MLS beat LigaMX again this year, as there's only 4-7 headsup games left. MLS (104g 90p) 23-16-15 (78g 72p) LigaMX
Good Morning! After last night's games the top 4 in each league tournament table are set. Liga MX: Toluca, Pachuca, Tigres, Puebla MLS: Seattle, Miami, LA Galaxy, Orlando The quarterfinals are set to take place on Tuesday the 19th and Wednesday the 20th. Here are the matches as posted on the Leagues Cup website: Toluca vs Orlando Miami vs Tigres Seattle vs Puebla LA Galaxy vs Pachuca as of 9:30 am the dates for each match-up have not yet been posted on the website.
Excuse me, sir. But your facts have no place in this discussion. We are only to judge the quality of the leagues based upon this single competition.
You’d probably feel differently if your team was in the top 4? (No snark, just not seeing much complaints coming from there) I gotta admit, I liked that all these games were between the leagues. That was awesome, and ostensibly the whole point of the tourney.
Leagues Cup Attendance day 9 62,945. on 4 events Average = 15,736 so far after 50 events TOTAL. =. 823, 390 Average. =. 16,468
I don't know why people hate the idea of a competion between MFL and MLS. It's great fun. I can agree that the format decisions can be questionable and without proper paly in Mexico it could never be considered as important as the CCCL. But it is still fun. It is good exposure for MLS and presumably lucrative to MFL to earn money for US based fans and expand their footprint here.
Without games in Mexico the Leagues Cup will always remain an inferior sporting contest (and that’s putting it gently). Ideally it gets decoupled from the CCC altogether. If there truly is a market for it longterm I quite like the idea of turning it into a quadrennial tournament played in even non-World Cup years.
Not to the same extent. Every national team travels between venues including the US. Very different from one set of teams staying idle in their home city (with a handful of exceptions) and another playing every single match at a different venue.
Liga MX doesn't have super clubs like in La Liga or Bundesliga. They have financially backed strong clubs; America, Cruz Azul, Tigres and Monterrey. Due to them having play offs and the type of format they have, that helps that a club which invest a lot of money doesn't always win and dominate. Play offs is the equalizer.
You have an opportunity to complain that Gold Cup isn't fair and you try to justify it. What a let down. Gold Cup is the same. Always played in US. Would people find excuses if the EuroCup were always played in England? Or if Copa America were always played in Brazil? Would that be okay with everyone?
I find perpetual US hosting extremely tiresome (and don’t get me started on the frequency) but this thread is about Superliga 2.0…I mean the Leagues Cup.
Death is different than tweaking, no? I am just rolling with it. I didn’t attend any of the games. I was out of town for the first, barely got back into town a couple hours before the 2nd after being on the road a whole week, and then didn’t bother on Wednesday. Both teams were eliminated before kickoff
I think that this is the best format so far....nice to see them forgo the extra round by having only the top four teams from each league qualify for the knockout rounds as opposed to the top eight teams. Main issue for me is that all the matches have been night games.....I have no idea why the Sounders - Santos Laguna match last Sunday was a 7:30 start, for example.....would have drawn a much bigger crows had it been an afternoon/early evening start. Most people get to Sounders matches via public transit, and few people want to be taking public transit home at 10pm on a Sunday night, when most bus routes are on a once or twice an hour schedule, instead of the regular every 10-15 minutes.
That doesn’t mean games can’t be entertaining. Especially for the 2007 landscape when it was launched I thought SuperLiga really delivered a nice change of pace.
The first one had a lot of energy as it coincided with Beckham's arrival. It began to fizzle as they added merit-based qualification and the same teams had congestion from being in both CCC and SuperLiga. Then CONCACAF beefed up its tournament and the SuperLiga qualification was downgraded to the top 4 non-CCL teams and it became kind of pointless. I remember watching a Patriots game years later and the broadcast was showing Robert Kraft in his box, and I was amused to see "2008 SuperLiga Champions" painted on the facade.
America vs Portland played in Austin, Portland traveled more Miles to Austin than America from Houston