker 1: and we'll take a peek at the numbers and I
Speaker 1: get to do I get to do my ever popular
Speaker 1: sharing of the sharing of the screen. And so we'll
Speaker 1: go over control and we'll go over all the stats
Speaker 1: and everything. Starting lineups on the day, it was kind
Speaker 1: of like a It was listed as a five to
Speaker 1: four to one for Atlanta United Brad Gazanne and Net
Speaker 1: left to right, Ronald Hernandez, three center backs Luisa Brahm,
Speaker 1: Derek w Adams, No Cobb, Matt Edwards at you're right back.
Speaker 1: Four in the midfield Midan Chook, Click Sleish and Almaron.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't like a five. It wasn't like a
Speaker 1: At times it could have been a five two three five,
Speaker 1: you know, five four one ish kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: In Latte, Lot was at top, a couple of changes
Speaker 1: for Austin coming from the weekend Brad Stuver and Net
Speaker 1: left to right, Bureau Cascant, Spatalk and John Gallaher. Then
Speaker 1: it was the midfield of Sabovich, Ilia and owen Wolf,
Speaker 1: and up top it was your three dps Osman Bukari,
Speaker 1: Us Open Cup hero, Brandon Vasquez and Mirto Zuni. So
Speaker 1: it was a five four to one lining up against
Speaker 1: the four three three. Now let's get into the stats
Speaker 1: of the day and the way that it all.
Speaker 2: Broke down. Where's my stats?
Speaker 1: You said, the man's looking for stats and he ends
Speaker 1: up looking and getting other things. Okay, So fifty one
Speaker 1: forty nine, according to our friends at SOFA, score was
Speaker 1: the time of possession or the possession that was there
Speaker 1: XG or if you are abex the XG that he
Speaker 1: doesn't pay attention to. Considering that the x ABE was
Speaker 1: one and one XG for Atlanti United one point three
Speaker 1: to three for Austin, it was a point eight two
Speaker 1: big chances for Atlanta one for Austin. Eighteen total shots
Speaker 1: for Austin compared to eight for Atlanti United. Four saves
Speaker 1: by each brad, fourteen corner kicks total nine for Austin.
Speaker 1: Twenty fouls, which was under the standard number from Malik Badawi.
Speaker 1: Malik Badalwi traditionally calls in the neighborhood of twenty five,
Speaker 1: but he called twenty and he ended up with just
Speaker 1: the one yellow card against Atlanta United.
Speaker 2: On the day, you had.
Speaker 1: Twenty three kicks ten each side, fourteen tackles eight for Austin.
Speaker 1: So it was eight and six on the day. So
Speaker 1: for individuals for Atlanta United, top numbers were shared by
Speaker 1: Latte Lott and Aleximi Donchuk. So Latte Lot on the
Speaker 1: day played fifty seven minutes, and keep an eye on
Speaker 1: the minutes that were played last night in Austin and
Speaker 1: how it might translate to the weekend against Philadelphia. Latze
Speaker 1: Lot played fifty seven one shot off target, five of
Speaker 1: seven passing, and it was three key passes. So five
Speaker 1: of seven passing and three of them were key passes.
Speaker 1: But latte Lot only had five passes on the day.
Speaker 1: We need to figure out how many touches he had
Speaker 1: as a part of all of that. But five of
Speaker 1: seven passing, three key passes, completed four of six on
Speaker 1: these aerial duels, and that was it for latte Lot.
Speaker 1: Alexi Medonchuk on the day played eighty four minutes and
Speaker 1: he was twenty four to twenty seven passing in eighty
Speaker 1: nine percent. One cross that was long, that long switch
Speaker 1: that created an opportunity, so he had the one shot
Speaker 1: on target. He had the one shot blocked on one
Speaker 1: of his two aerials duels on the day, had the
Speaker 1: one block shot on his own as well. So you
Speaker 1: look at Miguel Almeron on the day, Miggy played ninety minutes,
Speaker 1: and I think that'll be one of the questions heading
Speaker 1: forward into the matchup against Philadelphia. Is that with Miggy
Speaker 1: having played ninety and then on the quick turn, then
Speaker 1: do you sit there and as you tried to get
Speaker 1: points on the road. Is Mickey on the roster in
Speaker 1: the game day eighteen or is I guess is twofold?
Speaker 1: Is Miggy starting and is he in the game day eighteen?
Speaker 1: I would probably say no, Comma, yes, if you need
Speaker 1: Niggy to come in late, considering the minutes and the
Speaker 1: heat and all of that stuff, I would probably say
Speaker 1: my gut tells me that Miggy is going to be
Speaker 1: coming off the bench in this matchup against Philly, just
Speaker 1: because of the minutes and the stress on the body
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. So of twenty four
Speaker 1: to twenty nine passing for Miggy, two key passes on
Speaker 1: the one cross and it was two shots on target,
Speaker 1: the one for three on the dribble, one big chance
Speaker 1: missed and that was when the ball was sent over
Speaker 1: the top early by Alexi Midnchuk and he had the
Speaker 1: run in on Steuver and instead of uh, you know,
Speaker 1: turning it out to the left maybe and drawing Steuver
Speaker 1: further out, it was a straight line and Mickey shoots
Speaker 1: it straight into Brad Steuver with his right foot, So
Speaker 1: three of seven on ground duels and he was fouled once,
Speaker 1: two clearances, two picks in a tackle for Miggy. Playing
Speaker 1: the full ninety minutes, once again, Sleash and Click in
Speaker 1: the midfield, you're as you're two holdings thirty two to
Speaker 1: thirty nine passing for Bartows. Sleish had the one long ball,
Speaker 1: five of eight on his duels, fouled twice, two clearances,
Speaker 1: three picks and two times dribbled past matteas Click played
Speaker 1: fifty seven minutes.
Speaker 2: Keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: Also for the weekend twenty one to twenty four, passing
Speaker 1: eighty eight percent, two key passes on the day, one
Speaker 1: long ball completed, one big chance, created two of four
Speaker 1: on his wells, fouled twice, one pick and two times
Speaker 1: dribbled past. So then once again your back line Ronald
Speaker 1: hernandez Lusa, Brahm, Derek Williams, Noah Cobb and Matt Edwards.
Speaker 1: Matt Edwards was our player of the match for playing
Speaker 1: the full ninety minutes and thugging it out as he said, so,
Speaker 1: I guess that might be the phrase, going forward and
Speaker 1: trying to grind out a result, do not be surprised,
Speaker 1: once again monitoring the health of Brooks, Lennon and Pedro
Speaker 1: Amador if Matt Edwards does not put in minutes again
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia this weekend. Two clearances for Matt Edwards, one
Speaker 1: total tackle too. He won a one duel on the
Speaker 1: air and one in the ground. Thirty two to thirty
Speaker 1: seven passing for Matt Edwards had one long ball on
Speaker 1: the day. But Matt Edwards basically he was a right back.
Speaker 1: Then he was a right center back. He was at
Speaker 1: right wing. I mean it was all over the place,
Speaker 1: especially in the second half when you're trying to create things.
Speaker 1: Same for Jay Fortune. You had Jay as a left
Speaker 1: back at one point. As they were they went from
Speaker 1: five at the back to four. Jay drifted back and
Speaker 1: from his left back position he would go left wing,
Speaker 1: left back, left wing, left wing, left wing.
Speaker 2: Back, and left back. He literally would be up.
Speaker 1: And down the left hand side when he came in
Speaker 1: as a substitute. So Noah Cobb some of the highlights there.
Speaker 1: Noah won every duel in the air. He was four
Speaker 1: of nine overall. He had one block. Nine clearances for
Speaker 1: Noah Cop nine clearances for Noah Cop forty three of
Speaker 1: fifty passing at eighty six percent, six of eleven on
Speaker 1: long balls. Derek Williams, who put in just under seventy minutes,
Speaker 1: had six clearances himself two picks, one tackle, two of
Speaker 1: three in the air or two of three on his
Speaker 1: duels twenty seven to thirty one passing two of four
Speaker 1: on long balls for Derek Williams and then Luisa Brahm
Speaker 1: on the day ninety minutes seven clearances, So if my
Speaker 1: math is right, that's twenty one clearances by your three
Speaker 1: center back. Yesterday Noah Cobb leading with nine one block shot.
Speaker 1: It was a three of six on the duels for
Speaker 1: Luisa Bram thirty five of forty two passing at eighty
Speaker 1: three percent, four of eight on long balls from Louise
Speaker 1: in the matchup against Austin and so Brad's numbers just
Speaker 1: to give you Brad Guzan's numbers, not to be confused
Speaker 1: with Brad Steuver ninety minutes, four saves, one high claim,
Speaker 1: two saves from inside the box, twenty three to thirty
Speaker 1: on his passes at seventy seven, ten of seventeen on
Speaker 1: long balls in the outlets and had the one clearance
Speaker 1: on the day, so that was your numbers with Brad Guzant.
Speaker 1: So that was how it was with the starters once again,
Speaker 1: remember Jay Fortune came in and gave you thirty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Ish came in for Ronald Hernandez in case you need
Speaker 1: Ronald to start again on Sunday, so Jay got minutes
Speaker 1: to keep every keep the engine turned over. Ronald gives
Speaker 1: you fifty six. Tristan Mulliam Bob basically the same thing.
Speaker 1: He was a part of that triple change. Tristan Mullion
Speaker 1: Bach came in and for gave you fifty seven, and
Speaker 1: then Matteas Click ended up giving you fifty seven minutes,
Speaker 1: so fifty seven and thirty three, so Mulliam Bob gives
Speaker 1: you thirty three.
Speaker 2: Click gives you fifty seven. Jamal the same.
Speaker 1: It was thirty three from Jamal and then it was
Speaker 1: fifty seven for Latte Lot Saba came in gave you
Speaker 1: twenty for Derek Williams, and that was a part of
Speaker 1: that where Jay Fortune ends up drifting back to be
Speaker 1: your left back in that back four. And then Edwin
Speaker 1: Musquette came in for a cup of coffee a handful
Speaker 1: of minutes, taking over for Alexei Midanchuk late six plus stoppage,
Speaker 1: Evyan Morales, Will Riley and Leoc Brennan did not play.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on them as maybe possibly being the
Speaker 1: first ones off the bench on the weekend. Obviously Game
Speaker 1: State has a lot to do with that, but you know,
Speaker 1: you're looking at how it could line itself up when
Speaker 1: it comes to the weekend, but just monitoring minutes, monitoring folks,
Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what it's going to look
Speaker 1: like against Philadelphia. So we'll keep an eye on that. Now,
Speaker 1: this is what I wanted to show. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: the magical screen sharing thing that I have learned to
Speaker 1: do and probably drive you crazy. So here is now
Speaker 1: it's going to be on the left hand side of
Speaker 1: your screen for those of you who are watching live
Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel. But here is the momentum chart
Speaker 1: off to the left hand side of the screen. And
Speaker 1: in the first once again thirty minutes or so, first
Speaker 1: thirty minutes or so, you're looking at fairly even distribution
Speaker 1: of momentum Austin Atlanta. Austin had prolonged except for the
Speaker 1: one stretch then Atlanta had prolonged, and then you end
Speaker 1: up getting to the hydration break and then basically from
Speaker 1: the hydration break until well after the Brandon Vasquez goal.
Speaker 1: So the Brandon Vasquez goal, it's attack momentum.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 1: So the Brandon Vasquez goal happens at fifty seven, so
Speaker 1: then probably add another fifteen so you get into the
Speaker 1: mid mid seventies. Then it's at Lanty United in the
Speaker 1: ascendancy as I'm fairly certain that Austin was trying to
Speaker 1: just figure out how to navigate the heat and get
Speaker 1: out with three points. And then you end up with
Speaker 1: at Landy United getting the equalizer at ninety plus two,
Speaker 1: when Austin had the momentum when it came to the attack.
Speaker 1: So once again there's that one section in the middle
Speaker 1: from thirty to say seventy, I would probably say sixty
Speaker 1: five or seventy if you have this long stretch of
Speaker 1: attack momentum from Austin, and I know that that's what
Speaker 1: a lot of you are looking at this morning. But
Speaker 1: at Landy United after that, they after the substitutions came in,
Speaker 1: you end up with the fresher legs and Niko Steves
Speaker 1: did not respond with substitutions until later then late when
Speaker 1: he was trying to make sure that he could come
Speaker 1: out of it with a point, and his substitutions didn't
Speaker 1: start until there were ten minutes to go. You see
Speaker 1: Jean Kolmanicic and Jeter Obrion, they both came in with
Speaker 1: eleven to go, stepping out for Wolf and Bukari Dubusarski
Speaker 1: came in with five to go along with CJ. Fodri
Speaker 1: and then Diego Rubio for mirto Uzuni. Literally it was
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, and so Rubio came in for
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes because they're getting ready for Vancouver
Speaker 1: this weekend, and that's why you see folks like Brendan
Speaker 1: hinz Ike not getting minutes. But the biggest thing, once again,
Speaker 1: that momentum we always talk about, even Steve until the
Speaker 1: hydration break, then the long version of Austin being in
Speaker 1: control the goal and then beyond and then Atlanta United
Speaker 1: taking over in say the final twenty five minutes or so.
Speaker 1: And then so if the goals at fifty seven and
Speaker 1: you sit there in extend so like seventy so maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty minutes to go, you're staring at Landy United from
Speaker 1: say thirty to seventy not having any momentum, and then
Speaker 1: from seventy basically until late eighties, early nineties plus the
Speaker 1: goal was when they had the momentum late. But the
Speaker 1: bottom line is the end of the day to one
Speaker 1: one draw? Was it pretty No? Is there a lot
Speaker 1: to work on?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: And so that's what you're staring at with Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: So we've had another a successful edition of screen sharing.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we successfully used a ropodope. I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: that's what Austin was trying to do when they had
Speaker 1: the one goal lead. David, I think that Austin was
Speaker 1: trying to get out of dodge and you know, the
Speaker 1: mid to high nineties heat and or humidity, the twelve
Speaker 1: mile an hour breeze, I'm sure was not doing a
Speaker 1: whole lot of good for anybody except for those who
Speaker 1: are looking at it from inside the press box. But
Speaker 1: it was it was an adventure. It was an adventure.
Speaker 1: You got a point on the road, and Bart to
Speaker 1: your point. Bart says that Noah was man of the match,
Speaker 1: hustled the whole night, tenacity, positivity, still a lot to learn,
Speaker 1: love giving him the chance to learn. End game and
Speaker 1: this is and you take from Bart's point, you take Noah,
Speaker 1: you take Matt, and you take j as a part
Speaker 1: of this learning tree that we have with Atlanta United
Speaker 1: young player, young player, young player from the system, from
Speaker 1: the system, from the system, And you know, it was
Speaker 1: it was right there with with Noah and Matt, and
Speaker 1: I think that it was with Matt, and literally it was.
Speaker 1: It was almost was a three way dance, but you
Speaker 1: ended up with me trying to figure out among the
Speaker 1: three of them who it was going to be. Gave
Speaker 1: it to Matt because of Matt and his continued energy,
Speaker 1: and it was reinforced. If you haven't had the chance
Speaker 1: to go back and listen to the full time report
Speaker 1: over at ninety nine of the game in the Odyssey app,
Speaker 1: I would listen to Jason's interview with Matt and how
Speaker 1: Matt broke it all down and how I guess, like
Speaker 1: I said, the rally cry now is to thug it out.
