Sure? The question was who was the first American to play in 3 of the big 5, and before Mikey, Kasey played (regularly) in the EPL, Bundesliga, and La Liga, along with MLS. I'll also toss out an honorable mention to Claudio for an impressive multileague career. He doesn't officially qualify, but he captained Wolfsburg in the BL, started for City in EPL, and played for Rangers back when they were a super club.
No. Beyond his...um...amazing previous game, each of the last two games had one or the other normal starting central defenders on card suspensions. They're both back now.
On the bench: Ya tenemos 𝐗𝐈 para este #ElcheAlavés👥 Estos son los jugadores que ha elegido Mendilibar para el partido en el Martínez Valero 👇#GoazenGlorioso 🦊 pic.twitter.com/8NdX91ZOvC— Deportivo Alavés (@Alaves) February 5, 2022 Up 1-0 at the half.
I wonder where to for Matt. A Championship club? Maybe he tries the Bundesliga. I believe was it a year or two ago when a Serie A club wanted him?
Laguardia will miss their next match - away to Real Madrid - so I'm guessing Matt will get another run out? We'll see.
👀 𝐌𝐈𝐀𝐙𝐆𝐀 📹Eyes on Matt Miazga on today's training 👉 https://t.co/ZcbbQf27y0 #GoazenGlorioso 🦊 pic.twitter.com/VuyH6cOgXd— Deportivo Alavés 🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@alaveseng) February 17, 2022
Ya tenemos 𝐗𝐈 para este #RealMadridAlavés👥 Estos son los jugadores que ha elegido Mendilibar para el partido en el Santiago Bernabéu 👇#GoazenGlorioso 🦊 pic.twitter.com/4bY393LaNJ— Deportivo Alavés (@Alaves) February 19, 2022 Laguardia suspended, and Miazga gets the start against Real Madrid. Big moment.
They are playing RM and will get crushed. The Euro leagues have nothing like a salary cap so when some bottom teams play a RM, their chances are generally slim to none.
It's smart to save energy, it's not like they need to play 100% the entire game to dispose of releg fodder.
i saw about 60 mins of the match. Miazga looked pretty good. Broke up some plays, positionally sound, and made the correct passes. Didn’t have a whole lot to do. His name wasn’t called too much by Derrick Rae and Steve McManaman which isn’t a bad thing as a defender. And to be honest, in the 60 minutes I saw, Real Madrid were garbage. They looked like it they didn’t give two shits about the match. It was even worse than the performance against PSG midweek.
Real Madrid has looked like that for a few weeks now. The home supporters whistled at them for large stretches of the match. It was worst that the PSG performance in the 60 minutes I’ve watched.