We might find out pretty soon with the 5 of the next 7 MLS games at home between June 14 and July 25. Home games DC United St. Louis Houston Cincinatti San Jose Away games SKC Portland There are a lot of points to be had against teams within 10 points of RSL at the moment. It's sink or swim time.
Was it @Ivensor that did the ppg analysis? I think he based his off of 48pts to make the playoffs. If we assume even just 45pts to make that 9th spot at 1.32ppg for the season, we still need 30pts in the last 17games just to have the remotest of outside chances to squeak in. That’s 1.76ppg from here on out just to get to 1.32ppg on the season. The 3rd place teams in both conferences have 1.76ppg over the 1st half of the season. We’d need a top-6 league performance. 48pts would make it 33 in 17games, which is just under 2ppg to finish the season. Only Philly and Vancouver have managed that over the first half of the season. A top-2 performance.
Garth Lagerway to take an immediate and indefinite leave due to cancer diagnosis. Thanks @Yoshou for the info.
@15 to 32 , I’m glad you didn’t take me up on the bet. I just looked at the table wondering which other teams have scored so few goals. Doesn’t look good for us, but HOLY HELL Austin is only at 15? And their DP Forward with 5 goals(9 total with other comps), Brandon Vasquez, just got injured for the season? OK. We very well may got into playoff position.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/adidas-mls-archive-collection-every-archive-kit-for-2025-jersey New Kit day! Columbus (again) is a good one. Most are either bad, plain or both.
Luna played the entire 2nd half. He initially had trouble possessing the ball when under pressure but settled down. He made some good passes. He didn’t have any success dribbling. He was very active defensively.
They conveniently didn't use the word "suspension". https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/lionel-messi-jordi-alba-unavailable-for-inter-miami-vs-fc-cincinnati This should have been a game of the year candidate. Way to blow it MLS...
Well, Messi and Jordi Alba are the ones that blew it, but whatever. Zlatan did the same, and got the same punishment.
Garber acknowledged that they have to revisit their policy. Had they done that before the season, they wouldn't have had to suspend two high profile players before one of the biggest games on the season.
I just checked the lineups for the 8/2024 IM @ Cincinnati match. Messi didn’t make that trip either. Maybe he was injured? It could be that he and Alba never intended to make this Cincinnati trip due to the number of games they have already had and the All Star game “penalty” provided a nice excuse because you know the Cincy fans have to be very disappointed that they missed him 2 years in a row.
I wouldn’t call that mls blowing it The rules are the rules. Garber acknowledging they should probably be revised isn’t some acknowledgement of guilt as rsler points out, too, this feels calculated by Messi/miami/alba to miss a game without getting direct criticism that and Ohio is a shit state
Maybe, but you've got the SS leaders hosting the league's headliner. When you're trying to increase viewership, you can't have this happen. I do applaud the league suspending star players ( even when they don't call it a suspension), but it shouldn't have come to this. That's my point.
This is on apple, the concept of “drawing viewership” is no longer applicable in any form that we’ve known it that’s not to say who gives a ********… but also who gives a ********. People are tuning in to see Messi play if it’s against cinci and essentially the same clip as they are against Montreal
https://footballpalestine.substack....ove-to-columbus?utm_medium=email&action=share Ties into my point that MLS pays more. He's supposedly getting a 5x pay raise.
Woah, didn't expect that kind of fee. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45900486/tottenham-son-heung-min-lafc-mls-record-deal
As a Tottenham...uhh...well-wisher (not really a fan, but I watch a lot of Spurs games), I like Son, and I think he could do really well in MLS. However, I'm not sure I get the value proposition here. Maybe LAFC wants to increase visibility in Korea? Sell some merch in Seoul?
He’s a huge draw. They might make it back in merch to some degree, but I think it will cement LAFC as the S Korean MLS team for some time, despite not being the only Korean to play in the league. Interestingly, of the 6 who have, LAFC had one other. Sang Bin on MN is the only current active S Korean.
My wife and daughter have the k pop (and broader Asian pop) addiction. Started with BTS pre covid and then exploded since. all this is to say Son is viewed in the same regard to Koreans as BTS, who could sell out any arena in any part of this country on any day of the week. Some of that certainly isn’t applicable to Son, but to Koreans he is a god like figure LA has a decently sized Korean population. They’ll come out in force for this
Glad to hear that I’m not the only one having to live through this addiction. My wife’s home office is more or less a BTS shrine and she’s learning Korean. Now that the boys are back from their military service and embarking on solo careers in addition to the group stuff, the opportunity to spend money has increased 7-fold. My youngest son is into Asian cultures on a wider scale and he likes BTS too.