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Nos Audietis: Should we be worried about Sounders' defense?
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The Sounders are 3-0-2 with 12 goals scored since the Club World Cup. That’s obviously great and these games have been pretty exciting. But they’re also on pace to give up a lot more goals than they did last year. Jeremiah and Aaron discuss how big of a problem that is and what the solution might be.
In the second segment, they power rank their hopes and dreams for the summer transfer window.
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Will Bruin's New Role Announced
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Hi, I'm Will Bruin, and I was just recognized as a Seattle Sounders legend. Now I get to do voice reads for the Sounder at Heart podcast network. Here we go. Come on. Hey, O'Shaughnessy.
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Let's go. What save by Frye. The Seattle Sounders have done it. MLS Cup winning. Here comes Ruiz Dias through the middle to crowd it for Seattle.
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And now they truly can start the celebrations. It's the Sounders MLS Cup. Nico Lodero leaves absolutely no doubt. The Sounders rule the region.
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Seattle, Sounders, it's got built.
00:00:52
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This feels fucking awesome. This is a tiny dog. Nice work on your little yacht yat thing. And Portland can't say shit. know, what was the thought process i did in terms of who you decided to use and who you didn't?
00:01:06
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Ever since Southert Hart wrote a commentary that we didn't take over coming seriously. Go, not Seattle!
Sponsorship and Support for Nos Arietes
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Welcome back to another episode of Nos Adientes, part of the Sounder at Heart Podcast Network, sponsored by Full Pull Wines, Hacks Ferments, and our subscribers.
Sounders' Performance Overview
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We're recording on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025. I am your host, Jeremiah Shan.
00:01:57
Speaker
Joining me today is my co-host, Aaron Campo, and our producer, Lickett. Well, the Sounders are coming off a three two win over the Soundsy Earthquakes. They are now 3-0-2 since returning from the Club World Cup and are slowly climbing their way up the Western Conference ladder.
00:02:15
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But at the same time, they also just lost another
Impact of Jordan Morris' Injury
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starter. jordan This time, Jordan Morris separated his AC joint and will be out at least a couple of weeks. It's been a weird stretch with good results sprinkled with frustrating news and and sometimes frustrating results as well.
00:02:32
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Aaron, how would you assess your mood where you are right now? Because it seems like the Sounders are in kind of a weird place. They are. They are. It's I think that the the San Jose game was just like a great example of this, where the highs of seeing Pedro de la Vega have such a breakout performance and, you know, seeing the Sounders battle and and get a win in the kind of game that they, you know, have recently struggled to to get three points out of.
00:03:01
Speaker
It was great. um You know, it felt really good coming out of it. But then you've got the lows of loot losing Jordan, um which is obviously a huge blow. And, you know, I mean, I guess if it was going to happen, I'm glad that it happened before the transfer window opened. So the Sounders still have time to to, you know, maybe address that somehow. and And then, you know, you've got the JP news this week that maybe he is going to be back this season. So maybe you don't need to go get a veteran midfielder. Maybe instead you need a veteran forward or something like that.
Defense Concerns and Strategy Adjustments
00:03:31
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It's just been amazing.
00:03:32
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A lot of ups and downs. And, you know, ah ultimately, at the end of the day, I think that this is a flawed team that I still have some some concerns about their mentality at times. And i I have some real concerns about their defense, weirdly, um because it yeah just not. Yeah, has been a weird one.
00:03:56
Speaker
I think that some of that is, you know, the makeshift back line, obviously, that they had to deal with for a while. And then Yamar playing his way back into full fitness. But ultimately, I think a lot of it has been in midfield, right? Like, I don't even necessarily think it's a center backs issue as much as it is just the way that the games have unfolded, um the Sounders have not been able to control them the way that they, you know, I think we'd all kind of gotten accustomed to.
00:04:21
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And maybe part of that is by design. Maybe they're willing to give up a little bit of control and a little bit of defense to, you know, be a more dynamic attacking team. That's that's another possibility as well. So. But I do think this is a good team. I think this is a team that can make a very deep run in the playoffs.
00:04:37
Speaker
And, you know, I think especially if Pedro is is starting to wake up a little bit and if they find a role that's going to work for him, Jesus can continue to produce pretty well, um you know, if Musavsky can can produce even at like 70, 80 percent of the level he's produced at so far this year, I think that they've they're they're set up really well.
00:04:57
Speaker
But certainly I think everybody would feel better if they had Jordan Morris for the stretch run. Yeah, it's hard to like I yeah i feel pretty good about Danny Masofsky in the short term. And he gave, i think, as every reason, frankly, to to believe in his ability to do the job in the short term this game. You know, he had a couple of goals.
00:05:19
Speaker
He had a he had the pass he had one of the passes that opened up the other goal. you know He had an assist two weeks ago. He's not exactly a playmaker, but he you know he he's competent with the ball at his feet.
00:05:32
Speaker
He puts chances away that he is on the end of. and you know he's not you know We had a nice ah kind of discussion about this in the Discord, but he's he's definitely not a great defender, but he's not ah total disaster, I don't think.
00:05:46
Speaker
But he he just doesn't open the game up the same way that that Jordan does. And I guess where i'm I'm going with this is that I do feel confident that Misofsky can do the job For the short term, I don't think, you know, I think they george for this team to reach anything like its peak, its its heights, it's going to need Jordan Morris to be looking his best. And what's so frustrating is that every time he's gotten hurt, it seems like he's just sort of rounding into form. And i it is kind of funny that, you know, he got hurt.
00:06:22
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The first time, right after he scored his hundredth career goal. And then he got hurt this time, right after he scored his Or no, sorry, he had his hundredth. That was just now.
00:06:36
Speaker
The first time he he got hurt right after he set the Sounders franchise record. Or, yeah, the Sounders franchise record for scoring. And this time he got hurt right after getting his hundredth goal contribution for the Sounders.
00:06:49
Speaker
And so it's like he hits these milestones and he reminds you of like, oh, yeah, he's he's he can be this really dynamic, really good player. And then something happens. And this was really a freak situation. Yeah.
