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Speaker: Welcome to standing goal side with your host, Brennan Conner. Conner, how are you doing today? Oh, I'm doing great. Thank you, Brennan. I'm even doing better because we have a special guest here, a pro soccer player, amazing dribbling skills. This guy has a genius mind when it comes to the soccer field, and I'm honored to be sitting next to him. His name is Dylan Sanchez. Say what's up. What's up, guys? I'm glad to be on this channel for Wednesday night. This came up.
Speaker: I had 3 -1 dub. Sadly, it was only one goal. They conceded, but a win's a win. But anyway, if we're going to start off talking about Saturday, March 2nd, Sporting KC versus Philadelphia, you won one tie.
Speaker: Great game. Bad atmosphere. Actually, a lot to add on this game. Let me hear it. This was the game where the referees actually walked Kansas City over, where, oh, yeah.
Speaker: or it was out of play by Philly and the ref said, no, no, no, no, Philly ball. They had turned into a set piece that led them to tie the game with Sporting Kansas City and they were leading. And then Bedoya ended up swearing.
Speaker: on the last question. In all honesty, though, Philly was the better team. Wow. And all agree on that. Casey is not really the team you want to support this season. Let's just before we begin, I'm just going to give a little introduction.
Speaker: Dylan is a Casey hater and Brennan is a Casey fanboy. So, so we don't really get along, especially when you haven't won nothing in a couple of years. I'm just going to start off the podcast by saying that, but, um, I mean, it was overall a great game. It was a dog. She gave the refs. You guys know the rest aren't getting paid. So we're shitty refs and that's okay. Cause it cares about Casey, but.
Speaker: But when it turns the tide of the game, that's when it gets a little bit upsetting from a fan perspective. Sporting should have had definitely more opportunities to score. Maybe one day. Final takes for this game. Maybe one day. What was the possession of that game? I want to go through that.
Speaker: You can pull it up real quick. Let's see the, let's see the possession. So we got, uh, sporting with 58 and Philadelphia with 41 shot, shot attempts. Casey comes out on top 12 to seven. Um, pure domination by sported Kansas city. As a matter of fact.
Speaker: But Philly just got the lucky goal on the 95th minute. And that's what I was talking about. Those are the type of teams you've got to be scared of when it comes to those moments. Because those teams don't give up. They'll take any chance. Like tonight, we thought we were going to be up. And look what happened. One goal. And that can mess up your schedule.
Speaker: But anyways, going on through the schedule, I don't want to get on this too long, but we got Minnesota United versus Columbus Crew 1 -1 again, burning to show the stats. This was a beautiful game. I watch this personally with Minnesota with 42%.
Speaker: That was a game when we watched that whole night, wasn't it? We stayed up just to watch that game. And Columbus grew at 57%. Yeah. It's a pretty even game overall. Cards, shots, shots on goal. Everything was pretty good. Just two basing teams going at it. And yeah, and overall, I mean, it's a 1 -1 tie. I mean, nothing crazy that you can expect. Nothing crazy. Yeah. Exactly. Next game. Real solid late. LAFC.
Speaker: No, no, no, this is a game where anything can happen. Anything can happen. Anything can happen. You don't really know. And if you're LAFC, this is a scary game to walk into. There is no way they thought LAFC was going to be playing the snow. Real solid just looked better fit for the atmosphere that they're playing through. What didn't you say, Brendan?
Speaker: I mean, it was a snow game. They played with a neon ball. It was, and it was the craziest shit. Um, but real salt, like just fucking put three and it was honestly, I honestly think LA forgot the show.
Speaker: That way I forgot the shovels you were here. Yeah, probably. I mean, they fucking, they didn't do shit. It looked like it was all in the last, you know, the first half, but then, I mean, the last half was kind of done with no, no goal scored by both teams. With the red card in the game as well.
Speaker: And personally, the game of the week would be Miami versus Orlando. Two competitive teams rivals. So we thought, I mean, we were all there. We were all at the same place. Yeah, we're all a brick and having fun watching the game. What did you think about it, Dylan?
Speaker: Man, I thought that was the real inner Miami you want to see out there. Let's just put it that way. They came out strong. They knew what they were going to play. You know, Orlando did look like they were in for quite a few minutes, maybe 25 minutes throughout the game. But just once they got those two goals, I feel like they just gave it up.
