Two games on two different days? What sorcery is this! Wednesday 29 November Columbus at Toronto, 7:30 EST, FS1 Thursday 30 November Houston at Seattle, 10:30 EST, ESPN As always, keep it friendly here in the neutral PBP thread.
Check out the sports this week 👀 pic.twitter.com/ztqlUfVM0A— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) November 27, 2017
Man, I dunno what rap artist this asshole at the bus stop is listening to, but the dude sounds like he's had a damn stroke as bad as he slurs all his words. Anyway, I'll have some updated ref stats soon since we've had a change since the original assignments came out.
For some reason FIFA decided Jair Marrufo needed to go to the World Cup as more than a VAR so he's got more important things to do this week. Instead in Toronto we get Ismail Elfath, who ironically lives in Austin. Don't worry, PRO isn't clever enough to do that intentionally, or so I'm told. 2017 Regular Season Stats: 374 games, 3.53 Y/g, 92 R (0.25/g) All-Time: 5077 games, 3.42 Y/g, 1302 R (0.26/g) 2017 Playoff Stats: 14 (of 17) games, 3.64 Y/g, 4 R (0.29/g) All-Time: 306 games, 3.84 Y/g, 71 R (0.23/g) Wednesday, November 29 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINAL, LEG 2 (1)Toronto FC vs (5)Columbus Crew SC R: Ismail ELFATH - 103 reg. season games, 3.12 Y/g, 25 R (0.24/g) 2017 reg.: 21 g, 2.90 Y/g, 7 R (0.33/g) All-time playoffs: 7 g, 4.14 Y/g, 3 R (0.43/g) 2017 playoffs: 2 g, 3.50 Y/g, 1 R (0.50/g)** TOR: 12 g, 1.92 Y/g, 2 R (0.17/g) OPP: 1.25 Y/g, 1 R (0.08/g) REC: 6 W - 2 D - 4 L (1.667 PPG) CLB: 11 g, 0.91 Y/g, 3 R (0.27/g) OPP: 2.00 Y/g, 3 R (0.27/g) REC: 3 W - 2 D - 6 L (1.000 PPG) Previous matching or reverse fixtures: 7/27/2013 TOR 2 - 1 CLB 4/5/2014 CLB 0 - 2 TOR Thursday, November 30 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL, LEG 2 (2)Seattle Sounders FC vs (4)Houston Dynamo R: Alan KELLY - 85 reg. season games, 3.32 Y/g, 14 R (0.16/g) 2017 reg.: 25 g, 3.36 Y/g, 2 R (0.08/g) All-time playoffs: 3 g, 2.33 Y/g, 0 R 2017 playoffs: 1 g, 0.00 Y/g, 0 R* SEA: 13 g, 1.15 Y/g, 1 R (0.08/g) OPP: 1.77 Y/g, 0 R REC: 8 W - 1 D - 4 L (1.923 PPG) HOU: 5 g, 1.60 Y/g, 1 R (0.20/g) OPP: 1.40 Y/g, 0 R REC: 1 W - 2 D - 2 L (1.000 PPG) Previous matching or reverse fixtures: NONE All team stats include regular season and playoff games *Refereed first half of CLB-NYC **Refereed second half of CLB-NYC
I wonder if Houston will try to kick the living crap out of Seattle since Kelly isn't going to be handing out any red cards anytime soon (and based on last year's final, any yellows either).
Looks like I'll be enjoying some hot MLS playoff action, tonight. We were going to go out and do some shopping but the little woman's been battling a cold for about a week; so she went to the doc and got one of those super-duper cocktails and is upstairs in lala land feeling nooooooooo pain.
I'm making coffee. We should taunt the Crewligans with Austin puns. (Are there any Austin puns.) I'll be really pissed if TFC advances.
Talked me into it. It would be very disappointing to miss out on that spectacle. I've got some old Aggie jokes, but.....
Well, not much new in that Lalas #SaveTheCrew update. Sounded like a summary of a bigsoccer thread. Oh I know; nothing new is going to be revealed or learned from these "takes". I don't even know why they bother.
I want Toronto to lose, but I also want Toronto to receive the Fair Play Award that is rightfully theirs.
So. Is this correct? Toronto has to win to advance. If Columbus wins or ties with anything over 0-0, they advance.
I never need to be talked into coffee. But if it's too late in the day, sometimes I do need to talk myself out of it.