Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go. First eleven episode, the
Speaker 1: first of the season. That's right, coming off Saturday, the
Speaker 1: two two Drawl with Toronto ABC Dave Johnson.
Speaker 2: Along with Brucemurry. Welcoming you the first eleven.
Speaker 1: Yes, we'll take you through DC and noted in eleven
Speaker 1: minutes or less. And when you start now, Bruce Murray,
Speaker 1: the two to result not what d c U I
Speaker 1: had wanted. And make no mistake, this team doesn't want
Speaker 1: to just get results meaning ties, they want wins. Having
Speaker 1: said that, it's the first game of the season, So
Speaker 1: first of all, just your overall assessment of this team
Speaker 1: with new faces, players making their debuts, your thoughts on
Speaker 1: how they perform.
Speaker 3: You can definitely tell that there is a change in
Speaker 3: philosophy and how they want to play the game. You know,
Speaker 3: Christian Bentechie, you know, said in the press conference, you know,
Speaker 3: you know we're not going to just you know, throw
Speaker 3: it up to me and you know we're going to
Speaker 3: play our way through through the midfield. And you could
Speaker 3: see that. And you know, again going all the way
Speaker 3: you know back, you know, trying to diagnose all this stuff,
Speaker 3: you just see that our fullbacks really changed the whole
Speaker 3: way that the game is being played. And we have
Speaker 3: two of the best.
Speaker 2: And that's David sneg and Erin Herrera.
Speaker 1: Look, David Sneg even made a run and got his
Speaker 1: shot off at the top of the box. So unpredictable
Speaker 1: very much is a theme right down to the fact
Speaker 1: that Boris he now scored the first goal.
Speaker 2: He was not afraid to get it in goal.
Speaker 4: Now a turnover, I'm getting four e Now Eat gets
Speaker 4: a shot off. It's Endnat, It's end that these it
Speaker 4: is christ in the twenty twenty five season at Boris
Speaker 4: now with the goal and these hed on it with
Speaker 4: the lead.
Speaker 5: What nothing and what a great goal by Boris e.
Speaker 6: Now all he had to do was pass it to Parti,
Speaker 6: but that was the obvious choice and so he held
Speaker 6: it and he held it and the defender went to
Speaker 6: Parti and he had an open shot on goal. Fantastic,
Speaker 6: brilliant play by Boris Now, so great.
Speaker 4: To say, it's Ende and Boris he now, Hey, welcome
Speaker 4: to the DC and Ied Goal Scorers Club.
Speaker 2: His first goal in a black and red.
Speaker 7: Uniform and the chance of DC and Ied coming from
Speaker 7: the Chico stand seven fifty two o o'clock. We're watching
Speaker 7: and we talked about DC and iited wanting to be unpredictable.
Speaker 7: I think that qualifies as unpredictable.
Speaker 3: Brilliant goal because if you watch it very carefully, those
Speaker 3: of had apple was Enow looked off the defender twice
Speaker 3: and all he had to do was give it to
Speaker 3: Pirani on the left or Bentechi on the right. But
Speaker 3: what he did was forced the defender to actually go
Speaker 3: and take Pirani and right away it just opened everything
Speaker 3: up and Enow just slotted it home. It really shows
Speaker 3: intelligence in the soccer IQ of E. Now we didn't
Speaker 3: see enough of him last year, but man, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you what that goal just jumped out.
Speaker 2: At me again.
Speaker 1: D C and I'm dealing with some injury show Peglo.
Speaker 1: George Stroud did not play on Saturday against Toronto. It's
Speaker 1: hopeful see them soon on the field. Having said that,
Speaker 1: Jacob Murle, this is what you want to see from
Speaker 1: a second year player. I know Ben Techy scored the goal,
Speaker 1: but do you really believe Merle made that goal?
Speaker 3: Also, the versatility, obviously Stroud being injured, Merle just slotted
Speaker 3: right into that and it tells you a lot. You
Speaker 3: know that the staff and the front office and the
Speaker 3: way they look at Jacob Murle and they can trust
Speaker 3: him now in that position. The goal itself was absolute brilliance.
Speaker 5: I mean Toronto winning possession back.
