Soccer Down Here 9/16/24: Reaction Monday on ATLUTD, Abe and Bart Join

I don't think Abe is with the Atlanta Falcons this morning. I think Abe gets to join us at his normal time in about nine minutes, and then Bart Keeler, fresh from the backyard brawl with Pitton West Virginia, will get it into what's on Bart's mind when it comes to

the US M and T the U twenties. By the way, last night, for those of you that stayed up late, you got to see a great one in the women's U twenty tournament down in Columbia, and we'll discuss that there's some Georgia influence there with Jordan Dudley, Riley Jackson and Jordan Dudley came up big late against Germany. In the quarterfinals. So the US advances to the Semis down there in the U twenty tournament. Very very cool stuff going on down there's whatever's on your mind this morning.

Obviously we're going to talk about it Atlanta United and the result that happened against Nashville. You really don't have a whole lot of time to think about it because Messi and friends are coming to town on Wednesday night, sold out house at Mercedes Benz Stadium. So whatever's on your mind from what happened on the weekend, whether it's Atlanta United, could be Premier League, could be anything. Whatever's there, go ahead and lay it all out for us here

on the morning show. We'll talk about it here until eleven zero five ish because then traditionally we end up going long and we'll just keep uh, we'll just keep going. But once again, we got stuff to talk about from the weekend. The two's had a nine goal chaos If you looked up chaos in the Webster's Dictionary and it

would be a picture of it. Land United too in Huntsbole City Football Club from yesterday nine goals at Lanty United down four, n Ill came back to four to three, then it was two goals within about a minute and a half and Huntsble City walks away with a or probably runs out of town with a six ' to three win over at Lanty United two. And now it is the margin of error no longer exists for Lanty United two. To get into the playoffs. Three matches left, you got to win them all and it starts Thursday

night here on the Network against Crown Legacy. It'll be a seven o'clock pregame show, seven point thirty three kick If my math is correct, Crown Legacy is the eight seed right now in the Eastern Conference. You got to beat Crown Legacy. In Matthews, you got to get a lot of help. No one can get North with forty points, and you've got to get wins. So that's how it is for the twos. Obviously a frustrating result with Atlanty nighted and what happened with Nashville, and we'll get into

that as well. So whatever's on your mind this morning, and before I get into opening kickoff and before I get into a it was great to see Pars and great to see four card and to be able to, like I said, and I got to explain to folks that were around Pars and Pars's boss meaning the better half that Pars is now chasing aston Villa and you had the the Everton aston Villa match from this weekend. I know that now Ropes and Tom Russo the Airborne DJ, will now be having a bit of verbal jousting with

Parr as he learns about aston Villa. But it was great to see folks and once again associate faces with name IDs and as we have grown into this family here at the SDH network over seven years, to be able to run into folks. And another random run in was one of the linesmen from the Friday I think it was the side judge from our Friday Game of the Week at GPB, another one of our plus ones, and so it was. It was just crazy to see

all of these random interactions as we go. But the fact that we all get to kind of run into each other and see each other and to be able to associate faces with names and IDs, it's very very cool. And don't ever and this is not opening kickoff yet, but don't ever be afraid to sit there and yell at me and go, you know, hey, numb nuts, you know, and like four card headed me off. He goes John. I turned and four card was there. He goes four card, and I'm like, wow, don't ever be afraid to sit

there and say hi. I might be running around nine hundred thousand miles an hour, but seriously stop me for you know, fifteen twenty seconds say hi, great to see you and all that. And that reminds me. I think I did it in the discord, but I'm gonna do it here now that I finally remember to do it. Here, Domer dropped off his new round of of spicy sauce. It was a It was a hot sauce for the Boss and a medium for me. And when Domer slaves over a hot cooking device and creates his his sauces,

always make sure to drop some bot the cossup. And it is very very it's very very humbling. It was like ninety five degrees when he dropped it off. But I'm surprised that the glass made it. But it was stuck in the mailbox. And I can't thank Domer enough for dropping by the Domor sauces once again. Here as we are getting out of the summer and into the fall of twenty twenty four, all right, Abe has punched his ticket early. I have no objections, none heard so

ordered otherwise. So I'm just gonna go ahead and bring Abe in and we'll talk about what's going on. I'm gonna save opening kickoff to the flip side of Abe because it's one of those opening kickoffs that you sit there and go, God, what did John eat for breakfast before this morning? It's one of those kind of sidebar things where you're sitting there going what is he thinking about? And where is he going with it? So we'll have

that coming up in just a little bit. So wasting no time once again, Abe Gordon, now that he is properly hydrated, hanging out with us from Colony Square, What is up, my friend?

friends and MESSI got to play on the weekend. But uh, I know that going into the match that obviously you're looking at a team in Nashville that hadn't been scoring goals, has been a team in transition under BJ Callahan, and they get to jump on it Land United early on, you know, only a handful of minutes in and so then you're you're fighting uphill from that moment. Rob Valentino after the match, and I do have some sound that I'll probably end up playing somewhere here in the show.

Rob Valentino said it was unacceptable, and you've got a team that was off for two weeks and they come out just flat, and it showed.

kind of see it coming. This one certainly blindsided him, and you could tell by the way he was reacting in the postgame discussion that he was incredibly frustrated. Kinda alluded to maybe not having an answer in regards to

the performance. Promised it wouldn't happen again, but kind of kind of walked back that promise, because like, if you feel like everything's trending in the right way and then they show up on on Saturday night at home to a winnable game, and then throw that performance out there, like, why would you be able to confirm that it'll never

look like that again? And this was one that it sounded without putting anyone's name directly out there, he wanted to put directly on the players, and to an extent, he did without doing it directly, And that's a cause for concern in regards to the playoff chase. I mean, this was probably your best case scenario for three points, right, You're fully rested, you're at home. This is the worst team in the Eastern Conference, at least at that time

according to the table Nashville was. Everything was working in your favor and then you throw out a performance that is essentially wholly non competitive and from the start too. I mean, you give up a goal in the fifth minute and it's pretty much over from there. You didn't rebound, right, You didn't respond to that goal. And that's the thing we at least have seen in some instances where Landy United has gone down early. I think we have sometimes seen a response. We just didn't get that today or

excuse me, on Saturday. And quite frankly, all the hopes of Alexi Moronchuk being an impactful player and I'm not gonna say that he's not. It's a one game sample size, right We're not calling for the heads of Raheem Morris. We're not gonna call for the head of Alexi Mouranchuk right now. But it was a very disappointing home debut for Moranchuk because in LA against the Galaxy, when he was on the road, he made his first career start

for Landy United. It did not lead directly to a goal, but I thought you saw how dangerous he could be and the vision that he's working with in some of the things. And I do want to make this point because a lot of people are talking about, oh, he had all these trainings and the chemistry with the teammates is going to be so much better than it was with the squad out in LA. Just remember it's not just about learning his teammates. It's also about learning this

league and learning the opponents. And you have to go through it and see how each team defends different aspects of what you're trying to do, and so the learning curve may be a little bit steeper for Moron Chuck then we maybe want to give credit to or maybe initially thought because he's a different style of player than a guy like Almana. It doesn't just come in the realm of takeover because I can beat this man one on one. It manifests itself differently. But it was a

disappointing home debut for Alexi Mironchuk. Hopefully he can be a little bit more impactful in the midweek game. But now you've got some real issues because Ronald Hernandez is potentially dealing with an ankle injury he picked up in training.

Pedro Amador got crushed and it might be sent into concussion protocol or who knows if he's gonna be ready, and so you all you are short staffed a little bit on that back end now, which anytime you're going against Miami probably not the place you'd want to be

a little bit short staffed. But the moral of the story here, John, is incredibly frustrating to see this performance because you had the potential of making a move in the standings, on the table, and if it was gonna happen, it felt like it was gonna happen in this game. It didn't. There's still some time, not a lot of it, but there's still some time. But now you've got to find a couple of wins, and at least one of them is probably gonna have to come on the road.