Speaker 1: And so that's what they that's what they were trying
Speaker 1: to do. They were trying to grind out a result
Speaker 1: on the road. And it was, you know, one of
Speaker 1: those where Matt was grinding, Noah was grinding, and Jay
Speaker 1: was going to give you whatever he could wherever you
Speaker 1: needed him to be. So it was really cool as
Speaker 1: we have covered these athletes from the time that they
Speaker 1: started in the academy and such, so it will be
Speaker 1: like I said it was, it was a tough one,
Speaker 1: but I gave it to Matt considering also late in
Speaker 1: the match when he ain't got nothing left. He is
Speaker 1: still out there and he is grinding, and he's trying
Speaker 1: to exalt his teammates and push everybody forward into continuing
Speaker 1: to you know, try and stay as sharp as possible
Speaker 1: with only a handful of minutes to go. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was a tight call, but I did
Speaker 1: give it to Matt Edwards. Let me say hi to
Speaker 1: everybody before Todd Lewis hops in here and joins us.
Speaker 2: Morning, Alex, good evening.
Speaker 1: Bam Bam is in one of those times of the
Speaker 1: week where he gets to watch his before he goes
Speaker 1: to bed down in Australia. Yes, El Traffico is going
Speaker 1: to be huge this weekend, absolutely will be.
Speaker 2: Yes, a team hitting their stride versus a team from
Speaker 2: Carson That's gonna be bad.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: But of course we all say that it might end
Speaker 1: up being like some five goal thriller or something like that.
Speaker 1: Marco Royce hits a bombaso from thirty five or something.
Speaker 1: Morning Michael, and Morning Abbey, Morning Pars. And let's see
Speaker 1: who else is here this morning. So Bam says, A
Speaker 1: league fund and games start today, A league finals starting
Speaker 1: this weekend. Ten percent discount on tickets when they were
Speaker 1: released on Monday today a fifty percent code got released
Speaker 1: and then two hours later get changed to twenty percent. Man,
Speaker 1: jump on them tickets, early, jump on the tickets early. Yes, Abby,
Speaker 1: frustrating with the non ability to score with a one
Speaker 1: on one with a goalie. Yeah, and it was Miggy
Speaker 1: going into the defender and Brad Steuver and he's trying
Speaker 1: to push it past with the right That was it
Speaker 1: was very very UNMIGGI.
Speaker 2: Then let's see.
Speaker 1: So morning Pars, Morning David, and uh thank you Bart,
Speaker 1: me and graphics. Just trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: get things done and do screen share. All right, we're
Speaker 1: pushing nine to thirty, so not that we're putting Atlanta
Speaker 1: and Austin in the rear view mirror completely, but on
Speaker 1: a three matches in eight days kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: We've got to kind of look forward, and this is
Speaker 1: what we always like to do with our oppo research
Speaker 1: as they as they say in politics, if I remember
Speaker 1: my political science major correctly, when you're trying to do
Speaker 1: opposition re research, they just called it oppo research. And
Speaker 1: so now it's time to do some opo researcher. Buddy
Speaker 1: Dave Leno is calling the ACC Track and Field Championships.
Speaker 1: So he won the toss and deferred, and this is
Speaker 1: where we bring in Todd Lewis from the Free Kick Pod.
Speaker 1: And Todd first and foremost, you've been a busy man
Speaker 1: this morning. You were like off and running at eight
Speaker 1: thirty with your programming. Welcome aboard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks so much, John for having me. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: been a busy morning, but that's what happens when you episodes.
Speaker 4: Here a thrilling game last night in ninety six minute
Speaker 4: game winning goal from tyber Ribo to complete the comeback
Speaker 4: against La Galaxy. And so yeah, when you have exciting
Speaker 4: games like that, of course people want to talk about it.
Speaker 4: People obviously don't get a lot of sleep because all
Speaker 4: that's on the mine is wow, ninety six minute game
Speaker 4: winning goal. And you mentioned Dave Leonard there for your
Speaker 4: listeners who haven't heard that call. What a call by
Speaker 4: Dave Leonard last night on ninety seven to five The Fanatic,
Speaker 4: the Union's radio broadcast partnership.
Speaker 1: Hitting man all of the promo points. Absolutely out of
Speaker 1: the blocks, you're hitting all of those problems.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dave, Dave David would definitely appreciate that.
Speaker 4: But Dave Leonard is such a legend and grateful for
Speaker 4: the opportunity for him recommending me to come on the
Speaker 4: show and talk to you John for this upcoming game
Speaker 4: against Lentin nun named Philadelphia Union.
Speaker 2: No worries all right.
Speaker 1: So for those that were locked in with MLS after
Speaker 1: Dark and Atlanta and Austin Q two, I want to
Speaker 1: go over what happened last night and we were stunned.
Speaker 1: I was pulled into pre and postgame duty and it
Speaker 1: was looking at the grid and we're sitting there saying, okay,
Speaker 1: score here, score here, score here.
Speaker 2: Holy crap.
Speaker 1: You know it ends up his two nil out of
Speaker 1: the blocks with Quavis and Fagundez scoring. Run through the
Speaker 1: We'll run through it forty five minutes at a time.
Speaker 1: So the first forty five minutes lag has surprised. I'm
Speaker 1: sure everyone on this and every other planet in the
Speaker 1: Solar System putting two goals on the board.
Speaker 2: What happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think even those Philadelphia Union players would have
Speaker 4: been stunned too, just you know, Galaxy sitting back in
Speaker 4: the low block and the Union struggling to break that down.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure we'll get into this a little bit
Speaker 4: when we preview the match, but Philadelphia leads the league
Speaker 4: in crosses and so brotherly Cornell never wants the players
Speaker 4: to go away from that just sending crosses into the box.
Speaker 4: And so that's what we saw a lot of by
Speaker 4: the Union last night. In La Galaxy did a good job,
Speaker 4: you know, and just clearing away those chances. You would
Speaker 4: have hoped or wished for a little bit more attacking
Speaker 4: down the middle, and that never really came in the
Speaker 4: first half, and the two chances for La Galaxy and
Speaker 4: two goals for Galaxy, they turned the Union over and
Speaker 4: transition from the Union going in offense and now they're
Speaker 4: quickly transitioning to defense. For the first goal and then
Speaker 4: the second goal, it's just a poor clearance in Galaxy
Speaker 4: keeping pressure on the Union in the Union's defensive half
Speaker 4: of the field, and before you know it, it's two zero,
Speaker 4: and so that was only the second time this season
Speaker 4: that the Union had given up the first goal at
Speaker 4: super Park, in the second time this season at super
Speaker 4: Park that the Union had been trailing, And so it
Speaker 4: was going to be interesting to see the mindset of
Speaker 4: this team into the credit of the players to Brodley
Speaker 4: Cornell and his coaching staff.
Speaker 5: You score two goals.
Speaker 4: Coming out at halftime in that's the exact response that
Speaker 4: Brolly Cornell would have won it from his players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know you mentioned those those two goals
Speaker 1: that broke it down. It's like, you turn away from halftime,
Speaker 1: it's like we're doing the show and everything. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: so we start the pregame show and it's two nil.
Speaker 1: We got a half time. We it's a half time
Speaker 1: and it's two nil, and the world is shocked. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, right at the end of
Speaker 1: our pregame show, it's like and it's too too and
Speaker 1: the world has come back to normal and we're waiting
Speaker 1: for what's going on with lag Uh. You know, you
Speaker 1: get that kind of a response. And we're to the
Speaker 1: point now and I'll discuss this more with Nico Madeno
Speaker 1: in the ten thirty segment where we kind of take
Speaker 1: the tour of Major League Soccer where lag to me,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can find any other ways
Speaker 1: to lose. I don't know if we're trying to encourage
Speaker 1: them finding other ways to lose to get to ten,
Speaker 1: you know, ten and three and beyond. But the black
Speaker 1: cloud there, Schlepprock is there, It's droopy dog. It is
Speaker 1: just everything where that You're just kind of sitting there, going, man,
Speaker 1: how's it gonna happen?
Speaker 2: And how do you leave? How do you leave.
Speaker 1: Tybara Boat alone? And actually he wasn't alone, he had
Speaker 1: a teammate with him. How do you have an unbalanced
Speaker 1: number of LA Galaxy defenders trying to mark or not
Speaker 1: mark at the back post late as Philadelphia is chasing
Speaker 1: a game winner?
Speaker 2: How does this happen? Todd?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess, I mean you talked about it. This
Speaker 4: is a bad LA Galaxy team gets beat or humiliated
Speaker 4: by Red Bulls over the weekend. Seven zero the historic
Speaker 4: numbles numbers for this team where they are off to
Speaker 4: the worst start ever in MLS history for a defending team,
Speaker 4: and just when you think you can't get any worse,
Speaker 4: it gets worse where they defend so well on the
Speaker 4: first half.
Speaker 5: It's so crazy. It's like what happened.
Speaker 4: Like you guys had a strict game plan in the
Speaker 4: first half, you guys executed it well. And maybe it's
Speaker 4: a credit to you, Bradley Crannell and his coaching staff
Speaker 4: for tinkering with things a little bit and just having
Speaker 4: that belief from the players to go out there and
Speaker 4: get the job done. And I think maybe a little
Speaker 4: bit of a pissed off emotion from the players for Okay,
Speaker 4: we shouldn't be down two zero at home. This is
Speaker 4: a really bad La Galaxy team. And yeah, maybe it's
Speaker 4: just a whole bunch of different mix of emotions. But
Speaker 4: like you said, I mean, ninety six minute, you give
Speaker 4: up a goal at the back post. You know the
Speaker 4: Union are gonna send in a cross there. They've been
Speaker 4: doing it all game, and you decide, Okay, I don't
Speaker 4: know how to defend across this time. I mean, wow,
Speaker 4: I I don't know if we ever seeing anything like
Speaker 4: this ever again. John, a team a defending MLS champion
Speaker 4: be this bet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just you know, you're you. Yeah, Yamane ends
Speaker 1: up with with Yamane face the week before in the
Speaker 1: loss of Sporting where that turns into its own gift
Speaker 1: and every and meme and everything, and.
Speaker 2: Now you have what happened last night.
Speaker 1: So so was it Is it just something as simple
Speaker 1: as being pissed off? Do you think it's like, we
Speaker 1: shouldn't be down to nil and they flip the switch
Speaker 1: and they're like, all right, yep, we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: take care of this crap right here.
Speaker 4: And now, Yeah, I do think it is a little
Speaker 4: bit of that. And I'll remind your listeners. A couple
Speaker 4: of days before this game, the Union were winning late
Speaker 4: against Columbus Crew two one. They give up a late, late,
Speaker 4: late game time goal in the ninety third minute. I
Speaker 4: believe it was off of a set piece, and so
Speaker 4: I think, wow, this team was so close to beating
Speaker 4: one of the best teams in MLS and Columbus Crew,
Speaker 4: and now instead of beating them. Now it's been five
Speaker 4: straight games in all competitions that the Union haven't had
Speaker 4: a win against Columbus Crew, and so they were so
Speaker 4: close to finally getting over that line and beating the Crew,
Speaker 4: and then they give up that late goal, and so yeah,
Speaker 4: that has to sting a little bit, and then to
Speaker 4: go down to nail against La Galaxy, It's like.
Speaker 5: What is happening here?
Speaker 4: Yes, we've taken care of the teams that we're supposed
Speaker 4: to beat. Your Atlanta unit and tru DC unit and
Speaker 4: your Montreal and that started a three game winning streak
Speaker 4: for this team, and the momentums back with this team.
Speaker 4: And then they go into penalty kicks against Indy eleven,
Speaker 4: they come out, have a good response against Columbus, and
Speaker 4: then you go down against Galaxy and it's like, Wow,
Speaker 4: those three wins we had against Atlanta, DC and Montreal,
Speaker 4: was it all for nothing? And credit to the team,
Speaker 4: Credit to the coaching staff for coming out here and
Speaker 4: correcting the issues against the Galaxy and coming away with
Speaker 4: all three points.
Speaker 1: So, Bradley Carnell from your perspective, how different is he
Speaker 1: and his style inserted into the Philadelphia Union way that
Speaker 1: we were used to seeing with Jim Kurtin.
Speaker 2: Is it a twist, is it a tweak? How much
Speaker 2: of a twist or a tweak? Is it?
Speaker 1: How different are things systemically with Bradley Carnell in charge
Speaker 1: as it was in the past.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty different.
Speaker 4: I would say for multiple reasons, and I guess the
Speaker 4: number one is Jim Curtain had said it the last
Speaker 4: couple of years that they really didn't have the players
Speaker 4: to play the pressing style that earns.
Speaker 5: Ten and won it.
Speaker 4: You would would remember in twenty nineteen twenty twenty, the
Speaker 4: Union were non start pressing and a big part of
Speaker 4: that was because of Brendan Aronson, who's now with lead
Speaker 4: you Uninet, and so the Union just didn't really have
Speaker 4: the part personnel the last couple of years to continue
Speaker 4: this press singing. To Jim Curtin's credit, you know, he
Speaker 4: switched up tactics a little bit to the strengths of
Speaker 4: his teammates, I know, players while concept I know, but
Speaker 4: Ernst Tenner wasn't happy with that style of play because
Speaker 4: he said, this is what I came in here to
Speaker 4: build us as a pressing team. I want us to
Speaker 4: play pressing NonStop. And that's what Bratley Carnell's brought here.
Speaker 4: And I've had questions all season, you know, is this
Speaker 4: sustainable about the season in thirteen weeks to MLS it
Speaker 4: seems like that is the case. And one thing that
Speaker 4: Jim Curtain would never do is use his bench into
Speaker 4: Carnell's credit. He's not afraid to go to the bench
Speaker 4: and use five substitutions a game. You'd be lucky under
Speaker 4: Jim Curtin if you got one. And so I think
Speaker 4: that's probably the biggest difference between Jim and Bradley Cornell
Speaker 4: is that it's non step pressing with Bradley Cornell's teams,
Speaker 4: and then you have the use.
Speaker 5: Of your bench.
Speaker 4: And so with those two things, having that trust and
Speaker 4: belief in your players, whether they be the starters of
Speaker 4: the guys on the bench, I think that instills all
Speaker 4: the confidence in the world. And when you have a
Speaker 4: co says, hey, look, I'm not going to start you
Speaker 4: this game, but you are going to play a role
Speaker 4: coming off the bench, might be a minute, in maybe
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes. You're going to have a role to play.
Speaker 4: And I think that instills so much confidence. And again,
Speaker 4: you can tell, and I just talked about this on
Speaker 4: my show that if there was any questions if this
Speaker 4: is still Jim Curtin's team with a lot of his
Speaker 4: former players, with a lot of his coaching staff still
Speaker 4: here in Philadelphia, Well last night ended all these doubts
Speaker 4: because Breley Connell had a way that he wanted to play.
Speaker 4: They kept coming in with crossing, cross and crossing, and
Speaker 4: they eventually found the breakthrough through La Galaxy, scoring two
Speaker 4: goals in two minutes against Galaxy in the forty eighth
Speaker 4: and fiftieth minute. Then you get that lately late game
Speaker 4: winning goal. This is one hundred percent of a Brelly
Speaker 4: Cronnell team, and this team is fully bought into the
Speaker 4: way that he wants to play.
Speaker 1: Todd Lewis from the Free Kick Pod hanging out with
Speaker 1: us for a bit of a preview with Philadelphia Union
Speaker 1: as Philly comes to town. The lineup that was there
Speaker 1: last night, at least to start before you start getting
Speaker 1: into swaps and things, it was rickin that back line, Wagner, Harriel,
Speaker 1: Glesnis in west midfield, Sullivan, Danley, Lukich, and Vassilev Indiana Vasileev. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there are folks in our footprint that have followed Indy's
Speaker 1: career from his time in Savannah and Statesboro to All
Speaker 1: Caps and Tormenta now there in Philly, and then Domiani
Speaker 1: and Barbo up top. How much rotation are you anticipating
Speaker 1: coming into the weekend with this being the third match
Speaker 1: in an eight day period.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest with you, John, I thought there was
Speaker 4: going to be a rotation last night against La Galaxy.
