San Jose Earthquakes - Inter Miami CF (Wednesday, 5/14) pre/in/postgame thread [R]

the Total Soccer Show podcast had Jeff Rueter on and he gave a great analysis on how Vancouver beat Miami. He said Miami traded away the younger players who were doing all the running for Suarez and Messi, a couple forwards, and the guy who was Busquet’s dog and doing all his defensive work and tackles. Rueter said Miami went instead for older more technical players. So it made me think the quakes could win the May-14 game, they just need a couple good fast guys in the middle and not be intimidated by Miami’s quality.

I don’t know why the podcast is showing me 2 links for the same episode…

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...ague-epl-and-more/id327466681?i=1000706521048

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...ague-epl-and-more/id327466681?i=1000706558126

 

Once again a better start time for me here in flyover country!

 

Will be enjoying this one from home.

 

Is Messi going to show up? I would be surprised if he doesn't.

 

They may be feeling the heat from 2 bad losses in a row, and looking to beat up on a minnow. We may not be so easy to beat. But OTOH, I would guess that whatever they planned to do with Messi had already been decided, and was not contigent on what happened in the Minnesota game?

 

Me too, but on replay.

 

The Quakes are flying high after beating the Timbers and CRapids and Miami is at a low point after losing 4-1 to Minnesota but I wouldn't put too much into it.

Miami can strike at any time with Messi & Co. and get back into any game.

They lost to Vancouver in the CCC and then came right back and beat the NYRB 4-1 who just blew out the Gals 7-0 yesterday so who knows what will happen.

This league is a trip.

 

If you have 2 tickets I'll buy them from you!

 

Winning isn't enough can the Quakes social media trigger Beckham

 

Beckham: "Be elegant in triumph"

Also David Beckham (OK, that was a loss for him, but fighting a mascot, really?).

 

Yes, just sic Q on him!

 

Messi's bodyguard

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Maybe he lost Messi? Dammit, where did that little runt go?

 

So seems likely or confirmed that Messi is here. My guess is that he subs in. They probably want to rotate their squad a little, and probably figure they won't need him to start in order to beat us. Also possible that they build up enough of a lead that they don't bother subbing him in. That would of course burn all of the Messi ticket buyers.

BTW Suarez missed the Minnesota game due to a migraine reportedly. So he'll probably start Wednesday night.

 

He indeed is here

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Homage from Catalunya!

 

Holy cow! Wondo sounded like he'd just guzzled a gallon of coffee. He was *amped*. Maybe he was coached to hype the game as much as possible. Those hosts are actually not idiots, and they were also apparently coached to mention, at the end, that the Quakes are the highest scoring team in the league, and also to mention the Stanford game against LAG and the Levi's game against LAFC. They even used the phrase Quakes marketing hype "biggest schedule in Quakes history".