Messi and Inter Miami have been eliminated in the MLS Cup Playoffs. pic.twitter.com/xbqkZcyjru— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) November 10, 2024
I didn’t watch the game yet, but the comments on the TSS Discord make it sound like MIami was getting away with sh*t and deserved to lose. I guess the viewership for MLS Cup going to plummet now
That was a beautiful thing. Haven't enjoyed a non-Quakes game that much in a long time. Some Atlanta players came up big. Guzan of course but also retiring wily veteran Dax McCarty - still kicking butt at 37. He made around $100k less than Alfredo Morales last year. We could have used him. And then the guy who scored the 1st 2 goals, Thiaré.
There was some sh*t but not a whole lot. Suarez dove, as expected, but Messi also dove near the end - that's unusual for him. They were getting desperate to save their season. Then on Messi's goal someone shoved Guzan back into the net. I was pleasantly surprised that the refs did not gift Miami, and they had multiple opportunities. I imagined Graber on the phone with the guys in the replay booth. "Isn't there something you can do to make this game go better!? There was an initial 2nd Miami goal that was called back for offside. It was about a body length, so not that close, but they could pull shenanigans if they wanted to. On Atlanta's 3rd goal, there was a Miami player down in the their box or near the box while Atlanta was attacking. The Miami players were waving their hands but the ref didn't stop play - no whistle. Atlanta kept right on playing and got a headed goal on a diagonal crosee.
He's been injured I think. Also, not sure he's much of a + at this point, playing CB. He got megged badly last night after he came in and it nearly led to a goal.
dysfunction in Philly Inside the fallout between Jim Curtin, the Philadelphia Union and the reasons why he's no longer the head coach.At the heart? A breakdown between Curtin and Ernst Tanner over the direction of the club."They didn't speak at all this year," sources said.https://t.co/Uhsnx5FjkR pic.twitter.com/yLtbSQ6cOR— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) November 12, 2024
If Toronto FC aren't going to fire Herdman MLS should give him a multi-year suspension Details emerge of Canada Soccer's 'obsessed' culture of drone spying https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mont...canada-soccer-1.7380308?__vfz=medium=sharebar
Gregg making changes... will Bruce do the same? Another Gregg in the building 👀Gregg Broughton is the Chicago Fire's new Sporting Director. #cf97— Chicago Fire FC (@ChicagoFire) November 12, 2024 🔥🚨 The Chicago Fire announce that the club has parted ways with Fire II head coach Ludovic Taillandier.Taillandier led the club to two successive playoff berths in 2023 and 2024 and reached the Eastern Conference semifinal this year.https://t.co/T4qA6fOaPY#cf97 #vamosfire— Alex Calabrese (@amcalabrese12) November 12, 2024
Success isn't the metric for second teams or academies, just like it's not for youth national teams... the Dallas MLSNP team just beat Philly 2 in the final playing guys like Logan Farrington who was a regular starter in MLS while Philly 2 started actual prospects at every position, from age 15 - 20. Maybe those 22-24 year olds from Dallas will actually end up performing better for the MLS team down the line than Philly's teens will, but would you bet on that? https://www.fotmob.com/matches/philadelphia-union-ii-vs-north-texas-sc/j183jx8x#4664217:tab=lineup
I believe I heard that The Town had the highest HG minutes and also the lowest average age for minutes in Next/Pro, but not sure if I heard that right. If that's true, finished 3rd in the conference is pretty impressive.
I finally got around to watching about half of the MIA v ATL game. The announcers said that Busquets had a chest contusion that could have lead to pneumonia. That didn't make sense at all...
I normally frown on copy/paste of a journalist's content. But Rory Smith wrote a few really clever paragraphs about what's happening in the Champions League right now. And his newsletter content is not public. So I hope he doesn't come after me for this: This Was Not the Idea The new Champions League format, as we all know, was inspired by two things. Money, mainly: More games and more glamour mean more revenue. But fear was a draw, too: Europe’s elite clubs did not like the idea of being at risk of elimination, even theoretically, that was inherent in the concept of a smaller group stage. The solution, of course, was to change the tournament to make it more to their liking, swaddling it in safety nets and second chances. Not that the members of the continent’s self-appointed aristocracy would have assumed that they would need them: Those top eight slots, the ones that bypass the first knockout round, were all earmarked for the tournament’s grandees. What a nuisance, then, that some actual soccer had to come along and get in the way. Occupying positions two through four at the halfway stage are Monaco, Sporting and Brest. Bayern Munich sits 17th. Real Madrid is 18th. Both are below Dinamo Zagreb. Still, it could be worse: At the current rate of progress, Paris St.-Germain will be eliminated. Even though that should change over the next few weeks — P.S.G. will, doubtless, make it through to the knockouts — it is hard not to feel that the drama has been in the tournament’s interests. Watching a procession is, ultimately, not particularly enthralling. And besides, there is something salutary in seeing the results interfere with the best-laid plans of the great and the good. Trying to rig a competition in your favor, in a game in which you already possess all of the advantages, is not really very sporting, after all.
If it hurts to breath and you're mostly only taking shallow breaths I can see how congestion could build up in your lower respiratory tract...
The USL is such a mess... United Soccer League Statement Hailstorm FC’s franchise agreement terminated and Central valley Fuego parting ways