Speaker 4: So this was the first time since weeks three and
Speaker 4: four that Bradley Cornell has put out the same consecutive lineup.
Speaker 4: And I thought with a game that the Union puts
Speaker 4: so much on the line against Columbus Crew that I
Speaker 4: thought we would see some rotation. And I've imagine there's
Speaker 4: going to be rotation against Elenda and not at this weekend,
Speaker 4: especially with playing one turf.
Speaker 5: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, Bradley Cornell's full of surprises, and he told
Speaker 4: us a few weeks ago that you can expect rotation
Speaker 4: with the Fords every single game, and he doesn't change
Speaker 4: the Fords last night, goes with the same exact lineup
Speaker 4: that he did against Columbus.
Speaker 5: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I would like to believe that we would see some
Speaker 4: sort of rotation. I think maybe the biggest thing, or
Speaker 4: the biggest question, is will Andrew Blake finally being goal
Speaker 4: for the Philadelphia Union. He's been dealing with a knee injury.
Speaker 4: Brolly Cornell had told us that there's just flew a
Speaker 4: build up in that knee doesn't feel comfortable Blake that
Speaker 4: is playing yet and if that is the case, you
Speaker 4: know why risk it on Turiff?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: And so, Andrew Rick hasn't been horrible in goal through
Speaker 4: the Union, just made his tenth MLS start, got a
Speaker 4: homegrown deal last year with the Union, and so yeah,
Speaker 4: he's a raw goalkeeper at the MLS level, but he's
Speaker 4: been playing consistently the last couple of years with Union
Speaker 4: two down inn MLS next pro and I do know
Speaker 4: that that's not the same level as MLS. But Andrew
Speaker 4: Rick hasn't lost the Union games. And I would say
Speaker 4: that the biggest difference between Blake and Andrew Rick is
Speaker 4: Rick's distribution out of the back. He's so good with
Speaker 4: the ball at his foot and I think that just
Speaker 4: adds another element to the Union's game. That's an area
Speaker 4: against Columbus over the weekend that the Union exploited with
Speaker 4: Rick just pinging accurate long balls over the top bypassing
Speaker 4: the midfield in the defensive line of Columbus crew. And
Speaker 4: so yeah, I mean, if Blake really isn't one, why
Speaker 4: would you want to, you know, test him against Atlanta
Speaker 4: and Turff and potentially make the injury even worse because
Speaker 4: after the Union get done with Atlanta, then they go
Speaker 4: back to US Open Cup on Wednesday against Pittsburgh River Hounds,
Speaker 4: and then a couple of days after that they welcome
Speaker 4: into Miami uh to Suparu Park. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: why risk Andrew Blake? Make sure if I was Bradley Cornell,
Speaker 4: if I was this coaching staff, Andrew Rick's not losing
Speaker 4: you games. You're still winning games, five straight games undefeated,
Speaker 4: six if you count the US Open Cup. So why
Speaker 4: not keep rolling out and Andrew Rick out there until
Speaker 4: Andrew Blake's one hundred percent healthy. And in a few
Speaker 4: hours we'll find out what the latest update is on
Speaker 4: Andrea Blake. I wish I had an update for you,
Speaker 4: but as of right now, I'd imagine Bradley Cornell is
Speaker 4: going to say he's questionable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and or day to day and we sit
Speaker 1: there and go, yeah, aren't we all? Yeah, So you
Speaker 1: have Andre and Andrew, and you mentioned the differences with Andrew,
Speaker 1: and we are familiar with Andrew at the time that
Speaker 1: we cover MLS next Pro here at SDH where we've
Speaker 1: seen we've seen what Andrew brings to the table. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned his numbers last night ten to fifteen, passing
Speaker 1: three of eight on his long balls, and so the
Speaker 1: distribution definitely something to look at when you're staring at
Speaker 1: it at Andrew. So when you bring in the newer
Speaker 1: players that have come in this season, you look at Danley,
Speaker 1: you look at Luke at you look at Damiani. Obviously
Speaker 1: Vasilev coming from All Caps because of the time that
Speaker 1: he spent with Bradley Carnell. How do you think those
Speaker 1: newer acquisitions have integrated into the folks that are there,
Speaker 1: with Bradley Carnell also coming in as an import to
Speaker 1: be your head coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the pieces have been tremendous for the Union. And
Speaker 4: I know that Atlanta fans didn't get to see a
Speaker 4: ton of him because he picked up a red card
Speaker 4: in the fifty six minute with that player being yovonn Lukach.
Speaker 4: But he's been probably, in my opinion, the Union's best
Speaker 4: signing so far this season. He's been one of the
Speaker 4: most important players just with his distribution in the midfield,
Speaker 4: splitting the lines with his passing. And there was a
Speaker 4: lot of questions within the Union fan base, different people
Speaker 4: in the media not knowing too much about this guy.
Speaker 4: Just looking at his career in Europe, going from different teams,
Speaker 4: different divisions in Spain, I mean in Serbia, and then
Speaker 4: going to Austria where he didn't play at all, and
Speaker 4: so people weren't really sure what they were getting in
Speaker 4: yevonn Lukach And since his first stay here in Philadelphia,
Speaker 4: he's looked to be one of the best players on
Speaker 4: the team. We've seen him score a couple of goals
Speaker 4: this season, but for me, it's just his distribution, his passing,
Speaker 4: breaking the lines down. And it's a shame that the
Speaker 4: Union didn't get to get ninety minutes of him against
Speaker 4: Atlanta a few weeks ago, but I guess it didn't
Speaker 4: matter when the Union win that game three to nil.
Speaker 4: Single handedly being a man down didn't really make all
Speaker 4: the difference in the world. But yeah, for me, I
Speaker 4: think that he's been their biggest acquisition, their biggest difference
Speaker 4: maker with that passing, winning balls back and we're starting
Speaker 4: to see Danley John Jock the midfield partner, the number
Speaker 4: six partner of Lukic, five straight games now with goal
Speaker 4: contributions and picks up another assist last night, and now
Speaker 4: we're just seeing the interchange between them when one goes forth,
Speaker 4: the other one stays back, and they've they're starting to
Speaker 4: really pick up good chemistry within one another. And that's
Speaker 4: not what we saw at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 4: where it would be more so Lucage pushing up into
Speaker 4: the attack with Danley sitting back. But now the last
Speaker 4: couple of games they found a really good understanding where Okay,
Speaker 4: if I push, you stay back, where they both push
Speaker 4: sometimes at times too, just adding that pressure. Bradley Cornell
Speaker 4: had told us a couple of weeks ago that yes,
Speaker 4: our Red Bull solid team wants to hit you in
Speaker 4: quick transitions. They don't typically have a lot of the ball,
Speaker 4: but Bradley Cornell believes in the possession quality of this team.
Speaker 4: If there's moments in this game where they have to
Speaker 4: have the ball for five minutes, he trusts his players
Speaker 4: to be comfortable in the ball and break you down.
Speaker 4: And a lot of that starts with Jova Lukashlayer in
Speaker 4: the midfield.
Speaker 2: What in your.
Speaker 1: Mind gives Philadelphia trouble when they're going up against an opponent,
Speaker 1: whether it's style, personality, what have you When have Philadelphia
Speaker 1: struggled on the field this season?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they struggle just with the pressing style because you
Speaker 4: want to be aggressive and you push your center backs
Speaker 4: high up the field trying to win the ball back.
Speaker 4: And so I think there's a lot of quality on
Speaker 4: paper in Atlanta. And I was a little bit surprised
Speaker 4: just seeing the result a few weeks ago three zero,
Speaker 4: where I thought Atlanta could really hit the Union on
Speaker 4: the counter attack, take advantage of their aggressiveness. And I
Speaker 4: would say the same is true for just any team.
Speaker 4: It happened last night against La Galaxy where Danley John
Speaker 4: Jock pushes up into the midfield, pushes into the attack,
Speaker 4: tries to dribble by three guys, turns the ball over.
Speaker 4: Union always pushes their fullbacks up for it. They get
Speaker 4: caught out on the counter attack. So I would say,
Speaker 4: you know, it's just you know, when you take those risks,
Speaker 4: they pay off. Sometimes when they don't, then you better
Speaker 4: hope that your goalkeeper comes up with a big saver
Speaker 4: or two. And it wasn't really the case last night
Speaker 4: for Andrew Rick because La Galaxy didn't have a ton
Speaker 4: of chances. Yes, they score two goals, but it's not like, Okay,
Speaker 4: they're constantly going back into the Union's half of the
Speaker 4: field when they turned the ball over. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: would just look at any team that have fast wingers,
Speaker 4: fast players that are going to quickly turn you over
Speaker 4: from defense to offense. And Jacob Gleazes is not the
Speaker 4: quickest center back for the Union. You talked about rotation
Speaker 4: or different guys coming in. Jacob Glessness, I believe, has
Speaker 4: played every single minute for the Union this season, and
Speaker 4: we saw a few years ago when that happened under
Speaker 4: Jim Kirkin eventually got injured and missed the playoff game
Speaker 4: against FC Cincinnati, And so yes, the Union are down
Speaker 4: a couple of center backs with Neil Pierre and Jan Glevinovich.
Speaker 4: But will Bradley Cornew make a change this weekend against
Speaker 4: Atlanta and in sit Jacob Glessness and have that low
Speaker 4: management a term that we're all so familiar with because
Speaker 4: of basketball.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Greg Popovich. Absolutely, But yeah, so far.
Speaker 4: I mean Bradley Cornell just doesn't seem to operate that
Speaker 4: way and seems comfortable putting glistens out there every single game,
Speaker 4: And uh yeah, I would just be curious to see,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe it's just a game that you throw
Speaker 4: out a Aliwa to Makanya, who's one of the two
Speaker 4: only healthy center backs on this team. Nathan Harriel, who's
Speaker 4: the right backs been playing as a center back, started
Speaker 4: once again as a center back next to Glessness. Does
Speaker 4: does Crannell change up the center back pairing against Atlanta?
Speaker 5: We shall see.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the Union just pushing up high, getting caught out,
Speaker 4: being over aggressive and then teams sitting on the counter
Speaker 4: attacks seems to be the biggest weakness for this team
Speaker 4: so far this season. But like I said, you know
Speaker 4: that's to be expected. When you're wanting teams to be aggressive,
Speaker 4: when you're telling your center backs your fullbacks to push up,
Speaker 4: and you want to make teams uncomfortable in their own
Speaker 4: defensive half of the field, of course you're going to
Speaker 4: give up chances here and.
Speaker 2: There at the promo for me.
Speaker 1: So, folks that want to catch up with you and
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: The freekick dot substack dot com. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: and there's our buddy Rich Ransom and so of course
Speaker 1: he saw you, and that was his instant reaction when
Speaker 1: he tuned in this morning, Todd. So our buddy Rich
Speaker 1: Ransom down up there, who watches us down here, he
Speaker 1: instantly was drawn to the fact that we brought you
Speaker 1: in this morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate that Rich Rich is a good guy.
Speaker 4: So I'm not surprised that Rich is watching this this program.
Speaker 4: So Rich has a good taste and glad to see
Speaker 4: Rich here this morning.
Speaker 1: Why yes, he does have good taste. So Todd, you
Speaker 1: now have the you've got the keys to the house.
Speaker 1: You have the garage door opener, so you know, if
Speaker 1: there's any time that you want to come in and
Speaker 1: chime in, just knock on the door, just open the
Speaker 1: garage and come crashing in and we'll talk things as
Speaker 1: we go with Philadelphia. Don't be a stranger, my friend.
Speaker 1: Thanks for dropping by.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much, Sehn, have a good show. See there
Speaker 5: we go.
Speaker 2: Todd Lewis from the Free Kick Pod, And it was
Speaker 2: a chance.
Speaker 1: See like I said, Todd has Todd already started his
Speaker 1: day literally like eight thirty this morning, and he's got
Speaker 1: to catch up and get hydrated.
Speaker 2: You know, you can hydrate on the show, Todd. I
Speaker 2: hydrate on the show. It's perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: But literally at eight thirty this morning, Todd was already
Speaker 1: gassed up and ready to go. He was like already
Speaker 1: off and running. He's doing the recap of everything lag
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. And I think that Bradley Carnell is having
Speaker 1: their post mortem in the ten o'clock hour, and that
Speaker 1: was why he couldn't swing it tomorrow, and so he's
Speaker 1: got to get ready for everything that he's doing today.
Speaker 1: And we were lucky to be able to shoehorn him
Speaker 1: in after his morning show in Philly in the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Union Universe, the Uniuniverse up in there, and so we
Speaker 1: were able to get Todd to come in this morning.
Speaker 2: And so that means that now Todd and Dave.
Speaker 1: Leno have the garage door opener to come in here
Speaker 1: and to discuss things in the hours of chaos that
Speaker 1: we have here every single week. So a morning Lokville.
Speaker 1: By the way, Rich, glad that you were able to
Speaker 1: see Todd before he jetted this morning. But yes, Abby
Speaker 1: was looking at temperatures. And by the way, like I said,
Speaker 1: Morning Local at the end of the match, eighty nine
Speaker 1: with a heat index of ninety four, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just uh uh. I mean they had the d
Speaker 1: during the extreme heat advisory. They did have that hydration
Speaker 1: break at thirty and it was intriguing, to say the
Speaker 1: very least, with how it was going to all break down.
Speaker 1: And like I said, we went over the numbers when
Speaker 1: it came to momentum and attack momentum and things like that.
Speaker 1: But I am intrigued secondarily as to how heat will
Speaker 1: affect I mean not only Atlanta obviously, but Austin on
Speaker 1: the weekend. I want to know what Nico Esteves's lineup
Speaker 1: is going to be, and then you end up with
Speaker 1: the decisions that you have.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I think that with.
Speaker 1: Players playing ninety in Austin, I think that they might
Speaker 1: be on the eighteens, but I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to start. But it will be the ninety dollars question.
Speaker 1: It is going to be what is it going to
Speaker 1: look like for Atlanta United with everything that's lined up?
Speaker 1: And Abby, I think yet to your point, Abby's making
Speaker 1: a point about when the hydration break happened in the
Speaker 1: thirtieth minute, make it at the midway point somewhere in
Speaker 1: there instead. And I don't know why they think, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty is the place to do it, because what you've
Speaker 1: done is you've gone thirty minutes and then you have
Speaker 1: your hydration breaking, then it's fifteen. Instead of hitting like
Speaker 1: a midpoint and then pursuing it from there, you go
Speaker 1: thirty minutes and then you kind of come you know,
Speaker 1: you've kind of got an adjusted to the conditions. You
Speaker 1: hydrate and then and it's fifteen minutes and it takes
Speaker 1: engine to get ramped up.
Speaker 2: You're trying to get.
Speaker 1: To the half and you're kind of like, okay, get
Speaker 1: back half.
Speaker 2: You get to that half. So but no abby with you.
Speaker 1: I think that they probably have hydration breaks somewhere in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood of twenty two, twenty three to five, somewhere
Speaker 1: at that point.
Speaker 2: But yeah, to uh.
Speaker 1: To to at their favorite club, playing in the conditions
Speaker 1: that were there down Austin this week again, what what
Speaker 1: it's keep an eye on Atlanta with what it's going
Speaker 1: to look like else that that's attached to it to
Speaker 1: see what it isn't going to look like. So we'll
Speaker 1: keep but it is one of the the leading into
Speaker 1: the end involving specifically they Telphia come into town thanks.