00:07:01
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where I don't care who you are. This is not a, this like, don't talk to me about injury prone stuff when it comes to this kind of injury. Basically what happens is he goes in for a, ah for a ball over the top. He's actually pulling up.
00:07:15
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He's not even really challenging for the ball at this point. And Danielle, the San Jose goalkeeper just goes in hard on a, on a tackle, essentially clears the ball And sends Morris...
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you know, head over, ah head over heels, essentially slams his shoulder into the ground, separates his AC
Morris' Recovery and Role Debate
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joint. And he just had surgery, I guess today. and but And so it sounds like the situation is he's going to be in a sling for six weeks.
00:07:48
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And then, and then it sort of becomes my understanding is sort of, it becomes a pain tolerance thing at that point. And it's, it's about how well he can really recover and how quickly best case scenario he gets back in about maybe two months and So that would give him maybe two regular season games to get back into the swing of things.
00:08:07
Speaker
And then the playoffs, you know, you you'd hope that's enough. If he's out much longer than that, it's hard to imagine him ever really getting back up to speed in time to be a contributor, even during the playoffs.
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Yeah. And I think, too, let's assume that the Sounders, you know, he he is back at that point in time and and maybe you can get him healthy to start for the playoffs. But let's also assume Danny Masovsky is still playing at the clip he's played at.
00:08:31
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You know, we we have this conversation recently about, well, you know, should Masofsky start over Morris? He's been so good. And I think the the answer was a clear no. But I think if he keeps putting up these kind of numbers, he's going to be 15, he's going to have 15 goals on the year, probably towards the end of the year, if he keeps, you know, playing at this clip and he he will have been the starter for most of the season. And I think it does become a more interesting question there of like, maybe Jordan is just the off the bench contributor down the stretch. Right.
00:09:01
Speaker
um But it's, it's just, it's such a bummer, man, because you know, after the two ACL injuries, he had been, pretty much indestructible.
00:09:14
Speaker
And then, you know, he's got the hamstring injury, which I consider that one injury. I don't think it's fair to consider those two injuries. I think he just probably shouldn't have been back as soon as he was.
00:09:25
Speaker
And then this one, just ah just a total freak injury um is is just so it's got to be so upsetting for him. Certainly upsetting for me. Yeah. it's yeah it's upsetting It's upsetting for me, and I think it kind of bums me out that there were so many people that came out of the you know they jumped to the idea that is like oh this DP signing is looking like such a bad deal.
00:09:48
Speaker
And I guess i I get it in some ways. he hasn't he just at He hasn't been on the field. And in that way, i understand where they're coming from. i just think it's A, it's in such bad... it kind of strikes me as bad taste.
00:10:00
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The guy has been performing when he's healthy. I don't know how you can hold that against him. i don't think there's... I know a lot of people have said he's injury prone. But man, if you go three seasons without any serious injuries, I just don't think injuries are ah realistic... Don't really factor into...
00:10:18
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factor into the calculation of whether or not, you know, how reliable you are at that point, you are, have shown yourself to be reliable over multiple seasons.
00:10:30
Speaker
To me, i just, I kind of don't love the, the injury prone thing just because of that, because he had been yeah so durable for three seasons up until this year.
00:10:40
Speaker
And the fact that he's suddenly less durable at magically at the age of 30, which is not, there's, you know, it's not a year where they were players to start sort of magically start to fall apart.
00:10:52
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And i mean, there you can find plenty of examples ah of players who were very healthy at this. In fact, in a lot of ways, players get healthier at this point in their career because they sort of understand their bodies better.
00:11:04
Speaker
Yeah. So it's just, to me, it's just sad. it just, it's a bummer. I don't, I don't see how you can really be upset at the decisions as much as you just got to be kind of feel gutted for the guy.
00:11:15
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's terrible. And it it is. I'm biased because Jordan is is my favorite sounder of all time. i love him to death. But he is a he's the all time leading scorer for the team. He scored some of the biggest goals in club history.
00:11:29
Speaker
He's a local kid. He's played pretty much his entire career here. He clearly loves the club and the city. And there's just this portion of the fan base that just. doesn't like him and never has. And has constantly looked for reasons not to. And I just, they always think that they can do better. Yeah. I just, I really, really don't understand it. Like he, I think that in some ways he is sort of the avatar for people's frustration with Adrian's lack of,
00:11:58
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Ambition or whatever, however, you you know, you want to frame that discussion. I think he's sort of become the whipping boy, and I just don't really think that's fair to him at all. um And I just this team is clearly so much better when he is playing at his best.
00:12:12
Speaker
Like I like Danny Musotsky a lot. I think he is a starter in MLS. I think he can be a starter on a good team. i think ah I think the Sounders team with Danny Masovsky starting could make an MLS Cup run, but it's just so so clear the difference that a healthy Jordan makes, and not just in terms of the team being goal dangerous directly through his contributions, but in terms of the chaos he's able to cause ah opposing back lines and also his defensive contributions and his ability to press.
00:12:41
Speaker
I just think hes he's so clearly a cut above that it makes it that much harder. Yeah. Great example of the chaos he he helps create was early on in the, I guess it was the second minute where Reed Baker Whiting plays a ball over the top to him.
00:12:59
Speaker
Danielle kind of slips a little bit coming off of his line and gets caught in no man's land. And, and Jordan ends up missing the chance wide. he, probably should have chipped, tried to chip him there, but he tried to sort of like go around the the goalkeeper and he misses the chance. But it the point was, that it was the kind of the chaotic moment that he created that suddenly had sounds a back on their heels.