Speaker: Yeah, but I definitely agree. Miami looked like the better team overall. The shots that they had, they made it count. Beautiful connection between Messi and Suarez. We all see it. It brought a tear to my eye seeing Suarez score too, and they could have went on for the hat trick. But being less selfish, he let his team score and he's high.
Speaker: He's really good for Miami. I can't wait to see the rest of the season. And then of course, Robert Taylor coming in. They need to get right to Robert. OK, OK, we'll hold that on. Robert Taylor played good that game. I thought it was awesome. You're going to print that on your jersey. Guys, if you want to move on. Yeah, I'm fine. But what a great team. There was a little bit of pushing, a little bit of shit talking, as we saw with Nancy and their back, back deep.
Speaker: Right, either way, it ended in 5 -0 against Orlando. Pretty tragic. Luis Juarez with 2, Robert Taylor with 1, and Messi with 2 as well.
Speaker: I mean, it was quite a blowout, to be honest with you. Our next game is Vancouver and Charlotte FC. That game tied 1 -1. There wasn't much to come out of that. Charlotte and Vancouver, they're both pretty bad teams. They're both trash. They fit right in with Casey and Mike. All right. That's crazy.
Speaker: Yeah, that's a horrible take, but we'll just go ahead and move on into FC Cincinnati, Chicago Fire FC, Cincinnati taking the dub, which is to be expected. I mean, they have, you know, the MVP of the league. They have Blake Johnson in there too. They have Jones Williams as you guys saw that game, I don't know if you guys saw that game. But Cooper Will did the game, two goals.
Speaker: Yeah, and FC Cincinnati's projected to win the CONCACAF Champions Cup to push towards the quarterfinals as well. But that's to say that Messi doesn't score a hat trick. We'll keep that thought, but let's move on. FC Dallas versus
Speaker: Montreal, IU is a great game, Montreal coming out with the win. I personally, okay, this is just a personal take. I don't think FC Dallas is gonna be that good this year. They're not, they're not, they're the team that you can already kind of tell what's going on there. Last year they looked great. Yeah, they had Game Billy on the top plane as a striker, you know, he's a good guy, but I don't know.
Speaker: I don't know if they'll be able to finish the ball up there. But he does need help. He needs a midfielder that can get the ball up there for him. He's a finisher, but he's going to need more help than just Jones and Williams in the middle. And then Montreal come in with the dub. Next game we got Houston Dymo versus the New York Red Bull. Who was the player of the game for you that game? Player of the game.
Speaker: I would say, probably, let me think about it for a second. Joseph Martinez. Obviously, he's in the conversation. He's in there, but I'm looking for that player that killed it. I would say Musa, for FC Dallas.
Speaker: He did score, he put them up on the scoreboard, but at the end of the day he couldn't finish it. And Musa was getting thrown trash at him at the corner of Jake's, did not see that. I don't know what that was about. I think it was just trash talking to Vince.
Speaker: Probably, I mean, that's MC Dallas nature. We'll go ahead and move on. New York Red Bulls and Houston Dynamo. I think New York just got, just handed them everything they needed because Houston's been partying with Drake lately. Drake was in Houston last night. Maybe they were still trying to catch up on sleep over there. But let's get a Drake tea. Drake, let's just say, what's up with Ryan Garcia?
Speaker: I think he's on something. I think it's 50 -50 in my opinion. You think he's getting that Columbia? I think he's scared. He's on something.
Speaker: But I could also see, you know, people with money that can allow us. Oh yeah. I mean, he is the resource before, um, to get back on to our podcast. We have St. Louis sources, New York, St. Louis coming out with the dub. Uh, this is going to be an interesting take for Brandon because he is the KC fan, which I think St. Louis, what do you think about St. Louis this year? Same noise. We'll get to the quarter finals.
Speaker: Let me tell you, they got eliminated first round on the concave champions cup. Okay. Let me tell you, they got, hey, guess what? When was the last time Casey got up there? No, hold on. MLS playoffs, first round. MLS playoffs, first round. Sporting Kansas city versus St. Louis city, best of three. St. Louis city got blown out 2 -0. Just 2 -0? 2 games. Just 2 -0. And they were both blowout games.
Speaker: and a best of three game series. Yeah. St. Louis city is the worst fucking soccer team and the major league soccer. I swear to God. It's not even close. Fuck St. Louis city. They got lucky. New York FC has not won a game. They've lost all their games. They suck. I see you got to give about two, two more years, you know, and they'll, they'll be up there with sporting.