Speaker 2: To Todd for come.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what's where you David with me, David
Speaker 1: with breaks ninety minutes, ninety three, thirty sixty, Well at
Speaker 1: ninety at ninety minutes, you're done. It should be at
Speaker 1: the quarter poll, shouldn't it. It should be because the
Speaker 1: third break is the end of the match, because if
Speaker 1: you had a break, it would be like at thirty
Speaker 1: and sixty, Sure, thirty, and then you get in and
Speaker 1: then sixty you play for another thirty. But your third
Speaker 1: break would be at ninety and you're not done. And
Speaker 1: then you'd have a break at ninety minutes and then
Speaker 1: you have her many minutes. The fourth puts up on
Speaker 1: the on the lightboard. Would it be when it be
Speaker 1: better with the quarter pole. It'd be better at the
Speaker 1: quarter pole, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2: I think? So, yeah, Rich, you know how to fix
Speaker 2: hydration breaks? Move to a winter schedule.
Speaker 1: I yeah, but then you have venues that you wouldn't
Speaker 1: necessarily be able.
Speaker 2: To play in. Referees referees intelligence.
Speaker 1: I have none. I have no reference. I have no
Speaker 1: referee intelligence. Uh but yes, and so yes, Abby, half
Speaker 1: of the half.
Speaker 2: I could just see.
Speaker 1: I could just see, you know, with with David's David's philosophy,
Speaker 1: if that happened, you do it every thirty minutes at
Speaker 1: the ninetieth minute hydration break? What you have a hydration
Speaker 1: break in the ninetieth minute. Wait, it's like, wait, a
Speaker 1: second team is a team's starting to roll?
Speaker 2: They've got all this momentum.
Speaker 1: They're trying to either you know, get a go ahead
Speaker 1: goal or they're trying to get a comeback ninetieth minute
Speaker 1: tweet hydration break.
Speaker 2: You're like, what that would that'd be pretty funny.
Speaker 1: A couple of promos before our buddy Nino Torres joins
Speaker 1: us here to take the tour around the planet for
Speaker 1: the topics of which I have not seen, and we'll
Speaker 1: find out what's going on. Obviously, we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: Darby's that happened in Portugal that Nino got to call
Speaker 1: last weekend. And if you have a chance to watch
Speaker 1: Gold TV however you can access it, please do because
Speaker 1: Nino gets to show in these rivalries. It's just it's
Speaker 1: fun to see how he navigates it. So it's always
Speaker 1: fun to check out Nino when he calls things on
Speaker 1: Gold TV. We're probably gonna talk the Darby's in Portugal,
Speaker 1: probably Talkertadors, probably talk Champions League, probably talk about El
Speaker 1: Classico with Real Madrid Barcelona, which was just off the
Speaker 1: charts crazy, And so that's what I'm guessing.
Speaker 2: I have not seen the topics.
Speaker 1: We will all see them together when Nino Torres jumps
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Speaker 1: probably still wiped out from last night because she and
Speaker 1: the Hoff had the unified match after the first team
Speaker 1: match and it was a one to one draw. Late
Speaker 1: Bombaso for the equalizer off a recycled, recycled set piece,
Speaker 1: so it was a one to lead for Austin at
Speaker 1: home and it ended up with a late equalizer for
Speaker 1: Atlanta United. So their first trip to Austin, their first
Speaker 1: trip to Austin, and you end up with a one
Speaker 1: to one draw. So there you go, morning, Nate, Nate
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Speaker 1: Islands once again, they made their Kickstarter number and so
Speaker 1: it's good that they have cleared that level. Looks like
Speaker 1: we're going to be spending some time in August in
Speaker 1: Arkansas to look at what's going on with the Marshall
Speaker 1: Islands as they hold the first ever Outrigger Challenge Cup,
Speaker 1: their first ever eleven to eleven tournament. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be them Turks and Caicos and the US Virgin Islands
Speaker 1: all in Springdale, Arkansas, the week of August fourteenth through
Speaker 1: the sixteenth, where you're gonna have your three way dance
Speaker 1: and figure out who your champion is. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're gonna try to bring in a fourth team
Speaker 1: or not. Guam was supposed to be there, but they
Speaker 1: Guam unfortunately had to back out. So be a part
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Speaker 1: once again. Hour number two is the Power Hour and
Speaker 1: it is Nino and Nico. Nino we travel the planet, Nico,
Speaker 1: we travel Major League Soccer. We go back over what
Speaker 1: happened last night more in depth, and then we get
Speaker 1: you ready for the weekend by looking at some of
Speaker 1: the big matchups that's supposed to be Rivalry week. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it is sponsored by the favored beer
Speaker 1: and beer product of Major League Soccer, but we'll go
Speaker 1: over some of the key matchups. We'll go over them
Speaker 1: more in depth tomorrow. We'll go through more of the
Speaker 1: juice boxes, etc. And the keys and things like that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: During the show, and we'll trying to get as gassed
Speaker 1: up as humanly possible getting ready for that. Remember today
Speaker 1: at Lanta United, they probably got in like five o'clock
Speaker 1: this morning, so today is probably a rest day. You
Speaker 1: go in, you reach in a little bit maybe in
Speaker 1: the afternoon after you got your nap in and maybe
Speaker 1: some breakfast, and then you get ready for practice tomorrow,
Speaker 1: which is probably just going to be light, you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to get the cobwebs out of the muscles,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who can do what. And then
Speaker 1: Philadelphia comes to town on a Saturday night. That's a
Speaker 1: seven forty kick. And so it is a lot of
Speaker 1: different things going on, a lot of different leagues kicking off.
Speaker 1: It's US selling a bunch of different different ways USLW
Speaker 1: now up and running, in addition to League One in
Speaker 1: the Championship, and.
Speaker 2: It is the time of chaos, without question.
Speaker 1: But it's a fun part where all of the leagues
Speaker 1: going on and all the stuff that you have to
Speaker 1: try and navigate, and we get to tell all the
Speaker 1: stories of it every single day. I'm trying to think
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Speaker 1: there as well. Once again reminder high school championships continue today.
Speaker 1: Jarrett and I are going to be at Nikeecheren at
Speaker 1: five and seven thirty for the six to eight Championships.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that more at Soccer is in Session
Speaker 1: Playoff daily live at noon. Judson Hamby, the head coach
Speaker 1: of the winning a Coney County girls program in Triple A,
Speaker 1: one of the best matches of the tournament going into it,
Speaker 1: and it did not disappoint. Ninety minutes goalless and then
Speaker 1: it was a back pass that got pounced on by
Speaker 1: Maddy Cruz, the star freshman for a Cony County. She scored.
Speaker 1: It was the only goal of the match one nil.
Speaker 1: A Coney County beats Jefferson Region Rivals and a Cony
Speaker 1: County three peats and Judson Hamby gets the win as
Speaker 1: head coach. There so very very cool that we told
Speaker 1: folks coming out of the blocks. We told folks coming
Speaker 1: out of the blocks that this was going to be
Speaker 1: one of those games Jefferson in a Coney County and
Speaker 1: Triple A. We knew it was going to be that way,
Speaker 1: one of the best ones regardless of classification. You've had
Speaker 1: a lot of tight games so far. You had love
Speaker 1: it BEGAC girls one nil. AIS won yesterday and I
Speaker 1: think they won It was another one goal win for
Speaker 1: AIS as they knocked off Whitfield Academy. One goal win
Speaker 1: for a Cony County over Jefferson Girls in Triple A,
Speaker 1: one goal win for Johnson gains All over Northwest Whitfield
Speaker 1: on the boys side in Triple A. So you've had
Speaker 1: a lot of close matches so far. Schedule expands to
Speaker 1: three venues today and we'll go over those matchups in
Speaker 1: Class A and in six A and we'll get you
Speaker 1: ready for all the matchups across the board at the
Speaker 1: NFHS network where we are all going to be there
Speaker 1: in some form or fashion, because Maddie and Jason have
Speaker 1: to rush to luth because I think it's the four
Speaker 1: A Championship that they're going to be calling later today.
Speaker 1: It is our number two and we know that that
Speaker 1: means one thing, and one thing in particular. That means
Speaker 1: that there are things that I have to look at
Speaker 1: on my phone that I have not seen. I always
Speaker 1: see this picture of the Boss that's on my phone
Speaker 1: because that's my screen saver. But when I when I
Speaker 1: open it and give the code, that means that someone
Speaker 1: has given me topics that he wishes to discuss. Who
Speaker 1: is that individual that you may ask, It is someone
Speaker 1: who probably got more sleep than the rest of us.
Speaker 1: It's our buddy Nino Torres from Gold TV down in Lima, Peru.
Speaker 2: Yello, Yello, Hello, how you doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeallo yello.
Speaker 7: Sucker down here fast and Nino Torres, we you today
Speaker 7: excited old pump talk because of my beloved the Universe
Speaker 7: study pull up another big three in company with its
Speaker 7: three games in a row without dropping a laws, and
Speaker 7: we were still alive in the Tonne Race.
Speaker 8: And that's why that's why I'm gonna drop something here
Speaker 8: for you.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: You know, Oh you fired up to see now? And
Speaker 1: I truly do appreciate the fact that you broke out
Speaker 1: the alternate dress black jersey this morning. I love I
Speaker 1: love the dress black that that is my favorite.
Speaker 6: Me too, me too.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now that we are going fully loaded, now
Speaker 1: that you have played the so you've played your intro
Speaker 1: music to get ready for this particular segment. Uh I, well,
Speaker 1: I guess said the way that this always works. I
Speaker 1: have yet to see your topics. I have ideas as
Speaker 1: to where we may go, but I am now going
Speaker 1: to hit the magic button and we're going to see
Speaker 1: what the topics are that you have all lined up. Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: Universitario is still alive with Copa Alberta d'oris e dale.
Speaker 2: You and he only had.
Speaker 1: Yeah to two exclamation points. So you're you're all fired
Speaker 1: up about this.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: So for those that have not had the chance to
Speaker 1: see what else is going on in Copa Lbertadors what
Speaker 1: a folks missed.
Speaker 3: A massive game last night in Lima.
Speaker 6: It was It's been for a while.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm saying a while, a decade a decade,
Speaker 3: right that we did not be the Ecuadorians that in
Speaker 3: the last I want to say, five years.
Speaker 6: Ecuador is uh, it's one of the countries with.
Speaker 3: The the one of the with the third best record
Speaker 3: in in common ball, and Sumericana and Thetis and they were.
Speaker 6: They have our number, I mean, which is I couldn't
Speaker 6: do it.
Speaker 3: And for some way, some way, some I don't know,
Speaker 3: some way, somehow they dropped this year independent but it
Speaker 3: was a monster, right, an eleven headed monster, and it's
Speaker 3: there are more mortals now, the same with Barcelona, and
Speaker 3: we we appreciate that they dropped their level because that's
Speaker 3: the only way that we could beat him.
Speaker 6: And we've been in twice. We've been in twice in way.
Speaker 3: Kill, and we've been in here in lima Ino. No,
Speaker 3: there was no worry about tie or anything like that.
Speaker 3: But his team, his team was lacking creativity.
Speaker 6: His team was not able to beat us in.
Speaker 3: And then we we we stroggle big time, we strongle
Speaker 3: big time again because we have to go.
Speaker 6: I don't know five other times into the box to
Speaker 6: get a goal. Right, it's just ridiculous, but we got
Speaker 6: we got that one goal, we got the lead, We
Speaker 6: sustained the lead.
Speaker 3: And now everything is wide open because now tonight we
Speaker 3: were played place in the benite in Buenos Aires, but
Speaker 3: we're playing they took off, they took off already. It
Speaker 3: is that we were played that uh the Marceloga Yardos.
Speaker 3: We were played that they will all scare off at
Speaker 3: the beginning of but it was not there right now,
Speaker 3: he was saying this right hold a second. It takes time.
Speaker 3: It takes time to develop trust the process. And you
Speaker 3: heard this from many coaches in the planet, for many
Speaker 3: teams in the planet. But when Marceilloa Yello says it,
Speaker 3: it's for real. And right now we have played. It's
Speaker 3: on the rise. And I don't know who's going to
Speaker 3: stop at me.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: One of the one of the things that that folks
Speaker 1: missed out on. I believe you were you your universal
Speaker 1: target of deports was favored last night. You were a
Speaker 1: slight minus side favorite, but you were a big Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: it is the gentleman that was not wearing your outfiteah,
Speaker 1: he was not wearing your jersey, but he was coaching
Speaker 1: on the other sideline. The man who is styling and
Speaker 1: profiling looking as only you can look mister second Castle himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we we.
Speaker 1: Have grown to appreciate his sartorial splendor and how he
Speaker 1: goes just it is. Man, the man's busting out tuxes
Speaker 1: that have uh stuff that I've never seen before, and
Speaker 1: so it was bitter for the rest of the planet.
Speaker 1: You got to do and you know, fantastic stuff, but
Speaker 1: you did it against one of the best dressed men
Speaker 1: in the sport.
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, yeah, you gotta you gotta give him that, man,
Speaker 3: you gotta give you that credit. But he's gonna like
Speaker 3: he's tonneing it down now because the results are not
Speaker 3: backing up.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: You know, I can't be shining, but my team is
Speaker 6: not shining. Yeah. Maybe at least I'm gonna take the
Speaker 6: ball tight no ball tie today, so you you know,
Speaker 6: but it is what it is. And one restored from
Speaker 6: the from the game last night.
Speaker 3: You see that, remember that the ball boy double Reno
Speaker 3: congratulate because he played the ball so quick.
Speaker 6: The same thing happened last night to us.
Speaker 3: The ball boy run for his life and got the
Speaker 3: ball to the player, and the player bomb get developed
Speaker 3: the goal and we got the score. We have to
Speaker 3: score because of the quickness of this kid. You know
Speaker 3: social media, you know in here there's there's a electronic payment, right,
Speaker 3: they get your phone number, you get money, and it's
Speaker 3: called yappi here in Peru, right, the most popular one
Speaker 3: and everyone on social media, everybody get to yap into
Speaker 3: this kid.
Speaker 6: He hisself's a craze that everybody's.
Speaker 3: Is making movement to uh the pinchin for for for
Speaker 3: the kid because of what he did.
Speaker 6: Man, that's awesome, man, very cool.
Speaker 1: Last night, both the Foco beat the Studiantes three nil
Speaker 1: as a minus Russ and Klubi Colo Colo four nil.
Speaker 1: So Apollo and libertadd that was a draw at one
Speaker 1: one of the plus two fifty six, and we mentioned
Speaker 1: what happened with un versus the Duportees over Barcelona of
Speaker 1: Ecuador one nil. Looking at the standings in the group stage, yeah,
Speaker 1: right now you're staring at Universa Duporte's second in Group
Speaker 1: B behind river Plate, who is is not lost in
Speaker 1: the first four match weeks. You're you're, you're though are
Speaker 1: played five man week, so you got to kind of
Speaker 1: look behind you at the independent devij who are two
Speaker 1: points behind with the match in hand in Barcelona right
Speaker 1: now is four points having lost their first three, but
Speaker 1: they've turned things around.
Speaker 2: Right now, you're you got one.
Speaker 1: Match week to go in group your second but you
Speaker 1: know it's kind of like it is.
Speaker 3: But I believe real play is gonna take care of
Speaker 3: business at the at the Monumental tonight happen. I mean,
Speaker 3: no one in in in Cumdal right now can can
Speaker 3: match up replayed at the Monumental in Buenos Aires.
Speaker 6: Now, I think it's the next week we go into
Speaker 6: Buenos Aires.
Speaker 3: We close the group stage in Winnoesides when we play
Speaker 3: already qualified, already in the in the in the uh
Speaker 3: in the next month. They got other businesses they care
Speaker 3: in the in the Copaena and the leader Candena.
Speaker 6: So maybe, but the thing is that independent I'm Barcelona,
Speaker 6: gonna play in Quito, right so I.
