VS. DATE / TIME: Saturday, March 31, 2018 9:00 PM EDT MATCH PREVIEW: MLS Match Preview VENUE: Dick's Sporting Goods Park Commerce City, Colorado Tickets GAMETIME FORECAST: Partly cloudy Temp: 53° Feels Like: 52° TELEVISION BROADCAST: ABC 6.2 - LiveWell Network COMCAST: Channel 790 HD, 246 SD Verizon FiOS: Channel 466 HD CURRENT MLS STANDINGS MLS INJURY REPORT MLS DISCIPLINE REPORT LAST MEETING: Saturday, May 20, 2017 Talen Energy Stadium / Chester, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Union 2 - 1 Colorado Rapids MLS Matchcenter
Just FYI: I pulled the LiveWell channel numbers from a 2013 gameday thread. The Verizon channel is still good but I can't vouch for the others, in case they've changed in the last five years.
after this past weekends B.S. I am all in for MLS live. I think we have come to a point where the fan should not be hunting for the game. "Live Well" is barely a real channel that is buried between CSPAN-4 and the 24-hr aquarium channel.
my first blush take is an L, but a draw wouldn't shock me. Not because of the U having a game-plan and executing it, but Colorado always seems like they're going through the motions offensively to me.
Jimbo's going to double down on that clean sheets stat. Don't expect any offense whichsoever. +1 to the complaining about the schedule. There's a World Cup break coming later, too. Good job we won't make the playoffs or we'd be playing well into December.
First road game of the year, I picked win, only because I'm hopeful they will try something different this year, with the new midfield. Even in our worst seasons, we've always been a team that got opportunities if we played a high, pressing, line. For some reason, though, we only seem to ever do that at home. I'm hoping that we actually try and press aggressively against a team that lost to New England 1-2. Colorado isn't a great team, and I think it would do wonders to actually try and do something other than draw on the road. That being said, my vote is all but a wish. The, probable, truth is we head to the Rockies and park the bus for more uninteresting soccer.
Just an FYI: MLS Live was uh, searching for the game for the first 35 minutes as well. Though that sounded more like a problem with the channel changing last minute (so on whoever controls that) rather than a specific MLS Live problem.
I bet Dockal has never played a professional game at that altitude in his life. Could be a real wake-up call for him.
Well, he played for a year in Turkey which has multiple teams based at elevations over 3,000ft (including the team he played for), and he played in China last year which is of course known for it's fantastic air quality. I'd be more concerned with him not having been with the team in pre-season than altitude.
So he'll be perfectly fine when they travel out to LA. ::checks to see if the Union plays in LA this season::
Another 2 week break right now just sucks...anyway, this looks like a loss as for some reason we don't travel well out west. Hopefully we can break out of that routine...
sort of getting this vibe.... I voted tie... if we're lucky maybe 1-1. On paper no... but mentally it would not sit well.... 5 points to start the season is great out of context... but when you consider it was 3 points at home against a short handed/weak line-up Revs team and a 1 point 0-0 offensive snoozer at home against Columbus.... another 0-0 presumably defensive oriented draw since we are on the road... 5 points on paper should be good... but nothing about those 3 games would make me think this team has what it takes to do much of anything even if they do manage make the playoffs. It's early, but just discouraging.
According to the Union twitter feed there were some EPIC moments in those first two matches. Epic. FFS. What descriptor will they use when the Union finally win a playoff match? (By then twitter probably won't even be a thing anymore.)
Imagine, if you will, a shot at a trophy....that would be pretty epic. Nah, who am I kidding, we’d just blow it with some gimmicky keeper sub for PKs or benching a guy for attitude to play Ethan White! Ha! Could you even dream that? Never happen.