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LS Live: 7-0?!?! Reacting to Seattle Sounders Leagues Cup DESTRUCTION of Cruz Azul!
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We react to Seattle's Leagues Cup Phase One matchup vs. Cruz Azul at Lumen Field.
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League's Cup Importance
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Well, sir, we got a scorcher today. Gonna be real scorcher today. What, the scorcher today? Well, it's gonna be
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League's Cup is the most important trophy ever. the most distinguished and prestigious tournament that any club, be it Major League Soccer or League of Mac East, competes in.
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I've always said this about League's Cup.
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Highly coveted trophy.
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that ah every club prioritizes as their number one goal going into every season.
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Been saying it for years.
Historic Win for Seattle Sounders
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The Seattle Sounders
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just beat the absolute shit out of Cruz Azul at Lumen Field. Count them up, chat. Let's count them up. Let's count them up.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven to zero.
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They dropped a touchdown on Cruz Azul.
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They're now easily top of the League's Cup table under the new format. Yeah, let's get some sevens in the chat.
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Let's get some sevens in the chat.
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I can't believe what I just witnessed.
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Neither can I. Neither can I. I raced home for you guys.
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as soon as I could to hop on here. was one of those ones where it's like, you know, do I do the post game live night of, or do I do it tomorrow or whatever? I mean, for a seven spot,
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for a seven spot, we're going live. You already know. i mean, where do you guys even want to start? Where do you even want to start? There are so many goals that I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to pull up the scoreboard to refresh my memory.
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But, ah you know, we try we always try not to be prisoner of the moment around here.
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But if that wasn't the best performance in Seattle Sounders history, it was up there. And guess what, folks?
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We got a caller from Lumen Field. Let's bring him to the stage. What's going on, everyone? Welcome in, man. I just went live like two minutes ago, waiting for everyone to... ah Guys, how many goals did we score?
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I wasn't sure. How many goals did we score again? I ought to em not wasn't sure. We got sevens in the chat. We got sevens in the chat. Rhombus says we've never scored seven, right? No, they ah they have scored seven against the San Jose Earthquakes in the COVID Cup, famously.
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The COVID Cup, the COVID season, whatever. separated but The COVID Cup was the MLS's back banner. Azurada, starting us off with the $10 super. Thank you so much.
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How about a 10 spot for the 7-0 beatdown? I'm going to find an even better place to keep reading this. Thank you, man. I mean, I hadn't i hadn't even started going over ah going over all the goals and the storylines yet. But no, what's going on at Lumen? Were you just at the pressers? Like what's I was just at the pressers. We talked with Pedro. We oh, those are locks. Definitely not going out there.
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um But here we go. Now I look like I'm on the field, on the stadium. But yeah, just just went to the pressers. Brian was stoked, man. I've never seen a Brian Schmitzer press conference.
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He was cracking jokes. He was cracking jokes, folks. i mean you could you could tell from how You can tell how the game went from how he walks to the locker room from the bench after the final whistle. He he was strutting.
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Dude, he yeah, he had he had some swag rocking. Schmetz was swagging after that. He was swagging after that. but I mean, ah I just want to say, like, before we get into anything else, I mean, that was, if it wasn't the greatest performance in club history, it was certainly up there.
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ah But, you know, you're going to hear you're go to hear some excuse making. In the coming days, you are. From multiple different factions. You're going to have the Liga, Mechies fans and media, they're going to be saying, well, we had to travel for it and we had to play it on turf.
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We had to travel. We had to get on a plane and fly to play the game and we had to play it on turf. So that doesn't count. ah You're going to hear excuse making from a segments of this fan base. They're going to tell you that Jesus Ferreira's goal contributions don't count. They're going to tell you that the new who goal didn't count because...
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Because why? what's the What's the excuse for a seven spot? There is no good excuse. There's no good excuse.
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And so here, here let me let me give you a little insight into our very own Nico Moreno asked the Cruz Azul coach. i I gave him a question. I said, can you ask the coach, like, brother, you might get fired for this performance.
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He got hired like a month ago. He literally just got hired. But this is the type of performance that gets a coach fired in Liga Mackeys, right? Like oh yeah their last coach was fired for finishing third in the league after they won CONCACAF Champions Cup and then finished third.
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That's crazy, right? That's crazy. He responded and was like, got to do better for the fans. I mean, it was just an absolute disgrace. ah The whole, the whole, Nico will have the whole video up later, but it was legitimately like, he was just like taking heat from all of the Mexican media.
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I mean, they are in shambles right now. You go on Twitter, if you go on Blue Sky, if you go on any kind of platform. We're going to be busting out tweet. Oh my God. it is like actively. i might actually I might actually bust it out right now. Keep talking. Keep talking. What happened? I just, ah and let me go back to this result, right?
00:07:03
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Yes. This is the biggest get back of all time, right? Oh, yeah. Kusasul, Kusasul, absolutely. destroyed us in Kalkakaf Champions Cup, right? Like, that was literally a tournament that the Sounders fans and the Sounders front office and the Sounders staff believed that they could make a run in, a legitimate run, ended by Kruceso, who went on to win it. So, like, that's a valiant effort, right? you But they they did not look good in in that match against Kruceso.
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They came in tonight, and what Brian Schmetzer said was, these players are leading the charge. This is not a, like... coaches thing or like, you know, the front office trying to hype up to win this tournament. This is fully player led.
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They want this tournament so bad. They want to win these games so bad. And I talked to Obed after the match and I said, Obed, you know, you seemed so excited after celebrating ah your goal.
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And he was like, yeah, you know, it's, ah there was just, he was, you know, he was basically talking about like, there was a lot of shit talking happening. There was a lot of just like, you just get really into these games with Liga Mekis. And so to be able to just like unload on a team of the quality of Cruz Azul, who is by far and away the best team in CONCACAF, this is historic.
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This may not be the best match in Sounders history. You can believe, you know, maybe CONCACAF Champions Cup Final, but this is for sure one of the most historic matches. And the fact that, and this was something that Pedro de la Vega brought up was this was a team win through and through.
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And everyone had each other's back. Everyone was rolling. I mean, this is legitimately, I cannot tell you, I cannot tell you the last time that I was this stoked about a game.
00:08:48
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I mean, not just the win, but like the way that they played. did I have literally no notes. Nothing bad could be said about this game. Nothing. No, ah my favorite moment was, it was like it was the De La Vega goal right at the end, which is one of the best goals. He scored the best goal of the season against the Quakes a couple of weeks ago. That is one of the best Sounders goals ever.
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Yes. Ever. Yes. Well, first of all, let's just break it. No, no, no, no. I'm going to say something here. Yeah. It was the best goal a Sounders player has ever scored, not only for the moment, but But the technical ability that he had to have to first time that from that angle in the way that it landed the physics of it is insane. The ball was from 40 yards out.
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It's insane. How did he do that? and And with that, with that, Ari, I have, you know what? I'm standing up. I'm standing on business. You're not clocking it. I'm standing on business right now.
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Pedro de la Vega has arrived. Pedro de la Vega has arrived. The breakout is here. de la Vega has arrived. His breakout has happened. I said it. I said all he's got to do for me to say I'm a clown. I was wrong.
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Was to perform in League's Cup. And you know what he did? He did it on legitimately the biggest stage. He did it as someone who we have both questioned his ability to come into a game and affect it.
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Right? Instead of just from a start. He did that. He looked incredible. like i like but Both goals, world class. The second one, I mean, look. You know what's crazy?
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That ball came over the top. I knew he was going to score it. like you like That is the shit that he's on right now. There's a couple of ah candidates. you know Jimmy Traore versus Tigris. Jimmy Bangers versus Portland.
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But like this, I think when you throw in who it was against. Right. Like, that's the thing. Like, what are you going to, what's anyone going to say about these goals coming against the best team in CONCACAF?
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You can't say shit. So the fact that he did it against that team in that moment for a seven spot, incredible. um But my favorite moment was directly after that ball went in when Jesus Ferrer, did you see what he did?
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He went right up to one of the, the Cruz Azul defenders and he was getting in his face. He was like, what's up? What's up? yes What do you got to say What do you got to say now? ah Let's hit this super from Wade real quick. Wade, appreciate you, man. Thank you.
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I know it's kind of a meme, but can we all just go get on board with caring about this tournament as fans from now on? i mean This is the most important tournament of our lives. This is the most important tournament of our lives. are There's never been a more important tournament than League's Cup.
00:11:41
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There's never been a... In all seriousness, we've been we've been saying, dating back to last year, that we're pro-league scum. So we can actually... We're vindication. Yeah, vindication. everyone Everyone has always considered this.
00:11:56
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The most important trophy. And and like yeah here, the thing is this with this new format, it is extremely hard to advance. You have to be in the top four out of 18 teams and things like goals scored and goal differential and stuff play into that.
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They could not be in any better position to finish in that top four after dropping a seven spot on Cruz Azul. It's literally like this is the perfect position because they do it by tier of opponents as well.
00:12:24
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So this is a tier one opponent. this is a tier one opponent in a tier one game I mean you you you you just like there's you there's nothing there's nothing that you can say poor bad about this game nothing and you know what Cruces I think you should pull up some of these posts man because okay let's go let's do this I I got it I got a teed up right here yeah chat chat are you ready for the their final graphic we're going to Twitter for this we have to yes
00:12:54
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The root of all evil. All right. All right. Here we go. Here we go. let's Let's zoom it in. Let's zoom it in.
00:13:02
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Final. I love that the Epstein files is on the side there too. We played a poor match tonight in Seattle. We will double our efforts to correct this performance. Okay. Let's let chat chat. How many replies do you think it has? How many replies?
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It's gotta be. Is it like 10 K? It's gotta be. It's not a 10 K yet, but it's, it's, it's, it's gonna get there. How many replies? Yeah, drop and drop it. with Yeah. 4.8. 4.8. We literally own them. We literally own their club.
00:13:32
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We literally own their club. You got the 4.8 replies on the 1.4K retweets. That's a 4X ratio. How many quote tweets do you think are in there?
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It's got to be 1,000. 4.8K. Let's see what the people have to say. Yeah. Yeah.
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Let's see what they've got to say. You can also go to my ah my official X account and see some some great content there. Are you just retweeting all the... ah I was retweeting some good stuff. this hits like This hits like pure amphetamines to me. Oh, my God, dude.
00:14:04
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I mean, and you know what's even better is that, like, my favorite thing about Liga Mequis is that all of their fans hate each other. So, and in and they get in this this thing where, like, if a MLS team...
00:14:15
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beats them, or like just beats the brakes off of ah another LigaMekis team. All of the other fan bases are joining in and clowning on them and like lifting up the Sounders. If you remember, like ah when the Sounders beat Pumas in League's Cup Final, dude, like, or not League's Cup, but Champions Cup Final, dude, it was like every LigaMekis fan was just absolutely punching how do you uh how do you think they decide who goes on the graphic for seven zero number 29 is probably like dude come on dude okay but it's you know who it should have been is willardita because what an absolute stinker of a game i mean that guy should retire after the way that he's not the goalkeeper no no no that's that the the the defender who was oh getting in uh okay yeah yeah yeah i mean he got he got absolutely
00:15:06
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do on in the second half. He got sauce. right
00:15:11
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I mean, what a what a tweet. Yeah. Ari, did you? did they're going to They're going to double their efforts to correct this performance. They're going to double their efforts, which means you know um after a 7-0, you might have to more than double it.
00:15:24
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Yeah, double it and give to the next person, Ari. 4.8K down bad. ah Did we do? Yeah, I like this. I like this. Did you share the news with everyone? ah what That the Seattle Sounders now officially own the record for most goals scored against Liga Mekis opponent in a game.
00:15:48
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Or maybe not not, or like biggest margin of victory, I apologize. Yeah, there was a set, l LAFC beat Juarez 7-1 in 2023. This was 7-0. and twenty twenty three this was a seven zero 7-0.
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think and And that's Juarez too. That's Juarez. That's not even like a top tier Liga Mekis team. You're telling me. No, no, no, no. Just just give me a minute here. I got to cook for a second. Please, please.
00:16:13
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Champion of CONCACAF. Top three finish in Liga Mekis. Haven't lost in like six months. This team hasn't lost in six months.
00:16:25
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Come to Seattle, Get bammed on by Dwayne De Rosario's kid. New who? New who? You got bammed on by New who?
00:16:37
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What a free kick by Danny Leyva, though. Holy shit. I mean, Danny Leyva, absolutely. Dude, I mean, this was... The Sounders are the champions of CONCACAF, okay? Like they they should have to literally give up their title and give it to the Sounders. And you know what it even it even makes me think about is that how bad are the Vancouver Whitecaps?
00:16:57
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What a shame. What a shame that they couldn't get it done because you know who would have been able to get it done? The Seattle Sounders, okay? And so through that logic, I think we have to say this. And you know what? We have to say this.
00:17:10
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The Seattle Sounders are the champions of CONCACAF currently. And that's just how it is. they should they if you If you get worked 7-0 by the team that you beat CCC, you should have to relinquish the... Yeah, you have to give up. You have to relinquish.
00:17:26
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I mean, i just... ah Going into this game, I like i like Seattle's chances, I guess, as the as the home team and just with the form that they'd been in an attack.