00:13:23
Speaker
And, and the centers did sort of struggle to get back into the game after he went out, they, they gave up a goal on, on really a ah pretty well-worked goal. I thought, you know, uh,
00:13:35
Speaker
Kalani Kosarienzi got beat a little bit to the end line, and then John Bell gets beat in front of goal. Preston Judd scores the near post. It's ah it's a good goal by Jose. I don't want to and don't want to take any too much away from that. But what I have really liked about this team this year especially, or in the last couple months anyway,
00:13:54
Speaker
is They've been able to get timely goals. And by timely goals, I mean right after that, like this, the goal they score in this one came effectively on the next possession
Sounders' Resilience and Key Performances
00:14:06
Speaker
after the, after they gave up the goal, they go and they get the next goal, which was obviously important.
00:14:13
Speaker
They then give up the equalizer, you know, 10 minutes later or whatever. But then again, almost right away, they're able to get back on top. And I just showed thought it showed a resilience that this team has has shown this year. right And it was funny because last week there was some or two weeks ago, there was some sort of thought that this team was just not as mentally strong as previous teams. And i' i didn't really like that insinuation in part because I don't know if I believed it
00:14:45
Speaker
it just because they had two weeks of sort of, or two straight games of substandard defending and results where they couldn't hold this lead. I didn't think that canceled out, you know, a much longer stretch of when they've been able to show this resiliency and being able to, to sort of fight through things either way.
00:15:06
Speaker
I thought this game was a good illustration of that resiliency Tim Foss actually wrote in postgame pontifications this week that it was sort of like that tub thumping the Chumbawamba song tub thumping where they get knocked down and they get back up again.
00:15:20
Speaker
i thought that was a very funny little ah analogy there. But either way, I i really liked the way that they played in this game, even if I didn't love their defense. I thought that they there was a resilience there. There was an attitude of they weren't going to feel sorry for themselves, that they got a couple goals through Jordan Morris' is a replacement.
00:15:41
Speaker
And really, Pedro De La Vega, which ah yeah maybe we've waited too long to really get into this. Pedro De La Vega had what I felt like was a real coming out party. This was the player that we have been hoping to see all along, I think. And this was really, for me easily his best performance.
00:15:59
Speaker
Yeah, i don't I don't think there's any question. he he looked just like a completely different player. And i don't, you know, I think it's tempting to say, well, it's just because he's he's meant to play on the left. And, you know, now that he's playing on the left, we can get the guy we'd we'd been promised all all along.
00:16:13
Speaker
And I mean, I'm not discounting the fact that I do think he looks a lot more comfortable on the left and being in that role. I think that, you know, You know, Brian has said a lot of things in the last couple weeks really about, well, we want, you know, we want him to play Pedro on the right because we want to be involved in the buildup and we want him to get more touches.
00:16:32
Speaker
And I don't, I understand that, that impulse, but I think that the player Pedro wants to be is more, the guy he was in this game where he's maybe not involved that much in the buildup, you know, but he is stretching the defense and he's getting the ball in space and he's carrying the ball into the final third and he's cutting inside and he's, you know, he's, he's creating some chaos and rather than being, you know, sort of the creative force, right? Like the, almost like a 10 type role playing wide. He just seems more comfortable
00:17:07
Speaker
in that kind of counterattacking um role. And so I think that that's that's a really interesting thing to have learned after, you know, a year and a half that that that's that's but how he looks his best. And San Jose I, you know, I wanted to say I'm okay with the Sounders giving up two goals to San Jose because they're a team that scores a ton.
00:17:28
Speaker
By the same token, all of this praise for Pedro should be couched in, you know, the context that of San Jose. It's not a good defensive team. It gives up a lot of goals. Yeah, they've they've given up 42 goals this year.
00:17:39
Speaker
i they, you know, they're easy to score against. Right. But it doesn't take the goals off the board and it doesn't take, especially, you know, especially the goal he scored off the board. um That just an incredible goal. One of the best schools I think we've seen from a sounder in a couple of years, probably.
00:17:57
Speaker
And the assist he had to Mussovsky was incredible. um And he just looked comfortable and confident and capable and in ways that he just hasn't this year. Like there, there wasn't as much of that second guessing overthinking,
00:18:14
Speaker
trying to create something out of nothing that I think has frustrated people this year. um It was just very decisive. Just go at them. and And I loved it. i It was as much fun as I've had watching a sounder this year without question. I thought he was incredible.
Pedro De La Vega's Rising Star
00:18:32
Speaker
And, you know, he's not going to do that every week, obviously. But if he can give 80% that consistently, consistently I think everybody would be happy with with having that player and feel pretty good about him taking the DP spot.
00:18:47
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, if that's the player that we get on an even semi-regular basis, I think you feel suddenly a lot better about the DP spot. And I think you feel just sort of better about the... that sort of i guess it was at the very least, it was...
00:19:03
Speaker
There's been a call, I think, from people saying, I just don't get what the Sounders saw in him. And I think this game was at least that.
00:19:14
Speaker
It was at least an example of like, okay, this is – I get it. if If this is what the Sounders saw when they scouted him, i get why – they liked him so much. And it should be said, you know, he's now up to, and this, is this kind of speaks to small samples and why it's, ah it's been tough to really judge him by the numbers, but he is on 0.53 goals and assists, non-penalty goals and primary assists per 90.
00:19:40
Speaker
So he's contributing to a run, ah directly contributing to a run of play goal effectively every other game. That's not, not I'm not saying that's obvious DP numbers, but those are numbers where you could say, okay, I get it.
00:19:56
Speaker
you know I understand you know he's he's a relatively young player. I'm not struggling to see the ah promise at least. And you know just for comparison's sake, don't Albert Rusnak, who is very much a you know, a, ah DP quality player. He's at 0.71. So this, there is a gap.
00:20:19
Speaker
I don't want to say there's not a gap, but it, and that's just non penalty goals. um But, I really liked it. I liked De La Vega. I was good to see him just happy.
00:20:31
Speaker
I think that yeah one of the things that we've seen, there was the the little mini documentary that the Sounders did about him. He had an interview with Brad and Steve on the Sounders podcast. And he is a ah really likable person. I think anyone that is around him likes his energy. They like what they like his whole vibe. you know This is a you know one of the things I really appreciated. you know he went to the...
