City SC Posse - Ep 16: Three Points, Don’t Ask Too Many Questions

Bright: One to nothing. So out of nowhere, we get our first away win of MLS competition. get a clean sheet and somehow we score on a break.

Kev: ⁓ St. Louis City. ⁓ St. Louis City. We did it, man. I don't know. Yeah, thank God St. Ben was in there, right? Because that was hard. I'll take in that breakaway. It would have a tie game.

Bright: Well, a couple of things. One, I did not expect you to be singing. Uh, so kudos there. Uh, but right. mean, we've seen hard old. Miss these opportunities. We've had two on O's. had a couple on this game that should have obviously gone in, you know, McSorley hits the post on again, probably a heavy pass from HARDL. Um, but, but yeah, I mean, saying Ben clear cut breakaway, he has to score and he does score. ⁓ so, you know, he, he makes the most out of his opportunity. And because of that we're recording today on a Monday and we're celebrating a win instead of being completely down. Now I'm not saying that I'm, I'm thinking the season is, is fully recovered and we're trending in the right direction, but I'll take the three points.

Kev: Yeah. turned red. Yeah, if you're going to turn around the season, this is a way to do it, right? Like you got to start streaming some wins together, start getting those three points on the board. know, Ty wasn't going to do it. We've talked about that where we're at right now. Ties are losses at this point, especially at home. This was an away game. So it feels good to steal three points. But yeah, maybe we can string something together. I'm not going to hold my breath.

Bright: Yeah. I mean, you're right. The fact of the matter is at this point in the season, we're a few games away from the world cup break. ⁓ so we'll preview the game against LAFC at the end of this one. Right? So we'll play Wednesday. Then we play Saturday and then we're, ⁓ then we got the U S open match on Tuesday and then back at home against Austin on Saturday.

Kev: I'm gonna home. I'm gonna go home. Tuesday.

Bright: So we have four total games, three in MLS competition before the world cup break. And you're right. I mean, we need three points, you know, like to your point, a tie and this almost was a tie. to be fully transparent, I put my money on the draw. ⁓ so I, I missed that, you know, I didn't have high helps going into this game because sometimes you think, and I said it in the blog, like, this is a winnable game. Colorado is a team that we can beat. You know, their statistics going into this game, weren't phenomenal. They were sitting in ninth place, ⁓ at the start of the game. ⁓ you know, I know that we're not good, ⁓ but we've shown that we can at least compete, you know, and really the biggest difference between us being a playoff team, you know, sitting at that eighth, ninth, maybe even seventh position and where we are currently. It's just capitalizing on a couple of opportunities. So yeah, so we, you know,

Kev: Chances. Yep.

Bright: Again, thank you for scoring on the breakaway and you know, we, held on, ⁓ and we'll, you know, we'll break down some of the stats and some of the other things, but yeah, I feel much better today. Just knowing that we're three points closer, ⁓ to moving up one spot. If we could just move up one spot before the world cup break or, put us in a position to move up two spots and then you never know, you never know what happens after that.

Kev: Little, little momentum, right? Get an inch a little closer. Yeah, if we're doing full transparency on bets, I bet I bet on Colorado to take that game. I thought they were going to win it. It was at minus 105. And I was like, you know what? I feel like making some money tonight. So I threw it down and ⁓ sure enough, I lost, but it felt good to lose. I will say that the worst thing that could have happened was a draw. If we had. you know, tied that game and I lost my money on a tie, would have felt just, I would have been sick to my stomach. But getting a win, you know, I was happy to cough up a couple bucks. ⁓

Bright: Yeah. Yeah. Then you're, you're okay with that. Now I also took the over on the corner kicks, ⁓ which was at 10 and a half. ⁓ so I won that bet. So I ended up breaking even on the night. ⁓ and, and again, like I said, well, we can take a look at the stats, but those corner kick stats were a little crazy, ⁓ and not how I expected them to go. So 11 corner kicks for Colorado one for St. Louis city.