00:17:37
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But ah I definitely, there's no scenario where I would have ah called them dropping a seven spot. And also just just how they did it. That second half, mean, it was one of the best halves of footy I've ever seen them play. like it it was that good they were uh they were dicing them up it felt like every single time they had the ball they were uh they were first to every loose ball they were winning the ball off Cruz Azul it felt like every single time that they had it and then the counter was just immaculate uh they should have had they could have had a couple more goals in this game
00:18:13
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the We talked about it. There was at least one that that I will. OK, I will say the like all right. the The new for everyone that was called offside. He was not offside. He wasn't.
00:18:25
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He wasn't. The AR raised the flag preemptively. and wasn't basing what he was looking at on where the ball was, which in that situation, as we've seen a couple times in the last couple weeks, like on a breakaway like that, it's not it's you're not offside in that situation if you're behind the man. Otherwise, you couldn't have a breakaway, right?
00:18:43
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So, like, it's based on where the ball is. They missed that call. Could have been an eight spot. Could have been. i mean, we won't butterfly effect. We don't know what would have happened. But like they they could have had they the chance generation was just ah incredible.
00:18:57
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I thought in the I thought even in the first half they were working in pretty good. They didn't get any goals. It was a seven goal half, which is just another hilarious aspect of this. it's Seven and a half. How is that even possible?
00:19:09
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How do you let that happen? Like. I mean, ah I don't know. but Did you want to talk about Ferreira at all? I mean, he was fantastic. could Hattie. thought Ferreira was fantastic. I mean, you know, we can we can talk about that. I did just send in the little private chat thing. I sent a couple of links to ah some some crash outposts, which, you know, I thought,
00:19:33
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so We can ah we we can dive into the crash outs. Let's hit ah let's set a couple more of these supers because we've got some in here. a Hunch Punch coming through with the gifted. Thank you so much. We got one gifted, two gifted, five gifted.
00:19:46
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Thank you, Hunch. You the man. Appreciate you. Derek Richards coming in with the $10. Derek, love you. Appreciate you, man. My biggest takeaway tonight is that the Sounders showed they have this caliber of performance in them. I've been waiting all year for an mll MLS Cup champion caliber performance, and they showed out. Great point, Derek.
00:20:04
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Dude, how does this make them fair in the power rankings? Because... This team can beat Inter-Miami, I'll tell you that much. and we're gonna We're going to find that out. We're going to find that out in September.
00:20:15
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But Inter-Miami, they needed a last-second winner against Atlas. Shout out Gonzo Pineda to get the win in their game, which that one was also called offside and correctly given on the same type of call as we were talking about.
00:20:29
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So, uh, inner Miami, you got the dub. Uh, the Timby has got a nice little four Oh on, ah whoever they were playing in the loons got a four one on whoever they were playing. But, you know, no, no one dropped it against the number one.
00:20:40
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No, um no one did it against the number one seed. Number one, it's the number one seed seven zero against the number one seed. Chat. How many, can you, can you type in chat again? How many, how many, uh, goals there were? Cause I'm just, I'm forgetting, I'm forgetting chat. I need you to rick and wiggle $7 super chat.
00:20:57
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need you to remind me. How many goals, Chad? How many goals was it? I loved this one. Pedro for Puskas. Like, kind of genuinely, though. Like, not a joke.
00:21:07
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That's actually, like, could actually be a thing. I could kind of rock with that. Derek with another $5 super sticker. Thank you guys for all the love. We have by far the most people in here that we've ever had on a stream. So I, I, show yourselves, yeah show yourself show yourselves, hold that seven to zero L. Oh my God.
00:21:28
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$2 from Cinematica. Thank you so much. Ryan Kent, absolute warrior tonight. The Ryan Kent stock is up. Everyone's stock is up. Everyone's stock is up. Ryan Kent gets an assist. Roosnack gets an assist.
00:21:41
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Nuhu gets an assist and a goal. ah He didn't get ejected. So it's just it's just an incredible feat all around from the squad. Listen, I love all of this money.
00:21:53
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but all I'm asking of the 231 of you is that you hit the like button. Okay. You got to hit the like button. It's free 99 for every single person who hits the like button. I'll do a pushup.
00:22:04
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Okay. I'll do one pushup for every like at the end of this stream in celebration, another $7 for max. Thank you, max. Appreciate you, man. $1 to you handsome gentlemen for each goal. Sorry. No extra for the offside robbery. Hey, I mean, what if they, what if they had dropped a nine spot? I mean,
00:22:22
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It's crazy, like, i don't even I don't even know what we're talking about. Like... Dude, does this game feel real to you? No. Like, okay, and I think we should give a little a little background on this Pedro goal, too, from where we were sitting.
00:22:36
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So, for those of you who don't know, the press box is a very, well, the Sounders press box is a little raucous. it's it's it's ah It's a motley crew of people who hang out ah here, which we love. But ah I have never seen ah a group of individuals jump up in the air and ah like literally everyone stand up and do this. oh my God. When someone scores, that is the greatest, the greatest press box reaction I have ever seen to a goal.
00:23:05
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ever. Nico Moreno was running a laps around the press box. He was he was like, I was told you. He came up to me He's like, I told you. i told you. i told you. Oh, my gosh. It was the ah the professional etiquette kind of went out the window.
00:23:18
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ah the ah The guys on the bench when Pedro hit that reacted the exact same way. And the Sounders social team actually got that on video, which that was, I mean, are we allowed to play that? Yeah, we can play it. We can credit the Sounders for it.
00:23:35
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out At Sounders FC on Twitter. I got it right. At Sounders FC. Everyone go follow Sounders FC. They're the greatest club in the history of CONCACAF. And while you pull that up, i'm going to read some of these super chats. ah From Workflow, I am so proud of us. Oh, yeah. 7-0, by the way.
00:23:50
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And Kyle R says, does anyone remember that move by Vargas at the top of the box that sent someone into retirement early? Oh, my God. well you know't Let's talk about ah Obed's performance after this, but watch this reaction.
00:24:03
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Dude, everyone, look at that. The Yabar.
00:24:07
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They don't even know what they just saw. i love a good man I love a good bench reaction after a Galasso. Dude, Albert. Albert can't even believe it, man. He's like, I wish that was me, bro. They're covering their eyes.
00:24:21
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oh I mean, it's, dude, that goal. It doesn't get better. it It doesn't get better. It doesn't get better. It literally doesn't get better. ah Let's talk about, come on, bro. Let's talk about this Obed Vargas performance.
00:24:34
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He told me at the post-match, that they were chirping him. They were chirping him all day and that, you know, he felt that ah he he had drawn some fouls that weren't called against him.
00:24:49
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So he was getting a little frustrated and that energy of the game got pent up. They made them wait at halftime. They made them sit out there. And when he scored that goal, he just let it all out.
00:25:00
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He let it all out and he felt so good. ah So I want to know what your take was on Obed Vargas' performance. I thought, dude, like he legitimately playing against – CONCACAF champion.
00:25:11
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raised his stock. That's at least 10 more million dollars on his transfer fee. Am I am i not wrong? That was, that was a Johnny Cardoso isn't giving you that. Johnny Cardoso isn't giving you that. I'm telling you that right now. Telling you that right now. mean, he was, ah he was fantastic. And, you know, even before the squad went off. think we should take some calls too, by the way. Sorry. Yeah, i guess we, no, we got to, we got to, but I will say but ah regarding Obed, I was even before the squad went off for a seven spot,
00:25:41
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I was thinking to myself just watching him play, not just in this game, but the last like two or three weeks, like is he getting more powerful? see Is he evolving?
00:25:51
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Because, what's the word? he is playing more... audacious, I think. Like he's trying stuff that like like that's ah we maybe haven't seen in his bag that he clearly has been working on and is now in his bag. But just the way that he can escape pressure, a couple of those turns when he receives the ball and then just turns away from the defender, accelerates, boom.
00:26:19
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Like he did that so many times in this game. And they couldn't get the ball off him. So just ah Just an incredible performance. We got our first caller. Got our first call in. Let's ah let's get Rhombus to the stage right now. Give thumbs if you're ready. If you hear us, Rhombus, can you give us the thumbs up?
00:26:37
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Sick. Rhombus. There we go. Rhombus, you are in here. It's a long way back to Mexico when you're shit. It's a long way back to Mexico when you're shit. It's a long way back to Mexico. It's a long way back to Mexico it's a long way back to mexico when you're shit.
00:26:54
Speaker
That flight is going to be tough. That's a tough flight. I think they're going to play the Galaxy next, but the point's down. The point is, they could get a consolation win that way. Yeah.
00:27:06
Speaker
Nice. Well, the Galaxy won tonight. Oh, five goals. Damn. So, well, I didn't know they dropped five. They dropped five. Joey Paints had a brace. Oh, okay. I checked, but ah they, I mean, Cruz Azul, I mean, I don't think, I don't think, I don't think they're going to take out. They're going to take out this frustration on the Galaxy. And you know what?
00:27:27
Speaker
no So be it. Yeah. No skin off our back. Uh, If a finer point needed to be made on it, we did score more than the Mariners tonight. Yeah.
00:27:38
Speaker
Yeah, by one. Yep. And they scored a lot. We did have a conversation in the press box about ah who is the Sounders' big dumper. We did settle on Jordan Morris. So let that be known as it as it may be.
00:27:53
Speaker
Um, so i would I stand in the, uh, in the brawl men. So I have no real tactical analysis from that perspective. All I have is shit talk.
00:28:06
Speaker
I love it. Give us some more shit talk, Ben. We're here. um So Cruz's little coach is probably going to be looking for a new job on LinkedIn. Now is the time to start the Lobby Scorchers LinkedIn page and open up with a tool. Get that resume up to date. Maybe send it to a graphic designer to get it looking all nice. Experience and the education. You got to have it all when you're on the hunt like he's about to be.
00:28:34
Speaker
As Arlo White would say, that was a tennis score. Game, set, and match.
00:28:44
Speaker
Chad brings up ah there's a spot open at the Defiance. I also made this joke earlier, but, you know, he can just stay. He can just stay and coach the Defiance. But honestly, after that performance, do we even want him coaching up our youth players? Garbage. I don't think so.
00:28:56
Speaker
Garbage. He got hired so recently. I know. Yeah. if the If there was any need for a revolving door that was just on an automatic spin, now's now's the time. Now's his calling.
00:29:12
Speaker
Rhombus, I got to ask, what is the vibe like in the in the crowd at Lumen where where you're standing ah ah during a 7-0? What was the vibe when De La Vega...
00:29:25
Speaker
bamoo I mean, I think it was at five nothing that we started singing Go for the Kill. um So I just sang Beat That Dead Horse. course I don't know. I mean, look.
00:29:45
Speaker
ah that's That's where we were at and just like, yeah, let's just do that energy. like let's just but It's amazing it's amazing like how when they're when they're on fire like that, how much they like feed off the crowd, like how symbiotic it is like You could just you just feel it just snowballing off of each other. like Yeah, well, I mean, um it was like that during the CONCACAF Champions Cup win.
00:30:14
Speaker
Like, people were dejected at halftime, and I was just like, no, no. They're saving all of the goals for the Brown end. And that's what they do that's what they did. Yeah, they do do that.
00:30:27
Speaker
All right. when say good We got a couple of callers in the queue behind you, Rhombus. But do you have it any yeah you any last takes or observations or favorite parts of the 7-0? OK, that kick by Leyva was amazing. Did the goalkeeper get a save on that? I think on the broadcast, they were saying like it hit the crossbar, but I think he got a fingertip to I haven't seen the replay yet, but what it looked like to me from the press box was ah he hit it off the post and it deflected the new who.
00:30:58
Speaker
But I have to watch again to see if the if the keeper got to that. but Either way, freaking perfect free kick. like Yes, it was. It was excellent. Yeah. have Give that guy more more shots at that. totally agree, yeah. Otherwise, I don't have anything else insightful.
00:31:14
Speaker
Thank you for the time. Thank you, Rhombus. Appreciate you calling in. Enjoy it. Basking it. ah All right. We got gle Green Blue Tribe up next. Carlos. Our professional scout.
00:31:28
Speaker
Tribe, give us the thumbs up if you can hear us. We'll bring you on bring you on stage. We got you. All right. Hey, what's good, guys? Green Blue Tribe, what's up, man? Thanks for calling in. 7-0 over Cruz Azul.
00:31:41
Speaker
I'm a little bit pissed. It should have been 14. and And I'm dead serious. No, I'm dead serious. Two of them, two offsides. um Danny Musovsky should have passed it off as well for one of them. That would have been ten to zero Then there were a couple other ones that we could have done a little bit better.
00:31:58
Speaker
So, I mean, I guess can be a little bit critical, but. i'm not gonna lie greedy though you know well mean double digits imagine if they had uh 10 odom it should have been the the first half should have been three to zero or four i'm not gonna lie but what what did i say about kent last time he's just so good he's he's he's incredible i keep telling everyone this He doesn't need to just score.
00:32:23
Speaker
That's not his job. His job is finding these little passes, dribbling through, getting everyone up the field. And he does it so, so well. He drew like seven fouls tonight too.