00:20:55
Speaker
he He was one of the two Sounders who was involved in the Sounders Pride activities, him and Andrew Thomas. And especially as an Argentinian, i don't imagine that comes totally naturally. like he you Andrew Thomas is has been in this a little bit longer, and you know he's been in the United States for you know ah over 10 years at this point.
00:21:18
Speaker
For Pedro de la Vega to to you know embrace this is not as simple for him, I don't think. And I like that about, you know, i just like that he's willing to put himself out there and to try things and to, you know, I just I think he is a really compelling person who I want to see. Like, frankly, I just want to see him succeed because I like him. But I also really like watching him play when he's out in the open field.
00:21:40
Speaker
He is probably the Sounders best open field player. Yeah, I don't. Jordan is great on the counterattack, but.
00:21:49
Speaker
he can't carry the ball the way Pedro can. like he right they like Jordan needs to get in behind, right? And Pedro can just sort of create a counterattack by himself in a way that is more difficult for Jordan. like he He's not going to dribble an entire defense the way Pedro showed that he's capable of doing. And and that's just, I mean, I think it's no secret. I love counterattacking soccer. It's, I think, the most fun thing to watch in the world.
00:22:15
Speaker
And seeing Jordan go down, it's like, oh no, well, there goes that. right But then seeing Pedro just have the game he did and give a ah whole other dimension, i think, to you know the Sounders' ability to to create things on the break and to to be more dangerous in that phase of the game um was really encouraging, really encouraging. And i think, if nothing else, the numbers he's putting up now and having a performance like that in the books, it's like,
00:22:45
Speaker
I think the patience is justified, right? Like I think yeah at this point you can say, i'm willing, I think most people can say I'm willing to give him run a run of games and we'll figure out where to get Paul and Jesus their minutes and Ryan Kent and Georgie, you know, we'll we'll figure out how to get them in their minutes, but Pedro needs run of games.
00:23:04
Speaker
um Ideally, hopefully on the left, but, but I'd also like to see now that he has a little more confidence now that he has a game like that under his belt, um, you know, maybe he can play on the right. Like maybe the Sounders can start switching wings again, a thing that they have done ah lot over the years to great success and seem completely incapable of doing now.
00:23:24
Speaker
um Maybe they can do a little bit but more of that now that we've seen how dangerous Pedro can be on the left. And, you know, we know that Jesus can be dangerous over there and incapable. And and I think Rothrock can do Rothrock things pretty much wherever he is on the field. So I feel pretty comfortable that he can, you know, cause cause havoc wherever he's lined up. So yeah, it's exciting. It's for somebody who has...
00:23:48
Speaker
I think both of us have have been Pedro defenders and, yeah you know, preached preach patience and had people question our sanity at times for that, which is, hey, fair enough. um But, you know, and obviously I don't think that's been vindicated fully yet. It's it's one game.
00:24:05
Speaker
But like you said earlier, it's pretty clear now to see. For the first time, I think this is what the Sounders paid for. This is why he keeps getting minutes. This is why they're comfortable hanging on to him and not actively trying to move him because he's he's capable of doing things like that.
00:24:22
Speaker
Absolutely. ah And it should be also said, Jesus Ferreira had another solid game, not necessarily a standout game, but he is he is rounding into form as well. He is showing to be a ah competent player. I think I like, I've mostly liked what I've seen from Ferreira over the last few months.
00:24:41
Speaker
And, you know, you can see the the good news is that even without Jordan Morris, there does feel like enough talent here to support a coherent offense. They have finally ticked above their scoring average from last year, which is good to see. They're at like one point six goals per game. They finished last season at one point five.
00:25:00
Speaker
So that was good. you know, that's like a very minor footnote, but it was still something I've been tracking. So that was good to see. And it it looks like this is a good offensive team. You know, they, since the club world cup, they have now gone, like I said, they've gone three Oh and two, but they've also scored in that time.
00:25:21
Speaker
ah
00:25:24
Speaker
12 goals. So they're averaging better than two goals per game since the club world cup. Now the flip side is that this defense, which I think for a long time, we've just been sort of assuming would figure it out.
00:25:40
Speaker
And i don't want to say that that's not going to happen because I still think if they can settle in on a defense that they might actually be like the number of times that we've seen their first choice defense together is pretty limited and i you have to go in fact you have to go all the way back to the the Dallas and San Diego home games which were over two months ago to find the last time that they've started the same back line in two consecutive games which yeah I think speaks to how much
00:26:17
Speaker
trouble they have had just fielding a consistent defense. You know, they've had to go through, I believe six or seven different center backs. So it's Yamar, Reagan, Kim, Hawkins, Bell, Alex.
00:26:35
Speaker
Is that it? Just six? I think so. Okay. So they've had six different center backs. They've had to use at least three different left backs. They've had to use, I believe, three different right backs.
00:26:48
Speaker
They've had to use two different goalkeepers.
Defensive Lineup Challenges
00:26:51
Speaker
It's been tough. And I think right now, the thing that's a little frustrating, more than a little frustrating, is that I don't know who they're – preferred i don't know who i don't even know who their their starting defense is right now, in part because you know we had this we didn't really talk about it because we didn't you and I didn't record last week. We haven't gotten as deep into this.
00:27:12
Speaker
But Nuhu getting himself sent off. And then him getting, he got suspended two games. And now there's a unclear timeline for when he's going to actually get back into the team.
00:27:24
Speaker
I don't think he's going to start this week, which I think is, I'll take as a good sign. And so my hope is that Reed Baker Whiting is able to establish himself in it and get into the starting spot in part because I'm tired of new who's antics, but also because I do think,
00:27:41
Speaker
Reed offers a genuine upside that knew who doesn't offer. Now, I don't want to, you know, totally slag off on knew who, because I do think he's a good defender.
00:27:52
Speaker
i don't think he committed some sort of capital crime, but i I do think that he has shown himself to be unreliable in the sense that he can't just avoid doing dumb stuff.