Kev: You're good. Click that one out. Yep.

Bright: ⁓ that kind of, if you just looked at that stat alone, you know, the scoreline and that stat, you'd be like, wait a minute. Like we, we've got outplayed. got outworked. They had all the momentum. ⁓ and honestly, that that's probably pretty accurate.

Kev: think early on in the game, felt like they had a lot of the momentum, right? ⁓

Bright: Yeah, we looked shaky, you know, we missed a couple of passes, you know, we, we weren't stringing anything together early. That's for sure.

Kev: Yeah, the wind probably didn't help all that much in the first half. We had a lot of wind coming in at our faces. And it's funny, they talked about, sure, yeah, they were playing balls, right? And yeah, it was going long. yeah, so was tough to keep in play. I thought it was funny on our goal, ⁓ the announcers were talking about how like, Berkey couldn't play it long enough, right?

Bright: Yeah, and you know what, it hurt them too. Go in the opposite direction. Yeah. And they were running, running out. Yeah. The announcers.

Kev: Couldn't get past the half line, put it up there, and then sure enough, he plays it. He strikes a good one, keeps it a little lower, and plays it just long enough to get that. I can't remember if he headed that one or if he played it ⁓ with his chest just to bump it just far enough past the defender to let Sang Bin run onto it. But I think it was funny that they timed it that way.

Bright: Yeah. Yeah, I think it skipped off of his chest and that was either the commentators curse or serendipitous timing, certainly. Uh, so yeah, definitely kind of funny. Uh, and, again, credit where credits do, you know, better makes a good play there. Uh, I don't think he was great overall in this game. Uh, but he makes that play, flicks it on. This was, you know, it looked like a, um, a set play. Sangbin was, was looking for this the whole way and his pacing was really good. You know, he kind of starts out slow, waits for, for that flick on to hit and then boom, you know, full speed ahead, ⁓ gets past the defense. And again, that's, that's what I said a couple of weeks ago when hard on this, that breakaway, just push it past the goalie and bury it in the empty net. Yes. And that's what he did. So, and that was, you know,

Kev: Use your speed. You did great.

Bright: Go ahead. That was, was going to say that was in the first half at, I don't know what the minute was. was like the 27th minute or something like that. A lot of, ⁓ yeah, lots of stuff on the timeline here. So 20, yeah, 26 minute, ⁓ you know, about, yeah, about halfway through the first half. ⁓ we get that goal and you know, you're, feeling good. ⁓ you know, you think maybe, maybe we can not get another one or something like that, but, ⁓ you know, again, Colorado really.

Kev: Yeah, that sounds right.

Bright: really dominated the possession. So they had 57 % possession to R43, you know, and we've been a little bit better this year on possession, but again, in a way game, ⁓ you know, so I felt like Colorado had more of the opportunities. We had some bone, bonehead defensive plays by Wallam and Roscoe primarily, you know, at one point Wallam, the ball gets played past him and he was just like, ⁓ we're good. And then the guy goes right, right around him. I'm like,

Kev: I you now.

Bright: We're not good. We're not good. What are you doing? You know? ⁓

Kev: to get the fuck out. Was that, is that where they played it? They had a great chance. They played it back to like the orc or something and had a great opportunity probably within, I don't know, like the 37th minute or something. It was towards the end of the half, but I'm trying to remember that one.

Bright: Yeah, there was another one too. I don't know which one you're thinking of. There was one where Wallum loses the ball. ⁓ it kind of skips back to Arasco. Arasco does kind of the same thing. He turns and I don't know if he thinks he's going to use his body, but the defender goes right around them. And I'm like, what are you doing? Like either just completely unaware of where they are in the field. And maybe that was Wallum's problem too, where he thought the ball was going to roll out of bounds and the attacker just comes against it. ⁓

Kev: Yeah.

Bright: Or, or Roscoe, I don't know. just gets out position. Now the, their guy brings it in and he has a square ball right to the penalty spot where this guy, you know, could just basically tap it in and instead. Yeah. Yeah. And instead he goes for the shot and he ends up sky in it over the crossbar. ⁓ you know, which he's probably still should have scored, but the easier play was to play it square.