00:32:34
Speaker
I know. yeah that was That was their game plan. They said, we're going to just knock 77. I call it the hack of Kent. Every team's been doing it and they took it to the goddamn extreme. And how how'd that work out for him?
00:32:46
Speaker
Had to work out for him. They fouled 77. It worked out like Pumas. They fouled 77 all night, and they almost gave up 77 goals. so it I think the last performance against the league AMA's team like this that we've done was last league's cup against Pumas, 4-0. Oh, that one's so good.
00:33:04
Speaker
He says Morris almost got killed in that one, if I remember, in the last second. Someone almost snapped his ankle. But but my thing is, Obed Vargas, man, that boy, that that kid,
00:33:16
Speaker
Oh, my God. Is there anyone in CONCACAF his age that can do things like him already? Like, look at how he just goes through players so easily. And De La Vega, my God. He needs a start. Kent needs a start.
00:33:30
Speaker
You got your two wingers. You got Obed in the middle with with Albert Rusnak. Maybe the center attacking role. I I'm a little bit skeptical on Ferreira. I know you guys might not like hearing that. Can I explain myself though? Yeah, no, we're we don't, uh, grudge anyone there. Thanks.
00:33:48
Speaker
From what I've seen, it's just the little passes, the dribbles and the shots. He's not that clinical. That's my only issue. He's not a bad player. It's just, he's not as clinical as I would like in in the past. I'm not saying he's bad,
00:34:02
Speaker
I'm saying he's good. He might be a good super sub. I don't see him as a starter when we have all this talent. Like, Georgie Manungu, I would take him over Ferreira any day. Because if you look at his dribbling stats, it's better than Messi in this league.
00:34:16
Speaker
and and And I'm not just saying that. His his completed dribbles, I think it's like 80-something percent, something crazy like that. Ferreira has a lot less than that. The the passes are better from Georgie Manungu. And, I mean, his shooting's a bit more clinical as well than uh for as we've seen and part of the reason we are out of the champions cup that early was because ferr did miss an easy opportunity in uh mexico city against cruz azul but i do like ferrera and i think that he could work on on just being a bit more clinical you know what i'm saying all right now that you said those negative things you have to say three positive things about him and give us your final stoked talk towards cruces school okay he has
00:34:59
Speaker
unbelievable positioning i'll give him that that's one his dribbling at times is very very good not all the time but you not you know what i mean and in the way i've seen he has great leadership he's he's a very very good leader and he could be a future captain if he can get his shit together when it comes to finishing know and as for cruces bro what do you even say um um Man, I just want them to know if we had Noah Ohio this game, it would have been 15. It would have been 15. Sign him.
00:35:35
Speaker
Sign him. swear. and And I hope that coach stays. And I'm going to – because extend you know you know the channel Football Gourmet? they They're a Cruz Azul fan base.
00:35:46
Speaker
I'm going to go on and fucking trash talk all night. Do it. do I'm gonna start. They're probably they're probably like so demoralized at this point that they're going to agree. They're going to agree with everything you say. it's I'm just so happy. And and man, a fucking hell ECS was rocking tonight. It was it was absolutely beautiful, man.
00:36:08
Speaker
Hell yeah. Tribe, thank you. 100%. you guys. you for having me on again. ah Appreciate you. 100%. Cheers. We'll catch you next time. ah We got Carlos up next, and then no one in the queue after that. So did you pin the – Yep, it's pinned, yeah. All right. Link is pinned. No one in the queue after Carlos here. So if you want to jump on and lay down some takes, feel free to queue in. Carlos, can you hear us? Give us the thumbs up, and we will bring you on stage.
00:36:35
Speaker
All right. Bring in Carlos on right now. Carlos, thanks for calling in 7-0 over Cruz Azul. I mean, where where do you want to start? ah Well, I have a lot of friends in Mexico, and I was trolling them tonight and sent them the score at the end of the game.
00:36:55
Speaker
And the response was merely, masacre, what a massacre. I don't think there's anything else left to say. i mean, it was really a massacre. what like what do you think What do you think leads to a 7-0?
00:37:09
Speaker
Because if you told me Seattle was going to win this game comfortably, I'd be like, all right, home team. hu They have it tilted towards them a little bit, arguably. Maybe there's a some fatigue, turf stuff. I don't know. You can justify it however you want. But 7? What did you see in the game that ah got the squad rolling like that?
00:37:29
Speaker
What I saw was they remembered what happened CONCACAF, gonkacaf and CCL. And that they remembered that Paul Arreola got his ACL torn out and they remembered that Jordan Morris tore his sandstring or whatever he did.
00:37:50
Speaker
And they were like, we're going to fuck you guys into next week. Yeah. and we're just, and we're just like no prisoners. That's what I saw. What I saw was a team that was, we're going to pile it on and it doesn't matter how many we score, we're going to score again and again and again.
00:38:10
Speaker
and I mean, the the bow on top of the cake was Pepo's goal, which was just a thing of beauty.
00:38:23
Speaker
Absolutely a thing of beauty. And what I remember from being in the stands there was it took us like five seconds to react because we couldn't believe that that had actually happened.
00:38:38
Speaker
and the ball was pinging around in the back of the goal and we were all still like did it go in that's what i was doing everyone else in the press box was going off i was just like yeah no i think uh yeah mayor ari was like next to me and he was just frozen he was like And I'm like grabbing him and she's like shaking him violently.
00:39:02
Speaker
oh my God. It was so improbable. just well I mean, I've never in my life in person seen a goal better than that. Ever.
00:39:13
Speaker
never from the founders but definitely never just period in my life and you know what's even better is it comes off me absolutely chirping pedro for the last four weeks and i told you all i said how good it feels to be wrong how great it feels to be wrong because that man has arrived oh my god he's no never stop being you noah I think what you listen about... listen, it to Moose.
00:39:39
Speaker
I did it to Moose, and I did it to Pedro, so you can all be thanking me, I guess. I told you that you have the magic touch. car Carlos, I think what you mentioned about like them remembering Kogakaf is spot on, and that's like when Ferreira was yapping the guy after Pedro scored that, I think that was that coming out a little bit, because you know that in that game in Mexico, when they were working in
Cruz Azul's Defeat and Reactions
00:40:02
Speaker
Seattle...
00:40:02
Speaker
they I'm sure they had a lot to say about it. So just to see the whole team return the favor like that and then score seven on him and then let him know about it.
00:40:14
Speaker
Oh, man, that must have felt so good, like for them to be on the field for that. I mean, what a what ah what else do we do we even hit from this game that we're missing?
00:40:25
Speaker
New who Ryan Kent? Like, yeah, please. I think the only thing missing from this game is Jingle Bells. really I mean the only thing would have been if they could have done this in Mexico City then Jingle Bells and it would have been the greatest thing ever ah but this felt like a good revenge game oh it's it's got to be the best revenge game I can think of like you can't get revenge much better than a seven spot can you like God um I guess you could have scored eight, but, I mean, let's not get greedy. I mean, come on.
00:41:01
Speaker
Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. and I mean, I guess you could have gotten seven but not had news new score. i i wanted the David Miller free kick to go in. Come on, guys.
00:41:14
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, Nuhu, I think he is ah he is on track to regaining his status. you know he yeah i thought he played well in his Atlanta cameo. and I mean, let's give him credit. He was he was fantastic tonight. like He was a very big reason why that game got as crooked as it did.
00:41:35
Speaker
But I want to call out also um the um and i I'm sorry, he missed his name, who was just on before me, who said Danny Leyva's free kick was sick.
00:41:46
Speaker
It was so good. And we know that Danny has been working on that. And he is really, really good at those free kicks. And it was it was almost in just from the free kick.
00:42:01
Speaker
yeah like uh danny leva's stock way up way up uh way up he is probably he's probably the best set piece taker on the team right now like rusnak was good on him last year but they really have not been good on them at all team-wide this year although the seattle sounders did score off a quarter kick tonight they were they were exercise exercising all kinds of Demons, all sorts of demons. Yamar getting a getting a corner kick goal.
00:42:32
Speaker
He's been so close so many times this year. And that was that was awesome. And he just put in a banger to get everything started. So, yeah. ah Anything else that you wanted to hit? right but We still got ah we still got no one in the queue. So if you got anything else to cook on, feel free.
00:42:53
Speaker
And now i'll I'll sign off and I'll just say, you know, let Noah cook because I just love his takes. And, you know, sometimes you kind of go off the rails a little bit, but sometimes. That's his role. That's my role. Yeah.
00:43:07
Speaker
Bring it. Bring it, man. Just don't don't be shy. Love it. Thank you, Carlos. Appreciate you, Carlos. Great call. We'll ah talk to you soon. Thank you, guys.
00:43:17
Speaker
Take care. i've got ah I've got a few more minutes in me before they start kicking me out of Lumen Field here because I just watch the security guy walk by me and go. Yeah, they that sometimes. It's like, we're streaming.
00:43:29
Speaker
You know, we're streaming here. Can explain to them that we're streaming? Can we get your take on the ECS? They're not boycotting. Yeah, it's not a boycott. Just to make it clear, ECS is not boycotting. They just said that when they pulled and asked their own members if they were going to show up to these matches or if they had any interest,
00:43:49
Speaker
The response was low and so that they couldn't promise that there would be a huge number of people at these matches. And because basically they're like and a complete volunteer organization, sometimes people have to take some time off. You know what i mean? Do you think their interest is going to be peaked now?
00:44:06
Speaker
But that's what I'm saying. People might be back. People might be back. should we should we Should we... I don't know. I don't know what to do, dude. I'm just filled with joy and happiness.
00:44:18
Speaker
And Liga Mekis... People were talking so much shit in the last few days. They said...
00:44:26
Speaker
They said that... ah Are you someone knocking on your door? Rolling some garbage cans. Oh, okay. Okay. And they, you know, they said that like Liga Mickey's clubs are absolutely dominating these um MLS teams. And like this tournament, it's such a joke and all this and that and the other thing.
00:44:44
Speaker
Just saying. Okay, i just on this topic, because every like last year the results were tilted towards MLS clubs to the point where Liga and Mechies fans and clubs were complaining about it.
00:44:57
Speaker
ah we yeah we have We have to travel for all of them. We have to play them all on the road. We're playing in these stadiums that we're not used to or or whatever, which I will i will grant that ah something that I would – eventually like to see changed about this tournament is that like some of the games get hosted in Mexico.
00:45:17
Speaker
I think it does honestly skew it a little bit towards the MLS clubs to have them hosting every game. But I've been saying the entire time these have been talking points ah like, OK, like,
00:45:28
Speaker
Yeah, but if your league and your clubs are that much better as you say they are, then like you can't take some results on the road. You can't win a road game. like mate Which, okay, maybe maybe you can't. But ah but seven?
00:45:45
Speaker
you get on You get on a plane and all of a sudden you give seven? Wait, how many was it? like What are we talking about? Yeah, they that this was a complete meltdown by Cruz Oswal. And they can complain. And I've already heard some of the the but things that um ah Nico was saying that ah people were were on the on the Mexican side were saying is like, oh, they had to they had to travel and it was on turf and it's a new team and blah, blah. Shut up.
00:46:15
Speaker
Seven. so Wasn't Bogus out there? Oh, yeah. Was Bogus out there? i think he was. I don't know. Honestly, couldn't tell you because he didn't do anything because he didn't do anything. He didn't do anything.
00:46:28
Speaker
He didn't do anything. All right. We got a few people queued up now. We got Marco, Nat, Rick. huch oh yeah We got a lot. This is big queue. So we're going to we're going to get through all these. We'll go Marco first. If you can hear us, give us thumbs up. We'll bring you on stage. There he is.
00:46:44
Speaker
Marco, what's up, man? Thanks for calling in. seven seven to zero what did you think how you uh the game was crazy uh i was watching at home i had my one month old on my chest and i was just like silently screaming the whole time it was crazy you were you were ah doing the press box etiquette that the rest of us yeah but it's you had more stakes on it Yeah.
00:47:16
Speaker
and It was so much fun watching the game. One month thing into a Sounders fan and already gets to watch one of the greatest matches in Sounders history. Talk about a good luck shot. Come on Yeah, definitely. My wife was telling me, you're going to be 70 years old recalling this game. telling me.
00:47:31
Speaker
what was your uh what was your favorite part of the the 7-0 favorite goal favorite moment what uh what was the new goal man i'm always like super pumped to when new who scores a goal or gets an assist which he's been doing kind of a lot lately it's weird yeah and also uh like obed scoring against cruces like Dude, that kid's like Seattle's just not respected internationally and eight he he should be like somewhere else. on a Like he's a huge name and he's a great player. and
00:48:05
Speaker
Yeah. He was so lit after he scored that. That's the most lit I've ever seen him. Like, and it's, uh, it's cause of kind of what we were talking about, like the smack talk, the fouling, like the, like all the stuff that comes with these games, uh, after he scored that you could, you could just, you could feel the satisfaction just radiating.
00:48:25
Speaker
Yeah. um So, uh, the new who goal though, I mean, that was awesome. Yeah. I wanted the Danny Leva free kick. Um, Also, I think it was hilarious ah on the last goal, on Dana Vega's last goal.
