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Under the Lights: Who are the Seattle Sounders' biggest Leagues Cup competitors?
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It's onto the Leagues Cup quarterfinals for the Seattle Sounders after the Rave Green wrapped up a perfect 3-0-0 Phase One with a 2-1 victory over Club Tijuana on Wednesday. With the rest of the quarterfinal bracket taking shape, we'll take a look at how Seattle sizes up against the other advancing clubs. Later on, we'll talk some LA Galaxy and track their game vs. Santos Laguna, and discuss a pair of historic incoming transfers to MLS in Thomas Müller and Son Heung-min.
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Introduction and Streaming Details
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00:00:22
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Well sir, we got a scorcher today. Gonna be a real scorcher today. Why the scorcher today? Well it's gonna be scorcher.
League's Cup Quarterfinals Overview
00:00:43
Speaker
Good evening, everybody. Welcome in to another episode of Under the Lights. Going to be a good show tonight. We're going to be in League's Cup mode.
00:00:54
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We have got a slate of games going on right now. And the quarterfinal picture is starting to come into focus. ah We're going to find out exactly who...
00:01:08
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in both leagues are advancing in addition to the, uh, Seattle Sounders who notably have already clinched that and, uh, enter Miami as well. And, uh, the Liga Mecky's, uh, portion of the table is, is done with is done with.
00:01:26
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So, uh, I'm actually, I was just trying to figure this out, which I should have done beforehand. I'm honestly not sure.
00:01:33
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if it's determined exactly who they play at, it probably is, but I don't want to say something that turns out to be incorrect. So if you do happen to know that information, go ahead and drop it in the chat.
00:01:49
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I'm not exactly sure how to determine that. But either way, we are going to find out the rest of the teams that are going to be advancing in both leagues. So we're just goingnna we're going to look at the table, look at some of the other results, and kind of just talk about how Seattle sizes up.
00:02:04
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ah Magno getting this kickstarted in the chat saying it's Puebla. That's what I thought. I just wasn't sure. I just wasn't sure. But it makes sense because they finished fourth,
00:02:17
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on the Liga and Meckie's side. And Seattle, as we all know, finished in first on the MLS side. So I thought that that was how they were doing it, but I couldn't confirm it. So thank you, Magno.
00:02:33
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I'm going to have to ah do a deep dive. on puebla i admittedly have not scouted them out at all scouted them up at all but we now know seattle's opponent so that's exciting uh the quarterfinals aren't for a couple weeks but we're going to be looking at uh also just how the mls table panned out uh and some of the teams that didn't make it through that I might've expected would have made it through and, uh, just sort of take a lay of the land.
00:03:04
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Uh, before we really get into all that, I am going to, spin the Schmetz presser, uh, while we wait for people to trickle in.
00:03:15
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And then i had one other thing from this Tijuana game that I wanted to, to talk about from how that game ended in the, on the post game live, you know, and watching the game from the press box.
00:03:26
Speaker
I definitely noticed some things about how that game ended that I feel like I didn't really yeah
00:03:35
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do justice to like watching it back. I had a couple of ah takeaways from how that game ended, and we're going to talk about that. And, ah yeah, a couple of other big storylines from around Major League Soccer, one of which has already been mentioned in in ah chat.
Major Player Signings in MLS
00:03:51
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But ah two major inbound transfers, obviously, this week. Sun has signed with LAFC, league record fee, $26 million. dollars And Thomas Mueller is going to the Caps.
00:04:05
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Those are both transfers that were rumored and pretty much confirmed, but hadn't been announced yet. And now they've officially been announced in the last couple days. So obviously a couple of ah kind of iconic global superstars coming to the league going to talk about what that all means.
00:04:22
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And, uh, Then later on, we're going to play it by ear if if we're vibing and i and I'm planning on staying on late. Might pull up the Galaxy match a little bit later, which criminally kicks off at 8.30 Pacific time.
00:04:39
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And Might do a little like watch long type action. Maybe not like a super formal watch long. We can hang out, talk about other stuff too, while kind of keeping track of how the Galaxy are doing at the same time.
00:04:52
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Because that's kind of the last shoe to drop here. The Galaxy can advance with with a win tonight. i'll have to We're going to pull up the table in a sec, and I'll look at what their tiebreaker situation is.
00:05:04
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But that'll be a... ah a fun little thing to get to And, ah Steve brings it up right here. Steve, I was going to talk about this. I was going to talk about this, not relevant, but do you understand what is going on with the Sante Moreno situation?
00:05:17
Speaker
Not really, like as far as why it's happening and what the outcome is going to be. But as far as, what I understand is happening based on reports from, uh,
00:05:35
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Tom Bogues and others. ah He's going a little, he's going a little Reynoso on the Timbys.
00:05:44
Speaker
He said, I'm out of here. I mean, I'm going to play the clip from SoccerWise, which Noah and I actually did a guest spot on SoccerWise this morning. So if you have not checked that out, go give that a watch. It was basically just us um paying our penance for our wager on the League 2 final between ah Ballard FC and Vermont Green.
00:06:05
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ah We had to, well, we're going to send them ah couple of bottles of Lobbing Scorchers hot sauce. But then an additional part of the wager that was put in retroactively, I didn't really co-sign onto the retroactive adjustment to the wager.
00:06:21
Speaker
But we we had to denounce the color green. But then we talked ah we talked some sounders in a Little League's Cup, too. So there was like actual content that wasn't just us settling our wager.
00:06:34
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But yeah, we're going to talk about Santi Moreno little later. I don't really have that much to say. about it other than that it's pretty funny and not good for the timbies so we'll see how they handle that but yeah no he i would it's not like a full rey no so because like they know where sante moreno is like i don't i mean i don't know specifically but like rey no so it was like they had no idea what like
00:07:07
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what part of Argentina he was in, what he was doing. Like Sante Moreno is disgruntled and demanding a transfer. And then when they said they weren't going to do it, he said, all right, well I'm going, I'm going there anyway.
00:07:22
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I'm going down there anyway. So that's definitely like there's novelty to that situation, but that affects them. Like he's a very good player. I'm not really sure what kind of year he's having this year. Maybe he's been disgruntled like this all year. Maybe he's having a down year, but I do know that he is like very talented and has had seasons in MLS where he's, where he's put up big numbers.
00:07:46
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So it's definitely like not a positive to have one of your best wingers leave the country. And say that he's not coming back when you haven't transferred him.
00:07:58
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That's not good. They're going to to something about that.
00:08:04
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Hopefully higher seed does get the home field advantage. That would be nice to keep having the games here. the All that stuff. I'm kind of, I'm, I'm leaving for now until I see some sort of confirmation on what's going on, which I feel like isn't going to become crystallized until this last galaxy game wraps up later. But, uh,
00:08:23
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All right, what I'm going to do is I'm going to spin the Schmetz presser right now while we ah while we wait for people to keep trickling in here.
Seattle vs. Club Tijuana - Post-Match Analysis
00:08:31
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And yeah, those those were the topics that I was planning on hitting, but honestly, we don't necessarily have to adhere to that that rigidly. you know you guys have questions, topics, ah agendas, observations, grievances that you were want me to address,
00:08:51
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Go ahead, drop them in chat, and we can kind of just ah see where it takes us. But I'm going to pull up pull up Schmetz here right now.
00:09:02
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And we'll ah we'll see what he has to say first. I did watch this earlier today. But I think i think the Schmetz presser is a nice little ah ritual to start these off.
00:09:14
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when we when we i didn't I wasn't able to spin it at the game last night. Timing on those ah streams at the stadium didn't quite like doesn't quite line up always to be able to do that like it does for the road games.
00:09:25
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But I did make it out of the stadium in case any of you were wondering.
00:09:33
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It looked like I was going to get locked in there for a second there. But anyway, this is Schmetz postgame after Seattle's win over Club Tijuana last night, which gave them a perfect 3-0-0 start to League's Cup Phase 1.
00:09:53
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The only club in in either league to do so. So he was probably feeling good. He was feeling good. Let's hear what he had to say while we we wait for people to trickle in here.
00:10:09
Speaker
ah b Brian, congratulations on the win, on um finishing top of the the MLS group as well. ah Courtesy but the Sounders FC official YouTube channel, by the way. Subscribe to their channel. at the end But what did you guys do better in the second half, did you think?
00:10:28
Speaker
Well, let me start off by saying we're the only team in both sides that have won all three games. Let me correct you on that. um Let me compliment Senor Abreu because he's a very nice man. got to talk to him a little bit. very Very distinguished career, and his team played well.
00:10:50
Speaker
The first half started off okay. you know They caused us some problems sitting back. Uh, you know, we had the, the double post in the beginning, you know, obviously Albert's, uh, penalty kick miss certainly changed the game and it gave them life.
00:11:11
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And then they came right down and scored and a lot of teams would have folded, but our team doesn't fold. Our team doesn't quit. Our team can overcome adversity.
00:11:29
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and they can persevere and survive maybe is what I would say because, you know, we took some injuries, we were playing against a good team, a well-coached team, and it was a hard game.
00:11:42
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The subs they brought on were good players. ah So what did we change? did we want to do differently in the second half?
00:11:52
Speaker
There were minor tweaks, Jeremiah. I wanted the left side to be a little bit more potent. We tried to unleash Reid a little bit more. We tried to push Obed over here to help Kalani and create some overloads on the right. We just tried to balance the team.
00:12:11
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And Kent did what he needed to do, played vertical. You know, it's a great cross. And, so osa is a you know, you know,
00:12:25
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Great header, brought us back in the game, brought some life. And then, you know, Jesus' delivery, Christian's, you know, outswinger. You know, it's another shout out to my good friend, Ravi Ravameni, who I know is going to be listening to my interview.
00:12:44
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You know, first contact on outswingers, you need a guy to crash at the back post. And Musiah, Moose, Danny Musoski.
00:12:56
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you know, save this. All right. I'm going to stop it right there because Nico told me that he said that the Messiah. And I was not, I didn't really believe him, but there you have it.
00:13:13
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i I can't believe that hasn't, I mean, I've never, how have I not thought of that? Saved by the Messiah. I mean, that's an all time cook from Schmetz. Right there.
00:13:25
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look at his Look at his face after he said it. You can tell he knows. You can tell he knows. He was like, yeah.
00:13:35
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I just cooked on that one. Hollowed be thy name, exactly.
00:13:40
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I mean, Moose already had a ah had a nickname, but he's got a new one as well.
00:13:50
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Moments like that just prove he's a Sounder at Heart reader and here for the walls. Yeah, yeah I mean, we ah we all know he he does read Sounder at Heart and he ah he listens to the pod as well. But I still, the Messiah is that's high level memeing.
00:14:06
Speaker
Like it really is. So there you have it. There's your answer.
00:14:13
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Most.
00:14:16
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Yeah, Brian, while you went over the tactics, you went over the goals, what I but i probably want ask is both of the goals, can you just talk about the determination of your striker? Because they were both headers and they had to be physical and clinical in scoring the goals.
00:14:33
Speaker
Well, Osazi was there the whole game. I mean, that kid took a step forward. That was a step forward to that kid. So he's been decent. He's been okay. He's had some good games at Defiance.
00:14:46
Speaker
But there were some areas of improvement. And you know I think what he showed tonight, what he showed me at least, was that he was able to you know get to the next level.
00:15:02
Speaker
you know Because playing here, and you're good, OK, fine, fair enough. But when you get to the next level, how do you adapt? How do you still make an impact? How do you still do the things that you're used to doing here?
00:15:14
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And so he accomplished that. And that was a great header and he's a big, strong kid. And that's going to be his calling card. And that's what's going to keep him in this league. If he can, you know, score goals like that.
00:15:27
Speaker
Determination, you want to talk about determination. I would, I would not just the two strikers, not just Moose and, and, and Osase, but the entire team. We came out in the second half and you know, we picked up the energy. The level was higher.
00:15:43
Speaker
And again, that's kudos to the mentality of that group. um You know, and they persevered.
00:15:53
Speaker
Brian, you mentioned the injuries. I'm wondering if you have any update on Albert and Ryan. And then also, ah what specifically ah happened with Obed in the first 10 minutes of the game? do you He just threw up.
00:16:07
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He had upset stomach. He threw up. So He got ball his stomach. ah That was that. Nothing nothing nothing bad. Look, Albert and Ryan, they have hamstring injuries. We're going to get and MRIs. I'll give you more details on Friday when we get the results back. But it's two hamstring injuries.
00:16:31
Speaker
Brian, congratulations on the win and on advancing as the one seed. I just wanted ask about the physicality that you've seen over the past few days. Two very physical games in a very short span. How has the team handled that physicality, especially in such a congested schedule right now?
00:16:44
Speaker
Good. I mean, we didn't get any adverse altercations with the referees. thought she did a good job tonight. I think the game was good. um You know, the game was physical, but that was because...
00:17:01
Speaker
Tijuana needed a result. They put themselves in a position to get a result. And then our team came charging back and put them under pressure. And so the game became physical. And when you say physical, it's not always about the fouls, but it's about the running. It's the sprinting. It's the heading. It's the tackles. It's the duels. It's Alex Roldan with a big, you know, shiner on the top of his head.
00:17:26
Speaker
You know, it's all those things are physical too.
00:17:31
Speaker
Brian, just a a question about two specific players. One, Andrew Thomas, he's going to come up big ah when you need hit most here today. And Reid, you know, you rotate that side. He seems to have a really good game. Just your thoughts on but what both of those guys did for you today.
00:17:48
Speaker
Yeah, Andrew's been good. He's been steady. I'm going to give him this tournament. Look, there's no e couldn' that first goal that Tijuana scored was a very excellent strike. I mean, I can't fault.
00:17:59
Speaker
Andrew for that. you know it was a play leading up to that top of the box you know on the long throw, but you know Andrew has done well. And look, Reed is still a young player. He's got a lot of areas that he can improve on, but he's had some good starting points. He's a talented kid, but he's got a ways to go.
00:18:21
Speaker
Brian, congratulations on the win. Swann, Just wondering if you could talk more about the all-female refereeing crew since they were appointed for tonight on how they did and what it means for women in professional sports.
00:18:34
Speaker
It's good. I had zero problems with that crew. They did an excellent job. The fourth official was very professional. ah That wasn't an easy game for any referee, male or female.
00:18:47
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So I thought they did a fine job.
00:18:53
Speaker
Congratulations for the classification. and cluo and puntaque perfect perfecto ae punto You the of but and the whole
00:19:21
Speaker
Good evening. Congratulations for the qualification. um Saunders obtained the perfect 100% nine points. Yet the last two matches, there was a little bit of suffering. The lineup for the match today, could that be a reflect of having considered the match already won before it started?
00:19:44
Speaker
No entiendo. We don't take anything for granted.
00:19:51
Speaker
We put the best lineup for each of the three games. We have to set a lineup for the Galaxy in order to win. So I'm not sure of the question. Maybe the translation was, you know, I didn't get the nuance.
00:20:08
Speaker
But we did not for any one second think that we had already gone through in the qualification for this tournament.
00:20:19
Speaker
We understood that we needed to get a result. We had all the scenarios in front of us. The objective of the Seattle Sounders though, was to win the game in regulation.
00:20:34
Speaker
That was our objective. And I hope that answers your question.
00:20:42
Speaker
I don't understand. um no we we never take anything. Changing channel. Yes, please. up
00:20:54
Speaker
changing channel yes please ah no notiendo and relidano soron nuca tomomon nada comgananticado Coach Brian, congratulations for the win. My question you is, what do you think about new format for Leagues Cup where 18 teams from each side participate, only four qualify to the next round?
00:21:14
Speaker
coach brian congratulations the wind um my question to you is what do you think about the this new format for leaks cupboard eighteen games from each side participate only four umified to the next around the possibilities of qualifying are minimum.
00:21:37
Speaker
what What do you think about the new format? Well, I love the competition between Liga Amecki MLS. I don't have any strong opinion about four out of 18.
00:21:50
Speaker
I only understand that it's very hard. And so congratulations to that team in there, those players for being first on both tables, ah but as far as the tournament, the rules, all of those things, fixture congestion in the middle of a busy season, those are things that I don't control.
00:22:14
Speaker
I just know that I love the competition between Liga Amaki and MLS. I think it's exciting. These three games were very exciting games, each one different, but they were very exciting games.
00:22:35
Speaker
Hi, Brian. Kassim Ali from the Spectrum. So you guys had 26 shots on today. um That's one of your highest totals of the season. What did you think about how you guys generated opportunities but throughout the game?
00:22:47
Speaker
I didn't check the expected goals. Sometimes shots can be deceiving. you know Had I wished a couple of those 26 shots would have been on target in the first half, would have made maybe our lives a little bit easier, including Albert's.
00:23:03
Speaker
you know penalty. So, you know, weve we've been scoring quite a few goals as of late. I think that was one of our objectives coming into preseason this year was to, you know, increase the chance creation, you know, goals and assists.