Speaker 3: Draw put us through mm hmm, even when will even
Speaker 3: if we lose, we're going through m hm A drawn
Speaker 3: between the Benita ma.
Speaker 6: But if in the beneath the wins, now we go.
Speaker 3: Into the gold differential and then when we have to
Speaker 3: scratch a point from from weenosids and it's gonna go
Speaker 3: down to the wire, and then it's gonna go down
Speaker 3: to the wire, and that one, and you mentioned there
Speaker 3: is rassing my candidate.
Speaker 6: Number one to win it all.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: To listen to that, listen to that. Yeah, no Brazilian
Speaker 3: team wins this season either. No, what's no Brazilian team
Speaker 3: wins it this season?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean you're looking at roustling right now three one
Speaker 1: and one. After match week five, there are ten points,
Speaker 1: two points clear for for ALESA and Group E.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Paul Marris is leading Group G. They're blowing everybody out
Speaker 1: in their career. Uh, Bela, Sarsfield and Penny Roll. They're
Speaker 1: the top two and there Group you know they're they're
Speaker 1: gonna be the top two.
Speaker 2: You just don't know the order yet with one match
Speaker 2: week to go.
Speaker 1: Uh, You've got Salpallo and Libertadsuncion right now there, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be the ones out of Group D. You're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out who that third team might be for
Speaker 1: the wild card spot. Cordeba, I know, the Yukito, they
Speaker 1: look they're gonna be like the ones coming out of
Speaker 1: C And Wheniversa died, the Chile Studiantes and both the
Speaker 1: Fogo are in a street fight. In Group A that's
Speaker 1: gonna come down to the last match. Week without question,
Speaker 1: because Wheniversa does, the Chile plays both the Fogo and
Speaker 1: the Studiantes plays Carabobo. So it's looking at Studiantes. It
Speaker 1: looks like they may end up getting the win out
Speaker 1: of Group A and they might be able to pile
Speaker 1: it on because car Bobo's only scored twice in five
Speaker 1: matches and they've given up eleven, so it might be
Speaker 1: a chance for Studiantes to advance and get it done
Speaker 1: on goal difference if it comes down to it. But
Speaker 1: I like the Studiantes in Group A just because of
Speaker 1: who they end up having to play in the next
Speaker 1: go round. So that's that's my that is my dime store.
Speaker 1: Look at how it might shape up today. You got
Speaker 1: three at six o'clock Eastern, two at eight thirty uh
Speaker 1: Internacional favored on the road at Nacional. Palmer's big favorite
Speaker 1: at home against Boulevard, So sheriff'squarter about big favorite at
Speaker 1: home against Alanzolima. Then your night Caps Flamingo big favorite
Speaker 1: at home against l The Yukito River played a big
Speaker 1: favorite at home against Independent at do I j to
Speaker 1: minus two ninety four. So that's what you're staring at
Speaker 1: in the group stage before.
Speaker 6: And now out of those.
Speaker 3: Out of those teams, Johnny, I gotta give you one
Speaker 3: more that I like a lot, because they were able to.
Speaker 6: To turn around the season big time.
Speaker 3: And that's Bienon was horrible in the in the local tournament,
Speaker 3: mean horrible in then destrolling the couple of that, they
Speaker 3: made it come back and they made him marvelous comeback
Speaker 3: yesterday with love Fernandez turning the game a round against Olympia.
Speaker 3: By the way, got the coach from NIS reports Woosto's
Speaker 3: flame way from studied to play to coach Olympia.
Speaker 6: Take down. Take that, Bustos, Why you left us? Why?
Speaker 9: Why this is what you get for Liminus in uh.
Speaker 6: Le bernandees listen to this.
Speaker 3: Out of the eight goals of being all scored in
Speaker 3: the Koppa, six got the signature of le Fernando's assisting
Speaker 3: or scoring six.
Speaker 6: He was part of six goals from the eighth that
Speaker 6: his team scored.
Speaker 3: Monumental again, lef Fernande, and I think is gonna make
Speaker 3: a deep run this season too in the Copais.
Speaker 1: So we will get to more involving Nino Damas coming
Speaker 1: up in a bit. But you wanted to shift over
Speaker 1: to sud Americana where we have we have group stage.
Speaker 1: Last night Victoria won as a favorite on the road
Speaker 1: Cruzero bat Palestino at home as they were favored draw
Speaker 1: between America the Collie in Ura Khan. You have five
Speaker 1: matches today, Independente big favorite against Guarinee, UH, Corinthians big
Speaker 1: favorite on the road at brassing Montevideo. Athletti is a
Speaker 1: big favorite at home against Caracas, Cianciano, favorite at home
Speaker 1: against the Porte Sike and once Calda's massive favorite at
Speaker 1: home obviously against giv San Jose. But you, sir, wanted
Speaker 1: to continue to discuss one particular team that is doing
Speaker 1: really well.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, and that is Musha Bruna a Poncito.
Speaker 3: Yes, out of Ecuador, out of the indigenous community in Tumburawa. Yes,
Speaker 3: that's where they're coming from. UH undefeated at the top
Speaker 3: of the group. They've bid Santa Fe away and they're
Speaker 3: looking so solid. Man, they're looking so solid. And the
Speaker 3: Copas Americana.
Speaker 6: And they might be might be the dark horse in
Speaker 6: this competition. It would have been that awesome.
Speaker 3: Johnny Mushall Garner Champions of Copas american is a long
Speaker 3: way to go, right, but there'll be the beautiful story.
Speaker 3: And the reason why the reason why Mushna is at
Speaker 3: this moment now Okay, is because I believe that they
Speaker 3: are the team in Ecuador that they got alongside with
Speaker 3: Independinte by the best scouting in the entire League Pro Equador.
Speaker 6: Every every other year they got the striker. They got
Speaker 6: the striker out of from nowhere. Right, they got a
Speaker 6: striker over, We're gonna sign this kid from I don't know.
Speaker 3: From the third division in Paraguay, Okay, boone leading Scott
Speaker 3: and the leader Pro. What happens they don't. They don't
Speaker 3: the big teams in Ecuador. They don't leave mush to
Speaker 3: finish the season with their striker. Right they're talking about
Speaker 3: we're talking about Jonathan Bauman. He they got him from
Speaker 3: I don't know where he came from. But twelve goals
Speaker 3: in the first first half of the twelve goals in
Speaker 3: sixteen in sixteen game.
Speaker 6: They got the kid. I forgot his name. She's said
Speaker 6: they got a twist strikers in a row.
Speaker 3: That they signed him and halfway through the season either
Speaker 3: Barcelona Emi Lake Liga or in the Benita.
Speaker 6: Vias Nachal spiker from them every single year.
Speaker 3: They're looking so serious in the scouting department that they
Speaker 3: got these kids, that they they got these names. They
Speaker 3: got these names from you don't know did they got
Speaker 3: this Penilla Miranda?
Speaker 6: Who are these guys? But they're they're they're getting the
Speaker 6: getting the job done. And there's one guy that I
Speaker 6: highlight here as Steven Torpedo, the red headed uh.
Speaker 3: He looks like a like a Roxtar from the eighties
Speaker 3: and he's the uh, the core of the soccer operations
Speaker 3: in the in Musha Gruna. He's a ceramaid that they
Speaker 3: can they can he can defend, he can deliver it,
Speaker 3: he can assist, he can do everything.
Speaker 6: He runs the show from ms Runa the Colombia.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Steven Tapiedo that he's is a tremendous playman, tremendous man.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised that Dan Snatchot played from a from Musha
Speaker 3: Gruner man.
Speaker 6: But he's his demand.
Speaker 1: And we have and we can thank Jason for this.
Speaker 1: Is when we had we used to have our Monday
Speaker 1: night show, we got soccer over there. We would follow
Speaker 1: Musha Kruna and we would and Jason was the one
Speaker 1: that brought Musha Cruna to the table as one of
Speaker 1: those clubs that we needed to follow just because. And
Speaker 1: right now they're sixth in the equat Lega Pro out
Speaker 1: of the sixteen that are there.
Speaker 2: All right, so topic number three.
Speaker 1: When Nino was right, Episode seven eight nine, Sporting will
Speaker 1: win the championship in Portugal and Boa Vista could survive
Speaker 1: with three question marks?
Speaker 2: What is that about?
Speaker 6: Since day one?
Speaker 3: This day one, I said that Sporting was going to
Speaker 3: win the season right day one, Right at the beginning here,
Speaker 3: everything was perfect, right with running the show. Eleven victories
Speaker 3: in a row, the team was a machine. Then Rubin left,
Speaker 3: Then jo opery I came in.
Speaker 6: He couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: He got scared. He almost ruined the process. He almost
Speaker 3: ruined the season. And they said, all right, you know what,
Speaker 3: just thank you for your services. You gotta go boom.
Speaker 3: Third coach, Three coaches in one season. What do you
Speaker 3: see this with three coaches in one season getting the championship.
Speaker 3: I've never seen that one. Then came in from Eyes
Speaker 3: and his style was a bit different, right, a bit different,
Speaker 3: not shining explosives as Ruben, but he understood that he
Speaker 3: with the elements that he had with the personnel that
Speaker 3: he had.
Speaker 6: I can do something with it, right.
Speaker 3: I think I can manage the manage the ship to
Speaker 3: do to go to the finish line in first place.
Speaker 6: Because the the.
Speaker 3: Only only last ones the number one spot in the
Speaker 3: twice out of thirty four weeks in two weeks.
Speaker 6: Only in two weeks. Uh spot. It was not number one,
Speaker 6: all right. But then came the derby.
Speaker 3: It was to toe with the Vica went to start
Speaker 3: the loose and we work and said, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna knock out these guys.
Speaker 6: I'm not, but I'm gonna get the points. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: get the points.
Speaker 3: But they punch first. They scored the win it first
Speaker 3: four minutes and then they okay, we got the lead.
Speaker 3: Come get us, Come get us, baby, I know it's
Speaker 3: your house. Then I'm the owner of this guys. Right now,
Speaker 3: I'm running the show here, okay, and Menfica.
Speaker 6: Got they couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: This is Mepica got Floster. There was no clarity the Maria.
Speaker 3: He was not the the Maria that they will expecting.
Speaker 3: He was resting for three weeks getting ready for this game.
Speaker 3: But when he came in, he was it was. It
Speaker 3: was not that they that they wanted or they were expecting.
Speaker 3: You know, they couldn't filter it out. They just couldn't
Speaker 3: filter it out. The massive defense, overloading from Sporting eight alive,
Speaker 3: the offense.
Speaker 6: Of Benfica and the evening they got.
Speaker 3: They gotta come up with this marvelous play, individual play
Speaker 3: from a genius publicist living all fights, five defenders on
Speaker 3: the floor to assist, are to go look to get equalized.
Speaker 10: That was the only way, one magic trick from a
Speaker 10: Marlos players that is publicist to get that goal, because
Speaker 10: without magic, I mean, I don't.
Speaker 6: Think that they could ever get that goal. It was putting.
Speaker 3: They were so solid, It was so solid defensively and
Speaker 3: they were not that focus into attacking them pick that
Speaker 3: they were also they were focused on prevailed.
Speaker 6: Right, we got the lead, all right, they got the equalized. Right,
Speaker 6: we're not gonna get crazy.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna go and score again to get the
Speaker 3: two one to get the big two.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no no no, We're fine with the point.
Speaker 6: But we'll find with the point because after this, if
Speaker 6: we come up with a point out of here, we
Speaker 6: go to.
Speaker 3: Our stadi, to the alad to close the season and
Speaker 3: to win the championship at home. And that's exactly what
Speaker 3: they did, and that's exactly what will when I will.
Speaker 3: They didn't win the championship this Saturday, the first back
Speaker 3: to back titles in fifty two years for Sporting.
Speaker 6: It's not there, is not done yet, but I know
Speaker 6: it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: All right. I was gonna say, so you're you're doing
Speaker 2: that one right?
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Okay, So your your juice boxes. You have two matches tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Famally Cal favorited home against cassap And and real av
Speaker 1: Is favored at home against his Descente. Both of those
Speaker 1: are at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon on Gold TV. Everybody
Speaker 1: else is at one o'clock Eastern time, Yeah time.
Speaker 2: On Saturday.
Speaker 1: Afs favored at home against mororenz Aruka favored at home
Speaker 1: against Bulavista. We'll talk about them in a second. Braga
Speaker 1: big dog at home. Benfica's a minus one seventy five
Speaker 1: traveling to Braga. Estil slight dog at home hosting Estrala,
Speaker 1: who's a plus one fifty six. Porto's a big favorite
Speaker 1: at home at a minus three twenty three, hosting Nacional
Speaker 1: Forense slight favored at home against Santa Clauda at a
Speaker 1: plus one sixty five, Sporting a minus three eighty five
Speaker 1: hosting Vittoya Guimerash, who is a plus nine to eighty five.
Speaker 1: The standings as we go, Sporting and din Fica tied
Speaker 1: on points at seventy nine. Sporting has a plus three
Speaker 1: goal difference if you want to get down to it
Speaker 1: if you end up tied on.
Speaker 2: Points Porto and Braga. Braga needs some help.
Speaker 1: They need the win against Benfica and they need a
Speaker 1: whole lot of goals to get to third. I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna stay with Porto by the time we're done,
Speaker 1: because with Porto playing further down the table, I think
Speaker 1: Porto ends up with your number three spot, and then
Speaker 1: it comes to game Russian Santa Clauda to try to
Speaker 1: figure out your five spot. Who's going into Europa Conference League.
Speaker 1: Now we go to the bottom, yes, we go to
Speaker 1: the bottom. And this is why we spend time talking
Speaker 1: about folks like Boula Vista, AFS and Fadense because of
Speaker 1: how we just want to ish on Bolavista and how
Speaker 1: they handle things. And then you introduce the fact that
Speaker 1: AFS might be worse as an organization.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening sixteenth you.
Speaker 1: Want to avoid because that's the promotion playoff with the
Speaker 1: number three team coming up from Lega be that's right now,
Speaker 1: AFS because they're at twenty seven points and the tie
Speaker 1: breakers and such. I think it's head to head is
Speaker 1: right now the difference but Enze is a twenty seven points,
Speaker 1: they have better goal difference, but they have worse had
Speaker 1: the head against the AFS. Boa Vista is at twenty
Speaker 1: four points, they have the worst goal difference and they
Speaker 1: need to beat Aruka.
Speaker 2: And get some help.
Speaker 1: How did how how how could Boa Vista survive with
Speaker 1: this math?
Speaker 2: Sir oh Man, I was you know, I.
Speaker 3: Was going to Derby in uh but the portal Ofsta
Speaker 3: Derby and that's it at the end of is relegated,
Speaker 3: right because there was you know, you look at the
Speaker 3: points so that they're done. But then my guys from
Speaker 3: Portugal they're like, no, no, they're not done yet. They're
Speaker 3: not done yet.
Speaker 6: I mean it's gonna be a crazy combination of results,
Speaker 6: uh to get it done. But they could.
Speaker 3: I mean, all right, so it's twenty seven piece, right,
Speaker 3: But the thing is that they they had to head
Speaker 3: and they had to hand. Boa Vista got the UH,
Speaker 3: it's getting the upper hand against the other two. So
Speaker 3: if financing, yes, financing, because it's not it is the
Speaker 3: it is they head to head, the prevails instead of
Speaker 3: the all differential here, So even though they all differential
Speaker 3: for finance is minus twenty and and bab this is
Speaker 3: minus thirty bowl, I think it is UH, they can
Speaker 3: get ahead of them, but it's gonna be tied. This
Speaker 3: is this will go wild because they will be triple
Speaker 3: tie at twenty seven.
Speaker 6: If WA Vista.