00:28:03
Speaker
And that's a big problem. And Reed, think, has some genuine upside in terms of his ability to defend. You know, he did commit a few dumb fouls in this game that almost got the Sounders in a lot of trouble. So that should be said.
00:28:16
Speaker
But he also provides much better link up play. You know, he he and and Pedro looked very good on the left. And I would hope that the Sounders give him a decent run of games to see what he can do. Yeah, I mean, I don't think that Reed is likely to ever be a plus defender.
00:28:34
Speaker
I think the extent to which he is not a capable of playing defense is a little overblown. um And I think he's not going to get better without a run of games to get better.
00:28:47
Speaker
um You know, training is not real games. The pressure is different. The circumstances are different. um The defiance is not MLS level play. He just he needs to play against high level competition.
00:29:00
Speaker
if for no other reason than to figure out. you know, is he going to have what it takes to play fullback at this level? And i think he does offer quite a bit more going forward than new who I don't think that that's any That's super controversial statement.
00:29:15
Speaker
um And, you know, I've said before, i can live with the mental mistakes and dumbfouls from a kid ah much more easily than I can from from a veteran.
00:29:26
Speaker
and Because it's growing pains, right? I mean, Nuhu had these growing pains, and it turns out they weren't growing pains. You just never... never grew out of it. You'd hope that Reed could, but maybe not. But, you know, you're you're not really going to know unless he gets a chance to, you know, to to show that he is capable of growing out of it um and to show that he's capable of being ah sufficient defender at this level.
00:29:51
Speaker
um But I i mean, i think that people who believe fullbacks are primarily defenders and that's their first responsibility are probably going to be more on the wanting new to get back to the starting job, um you know, sort of in that position. And I totally get that. I think that's valid.
00:30:12
Speaker
But I think for me, especially for the way this team wants to play, you have got to get some kind of attacking contribution from your fullback. If you're going to play with fullbacks, if you're going to play with three in the back, new who doesn't need to do anything going forward.
00:30:25
Speaker
But if he's going to be a left back, he needs to contribute in the attack. And he is such a net negative in that phase of the game that I think it really it really just hurts his overall value proposition.
00:30:40
Speaker
um And he's clearly a better defender than Reid. Clearly, there's there's no question about it. But is he a better overall left back? I'm not and not sure that I think he is.
00:30:51
Speaker
and like you said, I think the upside that you get with a younger kid maybe potentially putting it together and figuring it out. um he He's got to have the nod right now, even before you consider the other stuff. Right.
00:31:04
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And I think the other thing with Reed is that this is a player who is going to be out of contract at the end of the year. He is someone who I think potentially is a u twenty two contract type of player.
00:31:19
Speaker
And the Sounders need to know if it's worth giving him that kind of contract because that's, you know, potentially real money. That's a real commitment. and And I think they owe it to themselves as an organization to see what they have in him.
00:31:31
Speaker
And that doesn't mean Nuhu can't be a useful player on this team. I just don't know that he is a starter if you want to play the kind of football that the Sounders seem like they want to play right now, which is a little more attack-oriented than...
00:31:45
Speaker
you know, than they have been and they need someone who can do but have both go both ways in terms of offense and defense. And also they need to hopefully settle in on a starting center back pair, which is no, no fault of, I don't think Brian Spencer would disagree with this at all, but they have been rotating. They've had to force, you know they've had to,
00:32:11
Speaker
play different. You know, I just said that they haven't played the same starting defense two weeks in a row for a couple of months. It's basically the same amount of time. a little, it's been a little ah less time, but basically since before the club world cup that they've even started the same two center backs.
00:32:30
Speaker
In back-to-back games, which is a huge problem. Now, ah looks like Jackson Reagan is honestly playing the best soccer that he's played ah for a while. Like, that's a great, great piece of news.
00:32:43
Speaker
He didn't get to play this week because of yellow card accumulation, which we don't need to get into. But he has... Over the last couple months, been playing about as well as we've seen him play.
00:32:54
Speaker
And Yamar should be back and healthy this week. I hope that he is ah closer to 90 minutes fit. He played 45 minutes against Colorado. Then the game sort of fell apart as soon as he left the field.
00:33:06
Speaker
He played... 60 minutes against San Jose. So hopefully this is 90 minute performance and we're back to that stability. And maybe that alone is enough to give the Sounders a little bit more of the defensive prowess that they have kind of been missing.
00:33:22
Speaker
They have given up already 32 goals this year. So we're 23 games into the season. They gave up 35 all of last year. right They are. Yeah, they're going to blow past their goal total. Now, granted, last year was a all time great defense.
00:33:36
Speaker
But what's frustrating is that most of the pieces are still here. ah They just have not been able to stay on the field together. Yeah, the the Sounders defensively bang average in MLS. They're, I think, seventh in the West and 16th overall.
00:33:51
Speaker
um So maybe slightly below average, but not, I mean, not by any um significant margin. They are an average defensive team this season, but they have, I think that the run that this defense has had going back to i mean, when was the last time they didn't have an elite defense? 2017? I mean, they weren't great defensively.
00:34:15
Speaker
Yeah. But um for the last ah two whole seasons, they were like the best defense in the league. Yeah. And, you know, we kind of taken that to granted, I think, to some degree. um But I also think there's something to the idea that like.
00:34:31
Speaker
if you don't have a great attacking team and you don't have the talent, you need to have a great attacking team, or you don't have a system, you need to have a great attacking team, but you know, you can have an elite defense. Why not sell out to do that? Like, why not just make that your thing, you know? And I think that's to some degree what we saw last year, especially um the Sounders are a very dynamic attacking team the last couple of months of the season.
00:34:55
Speaker
And, you know, I don't, I think Brian is a, coach who appreciates defense and organization, but I don't think that he is ah defense first coach as a rule, the way I think a lot of people assume he is.
00:35:12
Speaker
I think he's a much more pragmatic coach. Yes, for sure. Yeah. And right now, I mean, I think especially while Yamar was out, the Sounders best chance to win games was to outscore people.
