2025 MLS Flavors of the Week

Discussion in 'USA Men: News & Analysis' started by OWN(yewu)ED, Jan 2, 2025.

  1. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    I like Nathan Ordaz, but we were probably his third choice. He also accepted callups to Mexico.

    A forward/winger with 2 goals and 1 assist in more than 500 minutes of MLS league play.

    There are going to be more and more and more players like this as the depth of our pool expands.
    Good players that we just can't provide an opportunity to.
     
  2. IndividualEleven

    Mar 16, 2006
    WS US Team of Week
    * = 23-and-under
    ** = 20-and-under

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    Player of the Week: Markanich DeJuan_Jones AJackson
    U23-and-Under: AJackson Campbell Shore
    U20-and-Under: Shore Gozo Bombino
     
  3. IndividualEleven

    Mar 16, 2006
    Honorable Mention:
    GK: Pulskamp(7.0)3rd Freese(7.0)6th
    LB:Lovitz(7.4)2nd
    CB: M.Robinson(7.4)1st Beason(7.3)7th Zawadski(7.2)7th Long(7.2)7th
    RB: Lennon(7.0)3rd
    LM: Vassilev(7.5)2nd Afsten(7.4)5th Iloski(7.4)5th
    CM: Torre(7.4)4th Tillman(7.2)5th Delgado(7.2)6th Roldan(7.1)7th Harkes(7.0)5th Trapp(7.0)11th
    FW: Vazquez(7.1)1st Ebobisse(7.1)8th

    23-and-Under
    LB: MBombino(7.3)8th** TJohnson(7.1)7th** PMiller(7.0)10th**
    CB: Haak(7.1)4th* Cupps(7.0)3rd**
    RB: Freeman(7.1)4th**
    CM: Shore(7.5)2nd** Oregel(7.0)4th** Gutierrez(7.0)5th**
    FW: Yapi(7.1)2nd**
     
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  4. RalleeMonkey

    RalleeMonkey Member+

    Aug 30, 2004
    here
    Musovski UNLV
    Markanich NIU
    Jones Mich St
    Blackman Pacific

    4. A record low
     
  5. IndividualEleven

    Mar 16, 2006
    A lot of academy kids made the list.
     
  6. IndividualEleven

    Mar 16, 2006
    Steffen has cooled off
    Blackmon has been making a case for a GC look.
    Berhalter: 4 goals and 4 assists in his last 8 matches
    Young defenders are coming out of the woodwork
    Surely a full U20 team could at least make semis of the upcoming U20 World Cup.
    Despite Chicago getting early red, 16 y/o Christopher Cupps made the list.
     
  7. RalleeMonkey

    RalleeMonkey Member+

    Aug 30, 2004
    here
    Yep. From what I've seen, most weeks more than half the 11 spent some time in college.

    I appreciate your posts on this. Fun to follow. Haver you ever done an "up to this point in the season" one?

    Thanks again. I sort of stole your idea for NWSL. Couldn't really figure out how to work WhoScored (I'm old, and have never been called "intelligent"). So, I did a "so far" best US-eligible 11, using Sofascore. It was interesting and fun.
     
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  8. grandinquisitor28

    Feb 11, 2002
    Nevada
    Kinda thought Steffen's start was unsustainable, but to be fair to the guy, the current downturn is about as long as the openning blistering start was, so as I said at the time, let's see what he looks like in September/October.

    Of course my opinion is irrelevant, Poch lazily threw him into the pool before the metrics justified him being within a billion miles of it, so who knows. But for now, I believe in the current downturn about as much as I believed in the hot start, which is, not much. I want to see where he's at after another 15-20 starts, then we can see if health combined with some tweaks in how he plays are sticky in terms of long term form.
     
  9. Yowza

    Yowza Member+

    DC United
    United States
    Oct 23, 2019
    Arlington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Steffen’s last match against DC was interesting. He made one save I doubt many keepers make, tipping a shot headed for the upper 90 off the bar, and didn’t stop another I feel most would have, he looked pretty slow changing direction.
    Distribution? Awful.
     
