Speaker 1: The welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso
Speaker 1: here on the SDAH Network, brought to you by our
Speaker 1: friends at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and
Speaker 1: soccer powerhouse. Atlanta United could use a few soccer powerhouses
Speaker 1: right now. First time in club history that the team
Speaker 1: has lost back to back games by three goals or more.
Speaker 1: Another three nil loss on the road at Orlando City
Speaker 1: over the weekend was not a pleasant match in any way.
Speaker 1: A decent start, gave up a goal. Do you do
Speaker 1: a var intervention on a penalty which I didn't love
Speaker 1: the intervention and it took forever it's given and things
Speaker 1: didn't really come back from there. Two bad goals in
Speaker 1: the second half and Atlanta United ends up losing three nil.
Speaker 1: And look, there's a lot of pressure on the team
Speaker 1: coming back home for a match on Saturday afternoon against
Speaker 1: Nashville SC. A Nashville team that won seven to two
Speaker 1: over the weekend against Chicago and an Atlanta team that
Speaker 1: needs to find some life in it somehow, some way.
Speaker 1: We'll talk a lot about this this week. There'll be
Speaker 1: a lot about it this morning on SDHAM, starting at
Speaker 1: nine oh five. On the YouTube page, also on Twitch,
Speaker 1: and also on x I'll be talking about it on
Speaker 1: Atlanta Soccer tonight on Tuesday as well, and we'll be
Speaker 1: out at training Tuesday and Thursday this week with training
Speaker 1: ground dispatches on both days. Going to be a big
Speaker 1: week in a very big game on Saturday against Nashville.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about it as we go. But it's
Speaker 1: got to be better than it has been these last
Speaker 1: two games on the road, and you've got to find
Speaker 1: some goals, which you haven't done in quite a while.
Speaker 2: Haven't scored a goal from the run of play.
Speaker 1: Because the last goal was a penalty scored by Miguel Almeron.
Speaker 1: Haven't scored a goal in the run of play in
Speaker 1: a long time. That has to change. It has to change.
Speaker 1: I wish there was an easy answer to it. I
Speaker 1: think people are in times trying to oversimplify it. It's
Speaker 1: a it's not a good situation, and we will see
Speaker 1: what happens this week. It's a very big week for
Speaker 1: the club and we'll see what happens. Let's talk around
Speaker 1: MLS right now. Enter Miami. They lost their first game
Speaker 1: of the season in terms of MLS play, lost to
Speaker 1: Dallas for to three. They had to lead three one
Speaker 1: after the hour mark, rested Messi, rested Busquetz, wrested Alba,
Speaker 1: rested Suarez. Ahead of the CONCA CAF Champions Cup second
Speaker 1: leg against Vancouver in the semi final, Jave Masherno put
Speaker 1: his hand up afterwards took blame for the loss, said
Speaker 1: we played a very good game for sixty five minutes,
Speaker 1: managed to come back from being one nailed down early,
Speaker 1: he said, But unfortunately I made a mistake in reading
Speaker 1: the match in In the end, I couldn't help the players.
Speaker 1: They kind of got too defensive there with the lead
Speaker 1: and ended ended up costing them. On the other side
Speaker 1: of that semi final, they won three to one at
Speaker 1: Minnesota United. Sebastian Burhalter scored from outside the eighteen, his
Speaker 1: third goal in the month of April. He'd only scored
Speaker 1: five goals across all competitions in his first five pro seasons.
Speaker 1: He's got three goals in April. Also in this match,
Speaker 1: MLS announced that it is aware of a reported violation
Speaker 1: of the league's non discrimination policy. Happened late in the game,
Speaker 1: apparently ninety fifth minute. The broadcast feed showed a verbal
Speaker 1: altercation between Minnesota's Joseph Rosalis and Vancouver's Emmanuel Sabi, with
Speaker 1: Sabi's teammate Berhalter joining in and gesturing at Rosalis. There
Speaker 1: were continued arguments after the final whistle. MLS is investigating,
Speaker 1: as are both clubs. Mentioned Chicago's seven to two loss
Speaker 1: to Nashville, Greg Berhalter apologized. He said, we deserve to
Speaker 1: lose the way we did. Blame the defeat not just
Speaker 1: on the defense, but a collective failure is the quote
Speaker 1: across all lines quote. Today was an absolute disaster, unquote. Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: They stay on top in the East, a two to
Speaker 1: one win over Kansas City Kevin Dankey with a goal
Speaker 1: of the Year contender a bicycle kick in the seventy
Speaker 1: eighth minute. Portland, they remain unbeaten in seven straight after
Speaker 1: a four to two win in Los Angeles over the
Speaker 1: Galaxy and Denny Bwanga last night scored an amazing goal
Speaker 1: deep in stoppage time to level the match with Saint
Speaker 1: Louis two too. It was a chaotic go ahead goal
Speaker 1: for the visitors, where the ball's deflecting around, it deflects
Speaker 1: a clearance, deflects off the back of a player into
Speaker 1: the back of the net. They checked var for about
Speaker 1: five different things in the situation, nothing given, so it's
Speaker 1: a goal. But then Bwanga goes down and puts the
Speaker 1: team on his back and finds the equalizer. To two
Speaker 1: top five teams in MLS after this weekend, Vancouver number
Speaker 1: one on twenty three points, Cincinnati on twenty two, Columbus
Speaker 1: on twenty one, Philadelphia on nineteen, Charlotte on nineteen.