00:23:21
Speaker
I think we have a very talented attacking group, you know, and, you know, if Ilsaze keeps developing and Ryan and Georgie Galasso and Pedro and then you know, Albert and Jordan's going to come back and, you know, we, we've got a lot of guys that can score goals.
00:23:39
Speaker
So that's good for me. One last question here. So, uh, Kevin Castaneda made some pretty good play against you guys in the first half was able to turn some of the players around, especially Christian. What did your team and especially Christian do to contain him more in the second half?
00:23:58
Speaker
Uh, Well, again, I would probably go back to Signora Brew's ability to get the most out of his team. It is a team sport. They certainly have very talented players.
00:24:09
Speaker
I think just overall, our team did a good job limiting them. They obviously created some chances in transition.
00:24:20
Speaker
And some of those transition moments came, yes, from a moment of individual ah you know good play by their players and getting around some of our defenders but that's the game and you know again credit to uh tijuana they're they're a very good team with that last question we thank uh coach branchmesman thank you very much thank you for everything way um technical
00:24:52
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all right so uh wrote down a couple things hey development board Why does this? This is some mar random video. Oh, wasn't sharing. Sorry, guys.
00:25:03
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00:25:07
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couple things that caught my ear from that Schmetz presser. ah A lot of Osase praise.
00:25:16
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lot of Osaze praise. Obviously another goal for Osaze, but this was his most impressive one yet for sure. I mean, he posterized that guy. And I like, obviously the, the physical play that he made there was impressive, but I think for me, it's like to do it in that moment too. I mean, you got a guy who's still barely has played with the first team yet.
00:25:40
Speaker
He's got a couple of goals, so he's got the confidence working, ah but that wasn't like a, uh, a kind of like a poacher. I mean, it was sort of a poacher goal, but he had to win a one V one in the air against the Liga Mechies defender to get that shot on target.
00:26:00
Speaker
ah So, I mean, that's impressive. And, I'm not saying the ah emergence of Osaze necessarily means they shouldn't still be looking at another u twenty two number nine with ah no Ohio, no longer in the picture. If they, if they scout a new target up and it feels like the right guy and they think like Craig Weigel has said that he can come in and contribute,
00:26:25
Speaker
then Osase's development should not preclude them from doing that necessarily. But I mean, it just, it changes how I'm starting to think about the depth chart, at least a little bit ah and with every goal that he scores. He's got three now in the last few games, every goal that he scores.
00:26:45
Speaker
I think it becomes more and more worth get Keep giving him a lot of run to to see if he if you're actually you've actually found sort of a diamond in the rough here.
00:26:58
Speaker
So I think hearing Schmetz praise any young player like that is is notable. It's not necessarily the. Easiest thing.
00:27:11
Speaker
to get him to do. So, ah yeah, I mean, great goal by Osaze, and you can tell he's impressed in the coaches. The fact that they started him in this game at all I think shows you the type of faith that he's garnering from the coaches ah because they're not going to start someone in a game of that magnitude that that they don't trust and also that hasn't been performing in training.
00:27:40
Speaker
A lot of who starts in these games
00:27:45
Speaker
gets determined on the training ground. So the fact that he's broken into the first team, broken into the rotation, and started a game like this shows that he's training well.
00:27:58
Speaker
And it's paying off on the field right now. He's scoring goals. So, I mean, that's going to be a fun one to keep an eye on just because, I mean, what if the son of D-Row
00:28:10
Speaker
turns out to be a ah viable MLS forward, a guy you can count on for a production.
00:28:19
Speaker
In the same way as like right now you've counted on Moose, but also, i mean, you've got theoretical upside in ah and a ceiling that you don't necessarily know about yet. So that was one thing.
00:28:33
Speaker
Obed threw up on the field. That was theorized about in the press box at the time. But unconfirmed He did the, yeah that's the Willie Beeman.
00:28:46
Speaker
Anyone got get that reference?
00:28:51
Speaker
He Willie Beemaned it any given Sunday.
00:28:56
Speaker
I guess after he had an upset stomach already and then got hit in the stomach and threw up on the field and they went out there and cleaned it up. So that, something that that happened.
00:29:12
Speaker
Uh, and then of course the, uh, injury updates on Albert Rusnak and Ryan Kent, it's hamstrings for both of them, which, uh, you know, obviously we're not going to know, uh, how like timelines and stuff until they get their MRIs to me.
00:29:34
Speaker
i think of a hamstring as like, I mean, two to four weeks minimum, but I feel like they tend to be on the, uh, closer to four weekend, which would put both of them out at least for the quarterfinals. Cause I think those are in two weeks.
00:29:51
Speaker
So we'll see, we don't know yet. Maybe it's like just a minor little tweak or twinge and, uh, one or both of them will be good to go in two weeks. But I think that's just the unfortunate thing.
00:30:05
Speaker
Uh, coming out of this game. You know, the vibes are great coming out of phase one, but, uh, keeping the offense rolling at this level without Albert Rusnak, I think it can be done, but it's, it's that yeah it's not really something they've had to do over this last stretch. He's been playing every game and, uh, the attack's been humming.
00:30:29
Speaker
So, I mean, I think they can, they're deep enough where they can ah put together an attack without Rusnak that can play and produce at a high level.
00:30:42
Speaker
my first ah My first choice would be putting Ferreira in that spot, letting him do his thing. he he can He can do that, and he's been in good form.
00:30:55
Speaker
So I think that's probably what they're going to do. Maybe we see Danny Leiva get some more run there as well. He looked impressive in that Santos game, for sure, and the Cruisesville game. So it just ah does that does suck. That put a damper on things. Obviously, Rusnak's been central to all these goals we've been seeing lately.
00:31:17
Speaker
But even Ryan Kent, I was telling you guys, telling you guys, I still had my stock. I still believe and wasn't going to, uh, to sell my stock just because he had a run of a few games where he wasn't looking that effective.
00:31:32
Speaker
And i think yeah I think we saw it in these last two games. He gets two assists.
00:31:38
Speaker
he get Well, he gets the secondary on the one in Atlanta, which, you know, that's whatever. But the ah primaries that he got in these last two Leagues Cup games, the first one, low cross to Osaze, just perfect delivery.
00:31:51
Speaker
And then he and Osaze link up again for the one last night. And that play, if you go back and watch the highlight, that was the Ryan Kent of St. Louis City SC and Houston Dynamo fame.
00:32:09
Speaker
The clubs that he torched in those first couple games where he looked like one of the best players I've ever seen. and
00:32:19
Speaker
The way he just mossed that defender to free um to free up the space to get that cross into Osaze, and then how perfect the delivery was, both the accuracy but also just the trajectory, giving his striker a chance to make a play.
00:32:35
Speaker
That was the Ryan Kent that we saw. And to me, it's like his – I have no question as to his quality or talent level.
00:32:49
Speaker
it's just a matter of if he can consistently maximize it and tap into that level on this team, which, you know, it looked like that was going to be easy his first couple games, but now he's injured.
00:33:06
Speaker
So, I mean, we just have to hope that for both those guys that it's, uh,
00:33:13
Speaker
that it's not that severe and they can get back in short order. But the way I'm thinking of it is you're probably going to have to rock at least the quarterfinal game without both of them.
00:33:24
Speaker
That's just how those hamstring muscle injuries tend to go. And you you don't want to put them in a position where they could re-aggravate it.
00:33:38
Speaker
God knows.
00:33:41
Speaker
We've seen enough hamstring injuries this year and the last few years to last a lifetime. So
00:33:51
Speaker
we'll see what happens with that. We just got to wait for the and MRI. Ryan Kent stock is up.
00:34:02
Speaker
Ryan Kent stock is up, gets constantly fouled, but never retaliated. These, he, he was getting, battered these last couple games.
00:34:15
Speaker
And MLS teams are doing that too.
00:34:20
Speaker
I wonder, like, it feels like they are, like, he gets targeted and bullied more than the average Seattle Sounders winger.
00:34:31
Speaker
Especially, ah think it was the
00:34:37
Speaker
Was it the Santos game? One of these games, they were just fouling them every single time.
00:34:44
Speaker
Jake, I'm not sure about ah JP. It's a good question.
00:34:51
Speaker
July 22nd surgery. So, I mean, i would say probably two, three weeks. I would say probably being back for the quarters feels ambitious. All right. I had ah had one other thing I wanted to do talk about from this game, which was just sort of the sequence of events that ended that game. I was watching the highlights back today.
00:35:13
Speaker
and was like, wow.
00:35:16
Speaker
Like, watching it again on the broadcast, the way Tijuana managed the end of that game and then ah their crash out after Moose's second goal,
00:35:31
Speaker
it was It was kind of a sight to behold. And I want to start with ah that free kick that Ferreira took in the 88th minute where they ran that offside trap.
00:35:46
Speaker
And just to set the stage, like, at that point, the game is one-to-one.
00:35:53
Speaker
And Tijuana, I don't think they, like, a two-to-one win They probably would have been chalked, but I think they would have at least had a theoretical chance if other results broke their way where any win might have been able to get them in position to advance. But either way, they still had a chance to win the game at that point is the point.
00:36:18
Speaker
And you have a ah yeah this set piece from Seattle from a from a dangerous area as they're as they're chasing a game winner. And they run this...
00:36:30
Speaker
Offside trap. Like, the most exaggerated offside trap I've ever seen. I've seen, ah we've all seen offside traps a lot. But just how every single player tried to, like, time it up at the same time, and then, like, the distance they went, was pronounced.
00:36:55
Speaker
And um i remember thinking at the time, why would they... Why would they run that? Because what happened was
00:37:07
Speaker
Paul Rothrock managed to say on manage to stay on side. And I'm going to pull up a still for you guys here just to illustrate this because this is actually this was a this was a really tight call.
00:37:24
Speaker
So look at this. This is when Ferreira hits the ball. And you can see they're all they're all pushed up. And they have Yamar and Moose offside.
00:37:38
Speaker
But look at Paul Rothrock.
00:37:42
Speaker
This guy, I don't know if you guys can see it. I'll try and zoom in a little bit.
00:37:48
Speaker
don't know if that helped. But this guy right here, he has him offside, I think, based on the timing of the run. But he's got his arm extended back. And it's keeping Paul Rothrock. on side So that's the first thing where I'm like, if you're going to run that, like the risk reward on that at this point in the game, when the game's still on the balance,
00:38:13
Speaker
just the gumption and audacity to do that.
00:38:21
Speaker
Like, if you're going to do that, it better work.
00:38:27
Speaker
Do arms not count? That's what I was wondering about. I thought maybe that was it. But you're right. The feet are still keeping him on.
00:38:36
Speaker
So first of all, I mean, that's a hell of a spot from the from the AR to not raise the flag. I honestly can't believe that they that she didn't.
00:38:49
Speaker
Because it certainly looked like when I saw it live, i thought I thought they had pulled it off. But if you look at this still right here, the feet are keeping him on. He's on.
00:39:01
Speaker
So that that's that's thing number one where I'm like, wow, you guys really, you're pulling out all the stops. Like, and this is, I have another still here.
00:39:15
Speaker
This is what I'm talking about with ah with risk reward this. on this this is This is the reason that's such a risky play, this one I'm about to show you here.
00:39:31
Speaker
Because this was the result.
00:39:34
Speaker
Like, just think about this. You are tied 1-1 in the 87th minute. And you willfully, albeit inadvertently, put yourself in a situation where the opposing attack has this.
00:39:51
Speaker
against your goalkeeper, which Rothrock puts the header right on right on him. Honestly, man, he should have just chested it down.
00:39:59
Speaker
They could have scored off this right here.
00:40:05
Speaker
So I think this still right here illustrates why that was such a risky play. Because if even one little thing goes wrong, like your feet are keeping one guy onside,
00:40:20
Speaker
then you end up like this,
00:40:24
Speaker
which is, I don't know, man, that's crazy to me, bro. Like
00:40:32
Speaker
to to run that at that, like that part of the field at all in the 87th minute of a one, one, i i feel like that's just reckless.
00:40:49
Speaker
calling for Polly's head on that miss. I mean, I, I think he, I think he was in shock. I, you know what I think he probably figured is, I think he probably figured that the, that the trap worked. So didn't like, maybe he wasn't even thinking that it mattered. I mattered either way. I don't know, but they get away with it because he hits the header right at the, uh, right at the goalkeeper.
00:41:15
Speaker
Uh,
00:41:17
Speaker
But Ferreira tracks it down. It goes out for a corner. And that corner is the one where Moose gets the game winner.
00:41:28
Speaker
So they may as well have given up the goal off the trap because they they scored on the corner right after it. And they lost their godforsaken minds.
00:41:41
Speaker
they so They started crashing out at the refs immediately. And they were like, I mean...
00:41:49
Speaker
He wasn't offside. They didn't take kindly to that explanation at all. They were arguing, they were doing the, the, this, the VAR sign, but that's not going to get, wasn't going to get overturned. I don't even think that's like that.
00:42:09
Speaker
It's a reviewable situation or VARable situation anyway, because he didn't score it. He scored it. Yeah. But he didn't, so they're not going to – they would not – they can't go back and VAR that.
00:42:26
Speaker
So they gave up the game-winner to Moose, crash out at the ref. And I don't know if you guys saw, but there they got another red card. Well, okay. The crash out continued when they took a dog. So read for bringing down Obed great through ball by De La Vega.
00:42:46
Speaker
Love to see that. Obed's on a breakaway. He's in on goal, probably going to score the guy, their center back tugs him down dog. So clear dog. So, and he starts arguing the red card, which it was about as inarguable a ah ah red card as it gets.
00:43:05
Speaker
But he started crashing out and losing it at the ref. And then after the game, they got another red card for their number six crashing out at the ref.
00:43:18
Speaker
They pulled a Seattle Sounders in in Vancouver. Double red.
00:43:26
Speaker
The last one was retroactive. They didn't have to play with nine men at all like the Sounders did for like 58 minutes in that game or whatever.
00:43:36
Speaker
But I mean,
00:43:40
Speaker
i just i just thought that that was a... ah Watching it back, that was one of the most self-inflicted situations. If you just defend the set piece like a normal team,
00:43:53
Speaker
that probably doesn't happen. maybe i mean Maybe Seattle gets the goal on the Ferreira free kick, but i mean that you definitely can't presuppose that like from from that area of the field.
00:44:09
Speaker
So I just, why did they do that?
00:44:15
Speaker
Like, am I crazy? Why would you run that trap in that situation?
00:44:25
Speaker
That's, I mean, um respect the courage on ah on one hand, but ah no, Kyle, ah it doesn't affect league play, but I think, like, when they're in League's Cup again, it'll affect that. They'll be suspended for the first game of whatever, like, future iteration of this tournament that they're in.
00:44:45
Speaker
Yeah, i think I think the other people have it right. Like, it doesn't usually yeah transcend... tournaments or in into lead play like that. But I mean, that's, you know, they're, they're out of it anyway.
00:45:00
Speaker
So that doesn't really matter for them, but
00:45:07
Speaker
like they could, ah they, they would have had a chance to win that game still, if they defend that set piece normally make it out of that. And it's kind of crazy to think about because
00:45:20
Speaker
with this format, like Seattle would have been out with a loss. So if they, if they don't, if Moose doesn't score that and Tijuana somehow nicks another, that would have been league's cup over done dusted.
00:45:38
Speaker
The seven Oh would have been cool, but ultimately fruitless, which is kind of speaks to the difficulty of the format, which, uh,
00:45:53
Speaker
I think has good quality qualities to it. While, yeah, I agree, Trab. They probably need to tweak it a little bit. But I will say, like like Schmetz was saying, it did make it made every second of every game feel like kind of like do or die. I guess not the Cruz Azul game.
00:46:14
Speaker
Because, well, even that, though, was 0-0 at the half. And really, the thing the thing with this format, with 4 out of 18 going through, you just You can't take an L. You cannot take an L at all.
00:46:30
Speaker
You need to win at least twice, and then you can draw the other and still go through. But even like even that, it's like lot of these teams are in dicey situations, or were at least.
00:46:43
Speaker
But ah I'm going show you guys something cool next. You guys to see something cool? Want to see something cool? Check this out.
00:46:52
Speaker
This is pretty cool.
00:46:57
Speaker
guys look at this?
00:47:03
Speaker
That's the phase one table for both weeks. And you'll notice a few things here. Starting with ah but this right here, ah you know that's that's first on the on the MLS table, but you know what that also is?
00:47:27
Speaker
That's first overall out of 36 teams. Like, I think we should just appreciate that for a minute.
00:47:35
Speaker
Even in like the ideal scenario of how phase one could go.
00:47:41
Speaker
Finishing one out of 36.
00:47:47
Speaker
With a plus nine goal differential, obviously a little skewed by the seven spot, but that's why it pays to drop the seven spot. Right.
00:47:58
Speaker
They get the Y-dash, which I guess Toluca also got. I thought the Y-dash was for for the number one overall team, but it's I guess it's for the number one team in your respective league.
