Match 14 CITY at Minnesota, Sat. May 21, 7:30 PM CT

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  1. fortcollins

    fortcollins Member+

    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    St. Louis CITY SC (2-6-4) at Minnesota United FC
    Saturday, May 21, 2025, 7:30 PM CT
    Allianz Park, St. Paul MN
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    Here is the MLS Soccer Match Information

    CITY is 2-6-5, 11 Points, 11 GF 16 GA, Net -5, Form DDWWLLLLDDLLD
    Home: 1-3-3, 6 Points, 5 GF 7 GA, Net -2, Form DWLLDLD
    Away: 1-3-2, 5 Points, 6 GF 9GA, Net -3, Form DWLLDL

    Minnesota is 6-3-4, 22 Points, 19 GF 13 GA, Net +6, Form LWWDDWWDDLWWL
    Home: 3-1-2, 11 Points, 10 GF 6 GA, Net +4, Form WDWDLW
    Away: 3-2-2, 11 Points, 9 GF 7 GA, Net +2, Form LWDWDWL

    Head-to-head: CITY is 1-3-0, 4 GF 9 GA, Net -5

    This is the first of two head-to-head matches between CITY and Minnesota in Allianz Park this week. Saturday's match is the Matchday 14 Regular Season game. Wednesday May 21 is the USOC Round of 16 Match, which has a separate thread.

    This round of the Avenue of the Saints Derby has Minnesota in third place in the Western Conference, heading for an H-A-H Playoff spot and CITY in fourteenth place, thankful that the LA Galaxy are in our conference. Minnesota has a better offense and better defense than CITY, a positive goal differential, and twice as many points. Unless something changes - like our head coach - between now and Saturday, this will be a tough road trip. CITY is winless in the last nine matches. CITY is having a weird Noah's Ark season, where every type of result comes in pairs. If that continues, CITY could escape this match with a draw. Not only are the results coming in pairs, but CITY's road and away forms are identical: DWLLDL, except for this Wednesday's home draw at the end of that list.

    Discuss.
     
  2. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Here is the link to the MLS Game Guides for this match. The box is updated through kickoff, so check back frequently.
     
  3. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    PRO's assignments: Center Referee Ricardo Fierro, ARs Gerard-Kader Lebuis and Rhett Hammil, Fourth Official Luis Diego Arroyo, VAR Sorin Stoica and AVAR Craig Lowry
     
  4. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #4 fortcollins, May 16, 2025
    Last edited: May 16, 2025
    Apparently Olof 's still here, since he did the Pre-Match Press Conference

    Kessler admitted that focus and fitness are issues. He ducked the question about what was said in the locker room after the kansas debacle but said there is trust in the coaching staff. Olof did the usual Olof babbling.

     
  5. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Here are the Player Availability and Disciplinary Summary reports for our match.

    The Pre-Match Press Conference said that Lowen and Durkin trained with the team, but Lowen is still listed as out. We're also still waiting to see if the MLS issues any sanction for Xande Silva's contact with a kansas player after the last match. The disciplinary report may not be fully updated yet, so that info could change.

    St. Louis CITY SC. Suspended: none. YC Caution: none. Out: Jannes Horn, Eduard Löwen, Alfredo Morales, Joakim Nilsson, Tomas Totland, Joey Zalinsky. Questionable: none. Minnesota United FC. Suspended: Joseph Rosales. YC Caution: none. Out: Hassani Dotson, Kipp Keller.
     
  6. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I hope everyone is safe in St. Louis and the surrounding areas in Missouri and Illinois after the severe storms and likely tornado in St. Louis and the entire area today. In St. Louis, there appears to be is a lot of damage NW of downtown between Fairgrounds Park and MLK in the St. Louis Avenue corridor and in the CWE and Clayton, and several people with injuries being treated in local hospitals.
     
  7. HouseofCards

    HouseofCards Member

    Nov 26, 2012
    What's up with Zalinsky? He was only talked about positively in the pre match presser, and it sounded like Olof was hinting at a potential start.
     
  8. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Zalinsky injured his ankle in the last match. I wonder if he aggravated it in practice?
     
  9. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Broadcast Teams. English language: Nate Bukaty and Devon Kerr. Spanish language: Raul Guzman and Ashley Gonzalez.
     
  10. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Starting XI (in ridiculous jersey number order): Burki- Girdwood-Reich--Wallem-Ostrak-Pompeu-Yaro -Hartel-Watts-Hiebert-Baumgartl-Teuchert
    Bench: Lundt-Becher-Cilley-Durkin-Kessler-Klauss -Reid -Xande Silva
     
  11. HouseofCards

    HouseofCards Member

    Nov 26, 2012
    That's a bus if I've ever seen one.
     
  12. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #12 fortcollins, May 17, 2025
    Last edited: May 17, 2025
    Now, now. Just because it's big, long, has lots of seats, isn't running, and says "Greyhound" on the side doesn't make it a . . . uhhhhhh . . . OK, maybe it does. ;) A really really bad bus.


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  13. HouseofCards

    HouseofCards Member

    Nov 26, 2012
    I hate that I care so much.
     
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  14. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    We get to do this again in four days, then three days later play at 5,164' in Commerce City with tired, poorly conditioned, poorly coached players.
     
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  15. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Matt Baker, about Lutz appearing on Tom Ackerman's show this morning on KMOX:

    Screenshot 2025-05-18 at 12-02-25 Matt Baker Lutz on KMOX quote.jpg
     
  16. Misha of IL

    Misha of IL Member

    Aug 15, 2004
    Gurnee, IL
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Who is this Lutz to be telling us to not to discuss their performance? Clearly, he does not undertand Americans . . . yet another reason for him to return to the Fatherland . . .
     
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  17. fortcollins

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    St. Louis City SC
    Apr 12, 2006
    Fort Collins
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's becoming a tradition that CITY doesn't post highlight videos for losses. Absurd. Anyway, here are Minnesota United's Match Highlight and CITY's Post-Match Press Conference videos. Hartel's comments in the press conference are interesting. Especially hear the Q-and-A beginning at 12:23.


     

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