One of them is probably gonna have to come against teams that are higher than you in the table, and so you've you've got to find your way up another spot in the standings. And it would have been a lot easier to do that with three points against Nashville.

the possible injuries. Obviously Shanday's dealing with something that he's been dealing for quite some time with the foot. I'm still trying to figure out, since you mentioned Pedro Amador, how Sam Surage did not get a card of any

color when he cleared Amador out. When you look at the replay and you see Surage climb the ladder and take his and I know it was his right but I'm left handed, where he takes his forearm and basically cleans Amador out on the climb up, and Amador ends up landing face first on the turf because of getting

cleaned out by Surriage. No card, no foul, no nothing, and Promador was down for quite some time, and obviously they had to a head injury and you end up with a concussion sub I believe at the time as he was getting checked out. So yeah, this was, you know, the opportunity I think capital t capital O when it came to trying to get north of the playoff bar, and you would have been in. You would have been within touching distance of possibly even the seven, depending on

what Orlando would have done. But right now, as you say, it is still outside looking in. It is eight wins on the board, and DC is two points ahead of you. But once again, you're getting chased by the neighbor's dog if you're the postman, because you got all the neighbors dogs that are chasing after you when you hit the neighborhood. Because Atlanta's at thirty one, Philadelphia is at thirty, identical

record to Montreal, well ahead of Montreal. And this is what may just absolutely white Montreal off the map with any kind of consideration, a goal difference of minus twenty two, and Atlanta's got that come in to town in the next month. But Montreal at thirty points and seven win, Chicago's seven wins and twenty nine points, and they are

one goal ahead of Nashville in goal difference. And then really New England is still not out of it completely and totally, but they've got twenty seven points in twenty seven matches, So dogs are barking behind you. You're trying to take care of business with six to go, and you're trying to be two points better than DC to hop into the playoff picture. That's what you're staring at right now.

And it's an opportunity against teams that are theoretically worse than you, at least based on the current standings, to take all three and including one of those being at home in that game against Montreal, So those become integral. And then you got to find a way to either beat Miami Red Bull either here or there, Orlando City in the final game of the season. And so there's still opportunity. I mean, there's still three, maybe four wins potentially out there. But you just cannot look the way

you did on Saturday night, lifeless and listless. You weren't up for the game from the start, and that's the biggest issue. And I would imagine Wednesday with Miami and the top team in the Eastern Conference. You'll be up for it and you'll have a little bit better performance, I would think, whether or not Messi comes and plays the crowd, you know who had bought tickets hoping he would be, We'll be there in full force and hopefully

can energize the squad. But it's still there. That's what's kind of crazy, is you got another weekend of results that really didn't kill you in terms of what's ahead of you, and it's there. I mean, you've got the games that you need right there. You've also got a game in hand on some of the teams that are directly above you in that eight and nine spot, So you're gonna have to put use of that game in

hand and deal with it on that front. But yeah, it's concerning, because let's go back beyond just Nashville, right. You go back to that Charlotte game, and you put in a pretty strong effort over the course of ninety minutes in Charlotte, and you feel like you're trending up. You feel like you've got something going there, and then you come back home after rest and recovery and a game plan and kind of gearing up for this final seven game push. Now six games and it just wasn't there.

And now the flip side is you've also seen Charlotte and they had another poor performance this weekend, and you start to ask yourself how much of that was even Atlanta trending upwards or is it just a massive downward turn for Charlotte. And I think you can make your arguments for the downward turn from Charlotte, and then you combine that with what we saw from Landy United, it

does give you some concern. But you've got to find a way to pick up some points in games that maybe you don't expect to and that includes Wednesday against Miami. I mean, at this point you'll take anything. Even a draw at home is would be huge based on the

rest of the schedule. And again it makes that Philly and that Montreal game, I mean, those are unless you plan on beating Red Bulls twice and taking it to Miami on Wednesday, Like those two games are just absolutely must wins, like we're not gonna make We're not gonna kind of gloss over it as oh, you know, the season's not over if you don't win. No, like those are must win games, like if you're gonna jump into that spot, those are must win games. But the performance

is certainly concerning. And back to how we open the discussion, Like Rob Valley, Latino is not going to have very much patience in this one.

discussion down on the field. I would also blow off Jarrett, if we're gonna be honest, Yeah, I blow him off as much as possible to press box, I certainly would blow him off in the in the field, but no, I mean, look, he was working his way through it, incredibly frustrated, trying to gather his thoughts, and something tells me it's not going to be a fun week or half week of sessions leading up to this game on Wednesday, And all I can say is we talked about this.

Mike Connie was the one that pointed out really in the full time report, if there's anything, you're holding onto the one thing that Atlantic, because I said, the one that Atlanta and Nited just hasn't found consistency. They've never really stretched out their rags and hit a rhythm. And Mike County said, actually, they have found consistency in one thing, and that is playing to the level of their opponent, whether it be up or unfortunately, whether it be down.

And we've seen them compete with some of the best teams in the MLS. We've also seen them drop points to some of the worst teams in the MLS. And so if there is like a big glimmer of hope and it's like maybe once again they can rise to the level of competition and play on evil even terms

with Miami or potentially find a winner. And so that's kind of what I'm holding onto at this point because there's nothing from the performance on Saturday that leads me to believe that they're gonna be able to beat Miami on Wednesday. But again, it just hasn't seemed like one performance to the next, You've been able to carry over momentum, and that includes momentum that has gone backwards, Like it doesn't necessarily mean they're gonna have a stinker on Wednesday.

They might, but just because they didn't look good Saturday, it does not. Over the course of this season has not meant that they're not going to bring it on Wednesday. And so hope springs eternal optimism remains, and we'll see what they've got for the little guy, if he's brave enough to step out onto the pitch.

In the midfield played eighty nine minutes, so you're getting a lot of folks that logged a lot of minutes. Bosquets played ninety. Julian Gressel, as I'm scanning, he also played eighty one minutes, So you're you're front seven that you're used to seeing and the Gulf Stream Galacticos, Jordi Alba played ninety minutes. They all went the distance or most of it getting ready for this particular matchup that

we have here in the midweek. So the palace intrigue does exist as to how many minutes if any, those individuals will play in the midweek going up against Atlanta United.

an injury, like, they've just been cruising along. They've already clinched a playoff spot, they're still cruising along and it just hasn't seemed to matter that. That's what's honestly been most impressive is everyone who when Messi came to the MLS, everyone was like, all right, we know he's not gonna play forty five games this season or whatever the number may be how many points do they drop in the games that he's not playing. It has not been much.

They are just cruising along. I mean, what was it a three to one victory? I think over this past weekend they're still scoring goals without him, and it's not just him at Jordi, Alba and Suarez sketch like. They're still doing damage even when he's not the maestro on the field there. So it's really really impressive to see what they've been able to do without Messi and then quite frankly, a little bit scary to see what they

can do with him. But again, this is a Landy United squad that has already dealt with them one time this season and come out victorious and one of the more surprising results in the moment, And so hopefully they can they can rise to that occasion and do it again.

I think you have to go back to that. Insert Noah Cobb back into the lineup and Brooks Lennon and I don't know what you do on the left side right now, if we're gonna be honest at Yeah, Well, but I thought he was maybe banged up. I thought he maybe had some some limitations too, So we'll see what's going on there again with I know, in theory you could have maybe pulled most scare back there. But if Sean may Silva's limited, I mean it's a mess.

