BRIDGET
0:00
Welcome to the 8th episode of the Queen's Pitch podcast. My name is Bridget. And I'm kara. And we are here today to discuss all things Charlotte FC. This week we played against the Red Bulls. That was a great game, wasn't it, Kara?
KARA
0:12
I sure had a lot to say about it. Let me just start off by saying the quote that I sent George this morning. I tell you, I send him one every week. Probably annoys the crap, but I send it anyway. This week I said, in the words of Ted Lasso, hey, taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse. If you're comfortable while you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong. And
BRIDGET
0:32
I'm just going to have to say Charlotte FC doesn't have to worry about that problem because we are not doing anything consistent at all. But hey, we got us a draw today, so we ended up with one. One.
KARA
0:43
And yes, we did. Yes, it was a hard fought draw. We made it to the end. But I also want to say that Bridget and I are recording this at 130 in the morning on Sunday. So whatever you're listening, just we might be punchy, we might be tired, we're definitely
BRIDGET
1:01
horrible. We might be ranting. Yeah, right, mom. Rants might be on point tonight. So just give us a little bit of grace this week. We're going to do the best we can. First of all, we want to start out with giving some shout outs to some of our listeners out there. We've been getting some great feedback from people at the shows, some of our friends and listeners, and we just want to say we greatly appreciate that.
KARA
1:25
Yes, thank you. I had someone around my section turn around and say, hey, the person I rode with. Really likes your show. So that was really cool. So I guess whenever you see us or tweet us on Twitter or Instagram or something, just let us know that if you like it. Thanks.
BRIDGET
1:44
And any feedback, if there's anything you'd like to tell us why our opinions might not be the right ones for you, we like to have a little bit of banter and we like to have some feedback, so we greatly appreciate it. And also before we go ahead and start recapping the game, we wanted to give a big shout out this week to Jack Neely. I know we talked about him in the preseason. We were super excited for him. He is from South Mecklenburg, I believe, and he has now signed as a homegrown with a Charlotte FC. So. Way to go, Jack. I feel like Kara, he must have done a really good job in that preseason to get this contract from lady. Yeah,
KARA
2:19
it really sounds like it. I guess he was practicing with Crown Legacy. I wonder if you'll get to see him play later today. But yeah, just really big congratulations to him and his family. What an awesome accomplishment. Can't wait to see him play because I'm going to be watching. If I can't be there in person, it's going to get watched on MLS season pass. Can't wait to see him play and congratulations.
BRIDGET
2:41
Yeah, it must be really exciting, especially for his mother because I know you put so much time and effort into your kids. We go on Saturdays all through the week, and just to see that your son becomes something at that young of an age, that's just amazing to me. Coming straight out of high school onto an MLS next team, that's just a great accomplishment for his parents, his mother and for him. So we just want to say congratulations to Jack and we can't wait to see you. I should see you later today, hopefully if you're
KARA
3:10
out there. You also might not know that since he's on Charlotte FC that they can play down to Crown Legacy anytime. Laddie had a lot of complimentary things to say about how mature he is with his play and things like that. So it really seems like he's a great sighting.
BRIDGET
3:24
So Carol said the game tonight or last night, let's say it was about an hour 2 hours ago. It was really a crazy game. But before we talk about the game, also, let's talk about the atmosphere there. There was a lot of people there. It was rocking. That Peppas, I think, had the whole place shaking at one point. It was just from my section. I sit two over from the supporter section. It was on point. I felt like the atmosphere everybody was on the same page in the stadium tonight.
KARA
3:52
Yeah, and it was the debut of the Crown Jewel Kit. So it was really cool to see everyone in the purple and all the purple smoke and just like, the different setup to the game atmosphere to go with our theme.
BRIDGET
4:04
Yeah. And the guys look wonderful out there in that purple. Yeah, they did, George. And the Red and the purple.
KARA
4:10
Yeah, but didn't look so well with the Red Bulls. That's their
BRIDGET
4:14
fault. Yeah. We don't really care about them. And anyway, the rebels look like they was green half the time anyway because I was on the ground, so I don't really know what the color of their jerseys was because they were wallowing around in the Turks the whole time anyway. But we'll talk about that later. The kids were awesome. The guys look great in them. Enzo had his hair frosted, so that really made that purple pop with him, I think. I heard that his daughter was actually at the stadium tonight, too. Yeah,
KARA
4:39
she was. I heard that.
BRIDGET
4:40
I think that's really cool. But the kits look great on them all. George had the red from the goalie. I really don't like that red goal kit, but it looked good on George, so I think the atmosphere and the look and everything that was on point, that was right where we needed it to be. So then we were like, okay, here comes this squad. Glad he switched it up a little bit because he had to. Wesley was out hurt Bill without hurt as well, and then Swadowski was overseas playing with Poland, so there was a lot going on in that situation. So he did make a change in the lineup a little bit.