00:48:41
Speaker
ah ah De Rosario, he kind of looked scared for a second. like if you He kind of flinched like he like you should run at it or not. It was pretty hilarious. He was like right there, right in front of it.
00:48:55
Speaker
He looked good. Yeah, yeah. He had a lot of fun. Yeah, man. a Crazy game. and ah love watching our you guys' streams. I'm going to sign off now.
00:49:06
Speaker
Hell yeah. Thank you, Marco. Thank you, Marco. Appreciate you, man. And give that baby a big kiss on the forehead from us because that is our good luck charm. I will. New good luck charm. Thanks, guys. Thank you, man.
00:49:17
Speaker
Appreciate you. ah We got Nat up next. Nat, if you can hear us, give us thumbs up. rocking beautiful, beautiful Bringing to the stage right now. Hello! Oh, he's got the mic set up. and so You're basically a podcaster, aren't you? Yeah, I also have a podcast.
00:49:33
Speaker
There you go. Oh, what's your show? Go but plug your show. Plug it. ah It's called Football's Life. ah Yeah, we do it with two other MOS guys. One's a Nashville fan and one's an NYCFC fan.
00:49:47
Speaker
So we cover a lot of MOS. It's good. But... and ah but That was a great game. And I wanted to ask you guys, like, what did you, like, what I think was happening? Why did it take Cruz Azul so long to get back on it onto the field?
00:50:06
Speaker
That's theatrics. It's theatrics. That is not by accident. That is 100% like gamesmanship. like They did it in Champions League. Trying to with you. I've seen it done a lot of times.
00:50:18
Speaker
They're trying to throw you off, like have you in this mindset that it's about to start and that it's not starting and you're waiting. So like they, I've seen a lot of League MX teams and just other MLS teams actually to try that. It's a thing.
00:50:34
Speaker
And I love when it, doesn't work, but, uh, that could not have backfired anymore. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, no, that was, it's a good catch. Cause like anytime you see a club doing that, it's a hundred percent like by design.
00:50:49
Speaker
Jake reminding me that I'm at 150 pushups. We're going to need to do that tomorrow. I'm not doing that in this stadium, but I'll give you, I'll give you, so I'll give you a good, a good set before we leave. Uh, Nat, what else, what else from this game? What'd you see from the, uh, from the seventh spot?
00:51:04
Speaker
ah The other thing I was at for Danny Leyva, the free kick, which is an incredible save from the keeper. um Did he touch it? Did you see? I think the keeper touches that. He puts it onto the bar.
00:51:18
Speaker
um I'm trying to think. I think Danny Leyva still hasn't scored in MLS. The only goal that he scored is the wonder goal against Vancouver, which you've counted.
00:51:32
Speaker
And that was like, yeah, Zach zach McBath called for a foul. That is not a foul. um so I'll get a game that one anytime. that That was a good goal. Yeah. Yeah, I feel bad for Dani Leva because, like and like, obviously he came onto the team so young and then, like, he got pushed to the side because of Atencio and Vargas.
00:51:54
Speaker
And now he's he's still with the team, but he's, like, and he could be starting for someone else. He was starting when he was with Colorado. So, like, it it's tough, but...
00:52:05
Speaker
When he comes on, in this game, he was good. And yeah, he hits a really nice ah free kick. i then yeah I think that he definitely like made a case in this game, not just with the free kick, but just kind of how he played. he was He was playing that more advanced role that we've been talking about, right? like that So yeah like I think he made a case that ah this you know this team could use another contingency plan. at that I mean, Rusnak plays every freaking minute, every single week at that spot.
00:52:35
Speaker
ah You can slide Ferreira over there, but what if there's a situation where ah you either want to keep Ferreira in the wide channel or ah you want to give Rusnak and him a rest for whatever reason?
00:52:46
Speaker
Danny Leyva looked to me like he could competently fill that role and even excel. like he He looked good. He looked good facilitating, and then his set pieces are great.
00:52:59
Speaker
So, yeah, Danny Leyva, stock up. Yeah, especially with, like, if we want to give Vargas and Rodon rest, then, like, Brunel and Danileva for Santos Laguna, and they are bad. so They are bad. but nice's so That's a ah good topic, actually, which is, like, does a crooked result like this affect how you approach the next game? Because I think it gives you a little... yeah You don't want to, like, get complacent or rest on your laurels, but, like...
00:53:31
Speaker
I think you could theoretically maybe finally rest some guys like we've been talking about. mean, we Paul at all in this game, which is crazy because Paul has been just on fire of late.
00:53:44
Speaker
And like, yeah I mean, I think... Kent was okay. He was a little better than he'd been recently, but he kind of slowed down um since the club world cup or when he first came, he was good. And then he slowed down.
00:53:56
Speaker
But he was, he got an assist today. So that's good. But I hope that for the next game, like, but ah I guess Paul should come back in and then we should play Manungu.
00:54:08
Speaker
Like, i agree with that. We should start him. Like no one can defend against him this season. and two we can learn ae Until teams learn how to defend against him, we should play him.
00:54:20
Speaker
this is This is a great platform for him, just running at guys, taking guys on one v one Every time he's played this season, he has shown that aptitude for beat winning his 1v1s, getting around guys, making things happen, creating dangerous chances. So, ah yeah, no...
00:54:38
Speaker
I think Georgie and Danny Leyva are both guys that I think I want to see you get more, more run before this phase one stuff is over.
00:54:49
Speaker
So yeah good shouts there. ah Nat, we got a packed queue right now. So we're going to pushing, but ah any, I mean, any last, taste one or yeah I know. Yeah. The final thing I would say, I love that Messi is right now in sixth place and he won a game.
00:55:05
Speaker
So that's great. He had been scrapping out. Yeah. I mean, in general, I want this tournament to go away because it sucks. So if, it and that will happen if Miami doesn't do well in my, in my opinion. So I liked that. And then I just wanted to say, I loved your, was such kind words about battle FC and, and the semifinal.
00:55:29
Speaker
I, I work on the broadcast for battle FC. It was very nice to hear what you said. And, uh, Obviously, it's going be an amazing – I'm very excited for the final coming up on Saturday. So up the bridges. Awesome, man. Yeah, good luck with your show, and that's that's awesome to hear you're affiliated with Ballard.
00:55:45
Speaker
we're ah We're fans. We're all in for this ah for this title match. It's going sick. Yeah, let's take down soccer-wise. Let's go. Take down soccer-wise, take down Vermont Green. Vermont Green, you're next. Yes.
00:55:56
Speaker
Thanks, Matt. Appreciate you. Talk soon. Bye. Have a good one, Matt. uh all right we got rick up next uh he's got his video on rick if you guys got the thumbs up we're gonna bring him to the stage right now running these because because i what i have a soccer guys Oh, you get the whole kit. Did you did you rob the kit room?
00:56:15
Speaker
ah You know, eBay is a a wonderful drug. um you You're talking to the number one gremlin of it over here That's right. I'm telling. Yeah, see, we we we are simpatico here.
00:56:25
Speaker
ah That was an incredible half of soccer. I've never seen a half of soccer that well. Like the first half reminded me a lot of the the first leg of of CCC when Cruises all came. It was really cagey. there It was active. It was entertaining. But you know we didn't see the see anything going to back of the net.
00:56:42
Speaker
I mean, we even had a disallowed goal. um you know So it was deja vu all over again there. But that second half was was nothing. I mean, i just I'm shocked. And it was a great palate cleanser. from you know i went down to Mexico City for leg two.
00:56:57
Speaker
Had high hopes for this team. you know The deepest team we've ever had. And, you know, i and you know I had to declare and ACL on my on my re return trip, unfortunately. you know Picked it up on the pitch and brought it back home with us. so It was a rough one down there, but you know what a palate cleanser.
00:57:15
Speaker
What a game. Was that a perfect half of soccer? Like I can't, I mean, yeah we can always nitpick, right? Like there's always more, but can't, ah did did ah did Munich put up seven and a half against Auckland?
00:57:30
Speaker
I don't think so. um I can't imagine a better half of soccer than that. Never has an MLS team in the history of MLS, from what me and Jeremiah could find, this could be a false statement, but I'm goingnna say it anyway, because who cares about journalism? Never has a team scored seven and one half.
00:57:48
Speaker
An MLS team at least. And definitely not against a Liga Mechies opponent. And definitely not against a CONCACAF champion. but no i mean Absolutely. Like that's a real opponent. And it it reminded me, I mean, again, let's not get ahead of our skis here. It's one match.
00:58:01
Speaker
But, um you know, when we did that were winning the one thing where when we did that CCL run, we learned from the league's cup run the year prior. And playing Lyon, right? And so when we went and actually had to play them in CCL,
00:58:15
Speaker
You know, we looked really good. Like we learned something. And I felt a bit about that with the Club World Cup. Like this team, like that was the team that we saw playing against Botafogo, right? That was the team that we saw playing against Athletic and against PSG.
00:58:31
Speaker
And so it was um really good to see. ah we We learned something today too. We learned what it takes to get Christian Roldan off the pitch. You have to be up So if you're up we can pull him off the pitch. But that's the standard. When he subbed out in the 80th, I was like, oh whoa.
00:58:47
Speaker
That's the standard, 5-0. that's That's the lead that Smets is comfortable with to to pull out his destroyer. so at least At least now we know. We know is not enough. so Brudel got his debut, so that was that was nice to see.
00:59:02
Speaker
yeah And that goal at the end was, um I mean, just a stunner. Trevor's saying that it'd be unbelievable if there wasn't video evidence. This is this is the Wilt chamber Chamberlain game of soccer.
00:59:16
Speaker
This is the 100-point game of soccer, right? Has to be. Well, this one was on TV, so, you know. This one wasn't fake. Yeah, yeah. we didn't We didn't have this in Hershey. Like, there's not even an arena in Hershey. Come on.
00:59:31
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Who's ever been to Hershey, Pennsylvania? Come on. All right. Well, gentlemen, thanks for the night. Thanks for keeping up late. I've got some adrenaline to burn off still. Hell yeah. but But go Sounders. and And I guess now we just got to take it seriously.
00:59:43
Speaker
yeah it's Yeah, I mean, it's a highly prestigious, valuable tournament. Yeah. I mean, we're we three goals ahead of Portland. So. Yeah, and they scored four. So that that shows you how many goals Seattle got.
00:59:57
Speaker
All right. Thanks, Rick. Appreciate you, man. We'll catch you for the next one. Take care. ah All right. We're going to keep pushing here. We got to go. I have to go. i legitimately am being kicked out. Okay.
01:00:08
Speaker
Okay. so I got You got this. Thank you, Hunch, Parker, and Max. I love you all. You guys rock. Keep it together. And please, someone you guys are aren't coming on here. You got to shit talk for me because I'm not going to be here.
01:00:21
Speaker
All right. Good stuff, Noah. Reporting from on-site like an official journalist. Just me running the show now. But we're going to keep ah we're goingnna keep pushing through the rest of these calls.
01:00:35
Speaker
ah Bring Hunch to the stage right now. Hunch, i knew I knew you were calling in. What's up, man? 7-0. How are you feeling? I'm feeling pretty good. i was telling somebody...
01:00:46
Speaker
I've told a number of people, I had a folder for 6.0, like on my on my desktop, I have it. and they went and just blew that out of the water. i don't have a seven have o folder.
01:00:57
Speaker
i mean, and it's funny, like, ah when they got 6, you know, i I try not to be presumptuous with the titles of the ah of the streams, like, result-wise, but, you know, when it gets lopsided enough, I can be, like, reacting to win or whatever.
01:01:14
Speaker
But so I plugged 6-0 into the title because I was like, they're not going to score 7th. And then De La Vega did that. I guess that's a good place to start hunch. What did you think of De La Vega overall, but also just, ah was that the, was that the best goal of Sounders players ever scored?
01:01:30
Speaker
So somebody else brought that up and I'll go back to what I've said about Pedro the whole time is you know, last year was, it just didn't overall doesn't count. and And this year is his starting fit and everything else. And he's got the whole year. He's got the whole year to show what he can and wants to do.
01:01:46
Speaker
um, yeah As I said, he was the stock you'd invest in, and it's already showing signs of what the trend is going to be. And, that you know, it complicates things on the left because once Paul Ariel comes back next year, that left side is really crowded.
01:02:00
Speaker
Although by the sounds of it from Kent talking at the um annual meeting, you know, I think he's only signed for this year, but. I mean, Pedro, he's on the incline. And while we can see what he can do, you know, it's not an overpressure situation. Just let him get there and find the game. And it's clearly working.
01:02:21
Speaker
um And he's clearly happy. Like, he you know, he he loves that bring it back to the top of the box, even though that one was a volley. um And, you know, the cross of ah goal shot into the far corner. He loves it. he If I recall in the first season last year for him,
01:02:39
Speaker
He took so many shots from that basically that angle. Not necessarily off the volley, but you know he he favors that. So if that's what makes him comfortable and he can deliver, who's going to not say, well, I don't know if we're going to put Pedro on the left in this game or not?
01:02:54
Speaker
Are you kidding? Talked about the the last goal a lot because it was so incredible. But the first one he got was a really nice a really good goal, too. like yeah All these goals he's scoring right now are why very clinical and well taken.