It's kind of a maybe maybe Tyler Wolf goes up top and most scaret however you're going to do it, But I would probably go back to three center backs this one. I think the question is fair. Uh who who was gonna lay it on the line? And I just don't know who you have in the reserves that I would make a change for. I think maybe you can ask more of guys that are going to be out there. But I mean, quite frankly, you're in the

midst of a final six game playoff push. It's a little late to be making like desperation moves because of mindset of players. And I think it's a fair question. By the way, Jared like guys were not fighting, And I think the biggest like instance of that was as we mentioned here, John when when Pedromdor got clocked and it was like, no one's running to his defense except for good Well, you weren't on the field though, Jared.

because I just don't know. You know, maybe you bring Moyam Bob back into the starting lineup, but like, I don't think starting Dax McCarty's gonna have some sort of dramatic change. I'd like to see Jay Fortune stay in there. I think he's performed. Well, uh, you're not gonna benchmarn Chuck. So it's just like, what are the changes to be had?

should get it. Notwithstanding, they're gonna they're gonna treat him like a real candidate. And I've said this before, but they're going to talk about him like a real candidate because he deserves that respect. He's been a steward of the club for years. He's been through multiple staffs. He has stepped up when you've needed him to to be the interim, he slid back into Gonzo staff. He stepped up in a really tough time. Again, you treed him

with respect. You're gonna interview him, You're going to show him that respect. You're not going to dismiss him. But whether or not he's coaching here next year or whether he's coaching somewhere else, this is a long ass audition for him for his career if he wants to be a head guy, maybe not an MLS right now, but somewhere else. And I think you want to trust the veteran guys who can get a job done. It's easy

for me to say, play the kids. It's a really easy thing for me to say that because I'm not the one with my job on the line and my future on the line. Because instinctively, it's, hey, put the kids out there, man. Let Luke Brennan go out there and try and start a fight again. He did last time he played. But it's it's so it's so much easier for me to say that sitting here than a guy who is trying to trust a team around him, not only to win games, but also again he's auditioning

for his future. So I mean, I don't know what changes you would make. You're gonna have to probably make some because I would imagine Omador's There's no way he wasn't concussed to oblivion and back. You know, you had a Stean took a knock, Derek took a knock, Sean Day was banged up and had to come off. You're gonna have to get really creative how you put this together Wednesday night. I don't know what changes you would make just for the sake of you know, fire and Brimstone.

But I yeah, we were standing on the field waiting post game and the hit on Amador I was the same way like Brad went to the Brad went to the referee, which is the captain. Good move. I mean, that's the rugby move too, for the captain to go to the ref. But the fact I was disappointed that I'm not saying somebody needs to go get sent off, but I'm disappointed that no one went up there and put Surage back on the ground. Yep, you don't have to punch him, you don't have to cheap shot him.

You you needed someone in that moment. The game's over, it's done, you're not doing anything, and then you have the team that's beating your ass to nothing in your house in a rivalry match, laying a cheap shot on your left back, and you don't do shit. No, No, somebody needs to go. You always say, like I said, you don't have to cheap shot him. You don't have

to you don't have to pertusie him. I'm not saying that. No, but somebody go up there and put a shoulder in his ass, put him on the ground and stand over him and create a mass confrontation because you can't let somebody disrespect you or your team or your badge like that. That's right, I am.

played on Saturday. And as we talked about previously too, for whatever reason, how guys play or perform, and either individually or as a team, one game to the next just doesn't seem to carry over, and you just don't know who is or isn't going to have it on a given night. And so I think trying to make and approach the roster, the lineup, the starting eleven, the reserves from from a more level headed mindset versus the emotions of what we saw Saturday is probably the only

way to go. Oh for Rob Valentino, I mean, you're no longer in a timeline, and this is why I like the Luke Brendan discussion to me as a non starter, and I like Luke Brennan. It's got nothing to do with him. But you're not in a timeline where you can send a message to the team. You're in a timeline where you have to find a way to get points.

And if you truly thought agreed that he was the way and best method to get points, then by all means, after thinking about it and considering it and calming down from Saturday, if you still think that's the best way to get points, then yes, make that change. But if you think it's sending a message to some of the other guys, some of the more veteran guys or whatever you want it to be. You just don't have the

time to do that. You don't have a game to throw away, certainly not want at home, and so you've kind of got to gauge what you're doing with your subs. Is it a message to guys or is it the

best way to get points? I think right now the best way to get points is still to go with the guys that, for better or worse, have gotten you where you are still fighting for a playoff spot, although I guess like everyone in the Eastern Conference is kind of still fighting for But but yeah, I think you do have to approach it a little bit more antical

analytically and a little bit less emotionally. And so that's why you might see a new formation, as we mentioned, maybe five in the back of three center backs, stuff like that to cover up some things. But in terms of like mass changes or like a hockey substitute, I just I just don't see that happening because you don't have the time or the points to play around with it anymore.

stretch count dawn. We're certainly gonna bring it, hopefully with some good news actor with the full time report, and really just looking forward to getting the Mercedes Benz Stadium, just seeing how juiced up the fans are on Wednesday, Mike and Jason, I imagine they're gonna be juiced up as well, and then hopefully it's not just a total letdown either by performance of Atlanta or by Lionel Messi not stepping onto the field at all. I'd like to see him get out there at least for a little bit,

maybe if it's even as a sub. But really excited about the potential of Wednesday. So we're just gonna build towards it and hopefully I'll help us move on from what potentially could happen tonight with the Atlanta Falcons.

about twenty five seconds behind real time. So you can gather yourself. You can look at something happen, and then you can look up at the monitor and you can see how Apple you know, broadcasts it in their in their in their broadcast. And I literally look at Surage climb the ladder and clear Amador out with his with his right but like I said, with his arm, clear

Amador out. Then Amador hits face first, and Surage has the how do we the fortitude to grab his head when nothing happened to it In that particular instance, I was waiting for somebody to at least give some kind of I'm not gonna call it payback, because payback would mean that, uh you know, you send our what is it? You send ours to the hospital, We send yours to

the morgue. I was looking for some kind of recognition from individuals about what happened to your left back, and short of and sort of Brad going to the official I saw none in pars.

necessarily at the door thing alone. Oh I'm sure that didn't help, but he was he was. I don't know if if y'all haven't heard the postgame presser, he's he's seething with anger, but almost at a loss for words. Because after the Charlotte game and a two week break to build up for this. He was pretty adamant. He didn't see this coming, the lack of fight, like, and they started to kind of like after they got their bell rung in the first ten minutes, I thought maybe

they'll grow into it, and they just never did. I think he was just irate. He's like, you know, he's like, we we do all this prep to get ready for games. He's like, and guys have to go out there and play. They have to go out there and do the job. And they didn't. Like, dude, they just didn't at the other night, he just like he when he did, he does his lap around the field. If you ever watched post game robill do a lap around the field and to plow the fans and thank them for coming out.

But then he got back to the tunnel and he went on a jog down that tunnel to the locker room, walked right in that locker room and closed the door, which minute was closed for all the access. And I'm assuming the Riot Act was read. But this is a thing that I was It's the thing stressed when Gonzalo Pina was fired, like didn't fix everything, and it very clearly didn't fix everything. You have deeper seated issues that need to be dealt with because you fired a manager.

We've got something of a bounce, not bounce but not really like there's still there's wont two issues here, Yeah, because yeah, like we're standing on the bench, I'm watching these hits like the hit on on the door, and like I said, you don't have to go get a red card and kick him. I'm not saying that, not saying you go start a fall on fistfight, but you gotta come up and body up on him, either knocking down, get in his face, do something, or you got to

get in honey Mooktar's face. Who's I think. I think honey Worth's the armband or no Zimmerman excuse me. Yeah, you gotta get in Zimmerman's face or Haney's face. You got to get in some even if Surgage is on the ground, you gotta get in someone else's face. And you gotta make it an issue. You gotta like, if they ask you want to make something about it, you say, yeah, let's go. You gotta make it an issue. You gotta

stand up for your teammates in that moment. I don't care if you're losing to nothing at home to arrival. That sucks. You put yourself in that position with the way you played. I need you to reach down and make sure you got a pair of balls, because when you are letting your teammates get trucked like that and your goalkeeper comes out to yell at the ref about why the REDACTA isn't that a foul? What the hell are you not protecting my guys? For goalkeeper can only

do so much. It's kind of one of those things of having the arm band on your goalkeeper sometimes where they're not able to really get into the mix and the fray of it all. Yeah, it's you gotta you gotta show each you got to pick up each other, and it's it's some of it's that, some of its you gotta show everyone. You gotta show everybody that they that that you are not to be yeah, that you were there, that you were not to be screwed with.