KARA
5:14
Yes. He had Santos in at the ten. He kept a fool, he kept Lindsay, so that was really nice to see. But surprisingly, we didn't see Sobolsinski at center back, which is probably who people would think that might be center back, or maybe Jones, because he was in there for preseason. But he had Nathan Byrne in as center back, so that was a surprise. Earlier in the day today, I was talking to Danny with Charlotte soccer show, and he was like I was like, what are we going to do without Bill? And he said, they're going to put burn in there. And I was like, you're crazy. Burns too little. He does not need to be as a center back. And I don't mean that bad, but when you think of that, you don't think of a five, eight dude out there, little guy. So I was like, there's no way. And then when I saw his name on that lineup, I was like, what in the world?
BRIDGET
6:05
Is Christian Latangio thinking? And yes, I pulled out the full name. That's how serious I am. So I was just like, what are we doing here? I understood the new no going in. We've all wanted new no to start anyway, so that was like 2s but that was just one of those things that you're like, what?
KARA
6:22
Yeah, and we're going to get into that a little later. But I also want to say Jones, the stadium didn't get to say your name, so we're saying it on here. Dude. There you go. Some sort of goofball happened. I know, right?
BRIDGET
6:35
I videoed it. I was excited about that. And then they totally bluffed that.
KARA
6:40
Yeah, something happened. The announcer got the memo but the tech
BRIDGET
6:43
didn't. The billboards taking a vacation. They did it last game and did it again. This game? A little bit. At
KARA
6:48
least the video stayed on, although it was really funny. Did you catch that one Glitch, where they like filmed the
BRIDGET
6:55
locker room? The vault? Yeah. There was no one down there. We got to see it. Hey, it was good times. I thought maybe we was going to see somebody walk out. We didn't get some big old influence, but we did not Easter egg for you. I did get on the screen twice. Tonight was not my choice, nor did I do anything to warrant it this time, but my daughter enjoys trying to get on that cam and so she did twice tonight. So yay. Go her. Yeah, I was trying to get a photo of it, but you can't because by the time you get your phone out, it's gone. And so you just can't if you're a parent there and you want your kid on the cam, just let them act a fool and they'll put you on there. And on that note, a fool was the captain. I thought that that was awesome. As much as that we talk about him, it was just cool to see him come out there and be captain this
KARA
7:40
week. And that being said, Bridget, do you have a favor to give out this week?
BRIDGET
7:45
Oh, yeah, I have a favorite. Okay. So my favorite this week is on goal this week. It worked in our favor. The last few weeks, it has not worked in our favor. So about time the ongoing showed up. No, I really think this week I'm going to go ahead with my boy Marks. He's always great. I've been saying this for the last six months and I'm going to keep saying it. He came out there and he was outstanding, but really I'm going to go with Hair and A Fool as my first one because that guy is a superstar. I know I've said it before. I know you said it before and we're going to keep saying it every week. He is just everything that you could want out of a player. And like I said, I don't care how old he is if he's the oldest out there. He's putting everything into it and just seeing him do that, I feel like that leads the guys to want to do the same. So this week, like I said, I'll give you the two for one or but it's going to be for mostly harrison a fool for my first one. Yeah, I agree
KARA
8:41
with you. He controlled the tempo of the game. I felt like he was uplifting to the other players. He was really showing that leadership out on the pitch tonight. And so congratulations to him for being named captain this week. I kind of thought if he's out there on the pitch doing this role, then that must mean when he's on or off like that's some of the role that he's also playing, which he is the veteran, most experienced veteran age wise on the team, and he got the opportunity to take the captaincy today. Now, the only thing I didn't really see is I didn't and maybe it's just because I'm not used to looking for him. I didn't really see him talking to the ref that often. I feel like I saw bronco doing it still a
BRIDGET
9:28
lot. Yeah, I think I saw him a couple of times, but you don't notice him. First of all, he's very quiet, I think, so he's not running up to the ref, jumping in his face. He's the quiet guy. I did see him walk up a couple of times. He didn't put bush and he went away. But I did see him walk up a couple of times, I think when he wanted I know enzo to stop talking at one point and maybe one other one. But like you said, yeah, I expected him a couple of times to run up a little bit more and he didn't. But maybe that's just his style of being a captain. Right.
KARA
9:57
And I think, too, that he probably was orchestrating a lot of the plays that they were running because at some points, especially when play was stopped, you saw him getting some word from the coach and spreading it around to the other guys and leading that way, too. So I think that was part of it. Yeah. He wasn't real flashy out there today either. No, he was just out there doing his job. Yes. And so he did a great job. And also, I just wanted to know when you were saying that he was talking to lasagna, there was a couple of times when the red bulls were acting a fool out there and I saw marks run up and talk to a couple of the players, too. And I really like that. I like how they I saw a little bit more communication, didn't have results, I guess, because we just saw them passing it for a whole I felt like forever.
BRIDGET
10:45
But I did see them talking to each other and I like seeing the communication between the players because I feel like that helps the team. Yeah.