Kev: I think that was the one I was thinking of. ⁓

Bright: ⁓ and instead he was a little selfish. Yep. Yep. And it cost them. Yeah.

Kev: straight to the PK. Yeah, yup, I remember that one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I thought Wallum was a little overmatched defensively on ⁓ the wing out there and, you know, they should have taken every opportunity they got to play it, you know, take on Wallum.

Bright: Yeah. I mean, we've talked about it. Wallums always overmatched. It just, again, every week. I know domain. said it again in the presser after the game or before Wednesday game may have been today's pressure. He was like, you know, me, I like consistency. Yeah. Well, the consistency in this situation is that wallum sucks. Yes. Wallum sucks on a consistent basis. ⁓ you know, so there were a couple of surprises, ⁓ with the lineup, you know,

Kev: Hard building consistency with somebody else. ⁓ Just build it with somebody else, please.

Bright: Toy shirt and Cordova, neither one of them even on the bench, you know? And I know some people are saying like, ⁓ Cordova, maybe he's done. course his windows coming up, toy shirts, windows coming up too. So maybe there's something there now, Demay came out and said that toy shirt was healthy. He was basically a healthy scratch. Just looking for something different. ⁓ Cordova, I heard something that maybe he was sick. I know there was an illness going around the club. So maybe there was, there was something there.

Kev: Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Bright: Totten gets in again. So he looks like he's in the good graces of DeMay Edelman and Durkin are back in no major surprises there other than the fact Louvin it doesn't get the start, you know, so I was a little surprised considering, you know, he, he started, I think the last two games maybe gotten a little bit more play time. thought this was an opportunity for him to continue that. So when I didn't, when I didn't see him in the starting lineup, I was, I was just a little surprised.

Kev: Yeah. That was too high. That was a big shocker when you sent it over to me. I him and ⁓ St. Ben getting the start, was not expecting that from St. Ben just because we haven't seen him in a little bit on the field. ⁓ So those were the two surprises for me. I have no idea why Luvin wasn't in the starting lineup, unless if you were trying to arrest him, right? And see what you could get out of the team without him.

Bright: Sure, yeah. Well, that's the only thing. Yeah. That's the only thing. And I said that in the blog I posted earlier today, just my, my immediate reaction. And, like I said earlier, we got a lot of games coming up, you know, so, you know, he's obviously his fitness, maybe as a top of form. ⁓ and you're just trying to make sure that you can get the most out of them over this next string of games. So, yeah. Yeah. All right. Let.

Kev: some bird games, you know. Maybe, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I would have expected him starting, but...

Bright: Yeah. Yeah. And he's obviously, he's still got some playtime mix sorely, you know, doesn't start, but it comes in at halftime. That surprised me too. You know, saying Ben comes out at the half. I'm not quite sure why, and I didn't hear why. So maybe if somebody knows they can, they can let me know. wasn't sure. It didn't look like saying Ben took any injury or anything like that. Maybe, maybe Demay is just looking to get McSorley a couple of extra minutes. ⁓ you know, we had the lead for once. I didn't mention this. Obviously we've.

Kev: It was a comment.

Bright: We've conceded first pretty much every game since the first game of the season. ⁓ with the exception of, of some of the U S open cup matchups or whatever, but, ⁓ you know, sort of score first, you know, now we're going into the second half playing with the lead. We haven't, we haven't really had that opportunity. So maybe to may just thought tactically, this made sense. Bring on somebody young with some energy. ⁓ and again, maybe save saying Ben, ⁓ you know, Louvin comes on. ⁓

Kev: One or two, yep. games coming up.

Bright: Yeah. Perez comes on fall gets a little bit of play time, ⁓ at the end of the game, just to kind of lock things down. ⁓ you know, so that was, that was good to see, but we got to talk better. So, I mean, a couple of things, obviously he contributes on the goal and then he, he helps pick up that red card, you know? So I don't, what, what are your overall thoughts on, the red card in general?

