City SC Posse Posts

Unbeaten, Unsatisfied, and Mildly Twitching: St. Louis CITY SC went to D.C. on Saturday night with a chance to do something they have not done in a long time: win three MLS matches in a row and make us all act irresponsibly hopeful. After the road w…

Pregame Hope, Please Keep Hands Inside the Ride: St. Louis CITY SC heads to Washington, D.C. on Saturday with something we have not been able to say much this season: momentum. Real momentum. Not “we played okay for 28 minutes and then emotion…

Post-Match Optimism, Please Use Responsibly: St. Louis CITY SC beat LAFC 2-1 on Wednesday night, and I am not saying I have emotionally healed from the last several months of soccer-related nonsense. But I am saying this: back-to-back MLS wins, a fi…

Road Win Therapy, Now Available in Limited Quantities: St. Louis CITY SC went to Colorado on Saturday night and won 1-0, which is a sentence that feels weird to type without immediately checking for a typo. It was the first away win for CITY in MLS …

Pregame Apathy, Now With Altitude: St. Louis CITY SC plays Colorado tonight, and yes, on paper, this is a winnable game. Colorado is sitting around 9th in the West, which means they are not exactly an unstoppable soccer death machine. They are not t…

Monday Morning Apathy Has Entered the Chat: St. Louis CITY SC went to Austin on Sunday afternoon for what was supposed to be one of those “beatable opponent” games and lost 2-0, because apparently the word “beatable” was bein…

Survive and Advance, Baby: St. Louis CITY SC went to Chicago for the U.S. Open Cup Round of 16 and somehow came back with a 2-1 win, which feels both encouraging and deeply confusing, like finding a twenty-dollar bill in pants you were about t…

The Turning Point That Wasn’t: For about three magical minutes on Saturday night, CITYPARK felt like it was about to shake loose from the earth and launch itself directly into the Mississippi. St. Louis CITY SC had just flipped the match on Sa…

Well, That Was a Public Beating: St. Louis City SC went into Seattle needing a real road performance and instead delivered the soccer version of getting stuffed into a locker in front of the whole class. The final score is going to say 4-1, which is…

Business Handled… But Let’s Not Throw a Parade: CITY took care of business with a clean, no-drama 4-0 win over FC Tulsa and punched a ticket to the Round of 16. Exactly what should happen when an MLS team hosts a USL side. No nonsense, …

Another Road Draw, Another Mixed Bag, Another Night of “Almost:” St. Louis City SC walks out of Dallas with a 1-1 draw, and honestly, that feels about right. Not a robbery. Not a collapse. Not exactly a statement either. Just anothe…

Late Drama Saves a Flat Night… But the Problems Are Still There: As I’m writing this in real time, deep into stoppage time in New York City, this felt like another long, frustrating night for St. Louis. For 90+ minutes, this match follo…

This is exactly the kind of win that resets everything… or at least gives you permission to believe again for a few days.Saturday night at Energizer Park, City SC finally remembered how to score goals, and not just one of th…

St. Louis City SC fans are running out of patience, and honestly, it’s hard to blame them. We’re writing this in the dying minutes of the match and the story has already been written. City is about to drop another one, and unless somethi…

First things first, a quick thank you to everyone who has been listening to City SC Posse these first few weeks. We’re only a handful of episodes in and already seeing people tuning in, sending messages, and even chirping us a bit online.…

There are losses.There are bad losses.And then there’s whatever that was.St. Louis City SC went west for Sunday Night Soccer and immediately decided to test a bold new defensive strategy called “let them score early and see what ha…

STL Soccer First. Always.You asked for it.Well… some of you did.And the rest of you are about to find out.City SC Posse is officially launching under the NFNPPOD umbrella, and episodes are dropping soon.Before you panic, no — …