Welcome to sdh's coverage of everything going on MLS Next Pro. We're down to the final matchup of the season. No Dilly, no Dela zone. We got highlights from the two matches. A lot of goals scored by the winners and they were both shoot shutouts and shootouts. Philadelphia Columbus Crew from Subaru Park. An offensive display by Union two out of the Eastern Conference. Here's your highlights, courtesy of our friends at MLS Next Pro and Apple TV.
A very trusty four one two one two shape for Marlin, LeBlanc and Sol on the top of that diamond always attracts attention from the strict round makes way. Coming in his place is going to be Owen Crescas in that left wing back position.
Very versatile player.
Eric Tattersall is our head official for our match this evening. Left side of your screen, and the all blue kids are Philadelphia. You ensue they're heading from left to right, right to left. In those yellows are Columbus Crews. Here, Jack Edwards, who with you in the broadcast booth? Fast guess, great touch from only after a solid pass.
Squeaks through point blank one. Neil Philadelphia Marcus Anderson pounces on the loose ball and gets the opening goal for the hosts.
Or is it the main subject of the halftime talk from Kelvin Jones.
Piano flabber ball Sullivan and a lot of space from distance deflect it and in.
Cavin Sullivan doubles the advantage for Philadelphia.
Now bringing the long throw flicked up biocycle kit clearance.
We've had the two minutes we've had the first half, and it's all Philadelphia.
Union two.
We're back underway Philadelphia heading from right to left and they're all blue kits in the all yellows Columbia. Besquez fires into the area off the crossbar. Second look for Davis, it's blocked point Blanka coming together there.
It's out now for a goalkick on to the left foot has Sullivan.
He has only Westfield overlapping cj One trying the chip Goodness Lapkiz backing up, got his hands to it. Cariano moves it out wide to Cavin Sullivan, Sullivan driving on to the left foot, low strike saved by Stoslapkez sield one back to Westfields curling ball in returns to the sender from.
Distance, low shot into the bottom corner. Frankie Westfield makes it three and Nilo with an outstanding right footed strike.
His ball into the box blocked his shots.
Vazquez in your posts click towards gold, Lap gives parries it.
Away only onto the right foot, clipped into the box.
What an effort.
Anderson on the rebound has his brace has four for Philadelphia.
What a night it's turning out to be.
Only What an effort from Vasquez, How close he came. What a pass and effort catches that one sweetly off the post, and Anderson does well in two touches to get that one out of his feet.
Nothing stopslat.
Cut back, Riasco saved by Lapcis Westfield gets under it and it's over. Ninety Is enough Philadelphia for the first time ever, our Eastern at Conference champions in emphatic fashion four goals.
To nil over Columbus Crew two.
Then on the Western Conference side of things, North Texas SC would take on at chuckdaw Stadium in suburban Dallas Fort Worth Saint Louis City SC two. Here's your highlights, and it would take a while for the goals to get in the back of the courtesy of our friends at last next pro an Apple TV.
Michelle Garbini, the man who stepped in the middle of the season, still in charge. One change from their lineup from last week, and it's a necessitated one. Are no changes from their lineup last week against the Town, and that was an extra time thriller.
Ninety to one hundred and twenty minutes.
The whistle blows and we are underway here from the Western Conference Final, the top two performing teams in the league.
Joey battle here.
That could be a limb to the head to the torso sometimes it's about how you land.
Joiner heads.
This a long goal and that's well done there by a Colode. Here it comes headed along goal, a fantastic stop, a springing save from Keloding. Here come the visitors once again, Kajima still going with it. Kajima threads it through, well stuffed once again by Keloone cuts inside, read service in, nodded away, another effort folly deflected away, and there's the halftime whistle. An exciting first half of action, but it's
still scoreless here at Chockchaw Stadium. Hoover to start out in the playoffs for North Texas, and then they did technically have to come from behind in that four to one victory against Tacoma last weekend. Of course, by the time that final whistle had blown, it was already a four gone conclusion.
Who was winning that game?
And he's really stepped up and had those captain moments these past two playoff games.
Talking about number.
Fifty, here's the service deflected upward falls through vencil shit boots and Calode once again making a twitch reaction stop. This has one option to pass forward, finds mc sorely trying to buy time as more White Jerseys get ahead, Kline winds up to shoot and that's another stop for Calode. So the first tactical changes or the home side as Sally comes out end of regulation whistle. I can't call it the final whistle given the score line.
And there it is.
Nothing to separate these two sides after ninety minutes scoreless between the top two teams. As far as the regular season is concerned, I'm sure all the boxes are checked. There's the whistle, and here we go bonus soccer. Here in the Western Conference final, how about that intervention Malik Henry Scott winning it back for his team pon Decca gets it return to him. Ponteca shoots, saved by Oli of Arris.
