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
brian + ryan show. 2-0
scoring too early? probably, yes
ryan god chippy for 3-0
[?] real life
20' Gauld R. [VAN]
24' White B. (Laborda M. + Gauld R.) [VAN]
31' Gauld R. (Armstrong S. + Vite P.) [VAN]
52' Armstrong S. (Veselinovic R. + Vite P.) [VAN]
59' Gauld R. (Armstrong S. + Adekugbe S.) [VAN]
as we all predicted...
Caps ghana ship this
I have to admit, I have no idea what is going on in the MLS playoffs other than Inter Messi won their opening first round match tonight.
this is the official playoff bracket for any one who is interested:
lol, not impossible but yeah probably not. hopefully they don't get embarrassed by lafc though. a home win would be nice
only 2-1, but a ~3.12-0.85 xg beatdown. might check out the highlights at some point to see what all those chances were about
colorado @ la galaxy tonight, was considering checking some of that out, but it's not on tv so guess i won't
interesting schedule with 2 games each for the next 3 days
halftime in la, galaxy up 1-0. was gonna say that the stats are borked showing the xg at 0.05-0, but given that the goal attempts are 1-0 maybe it's legit. lots of passing from the galaxy, 75% possession, but nobody trying to score. anyway check out joveljic's 1st half goal if you want to see what a 0.05xg bink looks like (maybe)
edit: 3-0 on 0.07xg? yeah this has to be ****ed
32' Joveljic D. (Puig R.) [LAG]
52' Nelson J. (Yamane M.) [LAG]
54' Puig R. (Joveljic D.) [LAG]
75' Joveljic D. [LAG]
87' Puig R. (Gabriel Pec) [LAG]
another 5-0 game lol
and why did puig play the whole thing? rapids should have taken the opportunity to kick his ass, especially since lag had the ball the entire time. 2.66-0.02 xg, rapids finally managed 1 lame goal attempt. thanks for turning up
orlando's entire offense seems to be get the ball to facundo torres. anyway they're up 1-0 on a facundo torres goal
wait, these vancouver/lafc games aren't on tv? lol, jopke
So Galaxy win 5-0 and 4-1 and there's still a game 3? WTF. If you sweep first 2 matches in a 3 game series, that should be it.
So Galaxy win 5-0 and 4-1 and there's still a game 3? WTF. If you sweep first 2 matches in a 3 game series, that should be it.
this sounded wrong, so i looked it up, and yeah i think it's wrong
you must have been looking at an if necessary schedule that hadn't been updated yet
nyrb, la galaxy, minnesota and seattle all thru 2-0
lag vs minny next round
decisive game 3 upcoming for miami/atlanta, cincinnati/nycfc, orlando/charlotte, and probably lafc/vancouver. whitecaps are up 2-0 at the half, so i've probably jinxed it, but otherwise...
i mean, mls is having a 3 week break between 1st and 2nd round of playoffs, so it wouldn't be shocking to me if they played the 3rd game anyway just for additional ticket sales opportunities
yeah it wouldn't have surprised me, which is why i had to look it up lol, but i don't think they're doing that in this case
10' Gauld R. [VAN]
13' Hollingshead R. (Own goal) [VAN]
68' Segura E. (Own goal) [VAN]
gauld is good, but own goal motm
this sounded wrong, so i looked it up, and yeah i think it's wrong
you must have been looking at an if necessary schedule that hadn't been updated yet
Yah, Google still had game 3 listed even after game 2 ended and didn't say (if necessary) so I was deceived.
Vancouver is (North) America's team!
decisive game 3 upcoming for miami/atlanta, cincinnati/nycfc, orlando/charlotte, and probably lafc/vancouver
lafc over vancouver 1-0 last night
nycfc in a shootout
orlando in a shootout
and miami 45 minutes away from going out because someone called thiare is outscoring messi and suarez and alba and biscuits 2-0 wattba
edit: here is his wiki in its entirety
Jamal Thiaré (born 31 March 1993) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club Atlanta United.
lol
65' Messi L. (Weigandt M. + Suarez L.) [INT]
2-2!
Spoiler
76' Slisz B. (Amador P.) [ATL]
on your bikes, messi fc
can't believe the league didn't step in to rig this lolol
lol inter messi
over/under 1,000 randoms across the planet who will continue to follow the remaining mls playoffs now?
under. lol apple, get ****ed
who's the guy laying down during the winning goal? didn't say who or show what happened on the highlights
lol inter messi
over/under 1,000 randoms across the planet who will continue to follow the remaining mls playoffs now?
I was only watching highlights after the fact of Messi and Vancouver, but now can't even be arsed to do that. I guess maybe a tráfico could be interesting, but other than that, don't really care. The ratings difference without Messi has to be massive.
looked at a playoff bracket today for mls and it had aggregate score rather than series score lol
guess we're back to single-elimination now
The remaining three rounds — the conference semifinals, conference final, and MLS Cup — will be single-elimination matches played with extra time and a penalty shoot-out if still tied.
nov 23:
nyrb @ nycfc
seattle @ lafc
nov 24:
atlanta @ orlando
minnesota @ la galaxy
rooting for minnesota i guess, because of st. clair and oluwaseyi, but they probably have no chance. new york derby could be fun. tráfico could be fun, if it happens. the final is likely to be in los angeles, as the best two remaining teams are from there.
i'd likely check out some/all of these games if they were on tv, but i'm guessing they won't be. eat ****, apple