Speaker 2: They lost to New England at home over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Bottom Fire DC on nine, Kansas City on seven, Toronto
Speaker 1: on seven, Montreal on three, and La Galaxy on three.
Speaker 1: Y're defending champions Copa del Ray in Spain. What a match,
Speaker 1: Jules Conde. He scored an extra time winner to beat
Speaker 1: Real Madrid. It was two to two through ninety minutes.
Speaker 1: It looked like penalties were coming. Counde scored from about
Speaker 1: twenty two yards out, a great goal to win it.
Speaker 1: Barca had been the better team in the first half,
Speaker 1: Pedri with an outstanding goal from outside the eighteen to
Speaker 1: open the scoring.
Speaker 2: Real Madrid.
Speaker 1: They improved dramatically when killing and Pope came on as
Speaker 1: a substitute, curled a free kick into the bottom corner
Speaker 1: that tied it to a many headed Real Madrid into
Speaker 1: the lead from an Artagouler corner. Barcelona leveled it before
Speaker 1: the end of regulation. Federal Dorees ran onto La Migna.
Speaker 1: Mal's long ball dribbled, the goalkeeper slotted it in. Looked
Speaker 1: like Barcelona was going to get a penalty and injury
Speaker 1: time or Athena drew it. Decision was overturned after a
Speaker 1: long var check goes to extra time. Counde's goal makes
Speaker 1: the difference. The whole build up to this was dominated
Speaker 1: by scrutiny of the referees. It was in large part
Speaker 1: due to a video that Real Madrid TV posted complaining
Speaker 1: about the referee and pointing out mistakes that he had
Speaker 1: made in previous games. The referee had a press conference
Speaker 1: on Friday, tearfully talking about how it was and I
Speaker 1: can't really repeat it. Not FCC violations here, but we're
Speaker 1: not gonna run a foul of that and have to
Speaker 1: put the adult language thing on here. But the referee
Speaker 1: was very upset about the video. This is not the
Speaker 1: first time that Real Madrid has done this. I think
Speaker 1: it's a horrible look and it's something that the club
Speaker 1: really has to stop doing.
Speaker 2: It's for a club that I think has tried to.
Speaker 1: Always bring an air of honor outside of their time
Speaker 1: with Jose Mourinho. This is a horrible look and they've
Speaker 1: done it all season and it's created issues going into
Speaker 1: pretty much every big game that they've done this with
Speaker 1: In this one you get more issues. Antonio Rudeger throws
Speaker 1: something on the field after a decision very late. He's
Speaker 1: sent off. Lucas Vasquez is sent off from the bench,
Speaker 1: Jude Bellingham is sent off after the final whistle for
Speaker 1: angrily confronting officials. It's just an extremely bad look. There
Speaker 1: was talk that after the referees press conference that Real
Speaker 1: Madrid wasn't going to go forward with any of the
Speaker 1: pomp and circumstance around the Copa del Rey final.
Speaker 2: They eventually did.
Speaker 1: Spain's got to get control of the situation in general
Speaker 1: the Spanish Federation a La Liga. But Real Madrid has
Speaker 1: to stop with this, they really do. It's gotten really bad.
Speaker 1: Also with Real Madrid, they got to figure out what
Speaker 1: they're going to do with the coaching situation. Carlo Ancelotti
Speaker 1: set for more talks about taking over as the Brazilian
Speaker 1: national team manager that continue. A Brazilian businessman, Diego Fernanje
Speaker 1: has been acting on behalf of the Brazilian federation. He
Speaker 1: was at the game. He's going to sit down with
Speaker 1: Carlo Ancelotti, reportedly sometime this week, trying to get Ancelotti
Speaker 1: to take the Brazil job as soon as the La
Speaker 1: Liga season is over. That would mean Ancelotti would leave
Speaker 1: before the Club World Cup and he would be in
Speaker 1: place for the June World Cup qualifiers for Brazil. Shabi
Speaker 1: Alonso byer Levercusen they're waiting for a call from Real
Speaker 1: Madrid to figure out what's going to happen with them.
