MLS/Liga MX Season Thread Now Featuring Inter Messi
Your Defending Champs:
Canada - MONTRÉAL
MLS Cup - Seattle
US Open Cup - Atlanta
Liga MX - Los Rayados de Monterrey
CONCACAF Champions League - Los Rayados de Monterrey
2020 MLS Cup Odds:
CONCACAF Champions League Bracket:
Biggest Departues:
Nacho Piatti from Impact to San Lorenzo
ZLATAN from LA Galaxy to AC Milan
Wayne Rooney from DC to Derby County
Brian Fernández from Portland to jail (I think)
Nico Gaitán from Chicago to Ligue 1 side Lille
NEW Players (w/summaries just for 72o):
Chicharito to LA Galaxy (age: 31) - needs no introduction. All time leader for El Tri (México) w/51 goals. Broke in w/Man Utd, notching 3 straight 10+ goal seasons, more recently bagged 16 goals in 55 matches for Westham, and comes to LAG from Sevilla.
Claudio Pizarro to Inter Miami (age: 25) - another fairly important piece for El Tri where he has 23 caps. Comes from los Rayados where he's already won a few titles in only a couple seasons. Although probably not a top 3 player for Monterrey, they'll be glad to part with him for the 20 million price tag Inter Miami agreed to pay. When he's on he's very good, but he's also very inconsistent. Should dominate in MLS though imo.
Jürgen Locadia to Cincinnati (age: 26) - IMO, the most interesting signing. Notable in that he's the only player in the top 8 most valuable MLS players who doesn't play in LA or ATL. I'm still not sure how Cincy pulled this off. Big time goalscorer w/45 in 127 matches for PSV Eindhoven. He's be a golden boot frontrunner if he played for a better team.
Mauricio Pereyra to Orlando (age: 29) - Uruguayan attacking mid comes from Russian side Krasnodar w/23 goals in 154 appearances. Caps w/Uruguay's U20s but never made an appearance for the nat'l team.
Alan Pulido to Sporting KC (age: 28) - The Mexican isn't really in the nat'l team picture anymore, but is coming off a great season for Mexican giants Chivas where he finished as joint golden boot winner.
Robert Beric to Chicago (age: 28) - 25 caps with Slovenia and comes from Ligue 1 side Sainte-Étienne w/a pretty solid goal scoring record, 26 goals in 81 matches over 5 seasons.
Lucas Zelarayán to Columbus Crew (age: 27) - The Argentine attacking midfielder has been a key player for Liga MX's best side in recent years, Tigres, with 113 appearances and 21 goals over 5 seasons.
Edison Flores to DC United (age: 25) - Yet another player from Liga MX. The Peruvian winger has been a stalwart for their national team with 13 goals in 47 appearances and was a regular for Morelia over the past 2 seasons.
Felipe Mora to Portland (age: 26) - Wildly inconsistent, but can bang in goals when he's on. Comes from Liga MX's Pumas.
Lucas Cavallini to Puebla (age: 27) - Has been great for Canada w/11 goals in only 17 apps. Another player from Liga MX (Puebla) w/ a very respectable 29 goals in 75 matches for a Liga MX bottom feeder side that doesn't score often.
Luis Binks to MONTRÉAL (age: 19) - Comes from Tottenham's academy thanks to Thierry Henry's connections. Supposedly Tottenham's 2nd best young CB.
Intra-league Moves:
DARWIN from Minnesota to Houston
Walker Zimmerman from LAFC to Nashville
Wil Trapp from Columbus to Inter Miami
Katai from Chicago to LAG
Nagbe from ATL to Columbus
Gressel from ATL to DCU
Romell Quioto from Houston to IMFC
man orlando is BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
But are they Philly level bad?
Up by 2 goals in the 80th minute, come away with 0 points.
Montreal out here making history.
25' Laborda M. (White B.) [VAN]
29' White B. (Picault F.) [VAN]
40' Lletget S. (Ferreira J.) [DAL]
42' Picault F. (Raposo R.) [VAN]
curious the last time vwfc won b2b road games by more than 1 goal, if it's ever happened
(in b4 i look it up and it happened like last year)
anyway, point is they're big time back and vanni will obv be out of a job by the time his suspension is over
match of the day gotta be chicago/montreal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCfRfjty...
lolololomgwtfbbqetc
Montreal reminding us all MLS is MLS
Mostly they just got robbed by the replacement officials.