00:35:24
Speaker
So, you know. Well, I think they they sort of made a commitment that they're going to commit a little bit. They're willing to commit more um numbers forward, yeah even if that means they're going to suffer a little on the defensive side.
00:35:37
Speaker
i will say that i i think one thing about the defense that I've been mostly pleased with is even though Andrew Thomas has given up now. seven goals in three games, which is obviously not great.
00:35:51
Speaker
Eight goals. Sorry. Eight goals in three games. No. Seven goals in three games. Seven goals in three games. He is at least showing that he, I don't put a lot of those goals on him.
00:36:04
Speaker
Now, hilarious. Four of those are penalties. Yeah. Sort of just.
00:36:12
Speaker
throw your hands up. One of those penalties was of course his fault. So it's not like they're getting carved up. It's not like he's just giving a a bunch of away. He did. And I thought he looked mostly pretty good against sounds.
Goalkeeping and Defensive Midfielder Needs
00:36:25
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Hey, like I thought he did, you know, he probably helped the sounder. I think without him, it's plausible to think that they don't get that win.
00:36:33
Speaker
you know He does get a finger on the Christian Espinosa free kick there towards the end, which i ended up coming off of a rebound, and and he made another save on heysoo or Joseph Martinez on the doorstep, which didn't count technically.
00:36:49
Speaker
But he did he did get a finger on that to push it off the crossbar, so good for him. i And he just... i i feel mostly comfortable with him and in goal. I don't think... Again, we've said this before, I think...
00:37:03
Speaker
where he suffers a little bit is in more of the soft skills of goalkeeping, which is organizing and doing these things that are sometimes hard to quantify, but he is a great shop stopper. He is not as like at one point last year, I was really worried about his distribution.
00:37:18
Speaker
He is not a great pastor. I don't think anyone is going to say that otherwise, but then of course, I don't think Steph Fry is a great passer either. i feel totally comfortable with him holding it down at least through leagues cup.
00:37:30
Speaker
And as, and if it has to go on longer than that, then I'd be fine with it. Yeah. I think that it, There are also questionable decisions that I think people have forgotten. Steph Rye made a lot of in his first season as ah as a starter, right? In Seattle, obviously. like Goalkeepers are just, they have weird aging curves and their mistakes are a lot higher profile.
00:37:55
Speaker
um I think he's capable of figuring those things out. I'm super high on Andrew Thomas. I think he's I think he's looked quite good. um The penalty was a very frustrating one because I don't think it needed to happen.
00:38:08
Speaker
But. I mean, he he was also in a situation where he had to make a decision because his defense had gotten totally blown open, you know, and ideally you're not putting your goalkeeper and in that kind of situation. Yeah.
00:38:20
Speaker
So, yeah, I'm very comfortable with him. um And based on what we've seen from him so far this season and and last season, even going back that far, um when Steph is ready to you know to hang it up, finally, i feel pretty comfortable with him being the guy that we stick with for at least a season to see if he can cut at this level, because I definitely think he can. I think he's a very good goalkeeper with a really good future.
00:38:44
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Yeah, I would totally second that. Well, this is probably a good place to call it a segment. We're going to come back. We're going to talk a bit about the transfer market. And I think what we're probably going to do is just power rank our ah are desires for the summer transfer window, which will open up next week or actually on the 27th. So
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Welcome back to no study at this. So we are going to talk summer transfer window. Not a lot of active rumors out there yet, but we do have a wish list. And so we're going to go ahead and power rank our summer transfer window wish list.
00:41:31
Speaker
There's a few different kinds of items here. So we'll just start at the bottom. Number five, we want to see them pick up a fullback. presumably someone who can, i guess a left back specifically full right back feels pretty set, but I wouldn't mind someone else coming in to compete for minutes at left back right now.
00:41:52
Speaker
Even if it was a veteran who was only going to be here for few, couple months. Yeah, I'm with you. I mean, I think especially if you want to give read the job and you don't want to have to give it back to new, if, uh,
00:42:09
Speaker
If that doesn't work out, I think having another option there could be useful. And i think also just having another left-sided player that could play you it like as a left winger, even if you're trying to protect a lead. like that you know That was pretty common in the Joven Jones days or in the... um They've done it with other guys who i can't I'm blanking on right now, but I think that would be you know a nice option to have there as well.
00:42:34
Speaker
Yeah. Right. And I think probably what makes sense is to go within the league. I haven't done like a complete survey of what's available out there, but I would imagine there are soon to be out of contract left backs who might be available for ah draft pick.
00:42:51
Speaker
Let's just say, like, I don't think they need to break the bank. This is something that someone that can just get the job done, break in case of emergency, that emergency being that,
00:43:03
Speaker
Reed is just not working out and knew who cannot get out of his own head.
Squad Depth and Potential Signings
00:43:07
Speaker
And then number four, I think this would have been a lot higher if not for the news this week, that Joe Paolo may actually be back within a few weeks.
00:43:18
Speaker
But we, I wouldn't mind the centers bringing in the defensive midfielder because it does feel very obvious right now where we sit today that they do not have faith in their defensive midfielder depth.
00:43:32
Speaker
Yes, I think that's an understatement. they yeah and And I'm really worried about Christian and Obed ah being able to hold up over the course of the whole season.
00:43:43
Speaker
um Christian has been very durable, but players are durable until they're not. and And Obed, i think, is going to easily eclipse his, you know, previous ah highs for for minutes played probably sometime in like August would be my guess if if current trends hold. So, um you know, the Sounders have already played in three competitions this year.
00:44:04
Speaker
It's, it's crazy. And they've got another one coming up. They've got a fourth coming up. They've still got the playoffs. They've still got, uh, what 14 mls games left something like that so um it depends on the playoffs they've got 11 regular season games 11 regular season games left sorry if they make the playoffs yeah 14 um potentially so yeah it's even with jp you know potentially coming back I think that they could use another, another body there.
00:44:34
Speaker
Um, if for no other reason, like if you go up three nil the, in the 70th minute, let's say that that feels safe. Um, half time, probably, you know, not, not as safe as it once was.