Speaker 1: Marca has reported this in Spain, but they've also reported
Speaker 1: that conversations are still at least being had internally at
Speaker 1: Real Madrid about talking to Jurgen Klop. Now, Klop's agent
Speaker 1: shut down rumors that he was unhappy in his role
Speaker 1: with Red Bull. That kind of said, I'm not interested
Speaker 1: in going back to management. He has a contract. There's
Speaker 1: nothing more to say. But as we know, contracts can
Speaker 1: be broken and they can be bought out. Same thing
Speaker 1: with Shabi Alonzo. By the way, there is a track
Speaker 1: leverkeus And has said they won't stand in the way,
Speaker 1: but they're going to have to get some money out
Speaker 1: of this, as would Red Bull. If Real Madrid is
Speaker 1: going to go for either Klop or Shabi Alonso, stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Jurgen Klop his previous team Liverpool, they won
Speaker 1: their second Premier League title, their twentieth English top flight championship.
Speaker 1: They're now level with Manchester United as the most successful
Speaker 1: side in English top flight history with twenty championships.
Speaker 2: Arnest Slott.
Speaker 1: He becomes the third manager in Liverpool's history to win
Speaker 1: the title in his first season in charge. Joe Fagan
Speaker 1: did it in nineteen eighty four, Kenny dald Gleish did
Speaker 1: it in nineteen eighty six. He also joins an elite
Speaker 1: group of managers Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Manuel Pellegrini and
Speaker 1: Antonio Conte who won the Premier League in their first season.
Speaker 1: Mosala twenty eight goals, eighteen assists, crazy numbers. Four games
Speaker 1: left Sala's one goal contribution away from tying the forty
Speaker 1: seven that's the record that's set by Alan Shear and
Speaker 1: Andy Cole. Those were during forty two games. He seas
Speaker 1: not thirty eight incredible for Mosala. Incredible for Liverpool, Incredible
Speaker 1: for Arne Slot. Nobody gave them a chance to win
Speaker 1: the league this season. Everybody was talking about he's gonna fail,
Speaker 1: he might be the first manager fired, and he wins
Speaker 1: the title. Incredible work from Arne Slott and great work
Speaker 1: but from Jurgen Klopp as well on the way out
Speaker 1: in helping Arne Slot be set up for success. It's
Speaker 1: hard to follow a legend. It's very hard to follow
Speaker 1: a legend. After they did not win, Arnes Slot went
Speaker 1: better than the legend with this title. After last season
Speaker 1: that was a little bit of a disappointment for Liverpool.
Speaker 1: UEFA Women's Champions League Arsenal with an incredible comeback. They
Speaker 1: whooped up on Leone in France for one win for
Speaker 1: Arsenal in front of twenty thousand people. They were down
Speaker 1: to one after a late winner for Leon in London.
Speaker 1: So Arsenal gets to the UEFA Women's Champions League final.
Speaker 1: They will face Barcelona. Speaking of whooping up Barcelona, where
Speaker 1: they won the second leg against Chelsea four to one.
Speaker 1: They won the first leg against Chelsea four to one.
Speaker 1: They win the series eight to two on aggregate. Barsa
Speaker 1: and Arsenal in the UEFA Women's Champions League Final INWSL
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Current first place coming into the weekend, they
Speaker 1: lose three to two, first loss of the season to
Speaker 1: the North Carolina Courage. Courage hadn't won in five Current
Speaker 1: was perfect with five wins in five games. Kaylee Kurtz
Speaker 1: equalized in the ninetieth minute. Ashley Sanchez won the game
Speaker 1: for the Courage three minutes later. There's also news on
Speaker 1: the NWSL front that they're going to start a second
Speaker 1: division very similar to MLS Next Pro as a reserve league.
Speaker 1: Eight teams are committed in starting second teams in NWSL's
Speaker 1: new second division.
Speaker 2: FA Cup semi Finals.
Speaker 1: Manchester City they've qualified for the FA Cup Final for
Speaker 1: the fourteenth time in their history. Two nil winners over
Speaker 1: Nottingham Forest Crystal Palace, three nail winners over Aston Villa.
Speaker 1: They'll meet in the final on May seventeen at Wembley.