Speaker: Santa Claus cannot same that goddamn team, I'm telling you. There's a fucking player, his name's Claus, and he looks like Santa Claus, and he can't save the team. Yes, I definitely agree. St. Louis is going to be struggling this year, but they are looking good with a good start. Right. Being one, one win, two times and zero losses. But next we have the Colorado Rapids and Nashville time 1 -1.
Speaker: And I'm just going to tie this in Portland and DC tying 2 -2 as well. Real quick though, I think Portland is going to be a great team. Same thing with DC United. We'll see as they develop throughout the season, but overall great games and I'm glad to see those teams play each other. And I mean, it was a decent game overall.
Speaker: I mean, Nashville being the shit team that they are, they're not great. And then, I mean, rapids time with them. It just, it just makes sense of bugging Portland Timbers and DC United. They're both med teams. I don't see them going anywhere, truth be told, and they tied as well. Portland has two wins, one tie, and the DC United has one win, one tie. So we'll move on to the LA Galaxy versus San Jose.
Speaker: Let's just be straight. San Jose's ass. Um, and LA galaxy, Ricky pooch, Ricky pooch is potentially MVP. I believe he came from Barca. He's an amazing player. I mean, you can just see the skill whenever he touches the ball, the whole game changes.
Speaker: What did you think about that game? I think he's mid. You think? He hasn't really played a team that has that pressing on him. As we can tell, they've only played three games. So you got a few more games. That's where I'm standing on. That's fair. That's fair. I mean,
Speaker: I can't say much are we all developed but uh next we got seattle and austin times zero zero not much to talk about there two teams that aren't good enough to even score so why didn't talk about them so next
Speaker: um the march 9 2024 saturday we got la versus casey zero zero casey's just having a hard time capitalizing they're getting the shots they're getting the chance they just can't finish but capitalizing they don't have that they don't have that star player we all thought they don't have that drive to win a game allen plato is not good
Speaker: And that is the only management of Casey, you know, Casey could be a... Johnny can't carry the team on his back all the time. And I agree, but it's overall a team game. Can't expect one player. Last year, Messi. Ryan Messi, a Barcelona one.
Speaker: I mean clean sheets were both keeps I mean obviously they're both bot teams as you can see I mean we're gonna see LAFC we're gonna see what they're like midway through the season I'm telling you they're gonna be a great team Casey I'm still on the iffy uh about them I haven't seen them develop I haven't even seen them win to be honest you don't probably win five games this season then you can quote me on that
Speaker: If I squat dance and shows by day but but but to keep the car cast going next game on Saturday we had New York versus Portland Portland coming up on top there dangerous team I keep saying over and over Portland is going potential
Speaker: Portland is gonna be at least top eight I don't I don't think I don't see them in the quarter files. I do see him top eight Have you seen Nick Bosa play as a striker when he plays out there me and they are just to kill our TV as they he has that speed and Then he has Jerry Jones with them up there where it's just just like race. You know what I'm saying? Obviously Dylan's fucking around but I will tell you that the Portland timbers are made so yeah, but and next we have tour
Speaker: Toronto versus Charlotte. We're still coming out on top. They're looking like a good team. Charlotte looking like shit like always. Next game we got Atlanta United, which is always a team to look out for versus Atlanta. They've always been good. They have good potential. I think this year we're going to really see them shine.
Speaker: Um, I mean, great team, uh, but they're also playing a shitty team. It was not that good. Let's be for real anyways, but Columbus crew, Chicago, Columbus crew coming on the dub. They just won the MLS finals last year. They're on the hot street. Well, we see them continue brand now.
Speaker: Okay. No, they, although they did today, they did qualify, uh, for the next round or no, they did yesterday and they qualified for the quarterfinal of the champions. And I think they're going to get beat out pretty quick, but then to bring back what I was saying about FC down, let's stay lost to the New York Red Bulls.
Speaker: And I think the Red Bulls are quite possibly one of the worst teams I've ever seen play. And I'm just being for real, FC Dallas not looking good this year. And same thing with Orlando. We thought they're going to be a top six. Orlando doesn't have the strikers. Orlando isn't going to even qualify for playoffs.
Speaker: mark my words same way into ordering if sport qualifies for playoffs they'll be all for a shrub mark my words pita on that on me pita on the shake on her right now but i'm a little worried so i'll just stay back there and i'll shoot so yeah let's get back to today's game
Speaker: Uh, which was inner Miami and, uh, Nashville. And this is concrete kind of file away. Yeah. A round of six scenes. You said, what do you think? So, so the first leg we saw a tie, um, air Miami, he had two away goals, but, but full time today.