01:03:08
Speaker
And there's two absolutely incredible Galazos in there, including this one, which it's just like, that shouldn't be possible to hit a volley that perfect from a service that's... Alex Roldan hit that from 40-plus yards away.
01:03:22
Speaker
Yes. And that's why Alex is so great on those crosses on the right, both the short cross right at the edge of the 18 or full field. Like he's got the vision for it and he can, he can chop it up to give himself space.
01:03:34
Speaker
I mean, has broken some ankles and can, can still do it. And that makes him that much more dangerous because he can also take it in the box. And so that makes defenders back off of them, which is why he's so valuable there on the right.
01:03:45
Speaker
But as far as best goal ever, I would say it's tied or close to tied with that Patrick Iani goal from like... Oh, that's ah that's a deep, deep cut. Yeah. And if you look it up, it's on YouTube, actually. NLS still has as one of the top goals.
01:03:59
Speaker
That's insane. Very, very similar, but a little more direct, but still full volley. ah You know, his legs are up at head level, like just crazy. Like it was out of the blue. But I mean, you...
01:04:12
Speaker
I don't know if you can define it as perfection, but there's nothing you can find wrong with what Pedro just did. Like, you couldn't cut it more narrow. The goalkeeper's feet didn't even move because he didn't expect to have to make the save because it was that good.
01:04:26
Speaker
And then it hit all three bars once it was in the in the net and then out. It had that much force and momentum still on it when it got there. Like, it didn't eke in and, like, happen to roll.
01:04:37
Speaker
Like, it was with force so much so that it kicked back out. So that was crazy. It was one of those ones that he hit so perfectly that when it left his foot, it's like, it felt like everything started to go in slow motion and everyone was just like mesmerized by the flight.
01:04:53
Speaker
And then, oh man, just, just ah what a moment. ah Hunch, what ah what else from this game? We got, we got a couple of people behind. Yeah, yeah. Let me run some stuff down here. Yeah, yeah. Run, runs so run your takes.
01:05:04
Speaker
Kent look good in the first half and the way they were chopping him down. There were times where like they had three defenders literally boxing in in the corner. And clearly they were going into foul, which, I mean, he's not somebody who has a short temper and he's never really, you know, i don't know, fouling was just the way they went.
01:05:18
Speaker
But the point being is that was eventually going to run out. They never to get a never did get a persistent infringement. But once they would start earning those in the second half, it's, you know, you're going to free Kent up. So it's as much as it sucked to beat Kent.
01:05:32
Speaker
It's effective because they were clearly worried about him. And eventually he was going to make a difference. Although that said, I did say, and I told the my friend who we were in the stands with, I said, you know what this game needs? And I said, Pedro.
01:05:43
Speaker
And I couldn't have been more right. So I was happy about that. Brunel looked good, but I'm going to to go back and watch the replay cause I really didn't quite see. He was kind of mobile, but I didn't really see what he did.
01:05:54
Speaker
But he it seemed decent enough. um I thought Hazus had a good game and connected well with Resnac, which that really needs to be some good chemistry overall for us to be functional. I mean, that's the engine in the center there.
01:06:06
Speaker
And I will say going into the second half, especially once we had a two-goal lead, we could dribble right up the middle and they would not challenge us. It's like they had already pushed so many numbers forward that we would literally take it from the center circle and dribble almost to the attacking third. There's just so much space. Yeah, and I was like, what are they doing?
01:06:25
Speaker
Like, they're just giving us this room at two goals. It's like, you can't completely do that. And this is what happens. I mean, they they say you're open at the back, but they were open in the middle. Like, what? ah The one place you can't be.
01:06:37
Speaker
they ah They lost the plot. They melted down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's like when ah when Seattle like forces a team into melting down like that, it's just such a ah's such such a great sight. And it was it was such like a blood in the water feeling. like they They sensed that they could destroy this team, and then they did. It was great.
01:06:59
Speaker
It was weird, though, because it seemed like I was just waiting for Cruz to start playing at some point in the first half. It just felt like they were coasting trying to figure out how hard they were going to play. And they have three shots to our two in the first like 30 minutes or something like that.
01:07:14
Speaker
And they were dangerous like the their shots were. But to another point, Thomas had a great game. um yeah He was ready. um Did you see the r ref award a corner kick for time-wasting during live play? Yo, yeah, that was that was weird.
01:07:30
Speaker
i've yeah I've never seen that. and i've never seen no I know it's a call they can make, but I've never seen it done. He wasn't bouncing the ball or dribbling it like a basketball or anything like that. and yeah I mean, maybe it had been 10 seconds, but in the first half in a 0-0 game... Yeah, it's like 8 seconds is the technically the... I don't know. i that that was that was That was a...
01:07:51
Speaker
The officiating, you know, it was not great, but ah ah it's it when when you have a subpar ref, no excuses. Just go out and win the game anyway.
01:08:02
Speaker
And they dropped to seven spots, so no harm. Yeah, that that was the second half. And he also gave... I guess Asazi something for celebrating a yellow card. So he, uh, that was stupid too.
01:08:13
Speaker
Asazi was doing the homage to his, his dad, brasario one of the best players in MLS history.
Controversial Yellow Card Incident
01:08:20
Speaker
Uh, and the that's the celebration that Dwayne used to do after he scored.
01:08:24
Speaker
So he pulled the shirt over his head. So he got the yellow for, taking off shirt okay but he didn't take it off. Yeah. i making it off It didn't come off. So what are we talking about? Yeah. but I mean, If that's what it takes to get goals, I'm fine with it. Although I imagine, do you know anything? Well, I'll say that for the end here.
01:08:41
Speaker
um And then we had like a clear advantage play again. Like the um they chopped down Christian or somebody, but we were breaking away and we were in the attacking third and the ref called it all the way back to our defensive third.
01:08:53
Speaker
Yeah. like three It's like, what are you doing? God, that ref was terrible. Terrible.
Refereeing Quality Discussion
01:08:59
Speaker
It was, uh, It was not great. All right, Hunch, anything else I got to push in the queue? but yeah yeah Did Leiva get an assist for that free kick?
01:09:08
Speaker
He should. Yeah, okay. I thought so too. um We saw something weird. This is more about the function of the tournament, and maybe you know, maybe you don't, because I don't. We saw there were some other games that ended in ties, but they still went to a shootout.
01:09:20
Speaker
yeah so Yeah, yeah. And then one team got a win, but the other team still got the tie in terms of the record, not a loss. Yeah, so how it works is if it's tied, it goes straight to PKs and whoever wins PKs gets two points in the standings and whoever loses the shootout gets one.
01:09:36
Speaker
Okay. Well, that explains that. it's like It's a whole new, the format's a whole. Yeah, the whole thing's crazy. Does goal differential matter? Yeah, it's one of the tiebreakers. It is one of the tiebreakers. That's why the seven spot actually does matter too.
01:09:50
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, yeah, clearly, clearly it does.
Tournament Format and Team Motivation
01:09:52
Speaker
And well, I'll say this. I mean, as somebody already pointed out with Bayern Munich playing basically a USL two team and winning 10 to nothing, we technically should have had nine by the two that were called off, which that one, the long review, absolutely should have been goal. But yeah, love that you guys did the show tonight. Thanks for doing it. Oh, we were never not doing the show. were always. It's historic.
01:10:12
Speaker
Yeah, a historic seventh spot. we're We're going live. that's that You can bet on that every time. But, Hunch, thanks as always for the call, man Always good catching up with you. And we'll talk to you on the next one.
01:10:23
Speaker
Thank you, man. Take care. All right, we got Parker up next. Max, after that. Parker, if you can hear me, hit me with that thumbs up. Bringing you to the stage right now. Parker, what's up, man? Thanks for calling back in. seven zero over Cruz Azul. What did you think of what we just witnessed?
01:10:40
Speaker
Yeah, it's pretty insane. am so stoked. I'm curious how you think we unlocked that though. Like what did we do to where we were all on the same page Man, I don't like that. I've been thinking about that. And like, it's kind of hard to know what to in to attribute a ah ah seven spot to. But ah this attack has been in very good form lately. they i mean, this was like the fourth or fifth game in a row that they've scored multiple goals. They've had a lot of three goal games. So I think they're they've been playing well on offense anyway.
Sounders' Dominance and Psychological Resilience
01:11:12
Speaker
And it was partially a continuation of that. uh and i think the second half they really ah they just found their groove but i think it's there's an element to to it too of what we've been talking about of like sensing the vulnerability blood in the water like knowing that you've got an opponent on the ropes and being kind of pissed off about what they did to you last time you played and being like let's just go beat the shit out of these guys like i think and like sometimes when you go up three four or five goals you let up a little bit because it's just about closing it out and this was a situation where they were like no like we need we need as many goals as we can for the table anyway and also
01:11:52
Speaker
fuck these guys. hey yeah Like they beat us, they beat us in Mexico and we're talking all kinds of mess the whole game. Their fan base was like talking all kinds of mess, like that whole game. And after that we're like no sympathy.
01:12:06
Speaker
That's, that's kind of what, that's kind of how I felt. hundred percent. Yeah. I have, i have a couple thoughts on that too. it And I, I totally agree. I would add to that in the sense that, there's there's two things here. One is the Seattle Sounders have a winning identity.
01:12:22
Speaker
And so we have this thing where we have been in these, I mean, we're the only MLS team ever to qualify on merit to the club world cup. We're the only team to ever win cocky cap champions league under the current format.
01:12:37
Speaker
ah And there's a few other things where, you know, the last 10 years, many of the players that are still on the, roster or the bench have been part of part of that identity.
01:12:50
Speaker
So there's a little bit of an imposter syndrome that can happen where I know I can do this, I have done this, but these past few years I've been struggling to do it. And so like knowing that I can do something and then actually doing it can create a little bit of like, I saw this a lot with Javier Arriaga couple years back.
01:13:15
Speaker
where he was just so emotionally drained. I liked him, but he had he like knew he could do it, but he was struggling to get there. it was like it I think it like hurt his heart a little bit.
01:13:28
Speaker
Anyway, so I think the win tonight was far beyond the seven zero I think it hit the reset of our identity as a team to where nobody is gonna be struggling with imposter syndrome, nobody.
01:13:42
Speaker
ever We had five different people score a goal tonight. Like from, you know, and and it wasn't like all people like forward midfield or whatever.
01:13:53
Speaker
Right. It was ah like throughout our whole team. Oh, everyone was in on it. The CB was in on it. The left back in on it. De Rosario's son was in on it. knew right I already said the left back, but like, yeah, it was just, it was from everywhere.
01:14:09
Speaker
But so um that he got a freaking yellow card. for that. Okay, this this is my only like potentially like charitable reading of that which is that ah it was for just like the general elongation of the celebration but which maybe that's it because if it was for the shirt removal he didn't remove it. He literally didn't.
01:14:32
Speaker
He literally didn't. He pulled it over his head. That's not like how is that a yellow? um Right. That was stupid, but that's like a yellow I'll happily take. girl Yeah, who cares? Give us the yellow. We just 7-0.
01:14:45
Speaker
Give me all the yellow cards. They should have got a yellow card for inhumane treatment of their opponents. like Right. yeah oh but The other thing there, too, is...
01:14:57
Speaker
ah The first half, I think there were a lot of tempers and Cruz Azul came in kind of like trying to put us in our place. Yeah.
01:15:08
Speaker
Kind of like, no, no, no, no. Like you're playing with us now. Like, yeah, we're on your field, but you're playing with the big leagues now. And so I think the other powerful thing that we had coming coming back into the second half and just in general, how were able to be on the same team is I think it was almost like a like a cool running moment.
01:15:29
Speaker
Where they're just like, I don't know if you remember the old movie from the 90s. Yeah, I've seen it. Not for a while, but yeah. Yeah, like I see pride, I see power. Anyway, where they just like came together and it's like, no, like you're not going to treat my brother that way.
01:15:44
Speaker
We're all in this together. I'm really proud of us. I thought it was just an incredible game. And I hope that i hope that we somehow figure out a way to unlock that same rhythm with like...
01:15:59
Speaker
Because if we can figure that out, then we're we're untouchable. like It's definitely like if if they can ah consistently tap into anything even remotely resembling that level, this team can contend for any trophy that they're playing for. this We can have 15 minutes of any game at that level.
01:16:18
Speaker
Yeah. worst And I think that's like, ah you know, one game is one game and they're not going to score seven goals every single week. But it's like you just ah you just want as many data points as you can possibly get of playing at a caliber and level that can win you trophies.
01:16:37
Speaker
And that was amazing. beyond that level c incredibled yeah how so many what did you uh what what how did you react when the uh that last day the big goal went in i just couldn't believe it like how do you even get that kind of contact on the ball first of all the cross was amazing the cross was like like maybe almost as spectacular as the goal itself like yeah not quite but like holy crap it was amazing It was like, ah remember that one, Wayne, the famous one that Wayne Rooney hit for DC United to Lucho Acosta? That was like one of the, it's like one of the greatest plays in MLS history. It wasn't from as deep as Rooney, but it felt like it, like it was from so deep.