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  10. OWN(yewu)ED

    OWN(yewu)ED Member+

    Club: Venezia F.C.
    May 26, 2006
    chico, CA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Blackmon is interesting........Hes doing everything you need to do to be "next man up". Id support that one
     
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  11. TheHoustonHoyaFan

    Oct 14, 2011
    Houston
    Club:
    FC Schalke 04
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Specifically in what way? I have not watched any of his recent matches.
     
  12. TheHoustonHoyaFan

    Oct 14, 2011
    Houston
    Club:
    FC Schalke 04
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
  13. Pegasus

    Pegasus Member+

    Apr 20, 1999
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Could be he looked at the the pool and wanted Steffen in because he has the highest ceiling. He wanted to see if he could get him to that ceiling and fall back on others if not. Sounds like he flashed it at the beginning of the season but has tailed off. I wonder if he's starting to get niggling injuries again. Sort of like Reyna he really needs to prove he can stay healthy and then excel for long periods of time. Unfortunately, staying healthy is a real talent and many of our best players don't have that much talent in staying healthy. Looking back it's sort of amazing how durable Donovan was.
     
  14. jaykoz3

    jaykoz3 Member+

    Dec 25, 2010
    Conshohocken, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [​IMG]

    McGlynn banger in extra time to give Houston the lead in Open Cup play!!!
     
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  15. gomichigan24

    gomichigan24 Member+

    Jul 15, 2002
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  16. comoesa

    comoesa Member+

    Aug 13, 2010
    Christen Press's armpit
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Would like to see Luna star inn the GC with the A team.
     
  17. Ghost

    Ghost Member+

    Sep 5, 2001
    Luna had, like, 7 guys on him and scored off the post from a little outside the box. Fantastic goal.
     
  18. Magic Sponge

    Magic Sponge Member

    May 13, 2000
    Nashville, TN USA
    I know he is not in the picture but after missing basically two years due to injury, Paxton Pomykal returned to MLS tonight for Dallas. Go get you some!
     
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  19. xbhaskarx

    xbhaskarx Member+

    San Jose Earthquakes
    United States
    Feb 13, 2010
    NorCal
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Luna goal Westfield goal, Arfsten had one as well, and Quinn Sullivan his usual one assist per game

    MLS pundits saying that Danny Musovsky should keep the starting forward job when Morris and Ferreira return from injury with Morris moving over to winger and Ferreira on the bench... Musovsky has 5 goals in the last 5 games which is as many goals as Jesus Ferreira has over the 2024 and 2025 seasons combined.

    Dejuan Jones goal

     
  20. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    He's played 6 minutes since the 2023 playoffs....................

    I don't know what we can expect from him, but the guy deserves a lot of credit for coming back from injury over and over again.

    Those were two nice goals from Luna and Anderson Julio in that game.

    Two pretty "meh" teams. Both would be outside of the playoffs if they started today.
    Dallas should have won that game after going up a man in minute 58.
     
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  21. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Speaking of missing the playoffs, LA Galaxy lost 7-0 to NYRB.
    They haven't won a game yet. Not only might they be the worst defending MLS Cup champs of all time, they're on track to being one of the worst teams of all time. Maybe the worst. First team in MLS history to be winless after 12 games. They just look hapless.

    17 year old Julian Hall was able to get into the match for NYRB with 15 minutes to go.

     
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  22. gomichigan24

    gomichigan24 Member+

    Jul 15, 2002
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He’s almost certainly going to be on the roster I think.
     
  23. 50/50 Ball

    50/50 Ball Member+

    Sep 6, 2006
    USA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Jesus hasn’t played striker well for Seattle in the style the manager wants. He’s been very effective as a 10. He has 5 assists already.

    Musovski is prospering by making the striker runs and finishing. He goes where he’s supposed to be and it’s working well. He was getting the chances earlier in the year but not finishing.
     
  24. keller4president

    Jan 5, 2006
    Quinn Sullivan with 6 assists this year, second overall in MLS.
     
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  25. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Indeed. Jesus is tied with his teammate Christian Roldan for 2nd amongst US-eligibles in assists after the aforementioned Quinn Sullivan.
     
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