Kev: Yeah. Weak. Weak. I kept. I didn't see it. Like, I saw it. I was watching. But was like, I didn't like, why are we calling a Rick or what happened? Replay comes on. I still really don't see it. I guess maybe he got dragged down. Maybe it was a pretty weak call. Like, if I were Colorado, I would have been on the field throwing.

Bright: Yeah. Yeah. Well, so yeah, a couple, a couple of things, you know, initially I thought, I thought Betcher was going to pick up the yellow for embellishment, you know, for going down too easy. I'm like, here we go. You know, then I, I do see the replay and it's like, okay. So they get tangled up. Now the thing was, is that Betcher gets behind them, you know, on a ball over the top, he's behind them a little bit. Their arms get tangled.

Kev: A fit. ⁓ I did not see it. Why not? Yeah. Maybe a little. Yeah.

Bright: Now, betcher, think goes to ground real easy and he almost makes sure that their arms stay tangled. Now, betcher is really good at this. He's a nuisance. He's a pain. He causes other teams to pick up cards. I don't love the fact that you're in this position and you probably could have break it away if you were just a little bit stronger on the ball and had a clear breakaway again or a clear opportunity to score. And instead you're like, well, I'll go down. Now it ends up being a smart play.

Kev: Thank you. You're on air. this fall.

Bright: because they do get the red card. He was the last defenseman back. takes down the attacking player. It's a dog. So situation in the ref size and he gets the, he gets the red card and now we're playing a man up, and, ⁓ makes things a little bit easier for us.

Kev: That is when I had a feeling that I was losing my bet. ⁓ We were up one nothing and up a man now. was like, I think I lost that money, but I was excited about it. I still can't believe that it was, I cannot believe it was a red card. I really cannot. Cause it was so soft. I get it. They were kind of tangled. I guess it maybe it looks like he got dragged down.

Bright: You're most sure. Yeah, but. Yeah.

Kev: I guess. And then it went to, you know, all red cards are reviewed up top, right? So I was like, okay, well, this is, this is going to get called back. This isn't going to stay. So I was shocked when it, you know, what it did.

Bright: Yeah, yeah, uh-huh, yeah. It's, kind of like, like hockey and some other sports, you know, it's gotta be clear and obvious that a mistake was made by the referee. So, you know, they probably looked at it and they were like, no, it's a dog. So offense and you know, therefore it's a red card. That's what the ref saw. We're just going to let it be, you know? ⁓ so that was that, but you know, we still, couldn't put the game away and we left the door open, you know, 71st minute, ⁓ betcher gets the break again, passes it back to hurdle.

Kev: sure.

Bright: You know, hard old, yeah, he plays it over to McSorley.

Kev: Oh yeah, he won before that. think he had a good chance before that on another, I think it was another kind of run. Yeah, but yeah, it was not as good of a chance as this one you're talking about where Butcher gets that run, I think on the left wing. I don't think he beats

Bright: Yeah, I think better, better skied one on a half breakaway. Yeah. Put it over the bar. Yep. Yep. You're right. Mmm.

Kev: The Defender right. So it was then like a two on one with the Defender kind of running back the middle over to Hardell who feeds a nice ball over to I think was McSorley on the right side. A little too, yeah.

Bright: It was McSorley. maybe was just a little heavy, slightly heavy again. ⁓ but again, it looked like one of those goals that was harder to miss than it was to score. mean, it, again, the angle pushes them a little wide and he ends up hitting the post on it, yeah. Right. Right.

Kev: Yeah. Yeah. Not like last game. Not as easy as last game, where you got like a two on none breakaway, right? But yeah, mean, that feels like, and that's like a put away, you know? That's a put away goal is the problem.