00:48:13
Speaker
But no one else did it. No one else went 3-0-0.
00:48:22
Speaker
like Like I said, even even in the most ideal scenario of how that could have gone, i wouldn't I wouldn't have called that. I wouldn't have even even asked for that. I feel like in this situation, the degree of difficulty on advancing is so high.
00:48:36
Speaker
You just kind of take it however you can get it. Oh, what does the Y mean? What is the Y? Clinched first place in league. They shouldn't have a Y.
00:48:50
Speaker
That should be an X. Toluca, you can have the Y. And I mean, I guess just looking at this as well, ah you can see which league MEC's teams advanced, ah which,
00:49:05
Speaker
it's It's among who you would expect. I think Pachuca is top of the Liga Mechies table right now. Tigres is obviously also a factor.
00:49:16
Speaker
But ah these four right here, these are the ones that Seattle could have to go through if they want to win this thing. And I'm not going to sit here and say that I know a heck of a lot about ah any of these teams.
00:49:29
Speaker
But to me, like based on what I do know about Liga Mechies, Tigres is always the one... that fills me with the most fear just because of their kind of their name value, their historical success.
00:49:49
Speaker
Refresh page. Is that better?
00:49:56
Speaker
Shoreline, i think i'm um apparently it does match Seattle up against ah against Puebla.
00:50:05
Speaker
I haven't been able to independently confirm that, but I've seen that multiple places. People in chat were saying that. Oh, refresh page refresh page to make Puebla get the X. That's weird. I wonder why I did that.
00:50:20
Speaker
But this is a good question for Mason here related to this this topic. Would you rather have Portland or the Galaxy? Galaxy have hosting rights, but Portland is Portland. That's a good question.
00:50:34
Speaker
Kind of think about that for a second.
00:50:38
Speaker
I mean,
00:50:43
Speaker
i guess that question comes down to, would you rather host against Portland, who's a better team, or travel to play the Galaxy, who are the worst team?
00:50:54
Speaker
It's tough because going on the road always kind of
00:51:03
Speaker
cuts into whatever quality advantage you might have in any given game. And I will say too, i mean, I was going to talk about it later, but the Galaxy have been playing better.
00:51:13
Speaker
They're still not great. Still not good times for them this year. But they haven't, they I mean, they were the, they were historically bad for like 18 through like 18 games.
00:51:28
Speaker
they They had the longest winless streak ever to start a season. They were like 0-14-2 or something.
00:51:40
Speaker
They have salvaged a little bit of dignity in recent weeks. They look like a lot more of a competent team.
00:51:47
Speaker
They'll get Ricky Puj back eventually, but they're not going to have him back for this tournament.
00:51:54
Speaker
ah But the thing is, the thing is thing about Portland is that
00:52:01
Speaker
The quality of their team is irrelevant when they play Seattle. They treat Seattle games like it's the UEFA Champions League final and they're Real Madrid.
00:52:17
Speaker
As we all know, the Timbys always do that. So even though I feel like Seattle is i mean seattle's in ah the best form of anyone and this tournament right now,
00:52:30
Speaker
I just never feel i never feel like secure or good about a Portland game because I know i know i mean it was an issue for years. Less so in the last like couple years, thankfully.
00:52:43
Speaker
But they get up for those games and they would be absolutely dying to come up here and k knock Seattle out of League's Cup.
00:52:57
Speaker
So... Man, i straight up, I might take Galaxy away. like that's That's how I feel about having to deal with the Timbys in this type of situation. You know you know you know how they would play it.
00:53:18
Speaker
They would go out there and be playing like it was the last game of soccer they were ever going to play and that they had to win to survive.
00:53:31
Speaker
You know, it's a good question though. It's a good question. And, and one, that uh that we're gonna get the answer to in ah in a couple hours here galaxy are kicking off against santos so that'll be a nice little good game of uh two pretty bad teams going at it i'm looking forward to uh to watching it it starts in about 10 15 minutes here so uh i'll pull it up and we'll get a little a little watch long action going at least for a little bit probably not gonna i'm definitely not gonna do the whole game but we can kind of we can suss the vibes see how it's going
00:54:12
Speaker
This is, i was going to say this earlier, but like, this is actually one of my favorite situations to be in. When you're in a tournament, you've already advanced, especially in this situation when you literally clinched first.
00:54:26
Speaker
And you get to just kick back the next night, watch everyone else scrap it out, duel for our entertainment without having any stress or worry about the table, how other results might affect you.
00:54:46
Speaker
You guys, you guys duel for it.
00:54:50
Speaker
So I'm looking forward to, uh, to this galaxy game.
00:54:57
Speaker
It's a good point. Short line. I'm not sure they're that bad anymore either.
00:55:04
Speaker
I don't think they're good per se, but, But like, I mean, I've watched them play a little bit in the last few weeks and I can tell you guys that, uh, they look like a professional soccer team that can competently make it through and MLS games sometimes.
00:55:26
Speaker
And even take points in, in rare cases, they have done that one a few games now. So, I would like with the form Seattle's in right now and where the galaxy are at as a team, I think Seattle would still be considered a favorite even on the road, but I would not think of them as some sort of situation. If they do go through and knock the Timbs out, I would not necessarily think of it as like a, uh,
00:55:57
Speaker
pushover type situation where Seattle is going to just go in there and roll on them. And we're honestly, we're going to find out about them on Sunday because Seattle is back at it in, in league play at the galaxy. So it's actually, i mean, we'll know by then if, if they're going to have to do it again,
00:56:17
Speaker
but if they do, we're going to get a little preview.
00:56:22
Speaker
of what they might look like. It is pretty funny that they have hosting rights. Like I get it in, uh, in principle of like, given the previous champion hosting rights or whatever.
00:56:38
Speaker
It's not the craziest thing I've ever heard, but they just are, have been so bad this year that it's like, as we were talking about this last night in the press box, they should have to relinquish. If you get off to the literal worst start in MLS history,
00:56:52
Speaker
You should have to relinquish your League's Cup hosting rights that were afforded for winning MLS Cup.
00:57:00
Speaker
It's just not the team this year that you would think should or would have hosting rights so for for this type of tournament. But I mean, look, they won MLS Cup last year, and that's how it was decided.
00:57:16
Speaker
So not arguing with that.
00:57:23
Speaker
But
00:57:26
Speaker
it is funny.
00:57:29
Speaker
ah According to the graphic, we cannot meet Portland or LA Galaxy until the final. Rather host the final against Portland than go to the Galaxy on the road for the final.
00:57:42
Speaker
Hosting a final against Portland would be pretty epic.
00:57:47
Speaker
It's just. There's no scales in that matchup. That is a just clean 50-50 toss-up. There's no way to get an edge. There's no notion of like your quality alone being enough.
00:58:08
Speaker
Because, i mean, a Darby game... ah Darby game is always going to be a toss-up, but I think it's especially true of this Darby game.
00:58:18
Speaker
In general, but also just right now at the moment, either either team could win any time these teams play. doesn't matter who's hosting. like there's no I don't see home field advantage for that.
00:58:32
Speaker
i By the same token, like seattle Seattle's been playing better at Providence the last couple years, so I think it goes both ways. But I don't look at that matchup and feel like, oh, Seattle has it at home. That like tilts it way towards them.
00:58:48
Speaker
Not against the godforsaken Timbys.
00:58:52
Speaker
who ah listen I guess that's a that's a good segue because we did have some Timbys news to to talk about. So let's just let's talk about that real quick.
00:59:06
Speaker
Tom Bogues had the story on SoccerWise, so I'm going to play that clip. Before I do that, please, everyone, everyone in chat right now, like the video.
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Speaker
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00:59:40
Speaker
ah All right, so basically for anyone not in the know,
00:59:47
Speaker
The Timbs have a ah a very talented winger, U22 player. don't know if he's still on a U22, but that's how he was brought in. Named Santi Moreno, who's sick. he's a um like before ah Before I give my Santi Moreno takes, I'm going to look up the year he's having because I'm honestly, yeah, no, he's having a good year.
01:00:07
Speaker
Transfer Mark's got him at four goals, five assists. And this is a guy, this is a key player for them. This is a guy who had 21 goal contributions last year, six goals, 14 assists.
01:00:20
Speaker
He is, he scores bangers, very goal dangerous player. But I mean, you see, you see 14 dimes, that's a guy who's also creative, unselfish, gets on the stat sheet a lot. Important player, important player.
01:00:36
Speaker
He evidently,
01:00:41
Speaker
wants out and took matters into his own hands. I'm going to let Tom Bogues explain explain the rest.
Transfer Drama: Santi Moreno's Situation
01:00:51
Speaker
ah This is from SoccerWise, which Lobbing Scorchers was on this morning.
01:00:59
Speaker
Again, go check that out. ah
01:01:05
Speaker
But let's just... ah
01:01:09
Speaker
Let's just get the update from ah Tom here. That's a good freeze frame of him. Might screenshot this. there is no deal agreed it was getting closer though and by tuesday night sources told me that santi moreno went to gm dead gravel boy and said with the suitcase said i'm taking myself and i'm leaving i'm gone whether you do the trip or not not coming back and then next and he said goodbye to his teammates i think to try to pressure this move to happen he like i was reporting this out yesterday and it was just like hey if he's not on the bus then like we'll have something like you know just wi you hey just give him the chance that maybe he'll show up i was like you know sources have told me he's on a plane to Columbia.
01:01:45
Speaker
He's not. He's not coming So I would say, again, Portland, the bid was not their valuation of player. Anyway, it was $4 million. America to Cali, I believe was the club that Portland signed him from, had 20% to sell him.
01:02:01
Speaker
So Portland were saying, $4 million bid to us is like $3.2 million. Why would we do that? So they were going back and forth. And if Fulminense came up, they were reluctantly going to let him go. But now,
01:02:13
Speaker
I don't know, man. like There is no good resolution here because if Sanse Muretto is saying, like I'm just not coming back, then they don't have the player anyway. But if Portland say, OK, we'll do the deal, you like hopefully you get closer, then what's to stop the next player from being like, OK, cool. It's like they reject the bid, but I want them like if I just stop showing up.
01:02:32
Speaker
So they're really upset with the player. yeah i don't think that they're thrilled Fluminense as far as my understanding. they they They believe that this is tampering, right? And again, like so they were getting closer on a deal.
01:02:44
Speaker
And now I think the only way a deal happens, and and again, sources told me this morning, and very unlikely. Portland are pissed. We'll see what happens. But I think Fluminense are going to have to pay a premium for like whatever to to make everything OK if this happens. And again, like portland Portland don't want this happen because they're they're really upset about the behavior in this situation.
01:03:10
Speaker
that's That's not good. That's not good. i i can't say i don't think I can't say I've ever seen that. We obviously you know we know ah we know about the Reynoso.
01:03:25
Speaker
The Reynoso is something we've seen before, but this isn't the Reynoso. The Reynoso was going MIA entirely.
01:03:34
Speaker
Buddy went up to the GM with his backpack on and said, I'm out.
01:03:41
Speaker
Have you ever heard of that?
01:03:50
Speaker
It feels like the Timbs, like, weren't they, like, how do they keep getting in these situations? Like, they were public at least publicly feuding with Evander and had to trade him to FC Cincinnati.
01:04:03
Speaker
Did a good job at replacing him, I think. I'm a DaCosta truther.
01:04:09
Speaker
I see DaCosta as a Similar to Albert Rusnag actually in that
01:04:18
Speaker
he doesn't, he doesn't get the shine because he's maybe not as flashy as an Evander, but he's just like, like simplicity is beauty sometimes I think.
01:04:35
Speaker
I think the cost is that type of player, but still like, I don't think you ever want to be in a situation where you you have a player like Evander, who is one of the best players that's come to the league in the last few years where you have, where he's like disgruntled and forcing his way out.
01:04:51
Speaker
Now you have Santi Moreno, another one of your best players
01:04:58
Speaker
going up to the GM with his bags packed. I picture him with the, you know, like the little, like the stick with the sack tied to the to the end when a little kid's running away.
01:05:11
Speaker
I picture him walking up to Ned Grabs with one of those.
01:05:17
Speaker
I'm out of here.
01:05:20
Speaker
From his perspective, I don't think that that's like an effective way of forcing the the move. You heard Tom say it. Now they're just pissed off. And now they're like, no No, somewhere. That's not how we're going to do business.
01:05:37
Speaker
We're not going we're not going to sell you for three point two.
01:05:44
Speaker
With his previous club in Columbia getting the with the sell on. And way below. i think that's that's pretty far below what they should and would charge for a player like him. He's like a 23, 24-year-old winger who is coming off a 20-plus goal contribution season. Yeah,
01:06:07
Speaker
that's what i'm saying, Jake. what is going What is going on?
01:06:15
Speaker
Imagine if De La Vega went up to Craig Wives and like, no.
01:06:27
Speaker
I'm going to Brazil. you're gonna You're going to sell me to Fluminese for 3.2. It's just, that'd be crazy. This isn't getting talked about enough, honestly.
01:06:41
Speaker
think this is one of the craziest stories going on in MLS right now. and And look, the Timbs are doing pretty well lately.
01:06:51
Speaker
I feel like it's been little volatile with them, with Phil Neves and stuff this year. But, I mean, they're they're pretty much the same Timbs as always to me in that they are good at scoring goals.
01:07:09
Speaker
Not always as good on the other side of the ball. But, like, the Portland Timbs... you can You can put any iteration of them out on the field in Major League Soccer since 2011 or whenever they joined the league.
01:07:26
Speaker
And they're going to rip off some counters. They're going have these guys that can score these crazy goals. They got Anthony out there. They got Santi Moreno until he ran away.
01:07:38
Speaker
But it just doesn't it feel like...
01:07:42
Speaker
Like, why would a player get that disgruntled? It can't be just about like his own. Like, doesn't there have to be some kind of reason for that?
01:07:57
Speaker
I don't know.
01:08:02
Speaker
I don't know, but that's crazy. And it's definitely like, it's going to have ripple effects. Cause like, I don't see any way that they repair Like, how does this even end?
01:08:15
Speaker
Because that he can't come back to the team. He can't. Like, he but he basically quit on that he basically quit the team. So they can't bring him back, but they can't sell him to Fluminese for what they're offering.
01:08:30
Speaker
So what happens?
01:08:36
Speaker
Does he just not play until his contract's up and then sign somewhere? i don't know.
01:08:44
Speaker
Anyway, it's ah it's entertaining from ah from our perspective, I think.
01:08:51
Speaker
Just get to sit back. You guys better figure that out.
01:08:59
Speaker
And we're going to see if if they advance in Leagues Cup. They've had a good Leagues Cup. They're in good shape here. I would be surprised if the gals pulled this off, to be honest. I would.
01:09:09
Speaker
Because the Timbs are sitting on a plus five GD. They had a really good game their first game. Scored like four goals. So they're sitting on a plus five. Basically, i mean, this is going to be close, guys. And ah the Galaxy game is getting set to kick off, I think, right now. So ah for the last part of ah of the stream, I'll probably pull that up. And it'll be a little it'll be a little watch-along vibe.
01:09:36
Speaker
um might did Our watch-along we did for the chair the Club World Cup charity match was actually pretty popular. So maybe I'll harken back to that, do some like...
01:09:47
Speaker
broadcast my own broadcast commentary that was the most popular part of the watch along i think i should get into broadcasting people think i'm a i'm a good broadcaster apparently uh i'm gonna check and see what the kickoff situation of this is because uh i'm ready to get this going man these these post 8 p.m kickoffs what are we doing
01:10:15
Speaker
All right. Looks like it hasn't started yet. Still in pregame. So chilling, waiting for that to start. If you guys got any other topics or anything that I haven't talked about yet, feel free to drop them in chat while
Impact of Sun's Signing with LAFC
01:10:30
Speaker
we wait here. And while we do that, I guess I can give my take on Sun officially joining LAFC and a little new character in Cascadia.
01:10:43
Speaker
Thomas Mueller going to the Caps. Tommy Mule
01:10:49
Speaker
coming to coming to MLS to a club that I don't think i would have expected. The Whitecaps are not like traditionally the club that makes a transfer like that.
01:11:07
Speaker
But they did it. They pulled off Tommy Mule.
01:11:15
Speaker
So um but I don't want to I don't need to spend like a great deal of time on this. But I think it is. I mean, it's worth talking about because ah they're both obviously two of the biggest names of this last era in in global footy.
01:11:31
Speaker
But I think Sun in particular There's a lot of implications with that. First of all, on the field. So you never know like what the motivation, what the buy-in is going to be with these guys. You see all scopes of it.
01:11:49
Speaker
You got your guys like Pirlo and Shaqiri who who just don't care and they're they're basically just here to hang out. ah But you've seen what InterMiami has been able to do with Messi and the Barca boys and the team that they built.