Speaker 7: They're having the better spell right now that they're taking
Speaker 7: carbono and they're throwing them over to the right side,
Speaker 7: so you've got two wingers on the other side of
Speaker 7: the field right now, and then they're allowing their fullbacks
Speaker 7: to come up as well, so they're very unpredictable.
Speaker 5: If United can win the ball in possession, they'd be
Speaker 5: off on a break barley just outside his box. Daggle
Speaker 5: the ball up to the right flak Merle.
Speaker 2: Can he get to it?
Speaker 4: He kend Merle right of the box now near the
Speaker 4: end line. Merle gets a cross up at Tucky the Hanery,
Speaker 4: sending that a centing.
Speaker 2: That golden winter. We'll coup to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: When your goal to head Christian Benteka has made it
Speaker 4: two to one these Dave.
Speaker 6: There has to be a ton of credit to Jacob
Speaker 6: Murle to get to that ball and then to just
Speaker 6: lay it up there where Christian Beneke can attack it.
Speaker 5: So many times players try and pick things out. He
Speaker 5: didn't do that. He put it up there and said, Christian,
Speaker 5: go get it.
Speaker 3: Merle made the run, the ball found him, he kept
Speaker 3: it in. But what he did that was really kind
Speaker 3: of brilliant was he got his head down, ran at
Speaker 3: the defender, but then stopped and kind of faked that
Speaker 3: he was making a move, looked up, put his head
Speaker 3: back down, and then chipped it to the back post.
Speaker 3: And I think, uh, you know, without having talked to
Speaker 3: Christian about this, uh, he just is telling these guys,
Speaker 3: go ahead and put it up there, man, and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go get it. Because way too many times you
Speaker 3: find wingers are fullbacks trying to pick out a specific
Speaker 3: target in the box. You don't have to do that
Speaker 3: with ben Tekey. He's he's so good in the air,
Speaker 3: you just have to put it somewhere near him.
Speaker 1: Now, you think about debuts on Saturday, and we'll start
Speaker 1: from back to front.
Speaker 2: Kim Jun Hang in goal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit shaky at the start, but when
Speaker 1: we think about it, some of his saves, certainly in
Speaker 1: that second half, allowed DC United to get out of
Speaker 1: there with a point Dave.
Speaker 3: There was four or five saves where you know, point
Speaker 3: blank header's diving header that he just smothered the Chicos
Speaker 3: stand is in love with Kim. He is an absolute
Speaker 3: you know, going all the way to the bowing of
Speaker 3: respect when he comes out, you know, to warm up.
Speaker 3: He is a class act. You can tell that this
Speaker 3: is a real big deal for him coming over here
Speaker 3: to America. It's just so good to see it.
Speaker 1: Really is Ky Roles again. You were so excited to
Speaker 1: see him. You got to see him Saturday.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, Yeah, I mean he's everything I thought he was.
Speaker 3: In fact, he's better on the ball than I thought
Speaker 3: he was. He's really good at diagnosing plays and putting
Speaker 3: himself in the right position. But on the ball, he
Speaker 3: has the kind of skill set of a center midfielder
Speaker 3: where you know he's willing to break lines with the dribble,
Speaker 3: take a little bit of risk, and you know, the
Speaker 3: combination the two center backs and of course the fullbacks.
Speaker 5: You know, the goals were the problem last year.
Speaker 3: I just don't see that that's going to be a
Speaker 3: problem going forward. We gave up two goals the other day,
Speaker 3: but to be fair, I feel that the penalty was
Speaker 3: a was a poor call.
Speaker 2: So and again the first goal.
Speaker 1: Not to take anything away, but again an unsettled situation
Speaker 1: and certainly correctable and also making his debut.
Speaker 3: Jose Kajima very very tough to get off the ball.
Speaker 3: He's incredibly quick. He reminds me of a teammate of mine,
Speaker 3: I know, going way back here, but tab Ramos, you know,
Speaker 3: us soccer legend, was one of these guys that had
Speaker 3: the speed over two to three meters and that's what
Speaker 3: Kajima is. He absolutely so quick. Lateral quickness is amazing,
Speaker 3: but also he's really strong on the ball.
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