00:44:46
Speaker
You, you'd like to have somebody you could pull, be able to pull Christian for or something like that. But as, as an aside to this, i have There have definitely been misdiagnoses before with players, players who have had injuries that they couldn't shake, that they found out were something different than they originally thought, all that kind of stuff.
00:45:05
Speaker
Have you ever heard of a player being diagnosed with a torn ACL and then finding out that it wasn't actually torn? That's that's a new one on me. I'm sure it's happened. but ah Yeah, I mean, i ah I'm with you. i feel like it's happened before, and I don't know what the...
00:45:22
Speaker
I don't know what the process is that they go through to assess a torn ACL to begin with. Like, yeah. Yeah. I don't I'm not a doctor.
00:45:34
Speaker
I I would assume there were some medical tests that were done, like not just like, oh, does it feel like you tore it? Oh, you've done it before. That probably is a torn ACL. But it is, you know, I know for me, it did seem a little weird that he was it was the same ACL. And that is pretty rare where a player will tear the same ACL twice. That is something that doesn't usually happen.
00:45:55
Speaker
yeah And so that seemed weird, but presumably some doctor signed off on that diagnosis. So, yeah, I don't I don't know what to make of that. It's a little concerning.
00:46:06
Speaker
ah I'm not in the mood to look at gift horse in the mouth, though. And if that means that he didn't have a torn ACL and all they had to do is clean out some stuff in his knee.
00:46:17
Speaker
Great. Like, OK, I we can deal with the misdiagnosis later. But if you're telling me that he's should be fine in a couple of weeks, few weeks. Great for us.
00:46:29
Speaker
I still wouldn't be against the idea of bringing in another defensive midfielder. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And I don't expect these these two, especially these last two. I don't expect to be blown away.
00:46:43
Speaker
Give me a body who can compete. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm asking for here. 2025 Adam Moffat would be fine. Yeah, exactly. Something like that. I feel like he's a guy we bring up a lot on this show around the the transfer. Yeah, because you know i mean because he was just like the classic.
00:46:58
Speaker
You're just bringing this guy in to do a job for a few months. i And, you know, he didn't do great, I guess, but he was kind of that quintessential. That's why he was here. All right.
00:47:09
Speaker
So this is where it gets a little bit more interesting. I think number three, you and I talked about this. It might be time to trade new who that would be um not our top goal, but trading new who, and then bringing presumably using that space to, you know, that all of a sudden then pulls the, get another fullback up into the rankings. But this, we're treating these as independent things.
00:47:33
Speaker
If they can find a trade partner for Nuhu, he is in his last guaranteed year. They have an option for next year. it would be great if they were not in a position to have... like i I would be shocked, actually, if they declined his option. Yeah. But I don't love... I would rather not be in a position to have to worry about that, to be honest with you.
00:47:55
Speaker
For sure. Yeah. And I ah i think that Nuhu could probably benefit from a change of scenery. Um, he's been here a long time and i think that there's clearly some frustration on his part. I mean, it's, it's easy to forget that, you know, he was last year, he was part of like a sort of a locker room revolt that, um, ended up with him being suspended.
00:48:17
Speaker
um I think that he's, there's part of him that's probably not super happy with his role. um I don't want to psychoanalyze anybody, right? But it just it just feels that way to me. Like it's a situation where everybody could benefit from a change of scenery. it does. It feels like a ah breakup that from a distance you can see needs to happen.
00:48:37
Speaker
And when you're inside of it, it feels like, no, we can, we can figure this out, but it it does genuinely feel like maybe both parties would be better off. And I think part of the problem, frankly, is that the sounders have sort of treated new who like, Oh, he's just going to be new who, and there is this inherent lack of maturity that they sort of just put up with because yeah he's a likable guy.
00:49:03
Speaker
And i I kind of wonder if that hurts him. Like, he's just not developing the way that he should because the expert because he's able to get away with too much. Yeah.
00:49:14
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, i it does frustrate me sometimes the way Brian will talk about Nuhu and some of the things he does and really in contrast to the way. Yeah.
00:49:27
Speaker
and And then the way he talks about other players, doing things that are not nearly as serious as as some of the things he was done. And I don't think Nuhu is like a bad guy.
00:49:38
Speaker
ah he seems like a wonderful guy. He seems like a blast of a guy. He seems, you know, his energy is great. i just. I just think it's probably time for him to have.
00:49:48
Speaker
some new surroundings and a new, ah new situation. And, and also I just think this, the way the Sounders play now and seem to want to play is just not good for skillset. You know, i think there was a time where he was the perfect left back for this team. And I just don't think that's, that's the case anymore.
00:50:04
Speaker
Yeah, I would agree with that. ah All right. We're at U number two. And we decided that's where this is not. Maybe a lot of people would assume this would be our top priority. It is not our top priority, but it's high up there.
00:50:17
Speaker
We want to see a U-22. And that's sort of like we're classifying this as it doesn't matter what position this player plays. We just want to see that U-22 spot used. Yep. Yeah, I think that for the good of the vibes, um the Sounders should be spending some money.
00:50:33
Speaker
This is the one place they can do that. And, yeah you know, they've been more or less promising that they were going to sign U-22 for a while now. And, you know, think... Last season, we s swore up and down coming into the window that they were going to do it, um and they didn't do it, and it was very frustrating.
00:50:52
Speaker
was. I thought they would do it this offseason, and they didn't do it. and I'm less convinced now than I was last last summer transfer window that going to do it because fool me once, etc. But just...
00:51:07
Speaker
um but i just I think it's a big mistake if they go another window without signing an external U22. I'm all for giving Obed a U22 deal. I'm all for giving Reid a U22 deal if he if he shows something over the next little while.
00:51:21
Speaker
um But you've got to you've got to spend money sometimes. And if if you're not going to do it. Stop, you know, just stop pretending. Stop stop pretending like you're going to do it. Stop, you know, or stop looking for the perfect unicorn situation.