01:12:05
Speaker
And that's one thing I will say about the Barca boys is, i mean, even Messi, people question his buy-in. The only scenario I would question his buy-in was if he was not bringing it when he was on the field and if he wasn't producing how we would expect Messi to.
01:12:26
Speaker
He's brought it for them. like you can't really like loaf your way and not be bought into 18 goals, nine assists in like 1100 minutes.
01:12:43
Speaker
So we'll see what ah part of the spectrum sun falls on, but I think he is as much as any player I could name known as Extremely like high character.
01:13:02
Speaker
Teammates love him. Works harder than anyone. He was just apparently just like a great guy. Everyone loves son.
01:13:12
Speaker
You're never going to talk
01:13:17
Speaker
To any to a soccer fan of any ilk who's like now son screw that guy I mean maybe now that he's on LAFC some MLS fans are gonna feel like that but I think that's one thing they have working in their favor with it is just like the makeup of the player off the field.
01:13:36
Speaker
And then, i mean, just looking at how he's performed the last couple years, he doesn't seem washed to me. Sometimes it can seem like that. And they hit a cliff.
01:13:50
Speaker
Or for whatever other reason, they can't live up to their usual quality. But, I mean, he was beasting in the prem last year.
01:14:04
Speaker
and Also, I was just going, you know, I've seen his highlights for the last like 10 years since he's been on Tottenham. But I was watching him again just to give myself a refresher on what type of player we're talking about.
01:14:20
Speaker
The thing with Sun specifically that I think is that is different.
01:14:28
Speaker
than pretty much any signing you could make besides like a messy or these guys of that, that caliber, the types of goals that he scores. It's like, there's a very select few people on planet earth who are, who are capable of doing the stuff he does where he basically, he can pull up from anywhere.
01:14:55
Speaker
And,
01:14:58
Speaker
low percentage shots are like high percentage shots for him. And these, these types of, uh, these goals that he pulls out, it's just like,
01:15:10
Speaker
like I said, there's like a select few people who are physically capable of doing the stuff that he does. And he, i to me, he's in that group of just like, you can have a game that's going against you, or maybe he's not having a good game individually.
01:15:26
Speaker
And then, he can just hit you out of nowhere, but also just like from parts of the field that you like, you wouldn't even think about. And he hits those.
01:15:39
Speaker
So if he's able to channel that for LAFC, I think it does make their team way better.
01:15:46
Speaker
And it could end up being worth the and MLS record transfer fee for them of $26 million. But number one, but number one To me, when you when you drop $26 million dollars on any one player, even a player of this pedigree, they got to win MLS Cup now.
01:16:06
Speaker
Like, that's it.
01:16:09
Speaker
If they don't, they're they're out of Leagues Cup already.
01:16:14
Speaker
If they don't win MLS Cup this year, then... they'll go into the off season having spent $26 million dollars for the exact same outcome as everyone else in the playoffs who didn't win MLS cup and who didn't spend $26 million, dollars which is fine. You know, they'll have him next year.
01:16:35
Speaker
Uh, but the guy is about to be in his mid thirties.
01:16:43
Speaker
So
01:16:47
Speaker
they got, it they got, a I think they ratcheted up the pressure on themselves, which they're the type of club that they do stuff like this. They go for broke. They're trying to win trophies.
01:17:01
Speaker
But the thing is like one player, no matter how good doesn't always, it can't fit. It doesn't necessarily fix everything. If you have a lot of other issues and LAFC to me this year,
01:17:15
Speaker
um
01:17:18
Speaker
doesn't it i feel I just feel like their vibes have been a little off ever since
01:17:25
Speaker
Steve C announced he was quitting.
01:17:29
Speaker
Their vibes have been off.
01:17:33
Speaker
There's the their, ah their record and their points total and points per game and stuff. It's not up where LAFC usually is, but it's not even that like their record is still good. And ah they still play really good footy, even watching them in leagues cup.
01:17:49
Speaker
There were, there were periods of time where they looked a lot like the LAFC teams that we've seen the last few years, but there's also been a lot of periods of time this season where they,
01:18:03
Speaker
they kind of To me, they just don't look like fully in it, like fully locked. like there Like they're playing for the badge week in, week out. You know what I mean? like
01:18:16
Speaker
I don't know if it's to do with with the coach preemptively quitting and announcing himself as a lame duck coach or if it's just where they're at roster-wise right now.
01:18:33
Speaker
But I don't know if one player, even a player as good as Sun, fixes that.
01:18:43
Speaker
Tribe Yamal is starting to reach that level. he i i To me, there's like probably 10 less guys at any given time that fall into this category of just...
01:18:59
Speaker
being able to truly pull a goal out from anywhere like that and do it consistently. Do it to the point where it's like something that you can kind of like bank into your game plan every week. Honestly, the closest, I mean, obviously messy is in that category. The closest and MLS player to that, I think is probably Evander.
01:19:23
Speaker
But like, imagine some of those goals that ah Evander pulls out and then, way more frequently. That's son's last 10 years with Tottenham and the South Korean national team.
01:19:37
Speaker
He's, he's, he's pretty crazy. Like, I don't know. I was just watching the highlights today. Obviously everyone knows that he's a generational player, but I'm not going to lie to you guys. I was watching the highlights today and i was like,
01:19:55
Speaker
okay. Okay. You are quite,
01:20:01
Speaker
You're quite skilled.
01:20:05
Speaker
Now Tommy Mueller to the Caps as a as the Galaxy and Santos take the field for the pregame ceremonies.
Thomas Mueller's Influence at the Caps
01:20:17
Speaker
think someone
01:20:21
Speaker
someone was asking the question earlier.
01:20:27
Speaker
Can't find it right now. But it was something to the effect of like,
01:20:34
Speaker
why would someone want to sign a 35-year-old striker who is also like a generational type player in his own right?
01:20:45
Speaker
But he's older's he's a couple years older than Son. And he also... Mueller to me is like, it's not quite, he's, he's one of the best of all time.
01:20:59
Speaker
As I understand it, you got, you got anyone who follows the Bundesliga or the EPL closer than me, feel free to correct me.
01:21:07
Speaker
But Mueller's game is more like, ah he's one of the best of all time at like that in the box movement, like positioning, finding goals like that.
01:21:21
Speaker
And he's also a very underrated playmaker and facilitator. You could put Tommy Mueller at the 10 or even out wide and he's going to cook,
01:21:35
Speaker
but it's a little bit, he's he's not as much as like, I'm going score a freaking banger every single week of my life randomly at any time in the game in that same way.
01:21:49
Speaker
But in a way, I think like, his game should age well. And like someone who's been as prolific as he has in the Bundesliga throughout his career, if he comes in and is tearing it up at age 35, it wouldn't shock me.
01:22:05
Speaker
But to me, what, what that one's more about for,
01:22:10
Speaker
for the caps is like, you know, they're, I mean, first of all, they're going for stuff this year. Like they have cooled down a lot since they looked like one of the best MLS teams of all time to start the year and made the CCC final.
01:22:25
Speaker
They have not been at that level for a while.
01:22:29
Speaker
But I think you also got to think about they're going through like uncertainty regarding their future in Vancouver and like their stadium situation and stuff like that. And they have done a great job of creating equity this year by being a really good team.
01:22:47
Speaker
And that creates fan interest and fan support winning. But with them cooled down now,
01:22:56
Speaker
Like that, that stuff I don't think has gone away. Like their stadium situation is still super uncertain. Their future, i would be surprised if they like got moved out of Vancouver, but you never know what the oligarch class, if they feel, I mean, we see it with like, you know, the, the teams in Oakland,
01:23:16
Speaker
they do that stuff. mean, you've seen it in MLS. The Quakes moved to Houston in like 2005, right?
01:23:27
Speaker
Saved the crew. Had to be a thing because Anthony Precourt was trying to move them. So they're like they're dealing with that like stuff right now.
01:23:38
Speaker
And signing a superstar name like this i don't I don't think that's like the sole reason they did it. I think if they had the opportunity opportunity to do it, they would have done it anyway.
01:23:53
Speaker
But like it helps lock the city and the fan base in in just a different kind of way than even... like They could have signed a 27-year-old South American No.
01:24:05
Speaker
9 who has like more future upside, theoretically. But it wouldn't have the same sort of pull as Tommy.
01:24:20
Speaker
Here's the Tommy Mule scouting report from Rosie.
01:24:25
Speaker
Lovingly called Radio Mueller. He's not a flashy player, but has a very high soccer IQ. Can see opening and put in passes most players would miss. Yeah, that's sort of, I mean, I've been kind of getting back up to speed on both of these guys.
01:24:38
Speaker
i ah I mean, I'm not a Bundesliga head. I haven't watched it a lot in my life. And i had a i had a perception of him as like more of a pure number nine.
01:24:54
Speaker
But he's a lot more than that. He he does have that.
01:25:01
Speaker
But he's also, he's like a 9 and a 10 in the same player, which is kind of always how I ah describe Messi. But it's a little different because i feel like Mueller is, he's built more like a traditional number 9.
01:25:21
Speaker
he's He's like the inverse of Messi. Messi's built like a 10, but has the 9 attributes. Mueller's built like a nine, but has the 10 attributes. I don't know if this is making sense.
01:25:35
Speaker
But he's very he's very ah multifaceted, is the point. So I almost feel like for the Caps, it's about other stuff than just the on-field impact.
01:25:48
Speaker
It's about trying to...
01:25:52
Speaker
generate buzz and generate interest and solidify their they footing in the city and their standing in the city, um which I think is fine.
01:26:08
Speaker
That's something that they got to think about. And if this helps that situation, they need to stay in Vancouver. Moving them from Vancouver would be disgusting. Moving any team is disgusting.
01:26:20
Speaker
What they did with the A's,
01:26:24
Speaker
It's criminal. i This is a tangent. Galaxy Games kicking off right now. I'm going to hang out, watch this with you guys a little bit. Probably not stay on all that much longer. But we can we can watch the ah gals duel for our entertainment for a while.
01:26:43
Speaker
What was I saying about Tommy Mueller? I don't even remember.
01:26:50
Speaker
It's for... It's for their standing in the city and with the fan base and everything as much as anything. And I think that that, that makes sense. And I get why they did it.
01:27:02
Speaker
And I think you could say similar stuff about son as well. Like,
01:27:10
Speaker
there is a ton of like off field and marketing benefits that are, that are going to come with that. He's obviously,
01:27:19
Speaker
i mean, he's definitely the most revered, uh, Asian football player ever. And, I mean, I think the only athlete that you could put above him, unless I'm missing something is, uh, is probably Shohei.
01:27:40
Speaker
But LA obviously has a huge Asian population. So they're goingnna they're going to benefit from that in in that way. And that stuff matters too.
01:27:50
Speaker
Goal Galaxy.
01:27:53
Speaker
Goal, Galaxy.
Galaxy vs. Santos - Match Dynamics and Strategy
01:27:54
Speaker
In the first minute, it's Joey Paints. It's Lobbing Scorcher's favorite, Joey Paints, with the opener in the first minute. Oh, my God. Gabrielle Peck sends it out wide, and Joey Paints redirects the Galaxy score.
01:28:09
Speaker
Oh, my God. And now the Portland Timbys are really on the ropes here.
01:28:15
Speaker
Wow. I was not expecting to have to commentate and broadcast that fast chat.
01:28:24
Speaker
Yo.
01:28:28
Speaker
A first-minute goal. We're cooking now.
01:28:36
Speaker
Wow. What a start. Santos Laguna down incredibly bad once again. getting bammed on by the 2025 LA galaxy in the very first minute of the game. You got Marco Royce out there.
01:28:51
Speaker
Speaking of 35 year old Bundesliga players, he's out there still doing it. He's actually having a good year. Joey paints is in on goal again. oh my God. Are the galaxy about to get to Joey paints? Has it saved? The rebound goes to, uh, that new 22 number nine that they have. Can't remember him and the galaxy blow another golden chance. Yeah.
01:29:17
Speaker
So the result that it would take to knock Portland out here, hold on, i'm go pull up the table and confirm this. But I think the Galaxy were at plus three goal differential, which is the first tiebreaker.
01:29:32
Speaker
If the Galaxy win this, they in Portland will be tied on seven. And ah then the Galaxy would need to score.
01:29:45
Speaker
like if the galaxy score one more goal and it's two, yeah, two goal difference. Exactly. They need to win by two because then they get the goal scored tiebreaker.
01:29:57
Speaker
So folks, we are in a situation right now where basically we're, we're waiting to see if the galaxy can get, get a two goal lead here.
01:30:10
Speaker
And they scored the first in the first minute of the game. So the Portland Timbs are hanging on for life here. yeah I mean, that start has me flying on adrenaline.
01:30:23
Speaker
Wow. How
01:30:28
Speaker
are going to let Joey Paints do that to you in the first minute of the game? you know If anyone listens to our show listen to our show last season, back in the audio only days, we were touting Joey Paints all year.
01:30:44
Speaker
I still will always have an affinity for Joey paints, even though he's pretty bad now. don't know what happened to him. That's a fall off. That should be studied. Cause he was insane last year. I loved watching. I mean, their whole offense last year was honestly so sick.
01:30:57
Speaker
Like they obviously
01:31:02
Speaker
it's an incredible, it's been an incredible fall off this year, but when they had Ricky Pooj, Gabriel Peck, Joey paints and day on the oval itch. who I mean,
01:31:15
Speaker
that was like ah That was a buzzsaw. That was a freight train. And Joey Paints was like a huge part of that. This year, the Galaxy that i've that I've watched, he is like... I mean, I think they got to a situation where it was like the results were getting so far out of hand that they just started to do too much. Are they are both these teams wearing white jerseys?
01:31:40
Speaker
Am I like...
01:31:44
Speaker
Out of my mind, are they both wearing white jerseys?
01:31:50
Speaker
Okay, so Santos has stripes on him. On the back, okay, if you're just looking at the back, it's pretty confusing. That's not good for that's not good for broadcast, though.
01:32:03
Speaker
I can see yeah on the field, I don't think it'll be hard for them to tell apart, but like with this camera angle, it looks like a bunch of guys all wearing the same jersey kind of.
01:32:20
Speaker
Santos have lost 20 straight matches. That can't be, uh, it can't be accurate.
01:32:30
Speaker
Green blending in with the grass. Yeah, exactly. All right. We got, uh, we got Greg Vanny coaching it up. Uh, He's the the owner of an unexpected first-minute lead for the LA Galaxy delivered by Lottwin Scorcher's staple, Joseph Paintsill.
01:32:48
Speaker
Got a switch for Santos Laguna here, but that's headed out of bounds. they'll ah They'll look to find this equalizer, play a little spoiler. ah They are out of the competition after losing to the Seattle Sounders, as we all saw.
01:33:04
Speaker
as we all saw
01:33:11
Speaker
what do you guys What do you guys want to happen here? I was talking about it earlier. What do you guys... You guys want to see the... gap um I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie.
01:33:24
Speaker
The Galaxy... The 2025 LA Galaxy knocking the Timbs out here
01:33:33
Speaker
would be pretty funny. It just means that if Seattle plays the Galaxy, they have to travel.
01:33:44
Speaker
But it's like, i don't know. We're going to find out on Sunday. We're going to find out on Sunday what a ah what a road game against this Galaxy team is going to look like.
01:33:55
Speaker
I will say that ah even in years where the Galaxy have been good, Seattle typically plays pretty well against the Galaxy. that is I think that's a real trend.
01:34:10
Speaker
there's Sometimes there's randomly matchups like that. where even if it's a good team, one team gets the better of it, right? And then there's bogey teams, you know, like Seattle always used to lose to the San Jose Earthquakes, even when they were not good.
01:34:28
Speaker
I think, like, dating back, like, five, six years now, the Galaxy are a team that Seattle usually, for whatever reason, I don't know why, it's like, there's up been a lot of these years where, uh,
01:34:42
Speaker
where the Galaxy have been good, and that's still kind of been the case. All right, and Galaxy on the break again. It's Gabriel Peck this time. yeah He takes a shot that's blocked. He is asking for the handball. He's not going to get it, but that's the third wide-open transition look for the Galaxy in the first 10 minutes of this game.
01:35:03
Speaker
I think they're going to, like, if if the game state stays like this, the Galaxy are going to win this by by multiple goals, and the Timbys are going to be out.
01:35:13
Speaker
I think you got to remember here too, like the, the galaxy are, they have a lot riding on this in the sense that their season's pretty chalked. ah People are saying, cause they've been playing better. They're like, are, are the galaxy going to turn it around? They're going to make a run.
01:35:32
Speaker
i don't think so. I mean, look, um I'll look at the league table right now. Cause people I've, I've heard, I've heard that like posed as a thing in multiple places. And I'm like,
01:35:45
Speaker
i Okay, I don't know why that that and this narrative is even being floated because they are literal, and not just bottom of the West table, bottom of the league table.
01:35:57
Speaker
30 out of 30. 3, 14, and 7. okay, three fourteen and seven so okay they've won three games since... since they're historically bad start, which I mean, don't get me wrong.