You gotta be willing to fight and to bleed. I didn't see another of that, and it was really disappointing because it should have been more like you. It should have been more of a there should have been more fight there, and I was really disappointed by that. Lack of fight from the team, and then you know the game notwithstanding, you know, you're when it was one nothing, you know, you get one thing that got me was the when when Steon gets hurt, and Steon's wasn't malicious.

He goes up, tries to win a ball. He wins all over till Bunberry and I think he his chin catches Bunberry and cuts open. And you know, your face has a bunch of blood vessels near the circle. So it's one of those things. You get cut on the face or the top of the head, it can be a very shallow cut and it will bleed a lot, Yeah, and it can look a lot worse than it is. Nothing malicious on either one of them. He's just he sky's Bunberry and I think he just kind of cuts his chin open.

is standing over on the bench. And you know, I told Maddie at the time, I said, this feels like it's it's just like a water break. You have ten minutes left in the first half. This is that moment where you can kind of recollect yourself, get locked in and see if you can make something happen in those last ten minutes. Instead, you gave up a goal that got called back for offside. Correctly, it's correctly called back, yes, but you ended up giving up a ball in the

back of your net instead. And man, dude, I don't man, I don't know. It's it is maddening watching them play like they did against Charlotte, which Charlotte's got it. Sidey Charlotte all you want as well, because Charlotte looked like dog water against Atlanta. Yeah, that should have been more than one nil. Kalino was outstanding. If we go back two.

imagine the concept right now. But you did that where you looked great, you were sound, and then it just wasn't there the other night, and yeah, man, like the first goal is that we've seen that happen and you'll see that happening games where like when a cross is overcooked and then you get the cross coming back, it can be really tricky to deal with because when you're defending a cross and it goes the other way, you're kind of at a position to deal with the countercross

coming the other way and you have to kind of reset and give flowers to Alex Mweel who takes that out of the air on the fly and gets it right. It's a really good finish from mu Will, who I did not know he had that in his bag. I don't know if he has it in his bag again or not. That might be one of those Wow, that

was amazing, How did I do that? But given credit for it and then yeah, you just you just didn't show anything the rest of the way man, it was Yeah, it was just it was disappointing that you showed up like that with a rival coming to town. We talked about Nashville's trying to change the wea they're playing. Look

they did, and you're gonna have those rough patches. They had a not rough patch the other night, and some of that is Atlanta not playing well and not looking like they really were up for it, which is again, it's a rival in your building. You can't not be up for it. That's not acceptable under any circumstances. Is that acceptable. But credit Nashville too at the same time, because while they're trying to build something new and trying

to rework something. When you're in that process, you're gonna get situations like, hey, you played that passage on the piano, and you played it right that time while you're learning it. And they played it right Saturday night and they got They earned a two nil win, and Atlanta didn't earn anything other than frustration and scoring right now, and they

have a very short time to turn that around. Even in postgame comments, Rob was I think kind of going through the usual cliches and was very blunt about you know, it's like I know it's these are the cliche things to say, but you do have to burn the tape because you do play like we can sit here, you and I can sit here and talk about the issues, and we can do it until hell Wednesday morning. Yeah, we can talk about that game.

Barco also got his ass beat at times. Yeah, but Honey Mooktar like the foul that he picked up going into the going into the final third, just outside the box where he it's hip where he gets hit like bumped on the hip hip to hip contact with I think it was ste On. It's like a hip to hip contact. And then Hanni just throws himself down slight goes on a slipping slide for ten feet and all it tooks out Derek Williams in the process when he

throws himself down was disgraceful. Man like Hannie is still good enough on the dribble and low key. One of my favorite battles to watch that night the other night was him and Jay because it's a couple of times he cooked j in the midfield, and there's a couple of times Jay didn't like completely lock him down or put him in hell, but Jay's slowed him down to where he couldn't trigger a counter and he had to play it back, which is what you can what you

do with Honey Mutar. He's so good on the counter, getting him to not turn on you and not start running at everybody is a victory and that was a fun battle to watch. Like, Jay worked his ass off, got burned a couple times by a great player, other times forced him to give it up, which is what you needed him to do in those moments. Yeah, that

was really annoying. But again, none of that changes the fact that they just didn't look like they were up for a rivalry game in your building against a team that is mostly dead but not We're not to the point where you can look through his pockets for loose change, but he is mostly dead, and you kept them alive. Of the games you have left, this was this was this was your easiest one.

Lionel and Suarez Kama Luiz. And he said Gomez played eighty Rodondo when he was in played almost the full ninety He got the token, He got the token eighty ninth minute substitution. Let's see two four played eighty one minutes, so you maxed out your guys. You maxed out your minutes. David Martinez only played fifteen, but you know, obviously he was removed. They're going to keep an eye on him

for injury. And Marcela Wagant played the full ninety So basically, I think nine of the eleven guys that you played were in that eighty to ninety minute run from your starting eleven. So how much of that you know means that you're going to come in here with a rotated side on Wednesday night? We will see news also out of inter Miami this morning is uh, I don't what

the hell? Before Bart gets here, I'll go ahead and give it to I'll give I'll give it this considering that it is a fairly large piece of information, So we'll go ahead. Messi and friends got smart. Benja Kroumowski is signed to a contract extension through twenty seven, club option for twenty eight, currently in his second season with the club after signing his first professional contract. The fifth Inter Miami CF Academy product to sign for the first

team since November of twenty two. Chris Henderson got his sentence, Kromoski got his sentence nineteen years old, joined in August to twenty twenty one and first team first seasons fifty nine appearances all comp six goals, nine assists, start at the U seventeen level, GA Cup Semi MLS next All Star nod and so you also have him getting a US M and T duty back in September of twenty three.

By making his USM and T debut, becomes the first player to complete the player development Pathway MLS next Next Pro Major League Soccer. Also the youngest member on the USA's roster. In Paris he U nineteen men's youth national team Slovenia Nation's Cup triumph in September twenty two. So Kroumowski signed to a contract extension through twenty seven with an option for twenty eight.

team that showed up in Charlotte. And frankly, I need a little bit of Charlotte in him. Go back a couple of weeks ago. I need to go back a couple of weeks ago, not to in Atlanta played Charlotte, but when Charlotte was playing a game, somebody got clipped and actually Westwood looked like he was gonna absolutely disembowel somebody and put him in a blood eagle.

that Mercia Pochettino is here, he is officially official. All of the Chelsea based contract elements have been apparently sorted and signed, and so now Mercy of Pochettino, the worst kept secret and all of international soccer, is now nine ann and now part of the US soccer community. Let's say you Bart Keeler, well.

and how to communicate that to the players. And you know, it sounds again, there are some things he said that were similar to what Greg Burholter would say, but they sound different and they are framed differently. And then there's a lot of different things that he mentioned and those are what I'm hoping that we can see.

and on the ball. But then you know, in November you get into Nations League, and as much as we joke about playing a Caribbean country in the middle of November, Greg Burhalter's team struggled against these early round Nations League's opponents in this kind of secondary tier in Conca calf And you know you don't have the runway to screw up there because you need to be in that Nation's League final come March. Because you know the amount of truly competitive matches.

didn't really have a response. So those are important games because we know that those teams, and this is something he also touched on in the press conference. Those teams come to compete, they come to fight, and they come with passion every game. And if those aren't exist, if those don't exist within the team every single time they step foot on the field, which they have not under Greg Burholter, and I think he is very much to

blame for that, despite people's wanting to blame players. Yes, Greg never approached a friendly as a do or die situation, and to be quite honest, from the sounds of the press conferences leading up, he did not approach Copo America as a do or die situation. And you know, the Argentinian desperation, the Argentinian passion hopefully translates from Pochettino to the US ben national team.