Speaker: Inter Miami is a 3 -1. They eliminated Nashville. Nashville is competitive. I would just leave it as that, competitive with Inter Miami. They didn't look great today, but sometimes they look awesome. And sometimes they make Inter Miami look like they don't know what they're doing. So I'll tell you the difference in Suarez wasn't on the field the past couple of times they've played. Redondo hasn't been on the field. Gressel hasn't been on the field.
Speaker: which Russell's kind of iffy. Redondo, he's new to the team, but he's doing some good defensive work. But I think Suarez is the biggest guy on the team that has made an impact on the team so far in this past couple of games.
Speaker: When he gets those changes he finishes it I mean he can she okay He may not be the fastest but he's always he may not he may not but but it's it's not always about that It's about where you are on the feeling and Suarez is the master of that. We've seen it as you can see they did have a bigger possession Last game just filled it which more shots and tips, but I don't know what happened this day
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, it can sloppy at the end, but I think that's just how it goes when you're up 3 -0. 3 -0, you guys are first.
Speaker: But overall, Brennan, do you have any closing thoughts for this broadcast? We really wanted to update you guys and give us our takes and also bring on our special guest, Dylan Sanchez. The guy with the hottest takes. Yeah, big takes. But before I end this, Dylan, do you have any closing thoughts? On what exactly? Because I do have a lot of smack top doing a couple of players.
Speaker: And I feel like this is the time we're laid down. Well, I think let's just start off with Gomez, man. I ain't gonna lie. I think Inter Miami could do better on getting new players. I don't know where he comes from, but I don't think he's really great. And I think he pitched one of the Red Bulls, as I was saying, no game.
Speaker: You know, they played good this first half, but do need to get rid of Robert Taylor. Awesome. He is let me let me finish. He is the type of guy to just come in and fuck up the game. But somehow, he manages to score a goal to keep the team up there. And I'll give him that. Okay, he's like a cherry picker type of dude that is up there. Okay, on our knees to put his name on this. Okay, hold up. Hold up. That was a crazy thing. The
Speaker: the hottest takes with the lindstand just that was crazy. Okay, listen, Robert Taylor is a super sub that should be starting. He is only he's only you in the with as far as MLS goes he's elite.
Speaker: Okay? I don't know if I'm being serious right now. I know I'm talking about the same player right now. The player that scored 10 and 11. I'm talking about the player that scored tonight. Yeah, the one that scored last, when it doesn't matter, because that goal doesn't even matter. No, he's putting it away. They scored one. I take the lane score that they're down one. It's an even game. I just think you should go up low.
Speaker: But you guys can say otherwise. Brennan, do you have any hot takes for the nine? I mean, not for the night. I saw a good game from Miami. Way real soccer. 35 minutes. I didn't see, I really didn't see a lot from, uh, wrestle today. I didn't see a lot from Malvelas.
Speaker: Redondo. I did not see him once this whole game. Redondo, he was kind of jogging around. But honestly, Nashville, a hot take. Mukhtar was kind of just jogging. Hot take with the best player of the game tonight for me was Jordy Alba. Let's just say he killed him back there. He was putting them balls here, you know. He was good, but he wasn't as good as Rob.
Speaker: All right, guys, that's going to be the least. None for tuning in tonight. You up after sporting? This is our next couple of things. I think we're doing a couple of things. Couple of things I wanted to add it before we get out of here.
Speaker: Obviously, Kansas City plays San Jose. What's your, what's your guys' text on that this weekend? Kansas City is obviously going to come out with the first dub. I hope so. I mean, kind of a draw. I mean, okay. If it's a draw, I don't have any help in KC. They need to learn how to finish.
Speaker: I agree. And then the week after the San Jose, so next week it's against LA Galaxy and me and Connor will both be attending the LA Galaxy game. Which they're going to come back crying that they lost.
Speaker: as we're going to destroy Ricky pooch. Um, and you guys were saying he was, uh, Russell's going to learn that Ricky pooch is actually his son. And I think that's a good topic point for the podcast. I appreciate everyone for coming in. Make sure to like, and follow the podcast, subscribe and share the podcast share, please. We will have another special guest next.
Speaker: next podcast. We will and if you guys like Dylan, please comment bring back Dylan because if now we will kick him to the sale. Bring him back. Thank you. All right. Thank you guys. Bye. Thank you. Peace.