01:17:19
Speaker
And to be honest, our past three games, we've had some incredible assists. We were just, and and people are in the right spot. So, but I don't know how it's like, I need to go watch the replay 20 times because he shouldn't have been able to get that in the back of the net. was like audio yeah There's no way. when When the cross came in, it didn't even occur to me that it it would need to volley on target, let alone that goes in.
01:17:48
Speaker
Like, what are we even... I still don't think it's possible. Like, he he hit left, right, left, right, up, down. Like, he he was using some cheats, cheat codes. It's moments like that, like, that are why we all love this sport, you know? It's like watching watching guys do stuff that defies what you think should be possible. That was, like, one of the one of those moments. As much as any I've seen from this team, like, ah that I can think of in recent memory, that was that was one of those ones where it's like,
01:18:18
Speaker
that shouldn't That shouldn't be possible. Physics are broken.
Photography and New Penalty Rules
01:18:21
Speaker
I don't know anything anymore. He broke physics. Parker, anything else that you want to do a hit from this one? That's it. Go Sounders. New Who, Gold, Danny Leyva, anything at all?
01:18:30
Speaker
It was all incredible, and I just want to see more. Hell yeah. Great call, man. Thanks for tapping in. Always great catching up with you, and we'll ah we'll catch you on the next one. Take care. Thank you.
01:18:41
Speaker
All right, Parker. All right, we got our boy Max up next. He's giving me the thumbs up. We got Sounder at Heart, photographer extraordinaire himself, Max Aquino tapping in.
01:18:55
Speaker
Max, are you still at the field? Oh, I wasn't there tonight. I had to work. Oh, okay. I'm actually still at work right here. ah Okay, it looks sort of press box adjacent behind you. It does, it does. 7-0 over Cruz Azul. What did you think of that?
01:19:08
Speaker
Well, first off, i't I honestly didn't think we played that well. I don't know why everyone's making such a big deal about it. Wait, we were wearing blue, right?
01:19:17
Speaker
No, that was fun. That was a lot of fun. um My only real, a couple things, I actually read them. in june Oh, one, I'm very disappointed we didn't do Jingle Bells because we were technically the away team.
01:19:29
Speaker
that Can we just talk about how silly that is that they try to neutralize the... for I will say there were a lot of Cruz Azul fans there. I saw they were walking walking around outside the stadium before the game, and then there was a ton of them in the stadium, which I think is hilarious that they ah all had to witness that in person.
01:19:48
Speaker
ah But they did make their presence felt, so credit to them for that. protein team But like, yeah, why are... you can't just have teams host the game and then be like it's a neutral site that's not how that it's not a neutral site no it's not um let's see here uh oh i actually i actually liked the fact that the eight seconds got called um it it helps that didn't burn us but i that's one of my biggest pet peeves is the time wasting that goalkeepers do and that's being a goalkeeper myself i i like the idea of just get it back into play so uh
01:20:21
Speaker
hey, good on the ref for actually calling it. Let's see if ah other referees actually have the balls to do it when when it's time. Yeah, exactly. I agree with it on principle, but it's like I never see that called. If that gets called, then like that should that should have been called in Seattle's favor a lot of times, I can tell you that.
01:20:35
Speaker
Yeah, but well well it's it's not I know that not implemented in MLS right now, it's but it's implemented in the tournaments that are happening because because we're always delayed because of our schedule.
01:20:45
Speaker
So we're we don't take on the new rules until next season. i I kind of like it then if it's, I thought it was just like one of those always been a rule that just never gets called and got randomly called. But if that's like a new thing they're doing, I can get behind that.
01:20:58
Speaker
I can get behind that. So the old rule was technically six seconds. And if they didn't let it go in six seconds, then then there would be an indirect free kick from the spot, but they never called that ever.
01:21:08
Speaker
So they, the and part of that is because it was such a severe penalty. So um because the indirect free kick in the box at that spot is just ridiculous. So they came out with a new rule that says,
01:21:19
Speaker
you have eight seconds and the referee will actually count it down. And if ah as if the, if the goalkeeper starting to do his motion as he hits one or zero, they're fine with it as long as he gets rid of it. ah But it's, it's so the the new rule is if he doesn't get rid of it in eight seconds, it goes to a corner kick instead, which I actually like, i think it's okay.
01:21:38
Speaker
All right. Well, um anything that ah can potentially mitigate time wasting, I'm
Liga MX Approach vs. Seattle Sounders
01:21:43
Speaker
in favor of. ah Max, what did you think of ah Pedro de la Vega? Two goals, including one of the best goals I've ever seen a Sounders player score, if not the best.
01:21:52
Speaker
that That's got to be like SportsCenter top 10 number one. Yeah. I wish I was there to get a photo of it, but I also know where I normally set up and I wouldn't have had a good angle. So like I guess that is just why I wasn't there. But oh man, that that must have been just amazing to see like live.
01:22:10
Speaker
Oh my God. Well, like ah it it created the most unprofessional press box environment I've ever i heard. I am extremely well drilled at not reacting to goals at this point because like I take that like to heart. Like if I'm in the press box, like in going crazy, you know it's just it's distracting. You're just, you're really not supposed to do it. But like a goal like that, it's just like people are going to react how they're going to react because that that was crazy.
01:22:39
Speaker
Absolutely. I mean, that's, I mean, i'm trying to remember MLS Cup ah when we had that at home, that that was another case where they finally said, guys, you it's okay.
01:22:50
Speaker
You know, when we when we went up 3-0 apparently. I was down on the field, but same deal. You know, it's like photographers were celebrating on that one. That was So to see that is is just fun. but what did you What did you just think of the entire second half? Seven goals all in one a half.
01:23:06
Speaker
like what ah you know I kind of gave my take on it on the last call, but like what do you think unlocked that type of eruption? Oof. I don't know.
01:23:17
Speaker
i don't know. it's i'm very happy to see it. um One thing I will say is that one thing I like about League's Cup um is that when the Mexican teams come here, Liga Atamekis teams, they don't really bunker.
01:23:34
Speaker
And that's one thing that we have found works against us that MLS has figured out. So that's one reason we actually do quite well at home in League's Cup is because ah they they play ah attacking free-flowing game against us, and that lets us open up our game, which is where we actually thrive.
01:23:50
Speaker
So if they actually scouted us really well and were intent on winning this, they well, actually, there are also cruisers that probably have the confidence going in, but, like, a lot of the teams would come in, but I remember when we had our big run ah number of years ago, um I remember seeing, ah like, ah who who was it?
01:24:09
Speaker
It wasn't Leon, because I can't remember which teams we beat at home, but the ones that we beat at home, I remember thinking, these guys don't usually... ah Like they're we're we're actually catch catching up with them in the attack and they're not, then they're they're not defending effectively.
01:24:22
Speaker
So that benefits us. No, you're, you're totally right that they typically don't, don't approach these games like that, which I can appreciate on one hand, but ah kind of like ah one of the last callers alluded to there, there was a, there was a tinge of arrogance with how they came into this game.
01:24:40
Speaker
There was. You could sense it. They felt like they handled Seattle pretty easily in in CCC, which, yes and no. I still maintain that that second leg, it was 2-1 in the 81st minute. okay like It wasn't like the craziest it blowout i've ever seen. Seattle gave up a couple goals late that made it look worse so than it was. But they were feeling themselves after that. They're feeling themselves because they went on and won CCC. So I get it.
01:25:04
Speaker
But the way they the way they came in, And not just their tactics, but how they were trying to push Seattle around. They were hacking Ryan Kent like no one's business. Like, I think that it it came back to bite them. Like, I kind of feel like it did.
01:25:18
Speaker
they that you could You could sense that sort of, I don't know if entitlement's the right word, but they thought they were, they thought, this is what's so great about it. They thought they were going to come in and win that game easily. Yeah, that's what they thought.
01:25:30
Speaker
So the I'll leave you on this last thought that um I was i was like as was just is icing on the cake for me to new who get a goal. So there's only two things I need to see now. I need to see ah a legitimate Danny Lava goal. You know, the first one was legitimate, but it got called back first. It's not on the stat sheet. So, right.
01:25:45
Speaker
i I want to see that. And I want to see an Andrew Thomas goal. Hey, we're going nuts. Why not? One of the ah the goal kicks that just sails, and the like the Tim Howard. Yeah, or a PK or just a corner. Oh,
Sounders' Confidence and Betting Odds
01:25:58
Speaker
PK. He did make a PK in Open Cup. Okay, you know what? You're right. i have seen an Andrew Tom's goal then. All right. That doesn't really count. we we want to We want one from Open Play. How about that?
01:26:09
Speaker
Works for me. All right. I'll i'll let you off there. So, but hey, thanks for doing the show, man. guys are great. Thanks for calling in, Max. You're you're well you're welcome to tap in anytime. Sounder at heart, photographer extraordinaire. So appreciate you calling in. We'll catch you All right. See you later.
01:26:25
Speaker
Night, Max. All right. We got Scott up next, Kenny after that, and then and then the queue is empty. ah I'm not going to go all night, but if more people want to tap in, I'm also i'm also down to keep hanging out.
01:26:37
Speaker
How often do you get a 7-0? Real quick before we bring ah Scott in, I think – Oh, we only got one. We only got one $5 super from Derek. Derek Richards, you're a maniac, as always.
01:26:49
Speaker
Thank you so much for the support. Oh, wait. ah There are a couple supers. Sorry. ah and Okay, we got workflow. I'm so proud of us. Oh, yeah. Seven, by the way. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. It's pretty much how I feel about the situation.
01:27:04
Speaker
ah We did hit that one from Kyle, but we'll hit it again. Move by Vargas at the top of the box that sent when someone into early retirement. Yeah, Obed was freaking, he's leveled up.
01:27:18
Speaker
Zippy, thank you for the $2. What the hell was that second half? I don't know. That's what we've been trying to figure out.
01:27:25
Speaker
Barry, thank you for being a YouTube member for two months. Appreciate you. Seattle is closer to PSG than Cruz Azul is to Seattle. Exactly. I think it's time to start asking questions about that.
01:27:38
Speaker
Kyle coming in with another five. Thank you, man. Appreciate the support. It was so weird that Reagan wasn't pressed at all. He is our best passing CB and they gave him hours on the ball. Yeah, that's actually a great shout. They were just letting him ping those around.
01:27:53
Speaker
And he really showed why he is one of the best long passing center backs in all of MLS. yeah He and Alex, he had a couple of those over the top to Alex, just perfect.
01:28:04
Speaker
Hit him on the run. So that was great stuff. uh all right scott thanks for waiting appreciate that uh if you can hear me give me that thumbs up i'll bring you on the stage right now scott what's going on man thanks for tapping in seven zero what did you think oh it's amazing to watch i'm i'm home six i didn't get chance to go to the game it would have been a hell a game to go to for sure yeah no it was uh it definitely popped off harder than i thought it would Oh, for sure. far sick But I'm glad you got that being sick, but getting to catch a seven zero.
01:28:38
Speaker
ah Hopefully that eased the, uh, it made things feel a little bit better for sure. Um, so I, I went and I i wanted to get some, uh, some odds on the game. Uh, of curiosity, I was hoping to see what, like what you could have gotten for odds by the Sounders winning by four or five goals. And I couldn't even find that offer just winning by
Cruz Azul's Tactical Delays
01:28:58
Speaker
two goals. That was five to one.
01:29:00
Speaker
um over six and a half goals was 18 to one. If you wanted to bet that. And so it was eight, seven goals by either team would have been paid 18 to one, but I, who knows what, what you could have gotten for, for a seven, nothing.
01:29:15
Speaker
I God, I mean, and anyone who hit on that theoretical bet, that's like, you got to retire from sports betting for forever. I guess that's like, what, like it's such an improbable result scoreline.
01:29:29
Speaker
Everything about it was just so like, not how I was expected to go. What did you, what did you see in that, in that second half that took it from, I thought the first half was good, honestly. Like I thought they were, I thought Seattle was working them in the first half, but the second half was, that was one of the best halves of soccer I've ever seen any team play. Like, honestly, it was, it was really impressive. i was ah the announcers had said like at the start of the second half, when they came out late and they're like, you know, this can, this can really backfire on, on Cruz Azul.
01:29:59
Speaker
ah When you come out that late and sure enough, I mean, they got started right away as soon as they came out and only took, you know, a few minutes for us to, to go to go up to nothing on them.
01:30:10
Speaker
it It can't, it can't backfire any more than that. Can it like, no, absolutely not. And I, I, I just really, i think that tactic's so lame. Just come out on
Offensive Resurgence and Tactical Adjustments
01:30:20
Speaker
the field.
01:30:20
Speaker
We all know what you're doing. Like it's yeah. It works. I don't even know. Is there anything that the refs can do? like you i i don't know, but I have seen that done to where there is literally like a clock that you're, it's like in the locker room and it's like when it hits zero, you're like, gotta go back out of the field. That's how it's supposed to work.
01:30:44
Speaker
So these teams are definitely like breaking that time requirement. So I don't know. Yeah. but So at this point, what do you think the odds are of the Sounders making it to the top four?