01:36:12
Speaker
That's better than zero games. That's what they had won before one three. They had one zero, ah but that's still good for a nice little 0.67 points per game with a little negative 20 goal differential.
01:36:24
Speaker
I like, even if Ricky Pooge comes back, like the hole is just too deep at this point. But the point is
01:36:33
Speaker
they have to, uh, If they want to salvage any semblance of dignity from the kind of disaster of a season they've had, they need to make a Leagues Cup run. What if they what if they won Leagues Cup this year?
01:36:48
Speaker
On the strength of their MLS Cup hosting rights in a year where they've won three league games through match day like 27 or 28 or whatever it is. Stranger things have happened.
01:37:06
Speaker
Their league form going back to June, i i mean, yeah, half decent is how I would describe it better than it was. I definitely think that that is true, but that has them dead last on the league table.
01:37:26
Speaker
This team, I mean, oh, Marco Reus, pretty clean look in the box. another and That's another decent chance for the Galaxy. The old man puts it a little high. Get the replay here.
01:37:40
Speaker
yeah got this number 19 guy, fullback, putting it in from ah from out wide. Royce skies that.
01:37:50
Speaker
if we're taught If we're taking home field advantage out of it,
01:37:57
Speaker
like as not part of the consideration, I would 100 times out of 100 take a matchup with this Galaxy team over a matchup of any and iteration of the Timbys.
01:38:14
Speaker
This Galaxy team, it's it's kind of like, remember when Seattle played Atlanta a couple weeks ago? And I was telling you guys, I was telling you guys,
01:38:28
Speaker
They might score first, but don't worry about it. It's the Chicago Fire theorem.
01:38:38
Speaker
A mentally weak team will crack eventually. They might score first, but you just have to keep coming at them, and they will get in their own heads, and they will crack.
01:38:55
Speaker
That's what happened in the Atlanta game. They scored first,
01:39:01
Speaker
but it didn't matter because eventually you know they're going to make a mistake.
01:39:10
Speaker
They're not going to be able – they can't hold leads. This Galaxy team is very similar to this to this year's Atlanta team in that way.
01:39:23
Speaker
And I mean, we'll see like this game this Sunday, both these teams have been putting it in in leagues cup. So that might affect the dynamics on,
01:39:36
Speaker
but the biggest problem, like the biggest problem is galaxy team has is stuff like that.
01:39:43
Speaker
Blowing leads, mental mistakes, lack of lack of fortitude, right?
01:39:53
Speaker
That stuff that with how Seattle is firing an attack right now, any team with that with that kind of quality, with those kind of qualities, I'd be kind of kind of talking myself into
01:40:12
Speaker
wanting the Galaxy to win this.
01:40:21
Speaker
even on Even on the road, I think that's a very favorable matchup for Seattle with the form that they're in.
01:40:33
Speaker
It's not a Chivas shirt, but it could be.
01:40:47
Speaker
hate the galaxy as much as the Timbs because I hold a grudge from 29 to 2012 when they kept knocking us out of the playoffs. I mean, that went all the way to 2014, but that was just, yeah. I mean, that was a different time.
01:41:01
Speaker
Those were the Landon Donovan, Robbie Keene years, Janino.
01:41:10
Speaker
I mean, even last year was a different time as it pertains to the, to the galaxy. Yeah. They had another chance while I was going on that tangent right there, too. they i mean They're absolutely all over Santos right now. This is one-way traffic.
01:41:27
Speaker
Santos, if they don't change this game state, they are going to get bammed on at least a couple more times. It's just a matter of time. Uh, maybe they get one against the run of play here. We'll see. They send a cross in right now. It's right at the goalkeeper. Uh, now the galaxy are going to try and get off and running again.
01:41:44
Speaker
Great district distribution from, uh, whoever their goalkeeper is Jabril Peck going in again. Let's That's a slide tackle out for a corner, uh,
01:41:56
Speaker
Galaxy are having a field day out wide right now. Gabriel Peck, that's his second or third wide open counter down the right side.
01:42:08
Speaker
The service from joey paint for the Joey Paints goal came in from the right side. Galaxy have a corner kick right now. I mean,
01:42:18
Speaker
16th minute, a lot of time for it to change, but... This is not looking good for our friends at Santos Laguna. They are getting absolutely lambasted right now by the 2025 LA Galaxy. This should already be at least 2-0 based on the game stage and the chances.
01:42:35
Speaker
Now they don't close out the fullback again. He sends in a cross. That's cleared out, but recycled out to Royce. He sends in a cross. Oh, my God.
01:42:46
Speaker
Royce, Marco Royce just sent in a perfect cross to, I believe that was Garces. He's unfortunately pretty bad, so he doesn't get anywhere close to ah getting that one on target. But another, another big time chance. Oh, okay. That might not have been Garces' fault.
01:43:02
Speaker
I retract. think the defender might have gotten to that.
01:43:09
Speaker
I mean, folks, this is feeling like a matter of time. I think the Timbs are going to be out of this.
01:43:18
Speaker
You're right, sick and wiggle.
01:43:21
Speaker
they they ah They did knock Seattle out last year, but ah i don't think there's – and that's that's a fair counterpoint to what I was saying too about Seattle typically playing well. I guess what I was saying kind of applies to the regular season. I don't know. It's just a vibe. like When I go into the Galaxy games when Seattle's playing the Galaxy, I'm never really tripping.
01:43:48
Speaker
Whereas when they're playing Portland, it's always like, oh, God.
01:43:53
Speaker
Going to have to deal with a bunch of godforsaken maniacs playing like their careers and lives as they know it are fully on the line based on the result of the game.
Seattle and Portland Timbers Rivalry
01:44:06
Speaker
It's how Seattle should be playing those games, too, to be clear. Like, that was the whole issue for years is they were playing it like that. Every Derby, they were playing it like that, and Seattle just wasn't.
01:44:16
Speaker
I rationalize that by the ah
01:44:21
Speaker
pointing out that the Timbers Derby while very important and some of the biggest games of the year, are not the biggest game that Seattle plays in necessarily in a given year.
01:44:37
Speaker
But that's probably Cope. I think it is still a dynamic where
01:44:44
Speaker
The Timbs, you know they're going to come into those games like that. and Seattle has done a better job the last few times they've played of matching that intensity, but I just don't really like having to deal with that.
01:45:03
Speaker
Portland has some good players, guys like Evander and Santi Moreno. Exactly. You've got to fear Santi Moreno every time he's out there.
01:45:12
Speaker
Great player for them.
01:45:16
Speaker
Shit is crazy, man. He ran away.
01:45:24
Speaker
All right, we got a scheduling update from Azurata here. Thanks for this.
Seattle's Path in the League's Cup
01:45:30
Speaker
Looks like we're playing Puebla in the quarterfinal. That is, as I understand it, that is what's going down.
01:45:36
Speaker
Currently, Orlando would play Pachuca. That's a tougher matchup.
01:45:44
Speaker
MLS four would meet in the final. That's would be the galaxy. If they win this or the Timbs, if they go through, right.
01:45:56
Speaker
Currently Orlando would play Pachuca and the other quarterfinal that plays ours in the semi MLS four would meet us in the final.
01:46:06
Speaker
So.
01:46:10
Speaker
does that mean Seattle, if the galaxy win this in Seattle, say Seattle goes to the final.
01:46:17
Speaker
like
01:46:20
Speaker
I don't know. um I'm going to have deep dive into the full implications.
01:46:30
Speaker
i I would obviously ideally prefer it if Seattle hosts the final. Yeah.
01:46:37
Speaker
I'm not clear on how that ah
01:46:43
Speaker
gets determined, obviously.
01:46:47
Speaker
I feel like how you played in phase one should play into that. I don't know if it will. seems like they have other ways of determining stuff. But I think if you go three oh and o with a plus nine in phase one,
01:46:59
Speaker
And are the only, oh my God, Joey Paints is in again. Joey Paints is in again. Can he make it two? Oh my God, Joey Paints just sold. Joey Paints just sold. He had a wide open net for the chip and he somehow puts it wide.
01:47:11
Speaker
ah Another, the XG for the LA Galaxy must be absolutely crazy right now. It's Nossimento, the U22 number nine, whose name I forgot earlier. Joey Paints, how what? Oh my goodness.
01:47:24
Speaker
He just mishits that. It's a wide open net.
01:47:30
Speaker
That's the Joey paints of 2025 that we've come to know and love. He got his goal. Now he's back.
01:47:42
Speaker
I don't know how he missed that.
01:47:45
Speaker
This is folks. We are in the 22nd minute and this really should be like three or four to zero. The galaxy are doing right now what the sounders have done the last couple of games and XG merchanting and,
01:47:59
Speaker
generating insanely high leverage chances that they're just not finishing the the apple xg which i never uh uh know what to make of their formula but uh they just showed it on the screen they currently have l la already at over 2xg 20 minutes into the game and santos laguna at 0.12 mean this is one-way traffic this is the type of this is the type of game state that ah
01:48:26
Speaker
Like when it's this one sided, you just have a very long way to go to to even it out unless you get to halftime and you can make some adjustments. But right now Santos is under it and it doesn't really it's not looking like they are getting out of this anytime soon, although they do have a chance here, a chance in the box. Oh, my goodness.
01:48:47
Speaker
That was actually a good look for them.
01:48:51
Speaker
It's a great block by Maya Yoshida. Otherwise, that actually that could have been the equalizer as I was talking about it. You can have these goals against the run of play. it does happen. That's why these missed chances by Joey Paints and the gang could prove consequential.
01:49:11
Speaker
Corner kick for Santos Laguna coming in right now. That's right at the goalkeeper.
01:49:18
Speaker
And now the Galaxy
01:49:22
Speaker
put it back in play and they are looking, looking for that second goal that could put them in position to advance and knock the Portland Timbies out of league's cup.
01:49:33
Speaker
Gabriel pack isolated again out wide. He's taking on his defender. He back heals it to the, Oh my goodness.
01:49:42
Speaker
Another pretty good look. Who is this? Who is this? This right back. He's having a hell of a game. Who's 19 on the galaxy.
01:49:53
Speaker
Great little like back heel setup here from Gabriel Peck. Oh my God. They're toying with him.
01:50:02
Speaker
The Santos defenders are starting to crash out. Who is this right back? I'm look this up. Yeah, that was almost a carbon copy.
01:50:19
Speaker
Cuevas, okay.
01:50:22
Speaker
think he's a U22. or is he homegrown?
01:50:29
Speaker
I don't know. But he is he is balling out right now.
01:50:36
Speaker
Santos again. They're okay. They're starting to ah come into the game a little more, it seems like. They've had some possession in the final third. couple of good chances. And they just absolutely...
01:50:53
Speaker
Kicked Cuevas right in the head with a bicycle kick attempt. He's going to get a yellow card for that. That's one of those ones where.
01:51:06
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:51:11
Speaker
i mean. That could be a red card.
01:51:18
Speaker
He escapes with the yellow. I do feel like ah you typically do see that given as ah as a yellow, not a red. No issues with that necessarily. That was a pretty ill-advised bicycle attempt.
01:51:37
Speaker
Quayles is up. Looks like he's going to carry on, which he's been one of one of the Galaxy's best players in this first half. Yeah.
01:51:49
Speaker
We'll see if he can keep it cooking after getting kicked in the head.
01:52:00
Speaker
We're showing the replay one more time. Let's take a look at this. Maybe VAR is...
01:52:06
Speaker
Did they give a red on that earlier in the tournament? Okay, are they checking for red? Oh my God, please send them off. Please. I think I'm there like rooting for Galaxy at this point.
01:52:19
Speaker
I understand the hosting rights thing.
Galaxy's Performance Against Santos
01:52:24
Speaker
But I think talking it through tonight, I'll take a matchup with them on the road.
01:52:33
Speaker
It's kind of nice, I guess, that they get to test run it this weekend, right?
01:52:39
Speaker
All right, no red card. It'll stay 11 on 11. That would have been too good to be true, content-wise, irrespective of... a of who you want to win or lose here.
01:52:55
Speaker
Slow down a little bit.
01:52:58
Speaker
The Galaxy need to, uh, I think if I were them right now, i would really just, uh, keep trying to hammer them in transition as much much as possible. Just keep spam that right side, play long balls over the top to Gabrielle Peck or through balls.
01:53:16
Speaker
And, uh, and cuevas stick with what's working don't let santos into this
01:53:30
Speaker
i would say overall in the last five minutes or so santos has calmed it down a little bit but I mean, there was a period of this half where it felt like they were giving up chances every single time. And now Gabriel Peck is off and running again, back out to Cuevas again. They're taking my advice. I should be a coach.
01:53:48
Speaker
Cuevas with another cross. Oh my God, Gabriel Peck sold now.
01:53:53
Speaker
Another wide open look that he just doesn't connect with.
01:53:59
Speaker
Cuevas apparently is the best right back in MLS. This guy's absolutely torching them. They are looking good. But i don't know how much of this is them being good and Santos being – Santos is bad.
01:54:14
Speaker
The fact that Seattle only beat this team 2-1, like, i don't really I don't really care. Like, it's tournament footy. You take whatever win. But it, like, bothers me a little bit that they only beat this team 2-1.
01:54:33
Speaker
This is also a good point. the gal The Galaxy are going to... They're emptying the tank right now. Like, are they going to be able to start Peck, Joey Paints,
01:54:48
Speaker
Fagundes, all their guys? Marco Reus? Is 42-year-old Marco Reus
01:54:56
Speaker
about to empty the tank in a League's Cup game? and then go a full effective 90 against Seattle. I think they're going to have to rotate a little bit, which ah honestly,
01:55:16
Speaker
I was, i don't know about skeptical, but there the 11 that Schmetz rolled out last night, it's like, this is risky, man.
01:55:30
Speaker
Like you got to take a result in this game. It's a must. It's not a must win, but it's a must result. It's a must at least draw.
01:55:39
Speaker
I thought they were going to throw the, uh, throw the strongest, the absolute like first choice 11 out there. I thought De La Vega was going to be out there. I thought Moose was going to be out there.
01:55:52
Speaker
Uh, but now that he did put the rotated lineup out there and they still won the game,
01:56:01
Speaker
They could end up with a little bit of an edge in this game this weekend against the Galaxy
01:56:07
Speaker
in having rested some people. I mean, the double pivot obviously never gets any rest. But the wingers and the striker and the fullbacks got some rest.
01:56:23
Speaker
Yeah, I think stick and wiggle has it right right here.
01:56:28
Speaker
Don't really care if the Galaxy win or lose, but I want them chasing that second goal for another 60-plus minute. Yeah, tire him out. Tire him out. Gabriel Peck is already...
01:56:41
Speaker
ran a lot in this game. Corner kick for Santos. 31st minute. Terrible delivery right into the side netting. That'll be a goal kick.
01:56:54
Speaker
Not the...
01:56:57
Speaker
not the ideal set piece for them, but we'll get it back started with the Galaxy goal kick and we're back underway at Dignity Health Sports Park.
01:57:08
Speaker
Half hour gone. The LA Galaxy with a 1-0 lead on a first minute goal from Joey Paints. They need one more to give themselves the margin that they would need to knock the Portland Timbys out. Enthralling stuff, folks. I mean, it's going to be absolute scenes.
01:57:28
Speaker
Joey paints now sprung on the break again. Santos just can't stop the galaxy from getting out on the counter. He's going to play the switch to Peck who takes it down, picks his head up. He's looking for his options now.
01:57:41
Speaker
Doesn't find any back to Fagundes.
01:57:47
Speaker
Oh my goodness. Another, another big chance for the galaxy. Gabriel Peck again.
01:57:57
Speaker
Fagundes loops one over the top. It's not cleared by Santos. Marco Reus sets up Gabriel Peck, but he can't quite put that on target. I mean, mark up some more XG.
01:58:12
Speaker
Are they about to set like an XG record?
01:58:17
Speaker
and
01:58:20
Speaker
Good question from Rhombus. Who are we going to see in place of Rusnak? And does Osaze deserve another start over the Musaya? As far as how I think they're going to run it without Rusnak, what I think they should do and what they will do is run Ferreira in that spot.
01:58:39
Speaker
I know there's like dis been discourse about whether, oh my goodness, that is a penalty kick. No way. No way.
01:58:51
Speaker
Cuevas, the best right back in MLS.
01:58:57
Speaker
Just got cleaned out in the box. He got finger-wagged by the rest. Let's see the replay. That's actually a good tackle. That was a good tackle.
01:59:06
Speaker
Good sportsmanship from Cuevas. Not trying to argue it. That'll be a corner kick for the Galaxy. We'll watch them take this, and then then I'll get back to your question, Rhombus.
01:59:22
Speaker
they are They are XG Merchanting tough right now.
01:59:29
Speaker
This is crazy. I don't know how they don't have like at least three.