Bright: Yeah, sure. Yeah. Betcher has the chance. McSorley has the chance. 85th minute Louvin rips one. goes high. You know, it was a good, it was a good shot. So I won't give them too much a flack for that one, but you know, there are opportunities here after you go up a man where we could have been up two or three, nothing. And, and we were still missing chances, you know, so we're still not burying some goals that we could. And again, opportunities that we could have put this game away. ⁓ and instead.

Kev: That's a good one. Yeah.

Bright: Now we're heading into the tail end of the game, Orozco in the 87th minute. I don't know what he's doing. He's trying to play a ball all the way across the field in the wind, easily gets intercepted. then Durkin has personally, I think he had no choice. He caught a lot of flack online for this card. ⁓ but I thought he had to do it. You know, they're now they're coming down. We're out of position. They've got momentum. They've got speed and Durkin's job is to stop that. And he stopped it.

Kev: You Yeah, you know, we talked about how the other red card was, I didn't think it was as obvious. This one, you it happened, you knew he was getting carded. He came in late, late on that law.

Bright: Yeah. Yeah. He came in late and he came in strong, you know, I don't think he, you know, I don't, the player didn't get hurt. I think it was overall smart, but, uh, yeah, when you come on late and, and strong like that, he gets a yellow. It's a second yellow. That's a red. He's out now all of a sudden it's, know, 10 men aside and, and there's still 10 minutes to play when you throw in the stoppage time. And, uh, I, I at this point was, was big time nervous because again,

Kev: And at that, yep.

Bright: We can't close out these games. We're on the road. I'm like, there's just no way we're holding on.

Kev: You're you're big time nervous. You've got your money on a draw. Like, you know, worst case scenario, I wouldn't some money. Now I'm like, this is my worst case scenario. Right. Like to where I'm losing my money and we're losing that win. And it just felt like, yeah, nervous, nervous, nervous, nervous. The rest of that, you know, the rest of that time, I think they was that I think they had a great opportunity, ⁓ a free play, right? Like a free kick.

Bright: That's true. yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and... Yeah. They, they had at least, well, yes, they had three, they had the free kick that went over the bar. ⁓ I can't remember if I can't remember if, ⁓ Berkey gets a slight touch on it. Yeah. Yeah. And, ⁓ and then in the 92nd minute, they had a corner kick, which I still can't believe this. They play it to the back post. The guy's wide open, you know, just, just like the Seattle matchup. I'm like, well, have we not learned?

Kev: Simply. It's just the one on Play-Doh. Yeah, Berkey got a little touch on it, I think. Yep. again. Never seen that one. Yeah, let's start watching some tape or something. ⁓

Bright: I mean, just leave this guy wide open. Yeah. Now, luckily he doesn't get a clean touch on it, but he still plays it across the goal and it goes right to their guy. And all he has to do is head it down. And instead he heads it up and goes over the bar somehow from, two yards out. He's, he's on the goal line practically. So how he misses that. No. Well, yeah, that, you know, they gift wrapped this win for us really. And then at the very last play of the game, the 98th minute at this point.

Kev: Feels good not to be us, right? Like that's usually what we're doing. ⁓

Bright: ⁓ they had the ball on the six yard line. and, and he, he powered up and skied it. Why high and wide. And again, if you hit it low, I say it all the, all the time, put the ball on the ground. You hit it low, far post. That's probably a goal. Either Burkies go and his momentum is taking them the wrong way. One of their players deflects it in our guy, you know, something that's all I got to do. And instead he tries to power it up and he skies it skies it high and wide and the ref blows the whistle and, and yeah, well.

Kev: chance. played well for ⁓

Bright: We'll take it because again, when you look at the stats, ⁓ we did not win this, ⁓ you know, in any kind of dominating fashion, this is definitely a grind, but you know, we scored first, we survived, we escaped all those corner kicks. ⁓ you know, 11 quarter kicks, you're almost just by pure numbers. ⁓ it's chance that Colorado scores on that. So.

Kev: Yeah.

Bright: ⁓ again, first road wind. was a clean sheet. We scored first saying Ben gets his first goal of the season. ⁓ and MLS play, ⁓ and you know, the real question is, go ahead.