time to integrate whatever philosophy that Mercy Pochettino wants. He says, the circumstances after the Copo America situation weren't good for the players to manage in the last two games. But the most important thing is to see the potential that we have. I see very good players end quote. I send the message to every single player around the world,

they have the door open. Considering that no MLS players saw COPA action, and twenty three to the twenty six were European based, Cade Col the late replacement for Geo Rena, the only Mexico based US player called into the last three camps. So obviously Pochattino's trying to hit the right buttons in the press conference. He's trying to win the press conference by saying things that folks want to hear.

don't completely and totally blow out your will. I will try to keep you till ten thirty and just that way you can get into your your honey and diving into everything else Jared, anything else, on your mind US national team wise before we head to the youth national team and the chaos last night in Colombia.

the seventies in the eighties that were not so. Germany had a two zero league going into ninety plus The US scores at ninety plus seven. The US scores at ninety plus eight to equalize to send it to an extra thirty players just basically tried to survive and not to totally you know, cramp up. In that thirty minutes. It goes to PK's. US wins three to one in PKS, and the chaos that was there bordered on truthfully national team after dark. I mean, it was out of control

last night. But the US makes it to the Semis in the U twenty Women's World Cup. Come back for the ages added and the way that it's being looked at its goals at ninety plus eight and ninety plus nine as opposed to ninety plus seven and ninety plus eight. So yeah, go ahead and go ahead and add to that. So ninety plus eight, ninety plus nine, you're down to nil, you tied it too, You go to PKS, you win in PKS, You're now in the semis. Holy ish, Yeah, well.

completely dominated. It's just the fact that Germany got a penalty kick called for them to Actually we saved one in the first half. And we'll talk about.

There was some raffing down here this week, and one of them has to do with moments in the other match that you were paying attention to that has nothing to do with the backyard brawl, the possible kind of a backyard brawl. But yeah, true, that is absolute true.

with the player. The ref shows yell to Urian Timber, checked by var for a potential red it was waved off as no red card. And this goes off of the Curtis Jones Eves Busuma challenge about a year ago. But there are things that you look into account about force and getting to the ball first in contact with the player. Walk us through that.

a player whose arms are away from the silhouette. And it's not just because on the rebound off of the save it hits an arm that's outside the silhouette. The handball no handball discussion comes up because while the player's hands are away from his body, it's not a natural position, but it's coming off of a goalkeeper save action. What's the idea there?

I'm actually having some fun, all right, So get back to work, my friend. My apologies about backyard brawl and the back and forth fourth quarter that I know probably

took ten years off of your life. And we will catch up with you when we'll catch up with you, obviously in this sense next week and obviously if anything else happens when it comes to national team stuff or anything bat signal worthy we will catch back up with you soon, my friend, save the pipes and hollow out your desk and turn it into a Costanzo like setup.

how that works, all right. So that's Bart, And once again, thanks to Bart, thanks to Jared, thanks to Abe, and now that we are in the final thirty five ish minutes, will they didn't even make it. They didn't make it to the sixth frame. I mean literally, it was Yeah, we got twos to talk about. And I know that you want to talk about hunt City, so that's a part of it too. We'll get into the twos discussion

here in just a bit. Since since Will is discussing and wants to discuss spoilers in the Eastern Conference playoff race and that happened yesterday involving Landy United two and Huntsville City Football Club, you can go back and actually listen to our broadcast. You can go to our Mixler channel soccer down here dot mixler amixlr dot com and you can listen to our broadcast from it yesterday. Yes, yeah, one and two in regular time, one in four in pks, yes,

so two for six total. I was thinking just specifically in the pkpks, so yeah, two for six in the game. So we'll get into that discussion. But I have yet to have opening kickoff with you, and I need to go and say hi to everybody and get to a couple of points that I do want to bookmark, because I was looking at the discussions that we were having and I want to bookmark them for tomorrow. So there are things that were brought up. I don't know if we'll have time to bring them up, and if I do,

and if I don't, bring them up in their entirety. Then, so here's what I may do. I've got to do open any kickoff, I'll talk to twos, We'll go through the timeline, we'll say hi to everybody, we'll get what's

going on. Champions League kicks back in tomorrow. We've also got the news of the morning where Manchester City is facing the inquisition, and we'll get into that too, So we'll get into the news of the am and like I said, if there's something that I feel we need to spend a lot of time on that's in the timeline,

put a bookmark in it. We'll talk about it tomorrow because there was some stuff in there that I do want to talk about, but I think it's going to take longer than just sitting there and saying hi to everybody like we always do. So we'll do opening kickoff, We'll talk to twos because Will is here, We'll go through the timeline, say hi to everybody, and go through talking points. And then, like I said, if there's a

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basically to nothing. There are things that will happen and once liquid and the fancy thing is like when liquid goes down my throat, then what it will do is it will trigger something in my throat that will cause me to cough. There's nothing behind it. It's just like you know, it's like a drive by. It's like a liquid drive by, and the water or whatever will go through my throat and it'll hit a particular part of it and it will trigger my throat and I'll cough.

And that's why you'll see me kind of mute sometimes, is because the liquid going and rubbing against part of my throat. And this is probably a little too much for this is E and T down here, and I apologize for that, but I'm getting to my point. Folks all around us every single day will always want the

best for us, and we love them for it. And so I go to my E and T. I get a little treatment, and then I get a cold on top of my treatment, and so basically everything that I was working on degraded back to square one because I got a cold. And it's like my third summer cold this year, and it's the most summer colds I've had in probably like seventy five years. And so every single time I think I'm making progress, I end up getting

a cold and everything regresses. So one of the folks on our TV on Friday nights is into the homeopathic remedies and things like that. So show of hands, how many of you, you know safe viewing and save listening, how many of you are going down the homeopathic route when it comes to remedies and fixes and cures and

things like that. I want to know just because I know that this person on our TV crew, who is incredibly valuable and a fantastic soul, she goes down the homeopathic route and she swears by it, and she's, you know, she's doing very well. So she sees and she knows what's going on with me, and she's like, Okay, here's what you need to do. You need to go to uh do you do you have this health food store near you or this health food store near you? And I said, well, I have them both, and she says,

we'll go to be. So I go to be, and what she is requested, what she has encouraged of me is to go and get oil of a regano. I'm not kidding. This is the homeopathic route that she has chosen for me. And she's like, Okay, go to the health food store, get oil of a regano and start using it. It will help you with your immune system and it will hopefully and it might even probably get rid of your cough. And I'm like, okay, I'm in.

So I go to the health food store and I go and I get and I'm literally I'm texting back and forth with her. She's like, no, you need the liquid form. You don't need the pill form. So you get the liquid form with the dropper and all that kind of stuff. So I go and I go in and get it at the health food store. And so it says on the side of the bottle, you know, two to four drops and you can do it two to four times a day. Alex were getting there, So on her advice, I go and get the oil of oregano.

And me being me and all of you knowing who I am, Alex brings up the key point. Didn't I tell her that a regano is too spicy for me? Frankly because oregano is not normally a part of anything that I may eat unless it's Italian food and it's a fancy Italian restaurant. I'm really not chasing oregano as a part of my day to day. So I am ill informed when it comes to oregano and it's level

of spice. I take the first sampling of the oregano and drop it on the and it's got the dropper, and so I literally take the dropper and I I put four drops on my tongue straight out of the blox. It burned the ever love and ish out of my tongue, and it tasted like salt. I mean literally, it tasted like salt and pepper. And someone just dumped like salt and pepper onto my tongue and I was my eyes

were watering. My eyes were absolutely watering. I put the oil of oregano directly on my tongue, not knowing what I was getting myself into, and I'm thinking, you know, regano, it might be a little I'm maybe I was confusing it with basil. I don't know. I was thinking that oregano wasn't going to be as spicy as it was. But literally, it felt like someone had just dumped a truckload of pepper on my tongue and there was nothing I could do about it. And so it's like I

was I didn't have any drinks with me. I was in the car by myself, and I'm trying to figure out what have I gotten myself into. Then after I do that and tell her that I've gone to the health food store and picked up the oregano and explained what I've done, she sends me this note, and I'm going and I'm gonna do it verbatim from what she texted to me. I'm going to tell you verbatim what she said. Let me find it here. Uh all right,