Chicago's 1st goal was offside. They scored off a corner, that was actually a goal kick ruled incorrectly. And this was somehow a PK + red (Chicago scored 3 goals in 20 minutes after this red). I thought the regular officials were bad, but holy ****, I'm not even sure the replacements have watched soccer before.
Even the wind was in on it. Although this deserves a lolSirois too:
that last fire goal was just so lol.
I keep wondering if TODAY is gonna be the day Orlando starts playing as well as I expected them to play before the season started or just continue to be horrendous.
well Orlando continues to be absolutely horrible
not only did they get shut out but they managed a whooping .30xG
they have scored 2 goals in 5 games just absolutely abysmal.
in fairness to orlando looking awful, atlanta is pretty good.
in other news, pepi had a nice game winner for PSV at the death today. MLS builds winners!
Pepi's #s are actually pretty insane
7g and 1a in only 350 minutes of play.
Luuk de Jong has like 31 total goals, so Pepi hardly gets any starts, but de Jong is 33 so can't have much time left, so hopefully Pepi can take over soon. He's still only 21.
Balogun crushed last year with 21 Ligue 1 goals with Monaco, but is down to 5 this year. So CF position may not be on lock down if someone else steps up.
messi fc when messi doesn't play:
3' Morgan L. (Vanzeir D.) [NYR]
51' Morgan L. (Vanzeir D.) [NYR]
65' Carmona W. (Vanzeir D.) [NYR]
70' Morgan L. (Vanzeir D.) [NYR]
4 assists for Vanzeir maybe a record for a match?
yeah that's what i was thinking, seems like it ties the record? hard to find info on this, but it looks like yimmi chara (portland) in 2020 and ante razov (chicago) in 2000 also had 4-assist games. not sure if there are others
Non-Penalty Goals + Assists/90
1. Dante Vanzeir • NY Red Bulls 1.99
2. Luis Suárez • Inter Miami 1.78
3. Josef Martínez • CF Montréal 1.69
4. Robin Lod • Minnesota Utd 1.51
5. Giorgos Giakoumakis • Atlanta Utd 1.40
Dejan Joveljić • LA Galaxy 1.40
7. Lewis Morgan • NY Red Bulls 1.39
8. Christian Benteke • D.C. United 1.33
Lionel Messi • Inter Miami 1.33
10. Carlos Gómez • Real Salt Lake 1.15
josef martínez confirmed big time back
FC Cincinnati - New York Red Bulls
Columbus Crew - DC United
Inter Miami - Colorado Rapids
New York City - Atlanta Utd
New England Revolution - Charlotte
Vancouver Whitecaps - Toronto FC
Los Angeles FC - Los Angeles Galaxy
Austin FC - San Jose Earthquakes
Chicago Fire - Houston Dynamo
Minnesota United - Real Salt Lake
Nashville SC - Philadelphia Union
St. Louis City - FC Dallas
Seattle Sounders - CF Montreal
all but the last game kicking off within an hour of each other, for some reason
the vancouver/toronto game not on tv here, but the los angeles derby is, classic mls
1st galaxy goal pretty funny. post and then two blocks before scoring on the 4th chance
followed by a completely bs penalty for lafc. if there was any contact, it was from bouanga kicking out as he dove. what a jopke #matchfixing
apparently a s**t team like austin gets fergie time?
can't remember the last time I saw a MLS team win at 90+11'
13' Agada W. (Thommy E.) [KAN]
38' Rosero D. (Rodriguez M.) [KAN]
45+3' Agada W. (Voloder R.) [KAN]
Spoiler
64' Evander (Penalty) [POR]
66' Mora F. (Rodriguez J.) [POR]
81' Miller E. (Paredes C.) [POR]
Spoiler
lol kc sporting wizards
so many LOLs for SKC.
and that ref in LAFC/LAG game should be investigated what a sham.
little question that scottish messi has been the best whitecap in the mls era. crazy that brian white has been nearly as productive, and he's just some guy that nyrb didn't want