Speaker 1: Wrexham they have advanced to the championship. Now they have
Speaker 1: earned promotion, first time in forty three years that they
Speaker 1: will be in the second division, first time any club
Speaker 1: has achieved three straight promotions across England's top tiers. Club
Speaker 1: was bought by Ryan Reynolds Rob Mcalenny two point five
Speaker 1: million dollars. In twenty twenty one, they were promoted back
Speaker 1: to the EFL after fifteen years. In twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: they were promoted after a second place finish in League
Speaker 1: two last year. Looks like they're going to finish second
Speaker 1: in this League one to go to the championship this year.
Speaker 1: Birmingham City, Who's going to win the league one hundred
Speaker 1: and five points. That is a new League one points record,
Speaker 1: breaking Wolves's one hundred and three points in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: So two interesting teams. Wrexham's going to get a lot
Speaker 1: of the headlines. Birmingham City another one that are going
Speaker 1: up into the championship. Very very curious to watch the
Speaker 1: championship next season. SARAA Napoli. They now have the lead
Speaker 1: by three points over Inter ter lost at home to
Speaker 1: Roma Napoli one two nil over Torino. Scott mctominy scored
Speaker 1: both goals for Napoli. He's got eleven on the season,
Speaker 1: now the most by a Scottish player in sari AI history,
Speaker 1: passing Dennis Law's nineteen sixty two season at Toreno Enter.
Speaker 1: On the other side, They look exhausted. They were going
Speaker 1: for a quadruple. They didn't score against Bologna a few
Speaker 1: games ago, they didn't score against Milan, and the Copa
Speaker 1: Italia semi final second leg they didn't score against Roma.
Speaker 1: They might not have any trophies after not too long
Speaker 1: ago looking for a quadruple.
Speaker 2: They do have Champions League. They do get Barcelona this week.
Speaker 2: We'll be talking about it.
Speaker 1: But can they find something because right now it's not
Speaker 1: good for Inter and they're in second place in Sarria,
Speaker 1: River and Boca. The Argentine Superclassico River with the two
Speaker 1: one win Franco Mastantuono and Sebastian Drewsy Your goal scorers.
Speaker 1: The free kick from Maustantuono seventeen years old. He's one
Speaker 1: of the next jewels of Argentine football. All the big
Speaker 1: clubs around the world want to sign him. What a
Speaker 1: free kick from him? Go seek that one out. River
Speaker 1: is trying to get to level the all time series
Speaker 1: with Boca. They're four wins away from doing that. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Africa. The African Champions League surprises in the
Speaker 1: semi finals. We've talked about it a little bit here
Speaker 1: on the Espresso the first legs both scoreless in South Africa.
Speaker 1: The second legs were in Cairo, and it's not the
Speaker 1: two Egyptian teams that are in the final. One of
Speaker 1: them is Pyramids, the other one Mammalodi Sundowns. An upset
Speaker 1: result over the defending champions in the competition, a lak Lie.
Speaker 1: It was an own goal from Yaser Ibrahim in stoppage
Speaker 1: time late in the second leg in Cairo, the Sundowns
Speaker 1: beat a lac Lee on away goals after a one
Speaker 1: to one draw. Second game of the day, Pyramids, they
Speaker 1: came back twice to beat Orlando Pirates three to two
Speaker 1: fisted Mayla score twice for the home team to advance
Speaker 1: to the final. First ever Champions League final for Pyramids.
Speaker 1: They will take on Mamelodi Sundowns in the first leg
Speaker 1: in Pretoria in May twenty fourth second leg will be
Speaker 1: back in Cairo on June first, SDHAM starting in about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes or so on the YouTube page here, also
Speaker 1: on x also on Twitch. Tons of content all week long.
Speaker 1: High school state tournaments are into the round of sixteen.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about that. We'll have plenty of games
Speaker 1: starting on Wednesday with Johns Creek's Boys on the road
Speaker 1: at Macintosh. That'll be Wednesday night, games on Thursday, games
Speaker 1: on Friday. Soccer is in session all week as well.
Speaker 1: At noon you'll hear from high school coaches all around
Speaker 1: the state at Georgia. Very busy week ahead, Lots of
Speaker 1: games this weekend, with Atlanta United hosting Nashville First Team
Speaker 1: Action Unified Team Action Second Team Atlanta United two, who
Speaker 1: drew yesterday scoreless on the road at Cincinnati. Atlanta United
Speaker 1: two will be on the road at Huntsville Saturday night.
Speaker 1: We'll have coverage of all of that and more this week.
Speaker 1: But thank you for watching, and thank you to our
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