please dilute. She's a strong one. Do it day and night for the next four days, and once a day or week for preventative measures. And so I said, I did it straight on the tongue. Before reading this, you weren't kidding about the burn, because she says, put two to four drops in a cup, and this is what she told me before. But I didn't read it until after add a couple of water, drink it down. It could burn a little bit, it'll go away. Oil of oregano kills every thing, and I wouldn't be surprised if

your cough goes away too. So she sent me that text before in the timeline in the Timeline of our lives, she sent me that text before I had purchased it and used it for the first time, so she warned me ahead of time, but I did not look at my phone until after I pulled out the dropper for the first time and went directly onto my person and did it that way. So I was wondering just how many of you go down the homeopathic group and what it looks like, you know, when you guys chase after

these kinds of things. By the way, I'm chasing after something that flew into the office and I don't know how to get rid of it. So it's attracted to light sources. So yeah, So my adventures with Oregano, I thought we were going to be more like adventures with Basil, and it is not the case. So I don't know if it's helping. I think it is. I think I'm coughing less, but it's just it was a it was a walk down the homeopathic route that I did not

anticipate taking, and I paid for it. And now that I'm having to put it in a glass and water and I'll swirl it around. Literally, you can smell the oregano when you're done. You can smell the oregano in the kitchen like a mile away. The boss is like, yeah, I'll try it too, but you literally, you come downstairs, you'd fake that left turned through our living room into the kitchen. You can smell the oregano the second that

you hit the door, jam the doorframe. The second you walk into the kitchen, you know that one of us has done our four drops of oregano in our glass of water, and I mean still diluting it through the water. It still gets to my stomach and still get through my nose. So yes, Adventures with spicy spices that I didn't think were spicy that are supposed to help me out,

I think are helping me out. But we'll see. And I didn't know how many others of you took the homeopathic route and used that as a way to help you through situations like mine. So there you go, Adventures will Spices. That's opening Kickoff brought to us. Buy our

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you go, And like I said, I apologize. There is a fly or something that is going around here in the office that's attracted the light and it might be in front of the camera, and I'm gonna turn all the lights off when the show is over and hopefully I can make that bug get out of here. All right, Let's say hi to folks this morning, and everybody who's come in will go over practice. Apparently Amador is practicing this morning. Shanda is not, so we'll keep an eye

on that. Morning Scherif Morning, Alex, Morning David. David's like needing LGP on the squad. Someone needed to check on Surge and put a knee in his temple or cleating his leg, dirty dirty stuff. It was, and the fact that he is like, you know, oh, my head as he's walking away from the physios. I would like there to be some kind of retroactive viewing from our friends in New York. I don't know if it'll happen, though, and it would have to happen either today or tomorrow.

Late in the afternoon. Morning Pars once again, Good to see you, Derek. Morning Emilio. Let's see morning Will. We'll get into the twos in a bit once again. Morning a Milia, Morning Rich. Let's say, morning Wiley. Let's see Morning Sharif. Will is looking at the two's roster and seeing who can work their way forward. Pars with a possible lineup. Morning Michael, and let's see, yeah for Tusi with the reference. Let's see Pars, Will, Emilio, David, Morning

Katie Weaver. Good to have Katie Weaver in here this morning. Morning four Card once again, great to see you, and shake hands briefly. Mercedes Benz on the weekend, Will once again. Yeah. We got into discussing the women's national team, and Will says he thinks the three longest tenured coaches in FBS or Iowa, well that's four Iowa clemes in NC State

and Pitt. I don't know if Doron is or not, but I mean, if Doran's made the move and he's had a contract extension every time that he's like a ten win team at NC State, He's like, I don't know, people are interested. NC State signs him to Doe a deal. He's like gusmels on to the acc where I don't know, folks are interested. N C State's like, what can we do to keep you? And then they sign him to a contract extension. He goes back to being eight and

five parents, dabboed, Dorian and Nardoozi. That might be. Let's see morning me in my conversation with Will Morning four card morning, Will morning unk. Good to have you in this morning. And once again there's Alex okay, all right, we'll talk MLS next pro here a little bit since Will's in the timeline yesterday, Oh my god, it was chaos and the margins of error and you can listen to the full thing on the twos review on the Network.

We caught up Maddy caught up with Ashton Gordon and with Steve Cook after the match at Lamba United gave up before the twos gave up four in the first thirty seven minutes against Huntsvill City and Huntsville City on a couple of occasions just went over the top, went with the long ball, tracked it down, got into the eighteen and got it past Jayden Hibbert. So they're down four nil. They score one late in the first half to go four to one, score one early in the

second half to go four two. Ashton Gordon scores in. He comes in as a sub has a slam dunk at the back post to make it four to three with about ten minutes to go. I think it's like eight. And then I've got him in the eighties second and then Jonathan Perez and Pussius Pussius with the hat trick on the day Pussyus puts a a PK pass Jaden Hebbert. Final score was six to three. The road team in that series has won every game. Huntsville City won the

first one July of last year. The following three at Wicks Family Field in Joe Davis Stadium were won by Atlanta United, two in Huntsville. Huntsville City won yesterday, and Huntsville City scored the most goals that they have scored in a season in a season appearance with six yesterday. They had scored four on two other occasions this year, but getting six. Pussius a hat trick on the day, Bologno scored and then it was forced a Jago getting one,

so it was Pussius with three the Jago. That's five Pussius with three forster, ro Jiago, Johnny bolanos Oh and Jonathan Perez. That's your six. But yeah, it was it was chaos and it could have very easily been four to four and then all bets would have been off. But to the discussion that we were having about twoes players that possibly would be impactful on Wednesday, And Mike has also released this morning the crew that is in

the middle. Then let's see. We do have the ref's assignment from this morning and I think, oh, let's see, we'll Sindo Mendoza is the man in the middle. Your ars, Jeffrey Grease and Nick Yuranga. Fourth official LISTA Nichols Unice Maracci is your v R. Ian McKay is your a v R. Doug Robertson of the AJAC is at practice this morning and he's says that Atlanta took the field

about a little after ten o'clock. He did not see Shandi, but he did see a Pedro Amador, So that's good news and we'll keep an eye on that as well going forward. Let's see what else is going on. Oh, the twos. To wrap up the twos discussion, Yeah, Dowd made a couple of big saves in the first half as well, for it was his sixth start of the year. Brian dout in net for Huntsville City, So the margin

for Aaron. Like I said, you can listen to all the highlights on the post game and where things stand in the Eastern Conference on twos review, it's on the network. You go to spreaker dot com that's like Speaker with an R in the middle, and you've download the Spreaker app and then you search for soccer down here. Then when you set your notifications, you'll know when we've got something live. You'll know when we got something on tape. You'll know when we got a twos review. You know

we got one v ones. We've got a one v one coming up later today, which is very very cool. We catch up with a former Georgia Impact to wp SL player, Monigo Carnly, and she she is in Guatemala, so she has gone from the SEC where it just means more to Georgia Impact to Guatemalan pro soccer. We'll catch up with Carnally later today and that'll be a one v one on the network. And so, like I said, if you go to spreaker, you go to soccer down here,

save us set your notifications when that net. When that interview goes live around dinner time, then you'll be one of the first ones to know that we caught up with Minigo Carnly from Georgia Impact and who's now playing in Guatemala. So that's what's uh, that's what's up, as the kids say with that. But yeah, Will it was an absolute car crash of the match. It absolutely was, and so we will. Yeah, and Jadon Hibbert from the fortieth to the eightieth definitely did stand on his head,

so it was it was a car crash. And you can go to our mixer site and you can listen to the match in its entirety. All of our twos matches from this season are on our mixer site, so if there's a particular match that you want to hear, you can go back and listen to it. And it's been a fantastic season. Three matches to go for the twos. The margin of error when it comes to the postseason is officially gone. Had they won yesterday, they'd be at thirty four points. They'd be six points out of a