00:51:40
Speaker
And, you know, just take a little bit of risk by a lottery ticket. Yeah, I and I think kind of where we are with this is. it it is it's it it isn't necessarily about.
00:51:52
Speaker
Finding the perfect fit, it's about showing that you care enough to pull the trigger. And ah but at the same time, it's our top priority here is signing number one on our power ranking list of things we want to see the Sounders do sign a forward.
00:52:12
Speaker
Yeah. Sign a, that might be a veteran. Ideally it's a 22, but sign a forward who can come in and compete for minutes. And this is sort of hedging against Jordan Morris's ability to make a full recovery in time, in time to play for this season.
00:52:29
Speaker
But, and I, I like Danny Masofsky. I think he's probably your starter. But I don't necessarily feel great about Osase De Rosario as the backup, in part because I don't think he scored a goal since the Sounders signed him.
00:52:45
Speaker
Yeah. And if they have, it might have only been, yeah I guess maybe the Timbers game was was right after he got signed. But he's he's not yeah his hot start has cooled off a ton, I guess is where I'm going with this.
00:52:59
Speaker
Yeah, and I think the thing that worries me is that we've seen a lot of evidence this season that if Brian does not trust his backups, the starters are going to keep playing. Exactly.
Forward Signing Priority
00:53:09
Speaker
And it does not appear as though he is necessarily trust De Rosario to do a job at this level yet.
00:53:18
Speaker
right which, you know, I think is, is, is fine as understandable. I mean, it's, I think he was largely signed because the Sounders were worried about striker depth the first time around. And right. Yeah. um That's not to say he didn't earn his contract, but I think maybe there was a little bit more urgency to, to get him signed for that reason. um You know, and I, and I think that, um like you said, U22 is the ideal scenario.
00:53:43
Speaker
um I, I don't, I, I have a feeling based on, nothing other than the fact that it's been a while since we've heard any updates that the Noah Ohio thing is probably not going to happen with that profile of striker, I think would be great.
00:53:55
Speaker
You know, somebody that can, you'd feel pretty comfortable with your, as, as your backup that could also play out wide if they need to, that that gives you a little more flexibility. Um, so hopefully they've got somebody like that, but if not, you know, go find somebody that can just eat some minutes occasionally and, and, uh,
00:54:14
Speaker
not, you know, put you in a situation where Danny Masofsky has to play Danny this weekend and week out. Yeah. You, I don't think you want to be in a situation where Danny Masofsky is, you know, even short term,
00:54:27
Speaker
i I would hate to feel like the Sounders are playing him 90 minutes every game. Yeah. You know, ah just because they don't have any other options.
00:54:38
Speaker
Osase De Rosario can potentially fill in a little bit. I suppose we're going to see more of Jesus Ferreira in that spot. Maybe that opens up some other possibilities, but it would be nice to have a forward that Brian trusts to eat some minutes, even if that's what it is. I think that's probably our top goal right now in terms of ah yeah and and I, and I'll just say they got to do something this summer. i I realized that they aren't going to sign someone just for the sake of signing someone, but man, I really wish they would. I'm so tired of just talking about this narrative.
00:55:12
Speaker
And I realized I could just stop talking about it, but it's real. Like they, they got it. They haven't signed someone in the summer since Leo Chu. Yeah. And also like, you have clear needs and cap space?
00:55:27
Speaker
but If you are just signing someone just to sign someone, somebody is not doing their job. And I, and I have a hard time believing that's the case based on the things we know about the way, you know, the, the, the front office operates.
00:55:40
Speaker
Yeah. um I think that we're not going to sign someone just to sign someone is a really convenient way of saying I'm only going to spend X amount of dollars and none of the guys that I'm willing to spend on are good enough for me to want to sign off on them signing.
00:55:57
Speaker
And that sucks. That sucks. Spend more money then. Like you need, you need at least one guy that um is going to be, I'll just say, you I'm bait. Adrian, give Craig the budget he needs to make a real signing.
00:56:13
Speaker
That's what I'm asking for. That's like, let's just be, that's plain and simple. Give the people that are making soccer decisions enough money to make the type of signing they are comfortable making because this is getting super tiresome.
00:56:27
Speaker
Yes, very much so. Uh, And ah before we that's that's what we have. mean, I did want to at least address this because it's a thing that happened today. And it's something that ah we'll probably talk a little bit more on Nico and I show at the end of the week.
00:56:43
Speaker
But every DSA, the Tacoma Defiance coach got basically got fired today.
Coaching Changes and Team Dynamics
00:56:48
Speaker
i don't have a lot of information right now. Hopefully we'll have a little bit more information tomorrow.
00:56:54
Speaker
my understanding is that it's not as simple as they didn't like the results on the field. I think there was probably some other conflicts, some other stressors going on there. It doesn't help that in their last game, they blew leads of three, zero and four, one and lost six, four.
00:57:09
Speaker
ah But that may have been indicative of maybe something else going on, but this, it's been a kind of a weird season for defiance. They had, some real highs. They had a great run in, in the open cup.
00:57:20
Speaker
And really since that open cup run, they've had a, they've struggled to sort of find consistency. And, ah and I would imagine that's part of it, but I don't know. I don't, I don't want to get too far out of my skis because i think Nico probably has a little bit more, done a little bit more reporting on this, but anyway, i just wanted to put it out there just so people didn't think we were ignoring that thing.
00:57:41
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um But with all that said, Aaron, you got anything else? No, I think we covered it, brother. and Okay. Well, that's a good one. ah Thank you so much for listening. Thank you to our sponsors, Full Pull Wines and Hexen Ferments.
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I am Jeremiah O'Shan, signing off for Aaron Campo and Lickett. This is Nos Adietes, part of the Sounder at Heart Podcast Network. And remember, you will never get along.
00:58:28
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I expect the LAFC who is motivated ah to prove themselves at home, to prove to their fans that that they're capable of winning in this league. And it's up to us to really ruin the party.
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i feel a lot better than