01:30:57
Speaker
I mean, we're really good after after this result. Because the thing is, if the to to stay in it they got it, they got to keep taking results. But like ah tiebreakers, like the amount of goals scored and goal differential and stuff, that factors in. So dropping a seven spot... like helps in the event that you there's a tiebreaker scenario.
01:31:19
Speaker
It gives you a ah leg up. And also, I think just like the confidence in the form that they're in, like they're they're in they're in as good a position to advance as anybody in either league because of how many goals they got and how crooked the differential is now.
01:31:37
Speaker
yeah i i don't think I still think it's going to take seven points, which means we got get a three and a one or a two and a two. ah probably more likely a three and a one to to get in. And that's probably, i mean, we're probably not that much better than 50-50, to be honest. I mean, that's not that easy to get four points, but we're playing weaker opponents coming up. So this is the best team that, theoretically, this is the best team that they're going to have to play in this tournament. This is the team that just won CCC.
01:32:09
Speaker
This is the team that's the number one. They do seeding rankings. This is the number one. This is number one. Yeah. Well, I mean, there's also Miami. True. True.
01:32:21
Speaker
That's it. Yeah. You know, cross that. They've got some good players. Miami played Atlas FC, not nearly as good as Cruz Azul and they barely won. Yeah, that's true. um It is nice to see a lot of goals these days. As they said, 20 goals, the last seven games, it's.
01:32:39
Speaker
Is that good? I think i think that's good. Yeah, that's pretty good. I mean, I remember, you know, the reason people weren't going to games is just nobody, you know, we weren't scoring, and that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. And that was a fair, like, point of contention to have, like, especially last year. Like,
01:32:54
Speaker
uh i i agreed with that uh that the fact that the offense couldn't score more than one goal in a game for like three months last year was not good for morale or fan interest uh so from that standpoint yeah like just a like even outside of this game the offense has been on fire lately so have you guys turned that de la vega now I don't, I wasn't the, well, I guess actually that's fair. I was, I was the one saying that the lack of production from that DP, DP spot on the roster was something that was hamstringing the team.
01:33:30
Speaker
And, but I think I said the whole time that the way that he can flip that narrative is to start playing and producing like a $7 million dollars player. That's absolutely what he's been doing these last few games.
01:33:41
Speaker
And God, I mean, what did you think of his game tonight? Cause sure that That's amazing. I mean, just the fact that like going, when he got on the field, there were three people that were being talked about as, you know, getting man of the match. I heard, you know, I heard Jesus, I heard, um, uh, Yamar, I heard, um, uh, Christian rolled on and then he goes out and gets it.
01:34:06
Speaker
Yeah. So, I mean, there were so many people with foot mob scores over like 8.4. think like, six or seven people got 8.4 or higher in this game. I think everyone should have gotten 8.4 or higher. Yeah. but Alex Roldan got a really high score in football. I'm trying to think.
01:34:26
Speaker
When you drop seven goals, you you break.
Player Positioning and Tactical Deployment
01:34:29
Speaker
Oh, yeah, exactly. that's That's the number one way to get that ah rating up. what I mean, what did you think of that ah that last goal when you when it went in? What was your reaction?
01:34:39
Speaker
I mean, I don't. The thing is, it's the seventh goal. So how hard was the goalkeeper trying? It's a little bit of a question, but I don't think he have done anything if he, I don't think he could have think yeah i who knows? I mean, but yeah, I mean that was an amazing shot. um When you were talking about like the best goal you've seen as a sounder, I still have to give it to the Ruiz Diaz run.
01:35:03
Speaker
but well See, people are bringing up ones that I was the one, uh, the, which, I mean, Rudy has had a few, honestly, that where he, where he header he does the goes under one guy header over another guy.
01:35:15
Speaker
um that is a good shout that was that was freaking on one of the more amazing things i've seen by but the one that he hit at austin you could put in there too and the one he had in philly last year actually yeah like the philly one was kind of easy but it was still from like easy for him i guess it was still from deep but it was on an open net the austin one he owned the keeper but the atlanta one's the best one you're right that's a good day yeah yeah But I mean, for best combo of goals, but the two goals that, I mean, both of his goals were bangers.
01:35:45
Speaker
I just think that when we're talking like pure degree of difficulty, the degree of difficulty on De La Vega's last one is astronomically high. It's unbelievable that because of how far the service is coming. yeah like Like you barely, you rarely see a volley from ah service that's coming from that far away. You just don't see it a lot. doesn't happen a lot. Yeah, that is true.
01:36:08
Speaker
uh there's i mean there's a lot uh i mean you got ferreira narratives you got knew who you got ryan kent uh kent had a great game like i thought so too i think ree reese i saw you asked in chat about thoughts on ryan kent scott what were your thoughts on ryan kent then i'll get mine i i thought he had a fantastic game i i i was surprised to see that he was starting over de la vega and so i don't know what was behind that but i mean I was certainly, I've been a big Ryan Kent fan and I just don't know why he hasn't been able to put it together in the last month.
01:36:43
Speaker
Um, so I was, I was with you after the first two, three games that he was like the best we've ever had. And obviously that I stand by that. yeah That was my, that was our take after because he looked that good, but no, I thought this was a much, uh, improved game for him. What I, what I appreciated about Ryan Kent's game tonight is,
01:37:02
Speaker
ah it was very obvious that part of Cruz Azul's game plan was to specifically target him. They absolutely were hacking him.
01:37:13
Speaker
They, and anytime that he got the ball either like out wide or just any touch from deeper, they were, they were fouling him, but like they were fouling him with like,
01:37:26
Speaker
intent like you're not gonna be you're not gonna beat us like if you get the ball we're gonna throw you on the ground type stuff so i appreciated that he didn't back down from that like he kept going at them he was talking trash to them he was i'm sure he was chirping at them about like okay so every time i get the ball that's what you're gonna do type stuff like you could see the sort of that kind of dynamic so i appreciated that he he was like not deterred by that And then also, i thought in the second half, you saw a lot more of like what he can do as far as the runs he was making and the service that he can put in when he when he gets a chance, and then he gets a really good assist.
01:38:06
Speaker
So I think this was a much-needed sort of course-correction type game for him. And i think I think the fact that they were messing with him like that, they shouldn't have done that.
01:38:18
Speaker
They shouldn't have done that because it pissed him off and it made him play better. Yeah, I was wondering if he was in just because of his big game experience. It might be that, you know, they wanted him to play the one. I think him starting was just like they need to get him run. Like, I don't think it was much other than like he needs minutes so we can keep integrating him and get him back comfortable and back at his level. So ah I thought it was.
01:38:44
Speaker
i didn't I wanted to see De La Vega like ride the hot hand type situation, but ah it was no harm, no foul because Ryan Kent had a good game and then De La Vega looked like a freaking god out there. so Yeah, no kidding. I'm kind of curious. like When is the last time that the the commentators like you guys, Sounder at Heart and all that kind of pushing for De La Vega to open up at the left and then he finally does that and and all of a sudden the commentariat turned out to be absolutely right?
01:39:14
Speaker
ah You know, it does happen often.
01:39:18
Speaker
It does. i mean, it's kind of like a yeah when you have a situation where a player not ah living up to their price tag or not producing like, you know, they can based on their talent.
01:39:30
Speaker
One of the things to look at is like, how are they being deployed and is how are they, how are they, how they are being deployed, putting them in the best position to succeed and maximize their skills and stuff.
01:39:41
Speaker
And ah so I think a lot of people like it wasn't just us like Doyle on MLS soccer was beating this drum as well. Like just play him on the left at La Noose. That's where he was playing and that's where he became this really highly touted prospect. So why is he playing on the right the whole time? Finally Schmidt started getting grilled about it. He gave a reason that had logic behind it, but was also like, I mean, at this point you may as well try it.
01:40:03
Speaker
And then a ever since that they started doing that, he's looked like one of the best players in MLS. So oh great turned out to, turned out to work out. I mean, I guess that's all it took. I wish they had done it sooner, but I'm glad they did it. And man, it's just been not even just this game. It's just been good to see him look like a forget $7 million dollar player. Man looks like a $20 million dollars player right now, $30 million dollar player right now. That's how good he's looking.
01:40:29
Speaker
Yep. Let's keep it that way. Absolutely. Scott, anything else that you, that you wanted to hit here? No one's in the queue right now. So floor is yours. If there's any other takes you want. No, that i've I'm burnt out. That's all I got for you.
01:40:41
Speaker
All right. Well, I hope you feel better, man. And I'm glad that despite your sickness, you got treated to a, to a seven zero. Like that's ah hopefully that, ah that cures, that cures you ah little bit, at least.
01:40:55
Speaker
Absolutely. All right. Take care, man. Thanks for the call. Have a good one. All right. No one else in the queue right now. I'll hang around for, I'm at an hour 40 right now. I'll, uh, hang, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll go two hours here. I'll go two hours.
01:41:17
Speaker
I think two hours to, uh, bask in the seven zero. It's, I mean, you know, I could, I could go seven hours for every goal.
01:41:30
Speaker
but uh gonna start the process of winding it up here soon but if anyone else wants to bop in before I head out of here feel free link should still be pinned uh any postgame pressers to show
01:41:51
Speaker
maybe uh I'm actually I'm not gonna do that just and like there's uh
01:41:58
Speaker
I think we're we're we're we're allowed to do it, but I don't know if there's anything different with, like, League's Cup policies.
Post-game Reflections and Coach Commentary
01:42:07
Speaker
So I'm just going to make sure that we stay monetized on this because I don't want to deal with the feds and the oligarchs.
01:42:24
Speaker
I just... Well, first of all, okay, let me see if it's even...
01:42:32
Speaker
All right, you guys want to see the Schmetz presser?
01:42:36
Speaker
The feds aren't watching her right now anyway. We'll play the Schmetz press. that'll be our That'll be our last activity for the night. Schmetz is, of I mean, I haven't watched this, but I've heard that he was a vibe and a half.
01:42:49
Speaker
So we we probably should watch this.
01:43:00
Speaker
This is courtesy of the Sounders FC YouTube channel. Subscribe to it if you haven't.
01:43:14
Speaker
Welcome everybody to this League's Cup 2025 official press conference after the match between Cruz Azul and Seattle Sounders. Today we welcome head coach Brian Schmetzer for Seattle Sounders.
01:43:27
Speaker
Coach, any opening these statements? No. All right, why
01:43:37
Speaker
Niko started to raise his hand. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, he is vibing. Obviously, congratulations. A, have you ever seen anything like that? But B, is there almost a ah need to pull it back some, or do you just let it ride?
01:43:55
Speaker
So I didn't actually know what I was going to say to them in the locker room, Jeremiah, because it was such a such a tremendous
01:44:06
Speaker
win for the club. in In this club's history, it ranks right up there with all of the big wins that we've had. It's not in a championship match, so I would probably temper it with that.
01:44:20
Speaker
but it certainly was a hell of a performance. Recording in progress. What I would tell you, after the Club World Cup, we told the group, we said, hey you guys have set a standard and that standard is here.
01:44:35
Speaker
And so what I reminded them of, what came to my head when I was talking to the coaches before we talked to the team was last year we beat LA in the first game, then we fell over against Nkaksa.
01:44:48
Speaker
We had a pretty good performance against the Galaxy. And they've set another standard. And is it a similar standard than what we played in the Club World Cup?
01:45:01
Speaker
I mean, certainly the effort, the application, but we're playing against some of the best teams in the world. But we played against the CCC champions, and they're the best team in CONCACAF.
01:45:14
Speaker
And we scored seven. So yeah let that sink in. Let it sink in, Jack. so my job as a coach is to make sure that they enjoy this moment because they deserve it because everybody played up to a higher level.
01:45:31
Speaker
And they need to enjoy it. And all of you need to enjoy it. And the fans needed to enjoy it. I don't think there's one person in this room that can write anything negative about this result.
01:45:42
Speaker
I don't think there is. Oh, he's loving this. Please tell me if you disagree. He's loving this, dude. And then we will come back tomorrow, and we will make sure that they stay grounded because this is just the first game.
01:45:59
Speaker
And then the last thing I said to him is, you know, I listened to Jesus' interview on the field. You know, I listened to Albert's interview yesterday. I listened to the players yesterday. And they're actually driving this, Jeremiah. They're driving this.
01:46:13
Speaker
That group in there is completely together, motivated. They know they're a good team. They've overcome injuries and stuff. And just that's a motivated group.
01:46:26
Speaker
you know If you guys can't see it, then there's something wrong.
01:46:32
Speaker
Coach, while we're staying on a high, um what can you just say? They're all different goals, but I would assert the movement and the execution and the vision is the three underlying pieces on all these goals.
01:46:46
Speaker
Is that fair? And given what you're saying about it? Fair, maybe, but I can go through the goals because I had to go through the goals again because I couldn't remember. That'd be great. So, so, Jaimars on a corner kick and some people were saying, well, we haven't scored on a corner kick. Well, we actually got two.
01:47:00
Speaker
So Jesus is the third goal. So Yaimar on the corner kick and Jesus is when Christian flicks ball. That's execution on the stuff that Andy and Rodrigo do every day. They put a lot of energy into that. And tonight it all came together. Albert's service is always good.