playoff spot. With three matches to go. The next match they have is Thursday night at Matthews at the Sportsplex, taking on Crown Legacy, who is the eighth seed right now at forty points. Atlanta United two is at thirty one seven wins, three matches to go, So right now the marker is forty. Anything north of forty forty one and the twos are out of the playoff hunt. Still chasing with three matches to go, but the margin of

error is as slim as slim can be. Chattanooga f Seas at thirty eight points, Carolina Corps at thirty seven, Toronto's at thirty four, Red Bulls three, Atlanta's at thirty one. See a win yesterday would have put him at thirty four points, six points out two to go. Right now it's six points out three to go. Now it's nine points out three to go. So that's a lot of chasing for the twos. But yes, Will, it was an

absolute car crash of a match. You can go back and listen to it, and you can listen to the Twos review if you just want the short version where we catch up with Ashton Gordon and Steve Cook can play all the goals. The goals themselves. I think took four and a half minutes four and a half minutes for the goals. And by the way, if you have not set your fantasy team, set your fantasy team, set your fantasy team, did you know? By the way, And this is something that I did not until I was

alerted to this. The Orlando Pride in the NWSL, they have an unbeaten strength of twenty one games. Will a goalless draw against Kansas City Current. They are four matches away from an undefeated NWSL season. Well, see if we can catch up with Jen Hildreth on a Tuesday in short order and catch up with one of the busiest people in show business and find out about the NWSL. Maybe we'll ask Marion Crowder about it on Thursday too, and Mary will let us know about Super League and

SEC and all that kind of stuff. So here's the rundown for the week. Once again, the Minigo Carline interview will be on tape and that will be up on the network tonight around dinner time Tuesday, So wide open Tuesday. We'll catch up with everything that we don't talk about today. We'll talk about Major League Soccer. Will get you ready for Champions League. I know I've got to go about

the news over overseason a bit. Wednesday is evolving into a midweek whip around because obviously with Messi and friends in town, we got to talk about that all the other matches that's your fantasy team and get ready for that matchup. Don't know how many of the herons will be available. Mike mentioned in his two hundred and eighty character app this morning he believes that Ovulus and Busquets might be out because of yellow cart accumulation. We'll keep

an eye on that. But a lot of the thought that played Philly and Rich knows this played at least eighty minutes, if not in the full ninety, So it will be a rotated side unless you're going back to back in with your activity on the weekend. But looking at the schedule, we know Atlanta hits the road and they take on Red Bulls at Red Bull Arena on Saturday night. The matchups on Saturday at NYC at Yankee Stadium. That's the leadoff game at Yankee Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

So you're going from Grass against Philly playing everybody ninety minutes. Basically, a lot some played eighty most played ninety except for Doved Martinez who has swapped out after fifteen minutes. Keep an eye on that for an injury notification to the matchup midweek against Atlanta to going to Yankee Stadium and being the early match on Saturday afternoon on season past at two o'clock. Methinks the hero and will be rotated.

Wednesday Tyler at nine fifteen will see if Dylan Butler, the busiest man in the Northeast, can join us at ten Mary and Crowder hopefully can join us at ten thirty. We'll squeeze in a midweek whip around. In all of that, see if we can catch up with a jacent at some point. Also, remember that's a seven forty match time on Wednesday. Thursday. It will be a reaction Thursday and our number one, our number two is your Power Hour with Nino and Nico at ten and ten thirty. Then Friday,

once again it is a weekend whip around. Pat and pending trademark coming sooner, hopefully rather than later, because Atlanta's got to get ready for the match up against Red Bull as the sprint to the playoffs continues. Three matches in eight days, so we have all of this stuff to talk about, and the match at Red Bull Arena is a night game, by the way, in Harrison, New Jersey.

So that plus all the other league stuff, plus Thursday night with the twos taking on Crown Legacy on the network, It's a busy week a lot of stuff into very little space, and we'll be talking about it all week long here with everybody. I noticed, and this is probably something that we do need to roll over to tomorrow. And it was a discussion about the playoffs and whether or not Atlanta United should even chase the playoffs. Bookmark that I want to talk about that tomorrow. We don't

have enough time to get into it today. So Derek, Emilio, Michael and anyone else that has gone down this road in the twitch pitch this morning, remind me as we talk about the rest of what happened this past weekend in Major League Soccer tomorrow to get into this discussion about playoffs, no playoffs, et cetera. So I'm asked king that you be my brain, and I know that's a

large ask. So all of the all the talk about playoffs and I'm not gonna do the Jim Moore drop because that's not germane to what we're getting into here. Let's talk about the playoffs in a longer discussion tomorrow because we've got a lot of news to get into before we get out of here. So I'm asking to bookmark the discussion about playoffs. No playoffs, Rich Morning Union los to MESSI and friends. But at least he'll get

to watch the Eagles smash the Falcons tonight. I should I think I started, I started, Man, I should have started Dallas Goddard instead of Dylan Schultz from Texas. So so we'll see. Let's see pars in the in the discussion Chaine. But yeah, Will, how was the twos game? In person? All was a car crash? I said, Maddie and I were there for the network and it was

a car crash. It was one of the it was one of the wilder games that I've called in play by play, and it was absolutely nuts to go through that game the way that the way that we did and be a part of that discussion. UH Derek saying, play the kids will sing, Nobel Kellow and Ashton Gordon pars Well the possible UH starting lineup for Wednesday, and let's see Uh, Emilio Robin wanting the job once again, bookmark that bring that back tomorrow. Uh, let's see mm

hmmmm mmmmmm mmm. Yeah. And David says it looked like a five three to two last time against Miami, Derek Stion, Abram Lennon, Wileye McCarty, Mumba Yah Almada and uh Tra and Saba. So probably uh five three two three five two against them. But once again, I believe, uh, that's gonna heavily rotated, considering what we're seeing from Mike, what

he thinks about yellow card accumulations. How many minutes folks played the midweek knowing that you've got to be on the road again, and Miami is in the middle of a three game of a three game swinging eight days like everybody else. But my guess is, after this match with Philly, or they had the matchup with Philly, then you have the matchup with Atlanta, and then you have

the matchup involving NYC on the weekend. So you look at what Miami has been doing, Miami on the road, Hang on just a second, then you had so you had Miami at home, Miami on the road in the midweek. My guess is is. I don't know if they're gonna I don't know if they're gonna fly home and fly up to New York. I don't know how counterintuitive that would be, but yeah, Miami's gonna be on the road

two matches in four days. They may as well just leave here and go to New York's and be ready for that early afternoon kick the first match of the day. That's crazy. So that's what I'm looking at. I'm looking at a rotated side, and I'm looking at them possibly traveling to New York immediately after because they've got the early match on Saturday. To see what you're staring at when it comes to enter Miami and Messi and friends

in their trip. Yes, Arthur was in the house alongside his son Josh, who is the alternate governor and the one who is in charge of all soccer meetings and things like that, and Garth. There was the cutaway Garth talking to Josh, uncle Arthur listening to the match. So, yes, the Blanks were in the house. Let's see, let's see. Katie says, making Dacks go out like that against his former team is a disgrace. Yeah, pars Honey, got everything

called from in that one basically made a paper. In the second half, he's it's so disappointing, you know, the talent that is there in Honeymook Tar. But he decides that he wants to try to to dive and try to create things that way will and playing the kids is a part of it. Milliare discussing the d and its improvements. Let's see, I'm trying to go down the list here. Yes, yeah, my takes Regano's two Spicy john

and food down here. But yeah, seriously, David, it was like somebody just dumped pepper on my tongue and smell it all over the place. Trial of the Century this week is going on overseas and it is the beginning of the hearings involving Manchester City in one hundred and fifteen charges the clubs. Apparently according to the Telegraph, and this is an exclusive by Jeremy Wilson at said Telegraph

Premier League Clubs headline. Frustrated by secrecy surrounding Manchester City one hundred and fifteen charges, hearing sources argue the case being held in public would bring clarity, accuracy and act as a future control and deterrent cities. Hearing is confidential, being held in private in front of an unnamed three person commission in accordance with Section W of the Premier

League's rules. Public details of the city charges have been restricted only to a basic list of the rules and seasons of each alleged breach, and while photographs have emerged of legal teams arriving at an arbitration center in London, even the location of the hearing was kept under wraps.

