RSL 2020 Game 1: Salt Lake at Orlando, Saturday February 29, 4:00 MST

I was in the stadium when we gave up two goals in literally 20 seconds to end up with 1 point instead of 3. Orlando is a great place to visit but I see no way we get a point in this one.

 

3-0 win for RSL. Hat Trick by Pino Rossi.

From the "Duh, I didn't know that department", the patron saint of soccer players is St. Luigi Scrosoppi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Scrosoppi

And in case you are wondering, I would think that the patron saint for soccer referees is Saint Lucy of Syracuse, the patron saint of the blind.

 

3-1 Orlando and I come away missing Petke. I am excited to be angry at my TV though!

 

A game like this only comes along once every four years. So there's that.

 

Correction to my post, I was in the old stadium, not the new Orlando FC Stadium.

 

… what?

 

Feb 29th.

 

I listened to the RSL show - I work from home now and the access to stuff like that given my local wifi and such is going to potentially be a problem - and they are cautiously optimistic about this squad as a whole... but do not have a great feeling for this game.

What is funny is how they talked about "this has been such an amazing preseason" but then also talk about how the three preseason games have been utterly painful to watch. So, you know, that totally makes sense.

What to expect for our lineup? Who the hell knows. Honestly, I can't say I know where any player will be playing. I think it's safe to say that certain players will be playing, but we don't know where they'll be on the pitch.

 

Probably something like this:

 

I haven't seen this formation before. What's it called? 1-1-1-1-2-2-2? I dunno but I think we would have problems on the left side but we would overpower other teams on the right side.

 

Going on their definition of "amazing", one could say that FC Cincinati had an "amazing" first MLS season in 2019. Maybe "amazing" is just short for "amazingly bad".

I will predcit that sometime during the game, there will be 11 players on the field (This is 'Merica! It's a field, dammit!) for RSL and maybe some of those 11 players will kick the ball. Other than that, I dunno.

 

Only twice? Orlando has been in the league since 2015, so I would have expected to have played Orlando more than twice. At least once a year, so at least five times.

 

We've played away at Orlando twice. We play them once a year alternating home and away.

 

I have never been less excited for a season since RSL came into existence. I've even considered canceling my season tickets to get my money back.

Probably wont but still I've never really contemplated such a thing until now.

If I were to predict this season it has nothing but craptastic written all over it and the Freddy Juarez tenure could end up under circus in the dictionary.

Prove me wrong. PLEASE!!!!

 

The NEW DIAMOND.

 

Maybe we can deploy the flying V formation?

 

Yep... No real excitement at all. Imma gonna watch and cheer, but it feels so dead. I have to keep reminding myself that opening game is actually this weekend.

Let's go RSL! Help me!

 

So this is it! RSL 3-0. Rossi with a hat trick, after signing a 9 million deal!

 

or 600K, but it'd be great if the hat trick part is accurate

 

I have 2 tickets available for this game if anyone's interested. North end.

 

RSL Show (god I'm starting to sound like a commercial for them) said that it was a third of the price of Plata's contract. That would mean in the $240K-$285K range

Unless they are pulling a used car salesman trick and using Plata's rumored asking price for 2020 (1.2MM) which would then move it to roughly $400K

 

So have they signed Rossi?

 

Yes.

 

Funny RSL Nation reported the signing 28 minutes ago. Hopefully he will be a scorer we need.