Speaker 11: Wins and Financing and a FS lose lose their games,
Speaker 11: we're gonna triple tie at twenty seven and Bavista could
Speaker 11: be saved.
Speaker 6: I mean it's safe.
Speaker 3: Quota siou yeah, because they're gonna play the the relegation playoffs.
Speaker 6: But it is possible. It's possible.
Speaker 3: Even though even though since this system was installed in
Speaker 3: the in the Leo Portugal in the five years now
Speaker 3: five years now, every single year the the the team
Speaker 3: that's coming from the second division beat the ones in
Speaker 3: the UH in the first division in that playoff.
Speaker 6: So we don't know. Yeah, it's not over until it's
Speaker 6: somber baby.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. All right, so we'll hang on to
Speaker 2: that piece of info.
Speaker 1: And I know that you wanted to wrap up with
Speaker 1: what's going on through what in the wide world of
Speaker 1: sports is going on?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we we we we we talked about this, uh
Speaker 9: the violence thing and improved last week and uh we
Speaker 9: we we got another episode.
Speaker 3: It is I mean, it wasn't that, it wasn't that
Speaker 3: uh scary, but I was scared for the families of
Speaker 3: the players of when the report is because at the
Speaker 3: end of the game when started playing with the say
Speaker 3: in at the Monumental and we lost the undefeated condition
Speaker 3: after thirty seven games. We lost for the first time
Speaker 3: at the Monumental because the coach was using an alternative
Speaker 3: team because the game that matters was last night against Barcelona.
Speaker 8: Right, we're gonna save our players, were gonna save our
Speaker 8: stories for Wednesday, all right, So that he put an.
Speaker 3: Alternative team and the team wasn't working. You know that
Speaker 3: he made substitutions in the second half. The stories came in,
Speaker 3: but it was it was a bad game.
Speaker 6: So bad game, Like I don't do anyone, but at
Speaker 6: the end of the game, you know, all the all
Speaker 6: the people left almost all of them, and players were
Speaker 6: talking to their families, and this group of people came
Speaker 6: down to the uh to the stands to go.
Speaker 3: In the first line, right close to the players unders
Speaker 3: trying to ruin things of the players.
Speaker 6: Hey, you don't do this. Why you gotta you gotta
Speaker 6: you gotta play for a team.
Speaker 12: And the kids were there, you know, families of the
Speaker 12: families of the players were right there, and this group
Speaker 12: of uh insane people was going almost you know, it
Speaker 12: could it could have been it could have been a.
Speaker 6: Situation where people could have got hurt.
Speaker 3: It didn't, it didn't happen, right, but uh, there was
Speaker 3: a part of the old trust from your story reporters
Speaker 3: complaining to the players.
Speaker 6: But they got up close, way too personal.
Speaker 3: And one of the players rood and went up to
Speaker 3: the stairs to the stands because his kids were there,
Speaker 3: and he went out there and the truck almost got
Speaker 3: into a fight with these people.
Speaker 6: And then the security I don't know what was the security.
Speaker 3: Where was the insecurity either now, uh, I don't I
Speaker 3: think they were like five, but there was like fifty people.
Speaker 3: There was a group of fifty people that went down
Speaker 3: there to the close to the to the to the
Speaker 3: pitch to uh to put pressure on the players.
Speaker 6: But uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so stop stop.
Speaker 3: You know, it was one freaking game. It's not like
Speaker 3: the team is, you know, doing badly. Oh man, we're
Speaker 3: so bad. Number one in the in the in the tournament,
Speaker 3: We're almost were right there on the berche to qualify
Speaker 3: to the second stage a couple of players for the
Speaker 3: first time in twenty five freaking years.
Speaker 6: And you come and you come in in here because
Speaker 6: you lost one game, one nail.
Speaker 2: Come on, yeah, focus, focus people, all right, so what
Speaker 2: do you call on this weekend?
Speaker 13: Calling the uh sportying the Lions, And then I crowned
Speaker 13: the title at home, planning doing the h the Family
Speaker 13: Cow game tomorrow too.
Speaker 3: We're doing Pai Roll and Nason now in man, I'm
Speaker 3: so excited, Johnny, it's uh I've been I've been following
Speaker 3: this team, and you know it's crazy, right because in
Speaker 3: twenty five years in this center, since we turned the
Speaker 3: patient to it, two thousands sputting one only once, right,
Speaker 3: two thousand and one, two thousand and two seasons, only once, I.
Speaker 6: Get to call three championships for these guys, three and
Speaker 6: in in.
Speaker 3: That's special, man, that's special. And also uh I gotta
Speaker 3: say thank you to the uh FC portal because.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's see my boy, my boy, we gotta go
Speaker 6: to a gym.
Speaker 3: In a second, f porter chose to my call, choose
Speaker 3: my call. That really made my day, man, because they.
Speaker 6: I mean they're from Portugal.
Speaker 3: Brother, they got their broadcasters in Portuguese and no, and
Speaker 3: they put it on on on on the on the
Speaker 3: on the subtitles.
Speaker 6: We got to use these oudio guys, you know in Portuguese.
Speaker 2: That was that's that's strong. All right, go to the gym.
Speaker 1: I got my boy here, all right, yes exactly, so
Speaker 1: I love you, my friend. Be safe, have a good workout.
Speaker 1: May you not strain anything or pull anything, and have
Speaker 1: great calls and we will catch up with you again
Speaker 1: on the flip side. Enjoy the gym, my friend, be safe.
Speaker 6: Thank you guys, see you next week.
Speaker 12: There.
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Speaker 1: head into the gym. So in Nino's going to the
Speaker 1: gym and he's gonna make sure that that the house
Speaker 1: is properly protected as he goes. But it's always great
Speaker 1: catch up with Nino over at Gold TV, and with
Speaker 1: what we get to find out there, it's almost like
Speaker 1: a it's like almost like a soccer over thereish segment
Speaker 1: every single week where we get to kind of tour
Speaker 1: because of all of the different leagues that Nino gets
Speaker 1: to call on Gold TV, but with everything that's going
Speaker 1: on in Portugal and because of how it might impact
Speaker 1: the transfer situation involving England and Victor Jokoresh and Rubina
Speaker 1: Marim and all of the different pieces that are pieced together.
Speaker 1: That's where we kind of keep an eye on things.
Speaker 1: And then just the stories involving folks like Boa Vista
Speaker 1: and Afs and all of that that are important in
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Speaker 1: is where we make the tag and we go from Lima,
Speaker 1: Peru to Seattle, Washington, where we know someone had a.
Speaker 2: Bit of a late night.
Speaker 1: We kind of did too, but I don't think it
Speaker 1: was as late as this guy who's probably on cup
Speaker 1: number two of the coffee and in the rape either
Speaker 1: in the rave green mug or in the Wazu mug
Speaker 1: and we'll find out what that is.
Speaker 2: Our buddy, Nino.
Speaker 1: Torres from uh ah, he went rave Green this morning, okay,
Speaker 1: from Soundered Hart and Pulso Sports.
Speaker 2: So you went rave Green for the mug? Are you
Speaker 2: on Cup number two? Where are you?
Speaker 6: Yeah? There is Cup number three?
Speaker 14: Man, Like you said it was, it was a late night,
Speaker 14: you know, trying to catch a couple of games, at
Speaker 14: least ninety you know, to eighty minutes. I didn't finish
Speaker 14: watching the whole rail slike Timbers game, but yeah, just
Speaker 14: trying to catch some games. Obviously, lot going on here
Speaker 14: in the Pacific Northwest. So I am here man, three
Speaker 14: cups in, ready to go. But whatever John might throw my.
Speaker 1: Way, all right, so let's start with the home Let's
Speaker 1: start with the home man, and then we'll work our
Speaker 1: way through the rest of cascadies. So, Seattle, how would
Speaker 1: you describe giving up four to LAFC and not scoring
Speaker 1: one themselves?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Look, I think that the game got a little bit
Speaker 14: away from the Sounders reach. But I just thought that
Speaker 14: there have been way too many assumptions and overreactions when
Speaker 14: he comes to this specific game. This was a heavily
Speaker 14: rotated Sounders team. You needed to give minutes to a.
Speaker 6: Lot of guys.
Speaker 14: You got Leyva and JP that both started haven't had
Speaker 14: a lot of minutes this year. You start a Sasaderosario
Speaker 14: first start in MLS, you have to put in Thomas.
Speaker 14: I mean, all of these other things that needed to
Speaker 14: happen in what other game are you going to be
Speaker 14: able to do that? When else are you going to
Speaker 14: be able to get this guy's competitive minutes? Then in
Speaker 14: a week where you have a game Saturday Wednesday, Saturday,
Speaker 14: you gotta play a very tough game against Portland Timbers.
Speaker 14: So for me, it's all good and well did Seattle?
Speaker 14: And can we make some assumptions and some conclusions that
Speaker 14: are not great in this one?
Speaker 6: Sure? I think that his schus Ferrero should have been better.
Speaker 14: I thought that Jay Bell has kind of shown in
Speaker 14: a couple of games that in the three men setup,
Speaker 14: I don't think he's the right choice when he comes
Speaker 14: to that middle guy of the three man back line.
Speaker 14: They went back to the three for three, they look
Speaker 14: better when they went back to the fourth two three
Speaker 14: one in the second half. Brad Sbscher admitted that he
Speaker 14: said and mentioned that the reason why he set up
Speaker 14: that way is because he wanted to match what las
Speaker 14: he gave you in the four to three to three
Speaker 14: the deformation I worked in the past, So there's reasonings
Speaker 14: to everything, and for me, that's good enough. I understand
Speaker 14: that we're in a day and age where we have
Speaker 14: to be reactive and we have to be to have
Speaker 14: a statement and a reaction right after the game, and
Speaker 14: it's either you're good or you're awful, and you're terrible, so.
Speaker 6: And he goes both ways. I was kind of surprised about.
Speaker 14: How much of the LAFC fan base and a lot
Speaker 14: of comments out there were praising LAFC for beating for
Speaker 14: zero a Sounders team that again had a lot of
Speaker 14: rotating pieces, no starters in this one.
Speaker 6: So LAFC is no juggernaut.
Speaker 14: They're the exact same team that ended up drawing to
Speaker 14: to after, you know, kind of having all of the
Speaker 14: lead against Vancouver Whitecaps. They're the same team that got
Speaker 14: put against the Ropes but the Timbers and ended up
Speaker 14: three to three. I mean, leave the exact same LAFC
Speaker 14: team and for Seattle, all that momentum, everything that they've
Speaker 14: been building, the identity, the concepts, the principles, those are
Speaker 14: all there.
Speaker 6: It was just a game that kind of got out
Speaker 6: of hand.
Speaker 2: And you know, why do we why? Why?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Why do we need context? We need to have immediate reactions.
Speaker 1: It's got to be one thing or the other. We
Speaker 1: can't be patient and understand context. Here, Come on, now,
Speaker 1: you know how it's supposed to work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 14: That That's kind of the reaction that I'm hearing from
Speaker 14: everybody's like, I gotta understand why we have to just
Speaker 14: change it against all AFC. You know, why can't we
Speaker 14: just go and put a starting team every single time?
Speaker 14: And like, man, you need to manage your minutes.
Speaker 6: This is not a sprint.
Speaker 14: This is a long race, right, I mean, this is
Speaker 14: a marathon. You gotta understand that. When it comes to
Speaker 14: al AERC, I heard a lot of people being upset saying, well,
Speaker 14: you know, when you throw in the towel against a
Speaker 14: top team, that's not championship mentality. Well, neither is trying
Speaker 14: to overreact on a Wednesday game and maybe put your
Speaker 14: best players in a position to get hurt for the
Speaker 14: future and really have issues moving forward. Or you can
Speaker 14: just relax and understand that you know what, there's a
Speaker 14: learning lesson. That's the way brands mess talked about it.
Speaker 14: Are's the way the players talked about it is a
Speaker 14: learning lesson in this Wednesday game. Now you go on
Speaker 14: this weekend in a rivalry game, and you put all
Speaker 14: your frustrations into that game, and now if that doesn't
Speaker 14: go as you plan, then you can react. Then you
Speaker 14: can and don't overreact. Just react to that at that
Speaker 14: specific time. But if you look at the circumstances, I
Speaker 14: thought that the Sounders that were in it for most
Speaker 14: of the game, it wasn't as bad as the score line.
Speaker 14: Team you look at when the goals fall, you know,
Speaker 14: Yamar comes off as well. I mean, there was a
Speaker 14: lot of things that kind of happen when that second
Speaker 14: half kind of got out of hand for the Seattle Sounders.
Speaker 14: So let's just pump the brakes. There's another game this weekend.
Speaker 14: That's the best thing about the way this setup is
Speaker 14: right now is that you get to turn the page
Speaker 14: focus on Portland and we'll see what happens there. But
Speaker 14: I will say that it's okay to be frustrated. I
Speaker 14: understand that a lot of players didn't play up to
Speaker 14: their best. I thought and Leva wasn't sharp in this one.
Speaker 14: Usually that's his m as being very good on distribution
Speaker 14: with the ball. I thought it was a little bit off.
Speaker 14: Other than Pedro de la Vega, a lot of players
Speaker 14: I feel like underperformed, included even Andrew Thomas. I feel
Speaker 14: like Andrew Thomas at goal, a guy that's supposed to
Speaker 14: be the future for the team, he looked overwhelmed at times.
Speaker 14: He could have used more poise, a little bit more
Speaker 14: of that, a lot more actually of the leadership inside
Speaker 14: the box.
Speaker 6: So again, less him learn, You live and you learn.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And then the rest of Cascadia. You had a goalless
Speaker 1: draw with salt Lake in Portland. I was intrigued by that.
Speaker 1: I would have anticipated more goals in that one, but
Speaker 1: you end up getting Salt Lake in Portland with nothing
Speaker 1: on the board for anybody to see.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 14: And you know, that was an interesting game, kind of
Speaker 14: a chess match to begin with, a little bit slow
Speaker 14: for you know. I know that people like goals and
Speaker 14: not a lot of people like the defensive part of it.
Speaker 6: But I thought it was an interesting game.
Speaker 14: I think that regardless of the possession of the opportunity,
Speaker 14: it was a very even match game. Uh, this is
Speaker 14: another team that had to rotate, had to move some pieces.
Speaker 14: It was good to see Jonathan Rodriguez back out there.
Speaker 14: He had an opportunity of a goal for Timbers. You
Speaker 14: had Kelsey out there or tism Paradis, so it was
Speaker 14: evenly matched. I thought that the draw was actually a
Speaker 14: pretty fair account. We've all kind of looked into ourselves
Speaker 14: as a team that's starting to move in the right direction. Timbers,
Speaker 14: despite their deficiencies defensively, they've showed us that they have
Speaker 14: enough of a power power up top. Where we're there
Speaker 14: in the standards is more than fair. We'll see what
Speaker 14: happens this weekend. But I thought it was a decent
Speaker 14: game there from ourselves and the Portland Timbers. I had
Speaker 14: to do a little bit of rotation as well.
Speaker 2: All right, I kind of buried the lead here a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: You wanted MLS after Dark, You got MLS after dark
Speaker 1: at PayPal Park.
Speaker 2: That was a poet and didn't know it.
Speaker 1: Uh, Santjose and San Jose and Miami and Messian friend
Speaker 1: Messi and friends in the Earthquakes. It got so out
Speaker 1: of hand that Bruce Arena after the match was over,
Speaker 1: was basically restraining Lionel Messi from going after the officials
Speaker 1: to where he almost got a red if he kept
Speaker 1: doing what he was doing. He got a yellow for
Speaker 1: descent after the match was over. He wanted to go
Speaker 1: back for more. Bruce is trying to restrain him from
Speaker 1: going back for more. It only ended up being a yellow.