01:59:37
Speaker
Santos did chill it out for like a little bit there, but this has still been about as one-sided a half as it gets. I think l a you really You really got to get this second while the game state is so skewed in your in your favor. You don't know if it's going to stay like this into the second half as you get a little more tired.
01:59:54
Speaker
So it's been a long time now of XG Merchanting without capitalizing. And if you let a team like this hang around, you're always susceptible to that against the run of play equalizer or just them.
02:00:07
Speaker
getting you for one after you've tired out and can't run at them like this anymore. So getting the second goal of paramount importance for for the Galaxy, both for both for the game, but also for them getting the margin that they need to advance, get the Timbys out of there.
02:00:32
Speaker
yeah this is ah This is as one-sided as the Seattle versus Cruises will have, but imagine if they just didn't score any of the any of the goals. they were just They had all the same chances, but they just didn't score. That's what this feels like.
02:00:46
Speaker
ah I think they're going to run Ferreira as the first choice 10 in and place of Rusnak with Danny Leyva as the as the ah alternative option or the...
02:01:01
Speaker
substitute option. ah The the um other thing I could think of is maybe ah maybe giving De La Vega a little look there. I mean, he wears the 10.
02:01:13
Speaker
the The reason I, the only reason that I
02:01:20
Speaker
thought of that just with how good he's looked out wide is that through ball he played to Obed on the one where the Tijuana guy got the red card last night. that was like and and That was a number two that was the Albert Rusnak-style three ball.
02:01:35
Speaker
That was clean.
02:01:38
Speaker
De La Vega is just so so far in the zone right now. I feel like you could put him in there. It could do well, but I think i think it'll be Ferreira.
02:01:50
Speaker
I think it's more important to keep De La Vega in the position where he's been hot than Ferreira. Ferreira's positioning, I think I'm getting to the point where the discourse around it, I'm like, how much does this... mean much does this really matter?
02:02:05
Speaker
Like where his, he kind of floats around. He sort of just plays every position.
02:02:17
Speaker
There's portions of the game when he's listed out wide where he's kind of playing like a 10 and he's been doing it pretty well.
02:02:30
Speaker
ah This is ah this is and another interesting part of the question, though. Does Osaze deserve another start over the Musaya?
02:02:40
Speaker
that's That's a difficult question right now. We've got a dangerous free kick from Santos that I'm going let them take and talk about that a little more.
02:02:54
Speaker
Oh my goodness, he puts it off the wall. If they're going to get back in this game, moments like that are the way to do it. Santos called for for a foul now. That's going to go the other way. Joey Paints is grabbing his ear.
02:03:07
Speaker
Santos player is now down.
02:03:12
Speaker
He appears to be faking an injury despite his team losing the game. Interesting strategy there. yeah i mean, he's writhing. Maybe he's actually hurt.
02:03:25
Speaker
He got called for the foul, so that's a tough scene for him if he is hurt. Here's my take on this this question about Osaze and Moose.
02:03:37
Speaker
I think Moose is still the first choice option. If I was making my first choice starting 11 today as it stands without Jordan Morris, think i put I think I put Moose in.
02:03:52
Speaker
um I think it's significant, like we were talking about earlier, that Osaze
02:04:00
Speaker
got the start last night. think that's like a big sign that Schmitz trusts him.
02:04:09
Speaker
But, mean, Moose also scored last night. And, I mean, Moose has 10 goals all comps. He's at double digits now.
02:04:25
Speaker
A lot of people don't... Like, man, I still see people... i still see people who, like, use Moose as, like, a meme.
02:04:37
Speaker
Like... Seattle Sounders
02:04:44
Speaker
not signing a U22 number nine when their striker is Danny Mussovsky.
02:04:52
Speaker
Danny Mussovsky is your number nine? Yeah. Yeah, he is. He has 10 goals all comps.
02:05:04
Speaker
You know how many goals a manual $22 million dollars latte loth has this year? I don't even know. But it's not 10.
02:05:17
Speaker
I don't even know if it's particularly close to 10.
02:05:26
Speaker
So,
02:05:29
Speaker
and we have a galaxy goal. Galaxy goal. There it is. It's Nassimento with the finish. It was, I mean, it was bound to happen.
02:05:41
Speaker
like I can't believe it hadn't happened already.
02:05:46
Speaker
That is a galaxy goal. Oh my goodness, folks. Let's watch this replay. I didn't even see it. It's my guy. Cuevas again with the delivery. Nascimento slides in. Easy finish.
02:05:59
Speaker
Close range. Let's see this replay again. Yeah, that's his goal. That is not an own goal.
02:06:05
Speaker
Dude, Cuevas.
02:06:08
Speaker
Cuevas available for trade? Goddamn. I actually don't want him. i i like give me Give me Alex Roldan and KKR. But he's having... yeah I mean, that kid is absolutely murking Santos.
02:06:24
Speaker
Literally all the Galaxy are doing is just spamming Quavos and Gabriel Peck down that side and going... and
02:06:37
Speaker
stop stop us from doing this or we're just going to keep doing it. And they're not stopping them from doing it.
02:06:47
Speaker
Apparently the Santos coach got a yellow card. Not sure what he's on about there. His team just got absolutely bammed on. And they're, I mean, they are getting freaking worked right now, man.
02:07:00
Speaker
I would not want to be out there anymore if I were them. this should be This should be at least 3 or four zero like yeah this could This could have been very feasibly one of those crazy halves like Seattle had against Chris Azul or like Orlando had against Nekoxa yesterday or like a couple of other teams that put on these Liga Mechies teams.
02:07:26
Speaker
This should be even more crooked.
02:07:30
Speaker
Now let's see, folks, if they can get a third.
02:07:38
Speaker
But as it stands, unless I'm missing something, unless I'm missing something,
02:07:45
Speaker
correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong. This would have the Timbys out and the Galaxy through. And you know what, guys? I'm i'm there. i'm i'm I'm rooting for that outcome despite the hosting rights thing.
02:08:02
Speaker
First of all, the Timbs crashing out in addition to their, uh, their little Santi Moreno saga. That'd be funny. That'd be funny. But I guess I think it's this simple.
02:08:15
Speaker
Maybe the galaxy, our leagues cup God mode, but I don't think so. I think this is a product right now. What we're watching right now. I think this is a product of, uh,
02:08:26
Speaker
very not good and tired opposition more than it is about the galaxy going leagues cup God mode. And they're just, they're worse team than the Timmy's. I'm telling you, I know they look like real Madrid right now.
02:08:40
Speaker
This galaxy team,
02:08:45
Speaker
if they're, if they're going up against a good team, they have shown time and again this year, they're mentally weak and they will crack.
02:08:56
Speaker
If they have a lead, they will blow it if you just keep coming at them.
02:09:06
Speaker
The Santos team is clearly in no position to take advantage of that.
02:09:13
Speaker
But with the form Seattle's been in, know, it's not guaranteed. It's not guaranteed. But if we're just talking about what matchups we feel the best about,
02:09:28
Speaker
I think it would be against this, this iteration of the galaxy. And, you know, that's going to get put to the test to an extent this weekend. I think, you know, the lineups, we'll see what kind of lineup they put out there. And, you know, don't get me wrong.
02:09:46
Speaker
They've got some dangerous players. Gabriel Peck, clearly. I mean, you can see it in this game. Very talented.
02:09:54
Speaker
Marco Reus is like one of the only guys on their team having a pretty good year.
02:10:02
Speaker
But they're weak defensively and in and in midfield for a team that just set its club record for the most goals ever scored in a seven-game span like Seattle just did. and
02:10:23
Speaker
Feels like... feels like the matchup you want on paper to me. I don't know
02:10:31
Speaker
how much money to watch along the whole match. yeah If you guys, if you guys fire up some supers, I'll do that. I was going to get off at, uh, halftime, but I guess I can be bribed.
02:10:45
Speaker
I am going to be watching it, but I was not planning on streaming the whole thing.
02:10:52
Speaker
But if there's, uh,
02:10:55
Speaker
If there's demand for it, I'll do it. That's the sacrifices I make for the content.
02:11:11
Speaker
Coming up on halftime here.
02:11:15
Speaker
two zero Galaxy.
02:11:19
Speaker
All right, all right.
02:11:25
Speaker
I will watch along this entire godforsaken game. I'm glad you guys are enjoying it. Wasn't sure how much how much shelf life.
02:11:40
Speaker
Watch-alonging LA Galaxy versus Santos Laguna. League's Cup Phase 1 was going to have, but if you guys are having fun, hanging out, watching the game, I'm down. Let's do it.
02:11:55
Speaker
We might have a red card here. Looks like that guy just put studs in the back of Maya Yoshida's leg.
02:12:07
Speaker
Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Is that a second yellow? that Oh my goodness, chat. Santos Laguna has just had a man get sent off.
02:12:21
Speaker
Andrew coming in with the $20 bribery. Thank you, man. You know honestly, you guys don't have to super it. ah You can. I'm not going to tell you not to.
02:12:34
Speaker
But the bribery thing was was mostly a joke. But I appreciate you, man. Go Sounders.
02:12:43
Speaker
Absolute scenes at a Dignity Health Sports Park.
02:12:49
Speaker
Santos Laguna. This is what I mean when I'm... when i'm
02:12:54
Speaker
when I was talking about how like a little tilted Seattle, this is what Seattle should have done to this team, dude. They're so bad. They were, ah they were about to do that to this team. I think in the last 15 minutes there until Georgie got sent off for,
02:13:15
Speaker
for the Christ yellow or for the, yeah, for the Christ yellow second yellow. Yeah. Because, i mean, Seattle was ex-G merchant in that game. Should have been up by more than the one goal. Finally, Georgie comes through with the banger.
02:13:30
Speaker
Then he gets sent off.
02:13:34
Speaker
For, you know...
02:13:38
Speaker
Just... yeah
02:13:42
Speaker
the myriad of ways this team Seattle has, uh, found to get sent off, get guys ejected this year.
02:13:54
Speaker
Like, I didn't think I would see a red card with more novelty to it than, uh, than knew who throwing a ball into the stands and flipping off the ref, demonstrating to the ref, what the fan did to him by flipping him off.
02:14:13
Speaker
Georgie was just trying to credit Christ for the role that he played
02:14:24
Speaker
in Georgie scoring that goal.
02:14:30
Speaker
I wouldn't have thought that you'd get sent off for that.
02:14:43
Speaker
Mason, thank you for the $5. Appreciate you, man. Some of us are relegated to watching the reflection behind you. Yeah. A lot of people don't like the ah reflection.
02:14:58
Speaker
i'll ah I'll change the setup someday. It's just I'm lazy. And when no those actually aren't my jerseys, those are Noah's jerseys, but he gave them to me to for the, for the set and we did not take into account or he loved, he loaned them to me. We'll take them back at some point, but we did not take that into account when we hung it up.
02:15:22
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So that is sort of, I think I look at it a sort of like something that ah distinguishes my, ah my streaming setup. You get to see,
02:15:34
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Two versions of it.
02:15:38
Speaker
All right. Third minute of fourth minute now. First half stoppage time. Santos Laguna playing down a man.
02:15:49
Speaker
i mean, they've absolutely chalked themselves. And I mean, honestly, folks, that red card. That might be it for the Portland Timbs.
02:16:02
Speaker
And we have a third goal, but Maya Yoshida. Oh my God. He's not offside.
02:16:12
Speaker
He is not offside. I thought that was going to get waved off. I'm watching it on mute. So I thought from his reaction that meant that ah he looked he didn't look like super hyped at first. So I thought ah thought that the flag went up, but it did not.
02:16:26
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That is a third Galaxy goal off a corner kick here. Short corner Royce to Fugundes. Joey Paints puts the initial ball on target. Goalkeeper spills it. Maya Yoshida, Johnny on the spot, looking like a classic number nine.
02:16:41
Speaker
Easy rebound finish. That is a third goal. That is a third goal for the LA Galaxy. And
02:16:53
Speaker
I think that's it, man.
02:16:58
Speaker
Why does Yoshida looks like pissed?
02:17:06
Speaker
That is a good goal. No offside call. Ball back in play. 3-0 Galaxy. And that is halftime. Wow. So just to size it up here.
02:17:23
Speaker
The Galaxy needed to win by two goals to advance. and And knock the Timbs out of here.
02:17:32
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and they put a three spot on Santos in the ah in the first half. ah get it Oh, my God. Now we have got a coach red card. We have got a coach red card. The Santos Laguna coach is crashing out at the referee, and he has been shown a red card.
02:17:55
Speaker
i don't know if i'm I don't know if that's the head coach or just an assistant maybe.
02:18:03
Speaker
Someone from the Santos ah coaching staff has been sent off. Give us the replay, please.
02:18:11
Speaker
They are not giving us the replay. They have cut to commercial.
02:18:16
Speaker
i need to look up if that was the head coach. I'm going to Google images this really quick because that would be hella funny. I don't know what he is crashing out about.
02:18:31
Speaker
His team got absolutely
02:18:36
Speaker
slammed by the 2025 LA Galaxy. That was not even like... You could ah you could have Santos playing with 12 guys.
02:18:47
Speaker
wouldn't have helped him. They got rolled. They should be down five or six goals right now. like I don't think that's an exaggeration.
02:19:01
Speaker
i I don't think this guy, I don't think that guy who got the red was the head coach. It doesn't look like him, but maybe he grew his hair out.
02:19:14
Speaker
I'm going to, going to try and please let it be the head coach.
02:19:23
Speaker
Okay. I don't think that was him. That's not him. Or actually I remember I, I watched his presser. That was the long haired guy who got the red is not the head coach. Must be like an assistant. Still funny, but not as sick as it would have been with the head coach.
02:19:39
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Stick and wiggle. Thank you for the $5. Appreciate you guys coming in with the supers.
02:19:47
Speaker
Appreciate the support.
02:19:53
Speaker
Glad you guys are having fun watching watching phase one leagues cup. That's some sicko stuff.
02:20:08
Speaker
to To me, it looked like he gave the red card to the guy with the long hair. that guy That guy was ready to scrap. He was doing one of those things where he was coming at the ref and like getting held back.
02:20:25
Speaker
But he was pissed.
02:20:30
Speaker
Azarata, thank you for Santos crashing out hard. I mean, this has been some good crash out content.
02:20:39
Speaker
I think Club Tijuana's crash out last night was was underrated. i didn't fully appreciate it enough in the moment.
02:20:50
Speaker
All right. All right. Okay. We got the, we got the, oh, oh
02:20:59
Speaker
who got this red? They're replaying it right now. That is the head coach. That is the head coach who was yelling at him right there. But I can't, I couldn't tell if that's who got the ah red, the guy with the short hair who was yelling before that, that's the head coach, this long haired guy i thought was who got the red.
02:21:17
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If anyone's watching with audio,
02:21:24
Speaker
I guess you do want the head coach in the second half. Yeah.
02:21:30
Speaker
But like what's what's the point of contention? Is it the guy that got sent off correctly for his second yellow? Is that what he's mad about?
02:21:43
Speaker
Any like notion that the refereeing has anything at all to do with the situation that Santos Laguna is in right now is ah silly to say the least.
02:21:54
Speaker
Yeah.
02:21:57
Speaker
Buddy, your issue is that the boys just got absolutely waxed by one of the, by the literal worst team in Major League Soccer right now, like record-wise.
02:22:10
Speaker
You made the 2025 LA Galaxy look like Real Madrid if you crossed them with 2012 Barcelona.
02:22:21
Speaker
Added a dash
02:22:24
Speaker
of... ah
02:22:28
Speaker
Manchester United circa early 2000s. That's what the
02:22:36
Speaker
what the LA Galaxy just looked like against Santos Laguna in that half.
02:22:44
Speaker
Based on this score, we'll meet LA Galaxy in the semis if they make it through the quarters, I'm assuming. Does anyone know who the Galaxy play? they i mean, they're going through at this point.
02:22:57
Speaker
RIP Timbs.
02:23:00
Speaker
RIP Timbs. Shout out to the Portland Timbs Leagues Cup 2025 run. It was actually ah un ironically pretty good Leagues Cup run. They're kind of in that that situation where how hard it is to advance did them in.
02:23:20
Speaker
In like a tournament with like a normal 4.36
02:23:25
Speaker
four point three six x g
02:23:31
Speaker
In one half is what Apple has them at. To me, Apple's model seems pretty inflated. a lot of the time they have XG numbers where I'm like, why is that 2.5 goals higher than every other model?
02:23:49
Speaker
But that felt like 4.36. I think it could have been higher.
02:23:59
Speaker
They're down to nine. It was, so it was a player, not a coach. No shot. All
02:24:11
Speaker
right. Now the coach has to get ejected. He's got to come up with some reason.
02:24:19
Speaker
What did the, what did the, ah what did the second guy get ejected for? it Was it descent? I didn't see like a foul.
02:24:32
Speaker
Santos right. went What did he do?
02:24:37
Speaker
Was he crashing out at the ref?
02:24:42
Speaker
Oh, my God.