01:47:19
Speaker
So that's a plus and a shout out to the guys making sure that set pieces are an important part of the game. Obed has had three goals this year, and I believe that all three of them have been deflected.
01:47:30
Speaker
That's a fact. Yeah, that's true fact. Because he could be the best player on that field. You could see the way he glides past people. You know, I don't know why more people don't watch this and say, hey, that kid's worth 10, 12, 15 million dollars. I don't know.
01:47:46
Speaker
Okay. Then you've got Ryan Kent that got a start today in his past, Osaze, shows his class, his brilliance. Osaze coming on, making the most of his opportunities. I don't know why he pulled his shirt up for the yellow. I have no idea, but I'll talk to him about that, keep him grounded.
01:48:03
Speaker
And then you go to, well, let's go to Nuhu first. I give Danny Leyva a lot of credit because he's on the training field and he's practicing set pieces and that's good on the kid and he delivers a good ball.
01:48:17
Speaker
But I'm also going to give Nuhu credit, not just because he wants to score because that's part of who he is and he loves scoring and he loves the attention, but it's also a good soccer play because you're always supposed to follow up the ball in case a goalkeeper parries, it makes a save. So credit to Nuhu.
01:48:33
Speaker
And then I'm going to save maybe the best for last because look, Gala Vega's on a high. And his first goal, again, it was Danny Leyva coming down on the right-hand side. And then, you know, Jesus gets the ball at his feet and he toe-pokes it over to Pedro and he smashes it in the upper corner. That one was good.
01:48:51
Speaker
But the ball by Alex, come on, the ball by Alex. And then Pedro just one touch. I mean, that's that's really a tremendous goal. And that just put the icing on the cake.
01:49:04
Speaker
So I hope I answered your question. You did. Thank you. OK. Coach, you know out of all those aspects today, I mean, you know set pieces, transition moments, possession, defense holding that you know clean sheet, is there anything in particular that you're just more you know excited about that you were able to pull in the perfect 90-minute performance in?
01:49:25
Speaker
Well, look, it might not have been perfect. They hit the crossbar, the post in the first half. There were some moments I thought our possession was very good. I think it ended up being like 55-45, but in the first half it was like 61-39. They're a team that values possession.
01:49:42
Speaker
So look, again, Nico, Yes, I'm going to let them enjoy this moment. They deserve all the accolades that they're going to get both here in this room and nationally.
01:49:53
Speaker
But I have to keep them grounded as well. We're going to find ways to make sure that they come back with another strong performance.
01:50:04
Speaker
Coach, you just mentioned Pedro's second, sort of the icing on the cake. Just going off the first answer to it, sort of felt like you're already in the process of kind of looking at the historical nature of this game. Looking at that goal, where does that rank in terms of impressive goals that you've seen from players in this club over your time here?
01:50:21
Speaker
I mean, the execution, the technical ability, the ball that albert that Alex plays, I mean, it's way up there. I mean, we've had plenty of highlight reel goals. I mean, we've had Clint Dempsey's arguably, well, not in my mind. He is the best true goal scoring ah forward that this country has ever produced. We've had Obafemi Martins. We've had Freddie Youngberg.
01:50:44
Speaker
A shout out to my friend Jimmy Traore playing against Tigris in a game a few years back. Jimmy, don't take that as a bad thing. You know, his volley from 40 yards out.
01:50:55
Speaker
ah Freddie Montero has scored a lot of golosos. We've had Raul, Luis Diaz, Nico. I mean, Pedro, that was ah that was ah unbelievably technically challenging finish, and he made it look easy.
01:51:13
Speaker
If we could talk a little bit more about NuHu, he's going through some disciplinary issues. yeah ah they ah lot to talk about, of course, about NuHu with the disciplinary issues that he was going in within the past month.
01:51:28
Speaker
going to... I think he heard the message. I think he got the message. Look, Reid has done a good job and Reid's a promising talent. Now he feels maybe a little bit of competition and he knows that he has to perform up to his ability. He set a standard for himself for many years in many games for this club and he has to stay disciplined because he can be a very good player for this club and help this team win games.
01:51:55
Speaker
feel like Nuhu's finally not locked in going into the last stretch of the season after this performance. I wouldn't say that. I mean, look, Reid had a couple of good performances. We'll see. i mean, he's obviously the front runner, but, you know, we'll see.
01:52:08
Speaker
Want talk about Snyder Brunel, just for a quick follow up on that. He made his debut for the first team, recently signed for the first team. Of course, he could say his first game in the Red Green was 7-0. The only reason why I played him tonight, because I had plenty of options as the game progressed, but I might start him the next game. So I needed him to get a little taste. So that's a reason why he played, but his debut was good.
01:52:35
Speaker
In a game like this, there any point where you know, it goes from being a solid win to just comically good.
01:52:45
Speaker
I mean, i don't know if it was comically good because I think some of our play and everything was just what we trained. Look, I'm going to give a good shout out and kudos to my good friend Precky, who's been with me for a long time and he does a lot of good things and he's got the guys moving and he understand and, you know, some of the play, the playing in between the lines and the finishing.
01:53:08
Speaker
I mean, a lot of that work and a lot of that result comes down to this staff that I have. I mean, they do a tremendous job. I mean, Andy on the two set pieces and Freddie with his defending and his attacking in midfield and Precky working with Obed and, you know, the young guys, Osaze. It all, it's a team effort.
01:53:30
Speaker
And so would I call it comic relief or anything like that? No. You can watch South Park if you want comic relief. This was just a really, really good solid win by the Seattle Sounders.
01:53:46
Speaker
We have time for about four more. Hugo Jorge here in the room. ah Coach, it seemed like the Saunders were falling offside a little bit more than usual. Was that something that the was just the timing? You're trying to find the negative. I get it. um i'm I'm trying to help you out to keep the the players grounded. Oh, that's good. Okay.
01:54:06
Speaker
And then and if you could talk a little bit about yeah the third goalkeeper, Mohamed Shur, and why you gave him the opportunity to be part of the team. Well, Mo is on the roster because you have to have three players on the bench, three goalkeepers on the bench, and Steph has not cleared yet. Mo is a tremendous talent. He'll get you know he'll get his chances to to develop.
01:54:29
Speaker
The offside is just a sign of a team that's on the front foot. I mean, yes, timing, you know, reading body language, the sequence of passes, all of that sort of stuff, it's all important.
01:54:41
Speaker
But I don't mind if players are off sides because they are on the front foot. I do mind if they're offside, if they're lazy, they're not coming back, and then a ball goes over the top. So there's a whole little nuance there in that subject.
01:54:57
Speaker
But tonight, I didn't mind the offsides because they weren't being lazy.
01:55:07
Speaker
good evening and the a it won la manra kumolo
01:55:38
Speaker
Good night, congratulations. First point, this seems to be the first official match under your direction ah with a score of 7-0. With that, the second factor, ah what were the factors from the first half to the second half that were changed to accomplish this win?
01:55:57
Speaker
Well, I didn't change much at halftime. we talked about reinforcing the things that we were all already doing well in the first half.
01:56:11
Speaker
There were some tactical changes for the left side because Ryan Kent, you know, we were getting in behind their defense with Alex with runs in behind on the right, but on the left, we needed to do a little bit more to try and actually play more vertical.
01:56:30
Speaker
And I think, that worked in the second half. We got Ryan in an advanced position and we wanted Nuhu to just be a little bit more in support, not always overlapping Ryan.
01:56:43
Speaker
So in that sense, that was the only minor change, but I thought we played fairly well in the first half. We just didn't score.
01:56:56
Speaker
Well, in reality we didn't have so many changes in the interval. I just asked to reinforce good we already did in the first stage.
01:57:08
Speaker
There was a little tactical change on the left side of Ryan Kent with Ryan Kent. and We were playing well with Roldan, he put back on the defense on right side and we needed more vertical to left too. So I asked Ryan to be more up Nuju was supporting and not doing the overlaps.
01:57:34
Speaker
More than anything, we did good first stage, but we simply didn't sign up the rules.
01:57:42
Speaker
b and um
01:57:47
Speaker
We only have time for two more. I'll go in order here. yep
01:57:55
Speaker
I wanted to just ask a quick question regarding your upcoming match. Actually, you guys obviously have a history with Santos Laguna um in League's Cup. How do you feel heading into that match based off your previous experience with them and especially based off how the guys performed tonight against Cruz Azul?
01:58:12
Speaker
i remember I remember Raul scoring a very important goal for us against Santos. Yeah. Then we took a bad result there many, many years ago, like 5-2. So it's a good history.
01:58:23
Speaker
ah But, you know, look, the way the guys are playing with the confidence, I think they'll be ready.
01:58:35
Speaker
He was vibing. He was vibing. There's nothing that makes Schmetz happier. Yeah. Then specifically, the Seattle Sounders winning games, but a 7-0.
01:58:53
Speaker
I mean, if you want comic relief, go watch South Park. But that
Broadcast Wrap-Up and Future Plans
01:58:59
Speaker
was just solid win for the Seattle Sounders.
01:59:08
Speaker
I think the South Park quote was my...
01:59:12
Speaker
was my favorite bit out of that. It was a good presser. It was a good presser. I'll have to a dive into the player presser. I guess they did mix zone.
01:59:26
Speaker
So you don't really get the
01:59:30
Speaker
full vibiness. But I'm sure they were vibing too. How could you not? After a seven spot. Oh yeah, Hunch, I saw this earlier. Sorry. Got sidetracked with the presser.
01:59:42
Speaker
How does this team look with Jordan back in the mix? Like, would you change anything or start with subbing him in gradually? I mean, God damn.
01:59:55
Speaker
I still think that
01:59:59
Speaker
like this attack with Jordan leading the line is the best is the best version of it. has the highest ceiling. It's hard to say that you should, like, change anything after you just drop seven goals.
02:00:17
Speaker
But, I mean, dude, I mean, imagine imagine healthy Jordan running onto to some of these long balls that Jackson Reagan was hitting.
02:00:28
Speaker
We're running on to some through balls against a Liga Mechie's opponent.
02:00:34
Speaker
That's throwing that many numbers forward.
02:00:39
Speaker
Yeah, McZone is always a tough scene.
02:00:46
Speaker
Can we talk about Nuhu? Do I have to? Nuhu is locked in. Okay.
02:00:57
Speaker
Yeah, he got ejected like three times and crashed out on a guy in the Club World Cup
02:01:07
Speaker
and threw a ball at a fan and then flipped off a referee. Yeah, he did that. Now he's locked.
02:01:15
Speaker
And apparently he's good in attack now.
02:01:21
Speaker
I mean, he had one goal, two assists in MLS play going into this game.
02:01:28
Speaker
Move that to two goals, three assists, all comps.
02:01:33
Speaker
mean, this guy's like Joven Jones out there.
02:01:41
Speaker
All right, chat. I'm going to call it right there. went two hours, and I got to get up early.
02:01:51
Speaker
so I'm going bounce out of here. Before I go, I need everyone.
02:01:58
Speaker
Sevens in the chat. I'm not leaving until we get the sevens in the chat.
02:02:07
Speaker
Sevens.
02:02:14
Speaker
Keep them coming. Keep them coming.
02:02:20
Speaker
Seven zero. Seven zero over Cruz Azul. The number one seed.
02:02:33
Speaker
The CONCACAF Champions Cup winners
02:02:38
Speaker
got whammed on seven times. Oh, wait, I did have one other thing.
02:02:47
Speaker
Let's get an update. Let's get an update on the final score graphic. How many replies do you guys think how many replies do you think they're sitting on
02:03:01
Speaker
How many replies? How many your replies are we sitting on, folks?
02:03:14
Speaker
Final.
02:03:18
Speaker
Let's translate it again. This was this was honestly my favorite part.
02:03:23
Speaker
We played ah poor match tonight in Seattle. We will double our efforts to correct this performance. I'm telling you, man, they're going to need to more than double it. They could double their efforts and still not be in that good a spot after a seven spot.
02:03:41
Speaker
Oh, they're only, they're sitting on 5.2 K
02:03:47
Speaker
nice little 5.2.
02:03:52
Speaker
Can I translate this chat? Someone who speaks Spanish.
02:04:00
Speaker
translate this it's the most liked reply
02:04:11
Speaker
I'll tell you I'll tell you what I would have done if uh if I were them I would have done no uh no text final graphic I think so I think in this situation you go no text final grade you don't like the uh like we will double our efforts you don't even
02:04:32
Speaker
You don't even need that. Everyone knows the situation. You're going to have to fire the coach you just hired. They might actually do that.
02:04:46
Speaker
This man, this man got the job four weeks ago.
02:04:52
Speaker
All right. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. Legendary match. Legendary stream. Shout out to everyone who called in
02:05:04
Speaker
our leagues cup coverage. It just got a shot in the arm. Just got a shot in the arm. I mean, this was the biggest stream we've ever done.
02:05:14
Speaker
it tends to happen when squad drops seven goals.
02:05:23
Speaker
Nico and i will be back at it. Monday morning, lobby scorcher's kickoff. That's going to be a good one. Get his takes on what we just witnessed.
02:05:35
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02:05:49
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Sub to the channel. Appreciate the support. I'll see you guys on Monday. Peace.