Here's an opportunity. Pushing forward.
Endally squares it across still on the fray, top back.
Here's the shot. It hits the back of the net.
Anthony Ramirez answer, there is that whistle.
And now.
A little break, fifteen more minutes to go. Well North Texas hang on to this lead, or will Saint Louis find a response? Dally taking it forward. He really made that goal scoring opportunity to happen. Handally still going, goes to the ground and a penalty has been awarded. Put them up to now North Texas by two. Petrino confident in his finish, and then went eleven zero to five at home this year. Is this one slips through? Is this the icing on the cake? Yes it is. Maleek
Henry Scott makes it three now for North Texas. Maleek Henry Scott these thirty seventh homegrown contract for FC Dallas.
So it's Philadelphia and it's North Texas. They're going to be playing at Toyota Stadium, not chalk taf. You get a chalktaw, you'll be the only one there. It's at Toyota Stadium in at Frisco, Texas on Saturday night to determine the winner in MLS Next Pro Most Valuable Player
we mentioned last time out. David Paraba for MLS Next Pro in twenty twenty four, also won the Golden Boot named of the Best eleven in twenty twenty four as well at Chicago Fire FC two best ever record MLS Next Pro in twenty twenty four, finishing fourth in the Eastern Conference playoff qualifiers for the second straight year. Paraba led the league in goals with eighteen so a big
award for David Paraba. Fantastic season for him in the Golden Boot chase and was a part of the Best eleven in MLS Next Pro for the twenty twenty four season. So Coach of the Year went to Tyrone Marshall for SC since two best record, number one seed in the
Eastern Conference. They went from twenty seven points in twenty three and seventeen points in twenty two to fifty four points in a record of sixteen, eight and four in twenty twenty four, as well as getting the Northeast Division title Keeper of the Year Michael Colodi no real surprise for third record of thirteen four and six led all MLS next Pro keepers and wins with thirteen, type for first in clean sheets with six ranked second, and save
percentage at seventy three point one twenty three matches twenty three starts, nineteen hundred ninety one minutes, conceding only twenty eight goals in the year, at least out by a keeper with nineteen or more games played in twenty twenty four Pro Keeper of the Month for the month of May, coming from Columbia University and spending four years there nineteen to twenty three over five thousand minutes logged. Native of Plano, Texas, so for him it was a chance to come home.
All IVY League Honorable mention, second team All IVY Senior year youth level. Played for FC Dallas's academy from fifteen to nineteen. Called up to the youth national team training
camps at the U fourteenth and U sixteen levels. Other finalists for Keeper of the Year Stoslopkis from Crew two, Manuel Ochoa from the town Philadelphia Union Two's Andrew Rick keepers In Best eleven it went to Colode Honorable mentioned Brady Scott from Ventura County defenders Nico Gordon from North Texas, Michael Winzel from Saint Louis City two, and Francis Westfield from Union two. Honorable mention went to Brian Schaeffer from
FC Cincinnati two. Midfielders Diego Gonzalez from Dynamo Dos, Aaron john from Crown Legacy, cj Only from Union two, Paraba from Chicago Fire To and Focuna Connette from Carolina cor
got honorable mention. Taylor Calera from NYCFC two, Mackay Joyner from Saint Louis City Too, and Meddi Womray where You're forwards, Honorable mention went to Utarosukata from Orlando City B. Referee of the Year in MLS next Pro Joshua and Carnassion, Jackson Krauser your Ar of the Year, fourth official Braden Fry and now the final awards of the regular season MVP and Executive of the Year will be announced in coming weeks. So very very cool stuff. They're very very busy.
Paraba was your MVP. Jack Lynn was the MVP in twenty three for Orlando City B. Jason Russell Rowe was your MVP in twenty two for Columbus Crew two. So that is your rundown of everything that was happening in MLS Next Pro. As always, you can follow along here every single week and we'll let you know what's going on in MLS Next Pro. And if you can make it too Toyota Stadium in the final to watch North
Texas and Philadelphia Union, please do. If you can't, follow along on Apple TV and on your local providers and on all of your streaming services as well as social media for both of these clubs and for MLS Next Pro. So as always, thanks for dropping by here to get the low down of everything going on in MLS Next Pro.
One more time we'll come back to and if you missed the interview with the Matt Denny, the GM at North Texas SC, you can go on the network and you can listen to it on the SDCH app through our friends at Speaker find out what the season has been like there in North Texas for the Western Conference Champs. For everybody here at SDH, I'm just John. Thanks for dropping by. That is your rundown of MLS Next Pro.
Enjoy the last match of the year. We'll follow it up with a breakdown of what happened and who's your champ in twenty four next week,