02:24:47
Speaker
Liga Mequis is down kind of bad, man. I don't even I don't think this tournament how it goes is representative of like.
02:24:58
Speaker
and MLS's or League MQ's quality necessarily like one way or the other.
02:25:05
Speaker
But I gotta say, gotta say, okay, I'm just saying.
Critique of Team Rankings and Media Bias
02:25:11
Speaker
For league that, and it's not even like the league itself, but for league that gets put on a pedestal
02:25:21
Speaker
by by its fans, by its media, by ah by people in the U.S., frankly.
02:25:29
Speaker
this is these have been some There's been some rough performances in there. Their best team lost 7-0 to zero the Seattle Sounders. That's the best team they have in this tournament.
02:25:42
Speaker
I hope everyone understands that. like
02:25:48
Speaker
Cruz Azul was literally like a few hours before they played Seattle. Some publication, I can't remember what, came out with some like
02:26:01
Speaker
formula that they had calculated that Cruz Azul was the best team in the world that's not based in Europe.
02:26:12
Speaker
that I didn't say that.
02:26:16
Speaker
Someone else said that. Let's see if I can find that.
02:26:21
Speaker
It was going around, and I did see it. Let's see if we can take a look at this.
02:26:37
Speaker
Oh, it was Opta.
02:26:43
Speaker
Let's take a look at this list. Let's take a look at this little list. This is a funny list, guys. Check this out.
02:26:55
Speaker
This is the Opta list.
02:27:02
Speaker
Sorry, I'm trying to get it to zoom in. won't let me.
02:27:08
Speaker
It won't let me, hold on, I'm going to try and find, I'm going to try and find like the actual article.
02:27:27
Speaker
Where, where is this?
02:27:44
Speaker
All right. I guess I'm going to have to go back to the Reddit list. They have the list. I just am not.
02:27:55
Speaker
ah Okay, wait, i'm going to try one more thing. I'm going to one more thing.
02:28:04
Speaker
They got, uh,
02:28:08
Speaker
they've, Opta's power ranked, uh,
02:28:15
Speaker
Every team in the world.
02:28:20
Speaker
All right. Cowards. Can't find their article, but I'll pull up. I'll reshare the the Reddit list. And if you guys can't see that, I'll read it to you.
02:28:31
Speaker
Opta had Cruz Azul, number one. Number one best team outside of Europe.
02:28:39
Speaker
Number one. It's not even like they were in the top, like, five or ten.
02:28:47
Speaker
They had him in number one. You got Flamengo. You got River Plate, Toluca, Palmeiras. These are clubs, I guess, that I would expect.
02:29:00
Speaker
Inter-Miami at 12. You got Inter-Miami, Columbus Crew, and Philly Union, 12, 13, 14. Interesting. no ah No Seattle Sounders to be found. Toluca at four. Yeah, that's correct.
02:29:18
Speaker
they got to They got the Columbus crew and the Philly Union in there,
02:29:28
Speaker
which, okay.
02:29:36
Speaker
Open to interpretation, I guess.
02:29:42
Speaker
The Columbus crew and the Philly Union are pretty good. Are they... they the 12th and 13th best clubs globally outside of Europe?
02:29:52
Speaker
I don't know if I would... ah At least, you know, I get why Inter-Miami would be up there because of Messi and the Barca boys. don't know if put... Columbus and Philly are hella good, but... I think we can... God bless Opta. I do use their XG.
02:30:10
Speaker
Whatever formula they use to calculate that list, they might want to readjust that. It is deeply funny that they put that out and then Seattle beat that team 7-0. It made it even better.
02:30:24
Speaker
made it It made it even better.
02:30:31
Speaker
But I think the original point I was making is it's like,
02:30:36
Speaker
If we're talking about how Liga Meckis has performed in this tournament overall. Like, dude, okay, who what's the what's the consensus best team in MLS? I guess there's not really a consensus best team in MLS right now.
02:30:48
Speaker
Philly's leading the shield race. But, like, you got your Columbuses, your Cincy's.
02:30:57
Speaker
You got your LAFC still gets talked about in that vein. I'm not saying Seattle because, like, people don't People don't talk about Seattle like that. They probably are now because of how well they played in League's Cup.
02:31:11
Speaker
But ah the national narrative, people like to people like to downplay Seattle nationally because I think my theory is it's like
02:31:22
Speaker
you were the new is people like the new thing. Seattle's been around for a minute.
02:31:29
Speaker
And when i when I say downplayed nationally, I just mean in terms of, like, when people are talking about the best teams in the league, Seattle's name still comes up.
02:31:40
Speaker
But, like, people are not going to say Seattle, like, off rip. They're going to say Miami, Columbus, Cincy.
02:31:53
Speaker
LAFC is below Seattle on the table right now, and people would still say LAFC before they said Seattle.
02:32:09
Speaker
Current rankings of Liga, Mekis, and MLS. Is this Opta? Toluca, Miami, Columbus, Azul, Orlando, Philly.
02:32:20
Speaker
Sounders 7, LAFC 8, Cincy, Club America. Current Opta rankings. Yeah, I don't know how much I trust Opta right now after their Cruz Azul take.
02:32:36
Speaker
I'm just saying, if i dished if I got on this show and dished the take that Cruz Azul is the best, number one best tea non-European team,
02:32:51
Speaker
And then they got waxed 7-0 by an MLS team. I would take heat for that. Deservedly.
02:33:01
Speaker
The East Coast thing is real. um It is. I mean, think about it for them. It's 1 o'clock in the morning for them right now.
02:33:13
Speaker
They're not watching this. The people i work people I work with on the and MLS editorial desk, most of them are based in New York City. They have to stay up for stuff like this. Isn't that crazy?
02:33:26
Speaker
sometimes Sometimes I'm wrapping up at like you know midnight or 1.
02:33:31
Speaker
They're like still awake. Brother, 4 a.m.
02:33:42
Speaker
Seattle was legitimately out of sorts for a while when they couldn't score goals. That sticks in people's memory. They have had a solid attack lately, though. that is That is fair, like, ah
02:33:53
Speaker
at least for the first part of last year.
02:34:03
Speaker
They did make the, ah oh, my God. So, all right, the second half is underway.
Santos' Struggles and Galaxy's Dominance
02:34:12
Speaker
Yeah, Max, i'm I'm doing a watch along for the entire a Galaxy game.
02:34:20
Speaker
We're watching the LA Galaxy absolutely destroy Santos Laguna.
02:34:26
Speaker
The Timbys
02:34:29
Speaker
are, the Timbys are chopped. If nine man Santos pull within a goal of the Galaxy here to send the Timbys through,
02:34:42
Speaker
I mean, it would be among the most legendary performances. It would be an incredible second half effort to say the least. What do you even do when you got nine nine guys out there down 3-0?
02:34:59
Speaker
What do you tell the boys in the halftime locker room?
02:35:09
Speaker
Does anyone know what he did?
02:35:14
Speaker
What did that guy do?
02:35:18
Speaker
Another early chance for
02:35:21
Speaker
for the Galaxy. That was Joey Paints. he That was pretty open, honestly, but he put it right at this ah right at this goalkeeper. Offensive language. Okay, so it was like something like that. It wasn't like a foul that I missed or something.
02:35:37
Speaker
Good. Get him out of there. Offensive language. Can't be using it.
02:35:46
Speaker
What a freaking meltdown, man.
02:35:52
Speaker
What a meltdown. if georgie If Georgie hadn't got sent off for ah for crediting Christ for his goal,
02:36:05
Speaker
I think Seattle would have hung a couple more on this team. Nassimento into the side netting. But so far, Second half ain't looking much different from the first.
02:36:20
Speaker
The Galaxy were beating the absolute... Oh, he's offside. ah The Galaxy were beating the absolute shit out of this team when it was 11 on 11. So this could go off the rails here, folks. Let's see if LA
02:36:34
Speaker
can hit a seven spot here. Let's see if they can do it. Seattle did it fully 11 on 11. So I'll point that out if they do hit the seven. But this is where this is where you show no mercy, in my opinion.
02:36:53
Speaker
Think these Liga Meckes teams would be sure showing mercy for you? No. That's what was so satisfying about watching Seattle put that seven spot on them.
02:37:12
Speaker
All right. Galaxy knocking it around again. There's a cross that come. Oh my God, what a save. They almost have the fourth. think that guy might've been trying to cross it, but the goalkeeper lays out, has to tip it away. Offside call anyway.
02:37:40
Speaker
We need to get ahold of that one dude from Austria from club world cup that was trying to troll this chat and claim the Timbers were his new favorite team. That guy was kind of goaded. That was one of the all time.
02:37:53
Speaker
Lopping scorchers chat crash outs.
02:38:00
Speaker
That and the Club World Cup streams got lit. You had the Austrian guy, and then you had the... Remember the RBW Brigade?
02:38:14
Speaker
That was wild.
02:38:19
Speaker
One crash out like here and there
02:38:25
Speaker
to be expected, I think. But the extent that that man lost it about RBW being out of position on defense like three times.
02:38:41
Speaker
That was crazy. All right. 50th minute at Dignity Health Sports Park. LA Galaxy up two men. They have chalked the Portland Timbs out of League's Cup. Joey Paints taking on two guys.
02:38:54
Speaker
Gets dispossessed. Again, that's the Joey Paints of 2025 that we know and love. Another bad giveaway for Santos. l LA back on the ball.
02:39:09
Speaker
God love them, Santos Laguna. They're doing their best with nine men out there, but it's still not going well.
02:39:23
Speaker
I might just forfeit if I were them. Sometimes in life, you got to just chalk it and quit. That's what I always say.
02:39:34
Speaker
When you're down two men to the 20-25,
02:39:38
Speaker
LA galaxy. You might just want to not even play it out.
02:39:48
Speaker
Ooh, I like the idea there. And that is, Oh my God.
02:39:57
Speaker
That chance to not quite come off for l LA. They get a flag for offside again. I think that's their third time this have, what is this? The Seattle Sounders three offside goals in like 10 minutes.
02:40:20
Speaker
this about to be wrapped.
02:40:29
Speaker
I think the question here is, Oh, Joey paints.
02:40:35
Speaker
Joey paints could have a Hattie if he was 20, 24, Joey paints. Fortunately, he's still the 2025 iteration still is kind of a bot.
02:40:51
Speaker
Galaxy have essentially just been knocking it around right at the top of the Santos area for most of this half so far. They need to start feeding Cuevas again. that was ah That was easily their best strategy in the first half. Oh, please send this guy off.
02:41:08
Speaker
Please send this guy off.
02:41:11
Speaker
i wish that was I wanted that to be a second yellow. Another yellow card, DeSantos Laguna. One of their fullbacks, it appears, will now be playing the rest of this half on a yellow. Let's see, folks, if they can get the coveted third red card.
02:41:27
Speaker
Let's see if they can do it. They want to do it. They're crashing out to that extent.
02:41:45
Speaker
And now he's crashing out and talking trash to the guy that he just got the yellow card foul on. I mean, this is.
02:41:55
Speaker
I think we'll see how many goals the galaxy ends up getting here, but this is on pace to be just as bad as cruises will meltdown. This has a double red involved.
02:42:12
Speaker
I could have been a red. I think the ref gave him a break there. I think they're going to get another one. Like they're like, they're at the point right now where they've fully cracked.
02:42:25
Speaker
And now it's just a matter of what that leads to. It could be another red card.
02:42:37
Speaker
Could be more crash outs at the referee.
02:42:42
Speaker
Marco Reus standing over the corner kick now. He's going to take it short. Galaxy content to knock this around. Looks like Reus was offside, but he is not waived. Joey Paints.
02:42:55
Speaker
Oh, my goodness. Another chance for the Galaxy, but Joey Paints can't quite pull it off there.
02:43:06
Speaker
Still the Galaxy on the ball. I mean, this is just ridiculous at this point. I don't think they've ceded possession anywhere near their own end of the field this entire half, and we're 10 minutes into it.
02:43:31
Speaker
55th minute now. LA Galaxy lead the Santos Laguna crash outs 3-0. Playing with nine men.
02:43:44
Speaker
Getting in ah an offensive language red card when your team's already down a man.
02:43:51
Speaker
thats That's pretty crazy work.
02:43:58
Speaker
See if Santos can get more red cards than the Galaxy score goals.
02:44:04
Speaker
Right now, they would need four. Let's get two more, boys. Come on.
02:44:16
Speaker
It would be like the 2025 LA Galaxy to give up a goal to a nine-man opponent. If any team can figure out a way to do that, it's this one.
02:44:35
Speaker
I think you should do that, Max.
02:44:40
Speaker
Shooting game drunk? I bet ah bet it could lead to some ah some better pictures than you would think.
02:44:54
Speaker
It is going to be a blazing hot coach presser for Santos. It's funny because I i i watched his after after the Seattle game, and I specifically remember thinking, like, this guy seems very
02:45:07
Speaker
zen about this whole thing.
02:45:12
Speaker
He accepted his fate. He credited the Sounders, all that good stuff.
02:45:33
Speaker
Sorry about the Timbs, Jeremy. Unfortunately, Santos Laguna proved to be useless.
02:45:43
Speaker
Couldn't do it. They couldn't get it done. In fact, not only
02:45:51
Speaker
not only could they not get it done, but they have two red cards in the first half.
02:46:13
Speaker
What was the game that the Timbs drew?
02:46:20
Speaker
Could they have won that?
02:46:23
Speaker
Oh, it was the Club America game.
02:46:28
Speaker
Yo, if they had if they had won that shootout, this wouldn't even be an issue right now.
02:46:38
Speaker
Right? Oh, I guess it... No, yeah, because they'd be on eight.
02:46:47
Speaker
they would be on eight.
02:46:50
Speaker
That's crazy.
02:47:06
Speaker
All right. I just, I just toggled back to the game. We got the LA galaxy once again. knocking the ball around right outside the Santos Laguna penalty box.
02:47:18
Speaker
They actually are able to finally clear it out. This is the closest it's been to midfield the entire half, but Joey paints right back on the ball, back where the Galaxy have set up shop.
02:47:31
Speaker
Let's see if they can get this fourth. I mean, Santos is basically, this game is so stupid right now. they
02:47:40
Speaker
Oh, and he's in behind. And is this going to be, oh man, Gabriel Peck.
02:47:46
Speaker
had a chance to, uh, to lob it up there for an easy goal, but it gets deflected out. That'll be a corner kick. Yeah. Two reds, Wade. It was sick. They got, uh, they got the first one, for ah like a foul, like a second yellow foul.
02:48:05
Speaker
Uh, and then uh, the second one they got when one of the players was crashing out at the half, uh, at the ref and use defensive language and he got an offensive language read.
02:48:17
Speaker
So they are playing this with nine men for the entire second half. Somehow have not conceded a fourth yet. I don't understand how how this is still 3-0, but it probably will not be for all that much longer.
02:48:39
Speaker
I cannot imagine.
02:48:43
Speaker
I mean, if Santos keep a ah clean sheet in this half with nine men, that would be a would be something.
02:48:56
Speaker
Probably as attributable to the Galaxy not really caring at this point as much as anything.
02:49:03
Speaker
But like, I feel like when you're in a situation where, oh man, Nassimento almost had another that actually wasn't far off. That would have been a nice goal. feel like when you're in a situation, when you're down to nine men, like the ah like the Seattle Sounders were in Vancouver a couple months ago.
02:49:24
Speaker
it it It ceases to be about like, the result and it becomes about dignity, salvaging whatever semblance of it that you have left.
02:49:35
Speaker
Santos Laguna in this situation have precious little of it.
02:49:41
Speaker
Pretty much none.
02:49:44
Speaker
But if you were, if you're able to keep this at three zero
02:49:52
Speaker
and
02:49:55
Speaker
look like a semi-competent professional soccer team, which they have yet to do tonight.
02:50:02
Speaker
That's what they're playing for right now. Thanks for the $2, Andrew. Peak League's Cup content. I mean, the double red, that's where it really that's where it really popped off.
02:50:16
Speaker
I don't know what happened to Santos Wade. They did used to be one of the better Liga Mackey's teams. I feel like Seattle's played them in CCC at least once now.
02:50:29
Speaker
And I remember, I feel like I remember that being
02:50:34
Speaker
like, I remember thinking of them as like, Oh, whoa, okay. Santos Laguna has got to watch out for them.
02:50:42
Speaker
Now look, now look at them
02:50:47
Speaker
in Carson, California down to men. Getting absolutely pummeled by the worst team in major league soccer.
02:50:57
Speaker
You hate to see it.
02:51:05
Speaker
It's a good, it's a good point. Rhombus at what point do the, uh,
02:51:11
Speaker
okay, here's the subs. Royce is out.
02:51:15
Speaker
Peck is out. Here we go. I mean,
02:51:23
Speaker
That's, I think, that's the correct play from old ah old Greg Vanney.
02:51:31
Speaker
No reason to expend any more energy for 43-year-old Marco Reus.