Kev: Yeah. Welcome to Colorado.

Bright: Yeah. Stan F and Cronky or a son. One of, one of the two. Yes. So anytime you walk away beating a Cronky team, ⁓ that's good. Yeah. So that, leads us into leads us into the matchup on Wednesday. So I think you and John boy are going to this game. I'll be out of town. I just hope that I'm able to, to watch the game a little bit. ⁓

Kev: That's right. ⁓ it feels good. Feels great, doesn't it? Yeah.

Bright: I'll have to stay up late. I'm on East coast time. ⁓ I'll try and catch it. That's for sure. ⁓ I'll be in the Dominican Republic. Yes. Yeah. So I know I got to use the VPN. I have to change my, you know, my geography settings, but I'll be having an El Presidente and, ⁓ and watching the game for sure.

Kev: Where you gonna be at? Dominican Republic. Life is tough. ⁓ No, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, naturally. Yeah, for sure. Is that a vodka drink? No, no. Oh, I assumed that was a margarita. Cool. Yeah, we're going to head down to the game. I think I'm going to force John to drive us this go around, right? One of the costs of getting the free ticket. We're going to have a good time. We're going to look for a win. We're going to put our money on a

Bright: And no, that's their beer. It's a cerveza. No, El Presidente. There you go. Yep, for sure.

Kev: Wanna win?

Bright: Well, you know what? All right, well, I'll say a couple of things. One. I do like, I do like the Wednesday games or the midweek games. Cause it breaks up that week a little bit, especially if you're going to the game, you know, you've got something to look forward to after work and you know, yeah, you gotta be careful. Obviously you gotta wake up Thursday and, and go back to it. But, ⁓ but I do like that. ⁓ you know, this is a home game and we're going up against LAFC who is currently third in the Western conference.

Kev: Okay. Mm.

Bright: So they're not necessarily the powerhouse that they've been the last couple of years, you know, dominating the conference. ⁓ but they got 21 points and they have a six, three and three record overall. ⁓ so certainly, you know, a lot, a lot better than us and their goal differential is better and all of that. There are two, one and two, ⁓ on, on away games. So they've won a couple of games. They've lost one and they've tied some, you know, so ⁓ the big thing though is there one, two and two in their last five games, only scoring six goals and conceding 10. Also having lost, ⁓ this weekend, four to one at home against the dynamo. So they could be a little angry. They could be a little vulnerable, could be both. I'm not exactly sure. So, you know, I don't, I don't a hundred percent know what to expect. Of course, ⁓ you know, going into going into a home game.

Kev: Okay.

Bright: You like to think the odds are with us, but that's not what Vegas is saying at the moment. Right now they're saying 40 % chance for LAFC, 25 % chance on the draw, 35 % chance on a city win. So they're actually predicting an LAFC win on the road here.

Kev: Okay. Yeah, um... You know, we've seen that I think the last couple of home games, haven't we? So I don't think that it really should be a huge surprise at this point in time. Um, but feels like, mmm... I... I put my money on on a city win and... I think...

Bright: Well, we'll see, we'll see what the, you know, come, come Wednesday, what that, that betting line is and see if it's worth it. mean, so when you look at the team comparison, the stats, ⁓ they still all, course, all favor LAFC city. average 0.9 goals a game, 28th and MLS LAFC averages 1.7. They're ranked sixth in MLS. We concede 1.6 goals a game. They only concede 0.7.

Kev: We'll see what that looks like.

Bright: They get more shots. They create more chances. ⁓ we were relatively the same in possession. So again, this is one of those games where the crowds going to have to bring the energy. Hopefully we see that on a Wednesday night and, ⁓ we're going to have to. Bury our chances, you know, which maybe we're a little bit more akin to doing at home. ⁓ and then, know, again, we're not going to have Durkin. Durkin's out for this game. So

Kev: stuff than that.