Speaker 1: So Maxi Falcone scores in the first minute, Chicho Orongo
Speaker 1: scores in the third. LaRue scores to make it two one.
Speaker 1: San Jose Agende scores to make it too too. Ian
Speaker 1: Hark scored to make it three to two. At forty
Speaker 1: five plus four, that was your score at the break.
Speaker 1: A Jende got his brace in the fifty second, and
Speaker 1: then it was hang on for the final thirty five.
Speaker 2: You had sick, you had five and a half, and
Speaker 2: you had the over. I'm sure you came out hot.
Speaker 14: Yes, I definitely had the over. I actually had the
Speaker 14: four and a half in this one. Did feel like
Speaker 14: it was going to be a draw. It's actually a
Speaker 14: very good game on that regard. But look, the Pink
Speaker 14: Phony Club is very you know, accurate there for this team.
Speaker 14: Right now, the antics by Messi's got to stop, and
Speaker 14: I know I've been criticized and the bots will come
Speaker 14: back to get me again, but Messi needs to relax
Speaker 14: after the games. His frustration should be going elsewhere. I
Speaker 14: thought that just going into this game, there is a
Speaker 14: lot of dysfunction with Inner Miami. A lot of it
Speaker 14: is falling under Haavier Machirouno. He had some statements going
Speaker 14: into this game and after their last game that I
Speaker 14: thought were on call for that I thought were necessarily
Speaker 14: what you want to hear out of your head co
Speaker 14: which we've talked about the defense and the issues there.
Speaker 14: So just the goal that a angle got, I mean,
Speaker 14: this is exactly what we're getting out of Inner Miami.
Speaker 14: Mistakes that were not there before, issues that although defensively
Speaker 14: in the past have been an issue, you had enough
Speaker 14: of a firepower they were going to get back into
Speaker 14: every game. This is San Jose, So three to three
Speaker 14: scoreline should not be making anybody excited that Messi and
Speaker 14: friends got three on on San Jose.
Speaker 6: This is something that we knew was going to happen.
Speaker 14: So what it is that's wrong with this team is
Speaker 14: just an inability to be in control, and I think
Speaker 14: that's why Messi's been so upset. He's used to just
Speaker 14: being able to dominate games and gameplay him and just
Speaker 14: be that guy that holds the reins, and that just
Speaker 14: hasn't been the case. He was pretty involved in this one,
Speaker 14: but not necessarily in the goals. He had a gorgeous
Speaker 14: pass into Giorgio, buta to kind of like the past
Speaker 14: before the past, but you know, he was a little
Speaker 14: bit limited. That's another thing that gets them frustrated. But
Speaker 14: this inner Miami team is just too dependent and all
Speaker 14: you'll know, MESSI. They have a huge issue by not
Speaker 14: having a nine that's scoring goals in the exact same
Speaker 14: pace that Luis Suarez was having it last season.
Speaker 6: Again, I go back to the coaching.
Speaker 14: I think that there are some holes in the way
Speaker 14: the sonstitutions, patterns are happening, the way that you're planning
Speaker 14: the games. I mean, if you go back to what
Speaker 14: happened with Minnesota, it's exactly that you know what Minnesota
Speaker 14: was gonna do, Maturano said after the game. We knew
Speaker 14: what they were gonna do and we couldn't stop it.
Speaker 14: That is now what you want to hear your head coach.
Speaker 14: So to me, the problem and the root costs of
Speaker 14: inner Miami are a lot deeper than you might seem.
Speaker 14: The issues are just the top of the glacier, and
Speaker 14: there's a whole bunch of issues behind it. So look
Speaker 14: I like the phony there caudline for this team because
Speaker 14: it does seem like they're living off of Messi's presence
Speaker 14: what they did last season, but they're having a hard
Speaker 14: time backing it up on.
Speaker 2: The field, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And I want to wrap up what's going on just
Speaker 1: off of my head before we go to what else
Speaker 1: happened last night. Off of the top of your head.
Speaker 1: Lag found yet another way to lose a game. I
Speaker 1: mean you add it to Nilly Clavis and Fagunda scored
Speaker 1: in the first half, and we were I was doing
Speaker 1: a pre and post last night on the radio for
Speaker 1: United and we were looking at that score at the
Speaker 1: break and we're like, going, bruh, what got into Lag?
Speaker 1: And so, of course then the quicksand happens and you
Speaker 1: give up the game winning goal at ninety plus six
Speaker 1: because Ty Barbo and a teammate had an advantage at
Speaker 1: the back post as Michael Owa chips it from one
Speaker 1: side to the other. How you leave two players practically
Speaker 1: on marked I've no idea, but LAG found yet another
Speaker 1: way to lose a match in Philly last night.
Speaker 14: Lack of effort and character from this team in the
Speaker 14: second half. Look, I died to Banny. I thought that
Speaker 14: the false nine Ruth was great. I thought that it worked.
Speaker 14: You had him being able to pull defenders. He's a
Speaker 14: guy that has a huge IQ when it comes to
Speaker 14: the way he plays the game. Always the extra pass.
Speaker 14: He sets up those two first goals brilliantly, the scenarios.
Speaker 14: A guy that this team has missed a lot. He's
Speaker 14: been injured, he hasn't really adapt as quickly as the
Speaker 14: team wanted. But he had a decent game yesterday, so
Speaker 14: a lot of things were going their way. And I
Speaker 14: even went on you know X, and I put it
Speaker 14: out there. You know, I didn't know that this team
Speaker 14: knew how to hold the lead, because they haven't held
Speaker 14: the lead other than one time this entire season. There
Speaker 14: was a stat that was put in the broadcast that
Speaker 14: they've only held the lead sixty minutes all season long.
Speaker 6: Sixty minutes. That's as much as they've had it.
Speaker 14: And in this one they didn't know what to do
Speaker 14: with it, which in what ways and We've said this
Speaker 14: in the exact same show. In what ways can a
Speaker 14: team that is that you're being able to contain and handle,
Speaker 14: in what ways do you allow them back into the
Speaker 14: game set pieces that should have been known. That's exactly
Speaker 14: what Philadelphia was going to do, and they did it,
Speaker 14: high intensity secondary balls. They literally bullied the LA Galaxy
Speaker 14: in the second half. I thought it was seven shots
Speaker 14: to one in the second half. I mean, something outrageous.
Speaker 14: LA Galaxy just did not have the grit, did not
Speaker 14: have that age factor as we call it in South
Speaker 14: America and factor ache.
Speaker 6: They just didn't have it.
Speaker 14: And that's kind of what it's missing here from this
Speaker 14: team and they just have to have no response. You
Speaker 14: cannot allow, like you said, Maribo to get that type
Speaker 14: of hander in that specific moment when you and I
Speaker 14: think it's Joshida that goes to ground, when you know
Speaker 14: the player that's carrying the ball is running away from you,
Speaker 14: you go, you go to ground, You allow him to
Speaker 14: turn around put that ball back in. I mean, it's
Speaker 14: just mistake after mistake, issue after issue.
Speaker 6: But for me, the biggest.
Speaker 14: Concern is the character and that inability to come back
Speaker 14: and get yourself back into the game.
Speaker 2: Okay, so please explain to those of us who have
Speaker 2: this is the first time I've heard this term. What
Speaker 2: is this factor?
Speaker 6: What is this FACTORACI? Is the the grid that comes
Speaker 6: from the the the h is to uh how do
Speaker 6: I say.
Speaker 2: It is the hosess?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Yeah, so that that's kind of what it is. It's
Speaker 14: just that factor of like extra strength. And they call
Speaker 14: it FACTORACI because it's the unexplicable. Is just the inability
Speaker 14: to just get you back in the game, right.
Speaker 3: That that.
Speaker 14: The strength to just get you through bad moments in
Speaker 14: in the games. And that's kind of what this Allegalaxy
Speaker 14: team just missed. It's almost as if they were afraid.
Speaker 14: As soon as the second half started, they were just
Speaker 14: waiting for things to go wrong, and as soon as
Speaker 14: they did, they just went back to old habits.
Speaker 6: And they have nobody on the field that can get
Speaker 6: him out of there. And I thought Pagundas could do it.
Speaker 14: I thought Rails could do it, and none of them
Speaker 14: seem to have any idea on how to get this
Speaker 14: team going.
Speaker 2: So testicular fortitude is factor.
Speaker 6: There you go, that is exactly it.
Speaker 1: Okay, testicular fortitude. Okay, what else stuck out? Last night
Speaker 1: from you, whether it's on that coast or in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, what else stuck out from you from last night?
Speaker 6: Man Orlando is a force to be reckon with.
Speaker 14: Mouriell looks like that Muriella that said yeah, and I
Speaker 14: know you hate to hear that because I know the
Speaker 14: Purple team is not your favorite, But Martino Heada has
Speaker 14: played himself into the MVP conversation. I think that they're
Speaker 14: a team that has a ton of power. Ramiro and
Speaker 14: Riquez course heres today. I mean there's just so many
Speaker 14: another team that has so many weapons offensively that they're
Speaker 14: just going to be an issue. Charlotte obviously a team
Speaker 14: that has issues of their own, but still a quality squad.
Speaker 14: And I mean I think they lost fourth in a
Speaker 14: row as well for Charlotte, but there's still a team
Speaker 14: that you know, when you get out there and you
Speaker 14: play them in that manner, it turns head. So for me,
Speaker 14: Poppy is doing a great job with his Orlando City team,
Speaker 14: and I think they're going to be a force to
Speaker 14: be reckon with.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 14: San Diego uh playing Colorado the way they did, I
Speaker 14: thought that the great thing about San Diego, even when
Speaker 14: they're kind of up and down. What keeps him, what
Speaker 14: keeps the floor highs that they understand what they want
Speaker 14: to do. Set pieces, We're gonna press high, We're gonna
Speaker 14: make it uncomfortable. And I thought yesterday they did a
Speaker 14: fantasy Japans Colorado, especially with Jody, that they did not
Speaker 14: let him do absolutely anything.
Speaker 6: Even in the p K. They're chirping at his ear.
Speaker 14: You could tell that he's bothered he misses the p
Speaker 14: K or is well stopped by the goalkeeper. But I
Speaker 14: just love the functionality of San Diego. I feel like
Speaker 14: because they had a bat spell here in the season,
Speaker 14: people started to dismiss them. Do not dismiss that team.
Speaker 14: Do not make that mistake. This is the quality squad
Speaker 14: that could be a problem in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: DC United a goaliztraw with NYC. Montreal had a lead,
Speaker 1: Columbus got an equalizer, so it was shared results there.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati over Toronto. News out of Cincinnati this morning. I
Speaker 1: believe they signed w Bodo to a contract extension that
Speaker 1: came across this morning. Houston an interesting one at Hell
Speaker 1: and a Shell. They shut out Minnesota, which I thought
Speaker 1: was intriguing, and then Natal and then Nashville over Red
Speaker 1: Bulls two one, Saint Louis and All Caps. In Kansas
Speaker 1: City they had a to two draw. Atlanta and Austin had.
Speaker 6: A couple of things there.
Speaker 14: I think the biggest news out of DC is that
Speaker 14: once again been tech INGOs out early in the first half.
Speaker 14: Second time season. That's gonna be problematic. Cincinnati getting Kamara
Speaker 14: he played some minutes yesterday.
Speaker 6: I thought that was a great get.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 14: I was at one point thinking when Seattle wasn't getting
Speaker 14: goals from their backups, I thought that maybe they would
Speaker 14: go out there and get them, but obviously they didn't.
Speaker 14: It's kind of cool to see him there. It did
Speaker 14: in Nashville. Oh my goodness, what is the number muktark.
Speaker 14: It's looking like mukt revolt bj Callahan has resurrected the
Speaker 14: chip of inspiration that had this guy as a former
Speaker 14: MVP that we had not seen for a couple of seasons.
Speaker 14: They did the best of if I've seen him in
Speaker 14: quite some time. Happy for Mukter, Happy for Nashville.
Speaker 1: All right, So it is a rivalry weekend coming up here.
Speaker 1: Three matches in eight days for most. We'll go through
Speaker 1: some of the ones that are here on the board
Speaker 1: hell is real Columbus minus one zho four Hosting Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati is a plus two fifty nine and the draw
Speaker 1: is a plus two six three.
Speaker 2: You've also got Cincinnati's a plus what two five nine?
Speaker 14: Wow?
Speaker 6: Hey, hey, that that cost my name.
Speaker 14: Look Columbus, Columbus has been good, but Cincinnati has more playmakers. Cincinnati. Uh,
Speaker 14: if you did not see Dankis goal, go back and
Speaker 14: see it. That dude put everybody on skates.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 14: He's not just the buffet guy on the field, but
Speaker 14: he tends to be one of the most talented. I
Speaker 14: think that him and Evander are a great match. Both
Speaker 14: guys can change the game at any moment. Give me
Speaker 14: that game, give me Cincinnati. That's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 14: And look, no disrespect Columbus in their style and their
Speaker 14: way of play, but when it comes to game changers
Speaker 14: and who's gonna win it, I feel like Cincinnati has
Speaker 14: more of those players right now than Columbus does.
Speaker 1: The Bruce Arena Bowl is at seven forty Eastern time
Speaker 1: last night, REVS hosting San Jose. Rev's a reminus one
Speaker 1: zero four. Santaose's a plus two forty two and this
Speaker 1: is off the heel. So basically what you've done is
Speaker 1: you've constructed the Bruce Arena Bowl. After San Jose put
Speaker 1: a total put three on the board six total in
Speaker 1: a match. And by the way, your plus four and
Speaker 1: a half was about a plus two to fifty, so
Speaker 1: you were okay there. So San Jose has to go
Speaker 1: through what they went through going up against Messi and friends.
Speaker 1: Now they have to fly across the country to be
Speaker 1: a night game in Foxborough against the Revs. I mean,
Speaker 1: who is schedule maker? And why are you playing? Why
Speaker 1: is Homie playing like this man?
Speaker 14: Yeah? Yeah, that is completely logistically wrong. But look, the
Speaker 14: bad news for San Jose is that Chile came off injured.
Speaker 14: Hopefully is nothing big regardless of I think this is
Speaker 14: gonna be a high scoring game. We've seen San Jose
Speaker 14: give up a lot of goals who seem score a
Speaker 14: lot of goals. Same things for New England, even in
Speaker 14: their new form that they found. I feel like there's
Speaker 14: gonna be a draw that would at least go two two.
Speaker 14: I would be willing to go with Don Jose if
Speaker 14: I knew that chiechoid angle was fine. But that's the
Speaker 14: only thing that's holding me back. However, like I said,
Speaker 14: I like the draw. I like that two two, so
Speaker 14: I would do it three and a half in this one.
Speaker 14: I might even be interested depending on later down the line.
Speaker 14: See what cheachers at to go beyond that?
Speaker 2: Well, San Jose, the draw is a plus two eighty
Speaker 2: two in the computit.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 1: So you're over under. Three and a half is a
Speaker 1: plus one fifty one. They're not thinking there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a whole lot of goals here, So three and a
Speaker 1: half is a plus one fifty one. Four and a
Speaker 1: half is a plus three forty six.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, no, no, no, that three and a half.
Speaker 14: That two to two sounds real good to me.
Speaker 6: I like that as well.
Speaker 1: All right, let's skip ahead to Cascadia, Portland and Seattle.
Speaker 1: It is nine thirty Eastern Times, Saturday night. Portland is
Speaker 1: a plus one seventy three draws a plus two fitty
Speaker 1: and Seattle is a plus one forty one after having
Speaker 1: rotated against LA in the midweek.
Speaker 14: Not great numbers, but give me Seattle. Give me Seattle.
Speaker 14: Going into this game, I feel like they've been stable.