Match Conclusion and Strategic Substitutions
02:51:41
Speaker
Save him for the Sounders game this weekend.
02:51:47
Speaker
Thumped 6-1 by Santos. That must have been like... Back in the early days. that Was that recently? feel like i know what you're talking about, but I can't remember like when that was.
02:52:04
Speaker
Yeah, Hunch has it right. When Hurt Gomez was on their team.
02:52:14
Speaker
Early CCL.
02:52:22
Speaker
A stark fall from grace.
02:52:28
Speaker
Still 25-plus minutes left in this game, unfortunately. We'll see if Santos get mercy-ruled like Cruz Azul did.
02:52:45
Speaker
he should give what He should do the thing where he gives an excessive amount of stoppage time for this game.
02:52:53
Speaker
make them play like 104 minutes down two men.
02:53:04
Speaker
ah Right now it's kind of looking like the Galaxy are having trouble scoring again, which I think is partially a function of Santos trying to salvage dignity.
02:53:16
Speaker
but all But it's like ah LA, at least for the first part of the second half here, they were trying to score.
02:53:26
Speaker
They don't want anything crazy to happen.
02:53:30
Speaker
If Santos was able to get the ball past midfield, which they have not done yet in this half,
02:53:39
Speaker
pick off one goal, right?
02:53:44
Speaker
Absorb pressure, absorb pressure, absorb pressure. All it takes is one counter with nine guys.
02:53:54
Speaker
Make that three too Play spoiler. Galaxy out. Timby's in.
02:54:06
Speaker
Did they get past midfield once?
02:54:10
Speaker
It's possible. It can't have been more than that, though.
02:54:17
Speaker
Long ball from the Santos goalkeeper. That's how they got past midfield for the first time. Number seven, start in the counter, and they lose the ball again.
02:54:31
Speaker
Falls back for Julio Aude.
02:54:37
Speaker
And now the Galaxy. they they did They did make it they very briefly, but they did make it past midfield there. That was a big step for them. See if they can build on that over the last 25 minutes here.
02:54:55
Speaker
Joey Paints, isolated out wide. He's doing the point at the spot thing. Whips it into Nassamento. Cleared by nine-man Santos.
02:55:14
Speaker
Diego Fugundes on the ball now. There's Cuevas. Cuevas has been anonymous in this half after one of the greatest halves of footy I've ever seen a right-back play. He was, and all seriousness, an absolute menace.
02:55:30
Speaker
They stopped feeding him.
02:55:36
Speaker
To me, like this is very clearly a situation where
02:55:44
Speaker
it's like just knock the ball around in their end first and foremost, and if we can score fourth, go for it. But, i mean,
02:55:56
Speaker
you got a nine you got a nine-man squad out there right now. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
02:56:04
Speaker
I mean, i like I just don't know. i don't even know what else you do other than park the bus when you have to play with nine for this long.
02:56:14
Speaker
It's essentially what Seattle did in Vancouver.
02:56:19
Speaker
there's There's just not a lot of good options.
02:56:29
Speaker
Oh, therere another good look at a fourth for the Galaxy. Diego Fagundes with the cross. Looks like that it could be on for somebody, but ah that one gets cleared out, and he's offside anyway. We got a substitution coming for Santos.
02:56:42
Speaker
That's number four checking into the game. He's telling his coach, dude, please don't put me out here. This is the last thing that I want to do right now is playing this match, but I guess it's my job, so i so I'm going to sub in.
02:56:58
Speaker
I'll do my best out here.
02:57:05
Speaker
Yeah, it literally, it kind of, it looks like practice at this point, like a small sided training drill. That's what the gals are running.
02:57:14
Speaker
T-minus 20 minutes left in the Portland Timbs League's Cup 2025 campaign. Miracle still possible at this point. If nine-man Santos can just manage manage to get past midfield twice and score both times,
02:57:32
Speaker
they could still do it, but time is running out.
02:57:45
Speaker
Hunt has got the Seattle history versus Santos. Let's take a look at this. 2012-2-1 win. 6-1 loss. 1-0 loss. 1-1 tie.
02:58:03
Speaker
that's not That's not a bad... ah can't they They beat them in 2012. That's kind of wild. That was definitely a different era of of MLS.
02:58:13
Speaker
Yeah, this we're about to see time-wasting mercy rule yourself. That's where this is at right now.
02:58:31
Speaker
i think I think it's at the point where you may as well just get the third red card.
02:58:40
Speaker
You may as well just get the third. I mean, who cares? Commit. Commit to the bit.
02:58:54
Speaker
Joey Paints out wide once again. Not really sure why he's still on the field at this point. Maybe they're trying to get the man in form. He already has ah goal in the first minute. This game started with them scoring in the first minute.
02:59:07
Speaker
That's the type of night it's been for the boys at Santos Laguna.
02:59:22
Speaker
The fans want a third red. I want a third red.
02:59:29
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, i think what's going on in the second half is it's, it's just like running out the clock.
02:59:38
Speaker
It's running out the clock.
02:59:41
Speaker
In fact, with that in mind, chat, as I hit three hours, probably going to sign off before the 90. There's just, I mean, there's no point. ah'll go till I'll go till 75 here. how about that?
02:59:54
Speaker
I'm tired. I've been on for three hours, and it's been fun, but like if the game was in the balance, I would stay the full 90, but this i mean this is just literally it's just the Galaxy running small-sided training
03:00:06
Speaker
near the Santos penalty box.
03:00:15
Speaker
I'm going sign off early and then Santos is going to score twice and the Timbs are going to go through.
03:00:22
Speaker
But um'm hanging I'm hanging until 75. I'm hanging until 75 and then I'm out of here. Let's go, Galaxy. Get me a goal. Get me a goal before I go to bed.
03:00:36
Speaker
i don't think there will be a ah flurry of goals in the last 10 minutes.
03:00:51
Speaker
You know what? Okay. Okay. I'll go to 80 because you guys were were generous with the bribes.
03:01:02
Speaker
I was bribed for this. I forgot about that factor. I really probably should just stay the 90 based on that.
03:01:10
Speaker
But I'm um losing steam. I'm losing. i don't like I don't even know what to do with the ah with the broadcasting at this point. It's literally, it's been the same thing this whole half. They're literally just bopping the ball around at the top of the area, which is all they really need to be doing at this point. They're, they advanced with this score line and their opposition has nine men.
03:01:38
Speaker
What is up with these late ass games? 8-10 kickoff last night was so whack.
03:01:49
Speaker
Oh, here we go. Here we go. This might be it. And there it is, folks. There it is. That is the LA Galaxy's fourth goal. I don't know who scored that.
03:02:00
Speaker
Sanabria. Don't really know much about that guy. But he finally finds the breakthrough. and that
03:02:15
Speaker
dusts what was already very dusted. Santos guys are going for offside. Maya Yoshida with the ball in the box. Cross ah makes it through to the number eight.
03:02:30
Speaker
And that is a fourth. Nine-man Santos Laguna.
03:02:36
Speaker
The defender just absolutely whiffed. I don't know umt know what he was what he was trying to kick there. This one started at 8.30. have no idea like why. a kick.
03:02:56
Speaker
even seven thirty is late kick
03:03:07
Speaker
That officially does it. That officially does it. Here, before I go, I'll pull up the table one last time and we can take a look at this.
03:03:24
Speaker
Because it is all but finalized at this point.
03:03:30
Speaker
There you have it.
03:03:32
Speaker
There you have it. Now you'll notice
03:03:37
Speaker
You'll notice the number one spot still like occupied here by by Seattle. That did not change based on the results tonight.
03:03:48
Speaker
He got him up here at the nine points, three points per game, three wins, plus nine GD with 11 goals scored. Not sure if you guys were aware of any of those numbers, ah but that that has remained remained static through this situation.
03:04:02
Speaker
But what we do have here now is you're going to have the LA galaxy jumping from ninth to fourth, where they will overtake the Timbs.
03:04:16
Speaker
It's man. Timbs went to Owen one with a plus five and are getting knocked out by the galaxy. They're going to move to two. Oh, and one.
03:04:32
Speaker
with a plus seven.
03:04:38
Speaker
So that's going to put them, that's going to put them where the Timbs are right now. Tough break, tough break for Phil Neves and company.
03:04:50
Speaker
You hate to see it.
03:04:52
Speaker
This, i'm I'm telling you this format, this format is crazy, man. Like you really got no margin for error at all.
03:05:04
Speaker
Like the Timmy's, like they did pretty good, man. Seven points with a plus, with a plus five GD.
03:05:15
Speaker
If you told me before the tournament that they were going to do that, I'd be like, they probably make it.
Upcoming Matches and Tournament Eliminations
03:05:27
Speaker
As Goose points out, Puebla, will be Seattle's next opponent.
03:05:36
Speaker
I cannot say that I know a single thing about them, but I'll research them a little bit in the coming days.
03:05:50
Speaker
Let's take a look at who bit the dust here. Let's take a look at who bit the dust.
03:05:57
Speaker
Columbus Crew, eliminated. Get him out of here. 13th best non-European club as per Opta. Unfortunately, couldn't make it out of League's Cup Phase 1.
03:06:10
Speaker
LAFC. Gone.
03:06:15
Speaker
Dusted. Get him out of here. Beat Tigris. Wasn't enough.
03:06:22
Speaker
The Loons. One of the best teams in the league this year.
03:06:28
Speaker
Done. 10th place.
03:06:32
Speaker
Get him out of here. Cincy. Cincy is like the soy since he's the team that the that the national pundits like the most because they have a Vander and they're like they're newer than a team like Seattle or like the Galaxy or even like the Crew.
03:06:49
Speaker
So it's kind of they got the shinier new thing going on.
03:06:58
Speaker
Get him out of here.
03:07:02
Speaker
San Diego, darling team, one of the best teams in the league this year. Shield contender, nice little 15th place. this this this thing was This thing was a beast, this phase one.
03:07:17
Speaker
The degree of difficulty on this, getting out of this, it's real high.
03:07:35
Speaker
There you have it.
03:07:38
Speaker
Seattle, Miami, Orlando, and the LA Galaxy.
03:07:44
Speaker
Going to be the ones left standing. the The first three of those make sense to me. This, honestly, if it had stayed like this, I'd have been like, all right.
03:07:58
Speaker
Those are four teams that make sense. You throw the Galaxy in here.
03:08:04
Speaker
It's like that meme with the, with the fierce dragons. And then there's the one with the, with the goofy face. It's sort of what the galaxy, uh,
03:08:16
Speaker
are in this situation. Yeah. Atlanta United, Emmanuel, $22 million dollars latte loth. Miguel, $10 plus million Almey Rhone.
03:08:28
Speaker
Arthur, one of the, uh, richest oligarchs in the whole country blank, writing the checks.
03:08:39
Speaker
14th place in League's Cup Phase 1. They actually, Atlanta in their last game against Atlas, shout out Gonzo Pineda, destroyed Atlas. But it's such like a 2025 Atlanta United thing to like be already eliminated and then play like the first good game, like first actually like front to back comprehensive good performance of the year in a game that means absolutely nothing.
03:09:04
Speaker
You already got eliminated.
03:09:14
Speaker
Got to say, I like how points are allocated in this tournament. One point for losing a shootout and two for winning one makes sense and settles deadlocks better than other tiebreakers, in my opinion. I like ah think the format
03:09:29
Speaker
is like they they probably still got to tweak it, but it's definitely better than it was. here i think...
03:09:41
Speaker
It definitely made the games a lot more... it's like as high stakes a tournament format in terms of like margin for error as I've ever seen, which is...
Viewer Engagement and Future Content
03:09:55
Speaker
it's It's exciting, if nothing else, because if you like the way this is, if you take one L, you're done. Like, that's it.
03:10:08
Speaker
So that does create some exciting games. I think the issue that they perhaps might have to deal with as the Galaxy send in another low cross that's going to be out for a corner, it creates, like there's been a lot of meeting like meaningless games where you have two teams whose fates are already decided, which I guess that happened that can happen in tournaments like like this, or at least in this tournament.
03:10:39
Speaker
But, oh, through ball almost. That could have been on for a fifth. Instead, it's out for a goal kick.
Role of Penalty Shootouts and Tactical Approaches
03:10:51
Speaker
I don't think you like want a ah lot of situations where like Atlanta and Atlas were playing. It's essentially a friendly at that point. feel like you want to try and minimize that however you can.
03:11:07
Speaker
But...
03:11:23
Speaker
The shootouts, penalties penalties are definitely are definitely exciting.
03:11:34
Speaker
It's never like a the most satisfying way to decide stuff.
03:11:42
Speaker
But the way I look at that, like people say, like like it gets pointed out a lot, especially like by non-soccer fans, like penalties are such like a,
03:11:53
Speaker
like non-satisfying or non real way to to decide like who's a champion or who should be moving on and stuff like that. But to me, it's like the outcome of a penalty kick shootout, you're always going to have one team that's going to be benefiting from that more than the other.
03:12:17
Speaker
and it's and it's incumbent on
03:12:22
Speaker
the favored team to not let it get to that point. 2016 MLS Cup for Seattle at Toronto comes to mind.
03:12:34
Speaker
That game was all about getting the penalties.
03:12:41
Speaker
Like, it just was. if For the weather, for if nothing else. Like being the road team, they would have been the underdog anyway. And getting that that game to penalties would have been one of the best chances they could give themselves anyway. You throw in the fact that, I mean, I was there.
03:13:00
Speaker
It was negative 10 degrees with a wind chill of like colder than that. Which I still, it's disgusting that they play soccer in that.
03:13:14
Speaker
But like if TFC didn't want it to come down to that where they lost a final without giving up a shot on goal, you have to score at home.
03:13:25
Speaker
That's just it.
03:13:28
Speaker
You can't let it get to that point.
03:13:31
Speaker
So it's always, and it always is going to serve one team more than the other. And,
03:13:39
Speaker
I don't think there's anything like invalid or unsatisfying about that. You can't, I mean, you can't play extra time forever. So
03:13:53
Speaker
goalies get to shine too. That's a good point.
03:14:11
Speaker
All right, folks. 86 minute. I'm going to call it on that. I went, I went, I said I was going to bail at 75. I went to 85. This is done. This is dusted.
Galaxy's Contrasting Performances in League and Cup
03:14:21
Speaker
LA galaxy.
03:14:23
Speaker
Absolutely. Lambast Santos Laguna really from the first minute of the game. They just, they're showing it right now. ah
03:14:34
Speaker
Joey paints on the score sheet. Galaxy never looked back. And the Portland Timbys are done.
03:14:46
Speaker
Dusted.
03:14:49
Speaker
Out of there. we'll ah We'll see if ah Seattle has to play the Galaxy later in this tournament. I think this is this is better for all this better for every other team in the tournament.
03:15:06
Speaker
maybe the galaxy are leagues cup God mode right now. And this is indicative of the quality that they'll show against other teams going forward in the tournament. Sometimes you do see teams that are struggling in league play, like find some gear that they hadn't had yet.
03:15:22
Speaker
I seriously doubt that that's what's going on. I think they're playing in a very bad team that got two red cards and, uh,
03:15:37
Speaker
Seemed mentally checked from the jump in this game anyway.
03:15:42
Speaker
So
03:15:47
Speaker
Literally any team, I think, in either league that place that plays the Galaxy will probably be favored. I mean, just just a just purely based on league form, record points per game, they're they're definitely the worst off in that regard, unless one of these LigaMecchi's teams is also literally bottom of their league table, but I don't think that's the case.
03:16:08
Speaker
So, uh, we'll see what happens. These two teams play on, uh, on Sunday, I believe we'll get a look at what the Sounders, uh, look like stacking up against this team. It's probably not going to be first choice on first choice, considering both of them are coming off leagues cup games, but, uh, it'll at least be a trial run of potentially having to play them in this tournament at dignity health sports park.
03:16:37
Speaker
Uh,
03:16:40
Speaker
calling it on that thank you guys for tuning in uh glad glad people were enjoying the uh the watch along content maybe the watch along content seems to be pretty popular so maybe we'll try and find more places to do stuff like this i know the one for the charity match where when we were getting drunk and eating pizza.
03:17:06
Speaker
was a very popular one. That did some crazy TikToks. So,
03:17:14
Speaker
yeah, maybe we'll we'll try and try and find places to do stuff like this. Appreciate you guys hanging out. If everyone could do me a solid... Like the video. I'm i'm bailing, Max. I'm not going to full 90. I'm out of here. I'm about to about to pass out on stream.
03:17:31
Speaker
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03:17:40
Speaker
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03:17:49
Speaker
I'll let you guys know what's up this weekend. Noah's on Orca's Island or something, so I'm not sure if we're going to be able to lay down the show like we normally would before this game. But maybe ah maybe we'll fire up. a It's a couple days, so maybe we'll fire something else up.
03:18:07
Speaker
I don't know. Stay tuned for the plans. Thanks for tuning in. And I'm out of here. RIP Timbees. Peace.