Bright: You know, does Louvin come in and slot back in and that spot does Perez get the start? ⁓ you know, is there another play here? ⁓ you know, do we change up the formation? I'm guessing no. ⁓ does the saying Ben get another start?

Kev: and down it, right? I don't think anybody's changing that up. Yeah, it's going to be interesting because we also see a Tuesday game after, I don't know, a Saturday. I'm sorry, Wednesday. We're on Wednesday. So we'll do.

Bright: Yeah. So we'll, uh, I only briefly wanted to bring that up because we'll talk about that and that, you know, maybe the next episode, the U S open cup mash, but they dropped ticket prices by $10 for the next 48 hours. So if you're interested in going tickets are only going to be like 25 bucks a pop.

Kev: This can go. Yeah, I mean...

Bright: So I might just, I might just buy those tickets. Yes, I know those Tuesday games, but, ⁓

Kev: I'll have to talk to the wife about those, you know, that day, but the press, those Tuesday games with swim lessons, you know, it's a tough commitment for her, but we'll see.

Bright: ⁓ there you go. Well, a couple of other last minute things for LAFC. We don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves here. ⁓ we lost two, nothing in LA earlier this year. played them back in March. ⁓ and we held them scoreless until somewhere around the 75th minute. ⁓ you know, they, yeah, I, I can't quite remember. ⁓

Kev: Yeah, but didn't we get dominated that game? I think I remember coming out because it was the second game of the season, wasn't it?

Bright: It was the fourth game of the season. was our second away game. Yeah. Our second away game. Yeah.

Kev: That can't be true. Maybe that's what it was. OK. Yeah, yeah, And I think we got, maybe I'm thinking of a different game. I can't remember. It's that.

Bright: Well, the biggest thing is that we held that we held their big scores off the score sheet. Buanga who has five goals, 18 shots on goal, ⁓ 2.8 expected goals. ⁓ he, know, he couldn't score and then son, who of course is there, you know, they're all star. He, ⁓ he got subbed off early, didn't have anything going. We gave up a couple of long shot goals. If I remember correctly. ⁓ and whoever it was that scored got the brace scored both goals.

Kev: Mm-hmm. ⁓

Bright: ⁓ and that was the game. So, you know, I think we were in it, whether, know, maybe the stats still probably read LAFC, but we were in it for the good chunk of the game in LA. So, you know, here's an opportunity where maybe just maybe if we can score first again, if we don't waste our big chances, ⁓ we actually protect the back post, ⁓ for once, ⁓ Louvin gets creative. ⁓ maybe, maybe we got an opportunity to. to steal one here. hate saying steal one at home, but, ⁓ you know, against, against a good LAFC team, ⁓ you know, back to back wins. You gotta do it at some point. We kind of set up with the blues, right? They could never string more than two wins together at a time. Finally they do. And they go on a big stretch. Like that's kind of what we need here. You know, we, we. Yeah. Then we play, ⁓ then we play, where am I at here?

Kev: pull me out of here Yeah, just build that momentum and... finish the ball.

Bright: DC on the road on Saturday winnable game. I wonder and then we play Austin at home day game ⁓ MLS competition, you know, so ⁓ Again, there's there's opportunity here. Let me see what what the standings are in the Eastern or For DC they're currently fifth, right? So You know mid mid table team more or less. So We'll see. We'll see. I don't want to get

Kev: Wonderful game.

Bright: too optimistic here, but, ⁓ I'm at least excited for the opportunity. ⁓ and, hopefully, you know, this will be a, a win win for you, ⁓ at home on a Wednesday night.

Kev: Yeah, I have a good feeling it's gonna be, you know, I usually go to the winners. So, and John usually goes to the winners, John Boy, so ⁓ I think we're gonna bring one home. We're going.

Bright: Yeah. That's true. All right. Well, that's it. Let's try it. Let's try and bring one home. We'll celebrate the three points for another night or two. And then we're right back at it Wednesday, bring one home. ⁓ we'll, we'll catch you next time and we'll talk then the next couple of games.

Kev: Okay. ⁓ St. Louis City.