Speaker 14: This is a great wake up call here midweek. The
Speaker 14: team is going to want to get that game completely
Speaker 14: behind them by putting in a good performance. Love what
Speaker 14: Petri's been doing. You get arrested, Christian arrested, Ovid arrested.
Speaker 14: Back line, it sounded like the team is starting to
Speaker 14: get some players back, so Reagan, he you know, may
Speaker 14: be available for this one as well. So to me,
Speaker 14: although the Timbers have been good at times and there's
Speaker 14: still a team that focuses a lot on the offensive power,
Speaker 14: I like Seattle's defensive presence to minimize the Timbers fortitude
Speaker 14: up top, and Seattle being the more balanced being able
Speaker 14: to get going. I love the possession spells that we've
Speaker 14: seen from Seattle lately. A couple of goals that is
Speaker 14: sixteen seventeen eighteen passes put together. I think that they're
Speaker 14: really gonna have possession in this game, and they're gonna
Speaker 14: make Timbers very uncomfortable. Obviously, you've got to be careful
Speaker 14: with the direct play with their speed out wide. By me,
Speaker 14: Seattle is the better team going into this game, and
Speaker 14: I'm gonna go with Seattle.
Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday Night Soccer early is MESSI and friends hosting
Speaker 1: the Purple team. I know a lot of folks may
Speaker 1: sit there and say, can neither team win at a
Speaker 1: plus two seventy eight. You can have that MESSI and
Speaker 1: friends are minus one oh six and the Purple team
Speaker 1: heading to the Erector set or a plus two forty nine.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 14: Give me a purple team and uh, this is gonna
Speaker 14: be another scoring affair in my regard, So I would
Speaker 14: definitely go over three and a half easy and I
Speaker 14: would take Orlando's city. Look, Miami, it's I don't want
Speaker 14: to get too ahead of myself, but it seems like
Speaker 14: they're uploading. Even when things are going right like they
Speaker 14: did yesterday, it's still not good enough. Agenda is starting
Speaker 14: to get his stick back under him.
Speaker 6: Which is good.
Speaker 14: But when you have an Orlando team that is in
Speaker 14: this sort of form going against the inn Miami team
Speaker 14: that is so poor at rest defense, that seems to
Speaker 14: be having a lot of issues when he comes to
Speaker 14: set pieces, and that to me is gonna give this
Speaker 14: Orlando team a lot of.
Speaker 6: Space to play with. I like Orlando, man, I like it.
Speaker 14: Maybe I'll be wrong, and you know, the inner Miami
Speaker 14: fans will be all over me, but to me, the
Speaker 14: Purple team in this one is probably going to be
Speaker 14: the winner.
Speaker 1: Plus one thirty six for your three and a half.
Speaker 1: By the way, so it is on the plus side
Speaker 1: plus one thirty six. El Traffico, What do you think.
Speaker 14: It could be a trap game for LAOC. Look, I
Speaker 14: understand that LA Galaxy just had the great, the proud
Speaker 14: badge of having the worst start in MLS history after
Speaker 14: what they did against Philadelphia. But it could be a
Speaker 14: catch game, man, I don't know. I'm really gonna try
Speaker 14: to stay away from this one. Give me the numbers
Speaker 14: either way. LAFC clearly the heavy favorite. LAFC clearly the
Speaker 14: team that no one is expecting to lose this one.
Speaker 14: But those are the one those are the ones.
Speaker 6: That will come back and get you.
Speaker 14: If I will say anything for the La Galaxies that
Speaker 14: they showed a little bit of hard At least there
Speaker 14: was a poles in this game against Philadelphia. So can
Speaker 14: they built off of that? Can Vanny do it?
Speaker 6: I don't know, But what are the numbers on it?
Speaker 1: Plus one twelve for LAFC on the road going to
Speaker 1: Carson Carson FC is a plus two sixteen and your
Speaker 1: draw is a plus two fifty nine.
Speaker 14: Oh, it's not good enough for me to take that risk.
Speaker 14: It's just not good enough for me. But I thought
Speaker 14: that the numbers would be a lot higher for this
Speaker 14: than in the water LA Galaxy team. But that tells
Speaker 14: you that there is some sort of you know thought
Speaker 14: that that you know as.
Speaker 6: A catch game, maybe they'll get it.
Speaker 14: Uh ah, Man, I'll go with l C. I mean,
Speaker 14: just that's what rationale will tell you. That's what you
Speaker 14: know the numbers will indicate. I think l a f C,
Speaker 14: even regardless of who's up top, has good I think
Speaker 14: Ordas is a guy that has done a lot of
Speaker 14: great things for this team. Uh Denny Bwanga, he always
Speaker 14: plays great against La Galaxy.
Speaker 6: I really like what.
Speaker 14: The Jesuits has been doing. Man Yestually he puts a
Speaker 14: ball in a dime uh and creates a goal for
Speaker 14: l a C. Uh that la pe La Martinez, although
Speaker 14: he gets caught off sides. Think he does a little
Speaker 14: move against the Sounders where he's just like a little spin,
Speaker 14: gets in from the goal, puts it in the back
Speaker 14: of the net. I think that the LFC team just
Speaker 14: is a little bit too powerful for the La Galaxy
Speaker 14: squad that's having so many issues defensively. So let's go
Speaker 14: with LAC. But I'm not putting my money on it.
Speaker 14: I have a feeling that there could be there's too
Speaker 14: much of a chance of something going wrong for me
Speaker 14: to put money on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah and uh yeah, So that's probably the safe, the
Speaker 1: safer play for your wallet and the sanity there at
Speaker 1: the at the office for the Nico HD. You know,
Speaker 1: I can't I can't let you go without Atlanta and Philly.
Speaker 1: Atlanta's favor of the plus one twenty three. Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: almost a plus two hundred. Your draws a plus two
Speaker 1: fifty nine.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 14: So tough matchup for Atlanta United Man. And you know
Speaker 14: that's one of the last games that I watched yesterday,
Speaker 14: was that Austin Atlanta game. Two teams that put a
Speaker 14: lot of money this season into their offense. And he
Speaker 14: didn't look like that actually, you know, on the rone,
Speaker 14: missing that one on one against the goalkeepers. Stuart Stewart
Speaker 14: does a great job at just making himself big. But
Speaker 14: the fact that alm Run didn't just chip him, oh man,
Speaker 14: he just he just talks about the lack of confidence
Speaker 14: that Atlanta has in so many areas of the field.
Speaker 14: I was surprised to see Basquet has put away a
Speaker 14: free kick, by the way, but it was beautiful free kick.
Speaker 2: We were too trust me.
Speaker 6: Yeah it was. It was a great, great shot, but
Speaker 6: I was surprised. But going back to Atlanta, I just
Speaker 6: don't know if.
Speaker 14: They're confident enough to beat a very confident Philadelphia team. Look,
Speaker 14: Cornell's done a great job with this squad, has changed
Speaker 14: the identity of that team.
Speaker 6: I think Barribo's really good.
Speaker 14: Even Badoia, it seems to have re found a little
Speaker 14: bit of dead fruits of youth and it's looking very good.
Speaker 14: I just think that Philadelphia there's too many of the
Speaker 14: fundamentals thing right for Atlanta to win this game. So
Speaker 14: I hate to say it, but I think Philadelphia will
Speaker 14: take this one. They might take it easier than than
Speaker 14: people think.
Speaker 1: All right, so hit the promo for me. What's going
Speaker 1: on with Polso Sports and Sounder at Heart.
Speaker 14: Yes, sir, we are going to have a couple of
Speaker 14: days off because the Sounders won't be back and the
Speaker 14: train in the field, or at least we won't have
Speaker 14: availability into Friday. But obviously Friday will have everything that
Speaker 14: comes out of that day. I'm sure we'll have brand
Speaker 14: Smester talking right before the derby I'm definitely gonna get
Speaker 14: a one on one with Andy Rose to talk tactics,
Speaker 14: talk defense going into this game, and everything else that
Speaker 14: comes up on YouTube.
Speaker 6: But when it comes to.
Speaker 14: What's already set up Fridays with Jeremiah, of course, what
Speaker 14: we learned this week is going to be a little
Speaker 14: bit of two games, right LFC. What happened, what we saw,
Speaker 14: what we learned on that specific Friday, and of course
Speaker 14: what we expect out of a tough game in Portland,
Speaker 14: So go ahead and check that out. And of course
Speaker 14: on Monday, as always, kickoff with Lovins, Courchers and Ari Lollinwall,
Speaker 14: So go ahead and check that out as always.
Speaker 1: My friend, great to see you enjoy your third cup
Speaker 1: of coffee, Go get yourself some breakfast and we will
Speaker 1: catch up with you again this time next week. It's
Speaker 1: always great to see your face, my friend. All right,
Speaker 1: it's Nigo Modeno from Pulso Sports and Sounder at heart.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go finish his third cup of coffee and
Speaker 1: probably head to Number four or maybe get a nap
Speaker 1: one of the two, or maybe both. But no, it's
Speaker 1: always great to catch up with Nina and Nico in
Speaker 1: the Power Hour on Thursday, and it was great to
Speaker 1: catch up with Todd Lewis from the Free Kick Pod
Speaker 1: and find out get an early scouting report on Philadelphia Union.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow will go deeper into your thoughts involving Atlanta United
Speaker 1: in Austin and what you think heading into Philadelphia, and
Speaker 1: it'll be the standard hour of chaos. We'll see if
Speaker 1: we can catch up with our friends at Beyond Goals
Speaker 1: Entering and we'll see what we can do and lay
Speaker 1: in all of the other news out for you, getting
Speaker 1: you ready for the third match in an eight day
Speaker 1: period for a lot of teams in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Gossip Permeran and you window before we get out of
Speaker 1: here and what to watch, where to watch it, how
Speaker 1: to watch it. Remember, we'll be back top of the hour.
Speaker 1: It'll be an abbreviated version of soccer as in Session
Speaker 1: Playoff Daily Live. Judson Handy, the head coach at Coney
Speaker 1: County's going to join us ATWEL fifteen, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: go over brackets and scores. We're gonna talk to Judson
Speaker 1: Hamby about the win over Jefferson yesterday. Great ambassador for
Speaker 1: the sport, fantastic match to show off the best talent
Speaker 1: in the state of Georgia and we'll be back at
Speaker 1: it again later in the afternoon. After that on the
Speaker 1: NFHS network, Jarrett and I will have your six A
Speaker 1: games from mckechern and Maddie and Jason will have the quads.
Speaker 1: You'll also have Class A Division two out of Macon
Speaker 1: with our buddy Mateen Rtt, so he'll have those for you,
Speaker 1: with LA making a stand and Atkinson County traveling from
Speaker 1: Pearson to take on La in one of those matchups.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna have all of that activity coming up.
Speaker 1: Soccer is in session, playoff, daily live scores, brackets, Judson
Speaker 1: Hamby and then that'll be your show for your Thursday
Speaker 1: and we'll get you ready for everything later today. We're
Speaker 1: also gonna catch up with Tormenta on the USLW side
Speaker 1: and that interview will be posted this weekend so you
Speaker 1: can catch up with with their season coming up already underway.
Speaker 1: So gossip for today is where we are going to go,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have a fair amount in and around.
Speaker 1: So Florian Vert seems to be a gentleman that is
Speaker 1: under the spell of Manchester City. They've met with Bayer
Speaker 1: Levercusan for Verts over a possible summer move. Liverpool also
Speaker 1: have made contact with Verts. They're interested as well. Manchester
Speaker 1: City and Arsenal circling Rodrigo at Real Madrid amid reports
Speaker 1: of the Brazilian falling out of clubs falling out with
Speaker 1: club staff. Joshua was Zerksey as a summer transfer target
Speaker 1: for Inter Milan after his campaign this season. Liverpool will
Speaker 1: not accept from the Three Letter Paper the eight hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand pound fee from Real Madrid to let
Speaker 1: Trent Alexander Arnold leave early. Newcastle moved ahead of Chelsea
Speaker 1: in the race to sign Mark Gahee from Crystal Palace.
Speaker 1: Byron Munich have agreed to a fee with Bayer Levercusan
Speaker 1: to sign center back Jonathan That's from Fabrizzio Romano. Barcelona
Speaker 1: keen to rival Arsenal in moving for Espanol keeper Joan Garcia.
Speaker 1: Barcia willing to offload up to eight first team players
Speaker 1: this summer in order to finance transfers and new contracts.
Speaker 1: That's the only way that they can do it really,
Speaker 1: unless they bring in another auditor. Barcela want to sign
Speaker 1: a central defender, a full back and a winger is
Speaker 1: cover for La miin Jamal rby Leipzig Chavy Simone ready
Speaker 1: to leave the club this summer despite him only signing
Speaker 1: a permanent deal in January, and Bristol City want to
Speaker 1: keep a striker Nikai Wells next season after failing to
Speaker 1: reach the Premier League via the Championship playoffs. And once
Speaker 1: again keep an eye on that stuff as well. The Championship,
Speaker 1: the League One and the League two promotion playoffs that
Speaker 1: should be coming up in short order as well, So
Speaker 1: keep an eye on all of that. So Soccer on TV,
Speaker 1: What to watch, Where to watch it, how to watch
Speaker 1: it once again will be back at it at noon
Speaker 1: with an abbreviated version of Soccer's in session Playoff Daily
Speaker 1: Live today being Copoelbertadors thirty and ten, River Playton Independent,
Speaker 1: del Vje, Once Caldas and walbetto Broel San Jose, ESPN
Speaker 1: Deportees LaLiga doubleheader Osasuna Atletico Madrid at one, Espaniel Barsa
Speaker 1: at three thirty, LEGA mki's playoffs on two to an
Speaker 1: A at nine thirty, Crussool in America, ESPN Plus's four
Speaker 1: matches available two at one o'clock two at three twenty.
Speaker 2: Out of LaLiga.
Speaker 1: In addition to Osasuna and Atletico Madrid, it's Rie Vayacano
Speaker 1: and Real Bettis. It is Espaniel Barsa and Hetafe and
Speaker 1: Athletic Clube emlistnexspro dot Com. Tonight or this afternoon at
Speaker 1: three o'clock it is a NYCFC two in Toronto. FC
Speaker 1: two that's on Mlisnextpro dot Com League one. It is
Speaker 1: the promotion playoffs Charlton Athletic and Wickham three o'clock on
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus. Thanks to all the guests. Man, it was
Speaker 1: a great day. Todd Lewis from the Free Kick Pod,
Speaker 1: Nino and Nico in the Power Hour. Thanks to all
Speaker 1: of you guys for being a part of it as
Speaker 1: you always are. In the Twitch pitches, we work our
Speaker 1: way through what happened against All FC and head into
Speaker 1: the matchup against Philadelphia Union. No rest because once again
Speaker 1: three matches in a week. Talk about it a little bit.
Speaker 1: We'll probably talk about it more tomorrow. Have highlights and
Speaker 1: posts probably from Matt Edwards if you miss that on
Speaker 1: the full time report, we'll talk about that and get
Speaker 1: you ready for the weekend. Starting at nine oh five
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, so once again back at it. In about
Speaker 1: forty five minutes, Soccer's in Session Playoff Daily Live presented
Speaker 1: by our friends at Kaiser Permanente. We'll discuss all the brackets,
Speaker 1: all the scores, and get you ready for another day
Speaker 1: in the GHSA Championship Finals. Three venues going today will
Speaker 1: break it all down for you. Coming up in just
Speaker 1: a little bit. Mouchi ploty, I'll play it safe. That's
Speaker 1: another go round of SDHAM and since it is the
Speaker 1: end of the show, that means we get to do
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Speaker 1: high school coverage you will find anywhere on this or
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Speaker 2: That's it for another go round of SDHAM. Play safe, everybody,