A lack of shared information extends even to other Premier League clubs, and although what are deemed interlocutory decisions judgments during the hearing could be shared as deemed appropriate, the next definite date will arrive only when the commission's final awards are published on the league website. Premier League rual w dot four four even says only that the chair of the three person commission may order that a transcript

of proceedings be be taken. Premier League has followed the rules for an independent commissioner peel Board is set out in its handbuck, but after Everton, Lester and Forrest, there's now feeling both inside clubs and among sports lawyers, greater transparency is needed and so early returns there that the clubs are none too pleased with what's been going on

and not telling anybody what's up with Manchester City. Wilson I guess for today's requested required reading breaks down the charges, all one hundred and fifteen of them, and it's been six years since Der Spiegel first published the series of

allegations based on documents at obtained via Football Leagues. Biggest proportion of the charges related to the required clubs to provide accurate financial information series of charges regarding the accuracy of detail City provided for both their manager and player payments in the period between nine ten and sixteen seventeen. In the charge sheet, the Premier League simply refers to

the rules and the seasons. However, the manager breaches only relate to the period between nine ten and twelve and thirteen when Manchini was leading the team. Breaches respect to

player payments ten to eleven to fifteen sixteen. Once again a city accused of the Premier League failing to comply with PSR complying with the rules for not complying with the rules for over a four year period, initially banned for two years from UEFA in twenty twenty for alleged breaches, but they successfully overturned that suspension at cast Premier League also brought in PSR from twenty thirteen, which limits the club's financial losses to one hundred and five million. We've

talked about that a lot. City alleged to a breach rules on PSR in every season fifteen sixteen, sixteen, seventeen and seventeen eighteen. Investigation launched in December of twenty eighteen. Charges relate to rules requiring members to cooperate and assist investigations in good faith, including by providing documents and information alleged. The failure stretches through five seasons from eighteen nineteen through

twenty two to twenty three. City deny any wrongdoing, and we mentioned what Pep Guardiola said when he was asked about it in probably I think it was the MD minus two was where Pep Guardiola addressed it, and I posted the Telegraph article in the timeline for requested required reading today. As everything goes forward there the expulsion threat

for the Euros in England in twenty twenty eight. UEFA has to be satisfied of the new independent regulator's influence and keep an eye on whether or there's talk that UEFA will not pull the Euros in twenty eight, but keep an eye on the relationship and the oversight that the independent regulator may or may not have or may or may not want when it comes to England and its overall state of football. So keep an eye on that.

Everton up to nil Pars, I'm hoping has seen the extended highlights of the comeback with Aston Villa, where Villa came back to win at three to two, and you have you have all of that to keep an eye on as well. I know that we're in the plus time, we'll hopefully I'll try to blow through as much of the other information as we have. Folks at the Guardian a seeing that de Rossi risks becoming the new Mourinho

at struggling Roma. Connor Gallagher is already being elevated in his status at Atletico Madrid with their beginnings this season in the Championship. By the way, Stoke has sacked Stephen Schumacher and are targeting Norwich coach Narses Pilache. Stoke his thirteenth two wins and three losses. Plash has worked at

Huddersfield in Girona. So Stephen Schumacher out at nor Sorry it's Stoke and the Norch coach is being targeted right now as a part of the discussion for the future of Stoke as the season has not gone well for them to start things off. Let's see Stoke and Steven Schumacher. I'm trying to see if there's anything else. So the early returns from our friends at Talk Sport discussing all kinds of sackings and things like that five games into

the championship season. So that's it for Schumacher. Some folks, you know, they absolutely just start to freak out front offices, streak out, freak out, and then because of that you end up with a lot of sackings at the bottom of the table and a lot of knee jerk reactions. Cardiff were considering sacking manager Errol Bulu after their start of the season and they believe that Blue may have lost the locker room already after only five matches and

one point rock bottom of the table. We're starting thirty five years scored only once, conceded eleven times. Atmosphere in the dressing room has become very negative senior players now questioning Blues training methods fourth league defeat, as they lost one nil to Darby County on the weekend. So Cardiff maybe Stoke City, Yes, and we'll see what continues there as well. So I'm trying to roll through the papers really quickly and see if there's anything else that I

have missed. Yes, the Marta collection is out. That has just happened and I'm probably going to be absolutely poor because of it. And remember tomorrow you end up with thirty six teams, one group, eight opponents in your Champions League and all of that starts tomorrow as well, so we'll go over those matchups. We won't have to worry about anything involving group stages, group play, anything of that sort because you're all in one big group, all in one big group now, So hold your breath and we'll

see what happens with the Champions League. We'll go over those matches tomorrow. Apparently Robin Van Percy is coaching. I did not know this. It's coaching at Harronving. They lost nine to one on the weekend to a ozed Alkmar. Troy Parrott scored four. It's only his fourth game in charges manager of being appointed. In May, Parrott moved from Spurs for just under seven million pounds. So Robin Van Percy against azed Alkamar twelfth in the table, losing nine

to one, using nine to one to Azad Alkmart. So we'll keep an eye on Robin Van Percy and his and his managerial carousel as it goes forward. So I think, I think that's everything the U. Let me go real quick, and I want to see about the Marta Collection because I know that that information is now out and I'm

officially scared. It was mentioned that it was going to be out today, it is now officially out and before so it's in that one so which it's like, I've got like nine thousand emails and I'm trying to figure out which email it went into. So it is in this account. So let me hit the let me hit the refresh button because it is in some places. There

we go, okay, now it's officially popped up. The Marta Collection retail line is out for Atlanta United, blending soccer and transit designs and four custom pieces now available at Atlantic Station. Oh boy. Yeah, So looking at the photos that were released and I'm trying to see all the scarf is insane. Oh, the scarf is insane. I like I like the sweatshirt, taking the three Marta colors and going at O U TD and Marta lettering and Martiphont. I like the hat, so I like the hat. I

love the scarf and the uh the sweatshirt. So it's gonna end up being hat, sweatshirt, scarf.

So that's a show and what we will do is come back tomorrow. Then we'll do it again at nine oh five once again. Well, everything that we talked about today, and remember there are some bookmarks, playoffs, playing the kids, those kinds of things. I want to get into that in more detail. We're going to get into what happened

in Major League Soccer on the weekend. The other matches will continue to update news heading into a midweek, and the points that you guys had will get into in depth because with the guests we had this it's going to be a little difficult to talk about some of the points and just sit there and gloss over them because I don't want to. I want to flush them out and I want us to have an honest discussion and an earnest discussion as we always do about these

kinds of things. So playoffs, playing the kids, anything else, other discussions the rest of the weekend in Major League Soccer, getting you ready for Champions League. We'll go over the new Champions League rules because it's no longer a group stage. It's everybody in one pile and survival of the fittest. We'll get into that as well tomorrow. So a lot

of stuff to get into on the show tomorrow. Thanks as always for dropping by as you always do, and remember remember remember, remember, be there for each other, be there with each other, give everyone your love and everyone your best. That was a great move by Atlanta United to wear the Appalachi arm bands for everything that the Appalachi community is going through. And it was a fantastic move by the team to wear the arm bands on

the weekend. So be there for yourselves, be there for one another, and make sure that you tell everybody that you know the sung by r Kels, Tell the ones you love, you love them, do that every day. So on that note, we're out. We're gonna come back in little less than twenty two. We'll talk stuff. That's the official term. And for everybody here at SDH, thanks for

dropping by for the morning show. Back Ana again nine oh five tomorrow morning, and I will try and finish the show better than I started the show because I'm going to put up a slide and I'm supposed to do that. Back up again nine oh five tomorrow. Morning show is going to be released on the app coming up in just a little bit, with your favorite segments and the show in and of itself. So what's your Plotzy'll played say, be back at you again tomorrow morning.