KARA
10:53
And if you remember the last couple of games that have happened on us they have been in transition, typically because either our left back or right back is doing the whole pinched in the inverted fullback position where they've come to the middle to act as an extra midfielder. And with a full in that spot and with Lindsay in that spot too. You did not see that get as exposed as it has been in the past. And so I think that's one of the reasons why you see them. They didn't. 1s Do anything. Lindsay didn't get another assist this week. But you also saw them doing their job. And part of that job means more invisibly because they aren't getting goal scored on them. So I just kind of want to say that if they're in the spot where they need to be, then they are stopping the gap. And not to say that there weren't shots on goal by Red Bulls because they definitely had more than us, but still, I do feel that Aful and Lindsay did that job well. Talking about what they did, I have a question. So I noticed a lot of times when they were playing, aful and Lindsay were further up, like in front of
BRIDGET
12:08
Byrne and Melonda. Is that normal? Why are they more in front of them as opposed to being beside them? Is that a latanzia thing?
KARA
12:18
Yes, that's what you're noticing as the inverted fullback. Okay, so instead of being out on the wing, they are coming in to the middle to provide more support in the midfield.
BRIDGET
12:31
Do you think that's hurting us,
KARA
12:32
though? I mean, it has definitely has in the past. Yeah. And that's why we kept getting those gold scored in us, Atlanta, namely other games that has kind of happened. We've been caught in transition, especially with those gaps. But I felt like today you saw them, really, that they've been working to try and stop those gaps 1s because that's the ball that it seems like Latanzio wants to play. He wants his pullbacks to be in the middle instead of stuck out to the side or running up and down there. He wants them to come into the middle and play and kind of move the defense as a unit to stop the goal, to stop possibilities, stop passing lanes and things like that. Or trap. 1s There was some really cool video. I'll see if I can share it to you and maybe we can share it on our account that someone posted about what that is probably the crown cast. I think they they shared it, so they explained that really well. And that's one of the ways I learned precisely what it means by a nice little
BRIDGET
13:28
video. Well, on that note, do you have a favor or who's your first favorite this week? Karen
KARA
13:32
Mine is going to go to the man of the match today. Carolyn Vargas did a great job to day. He had some of our really good chances. He had a key pass, and while he didn't score this week, he still had a number of shots. Some of them got completely blocked, but he was trying to cross into the box. He had pretty good passing today, too. I really felt he was doing really well on defense. He didn't have any fouls. He was fouled four times. Namely one of them, he got hit in the face. It looked like either that and 1s you said he did really good acting there, because to us, it all did look like he took an elbow to the face. I felt like
BRIDGET
14:18
I honestly think that him and Enzo have been playing around and practicing. And he took lessons from Enzo because he full on rolled. And I thought, oh, my gosh, he's literally hurt. We cannot have this dude out. And then as soon as he got the foul, Enzo ran over, and I don't know what he enzo said, but then all of a sudden, Vargas jumps up and then does the free kick. I mean, it was literally the craziest thing ever. And I really think they've been practicing that. But as long as they jump up that fast, then they can practice it all they want.
KARA
14:47
Yeah, there were times where he also was in space that the team didn't see him, and so he was trying to call for the ball. There were times where they were marking him, but there were also times where he was open where if they could have just gotten it to him and then Nuno had a really great ball into the box that Vargas just wasn't his timing was off. He was a little late to it. It would have been very nice for him to come right off that back post. Unfortunate missed opportunity. But he did have some good crosses into the box. He played well. He had one of our really good chances at the very beginning. He crossed it in, and it goes to Bronco or like he just toe taps it or something. Over to Gaines. And Gaines shoots on the keeper. It is blocked. But that was a good, fast attempt right around the 16 minutes mark. And the last thing is, Kerwin also played the full 90 minutes, which we hadn't seen him do yet. He was there making chances, making runs the whole time. Solid
BRIDGET
15:49
effort. Yeah, he didn't look like he got winded. Like, last week we thought he might have got tired or he was doing something, but this week he didn't look like that at all. Yeah, it was nice to see him out there the whole time. All right,
KARA
15:58
Bridget, who are we giving your second favorite to?
BRIDGET
16:01
Okay, well, I'm going to do another two for one or so. I guess you're going to just get two for one ers all night long. But this time I am going to say my favorite is the subs. 1s I know last week I had complained about the subs because well, a couple of weeks ago I complained we didn't have any subs and then Latanzio decided to sub and I didn't think the subs did much of anything. But this week I really think the subs went in there and actually showed their part. So for the first one is Mellow. We actually got to see him. He's a real guy. He really plays in the real leagues. So I think this is his first MLS match that he got to play in. It was really great and he did a really good job when he was out there. I think that there was one time I thought he was actually going to score a goal, but when he did come out there, you could totally tell. It was kind of a frustrating game where I felt that we weren't doing much but backpassing him the whole time. Thank goodness that George knows how to do that because it's very frustrating. But we were doing all that. So when Vinny came out there, it seemed like we did actually start pressing. We made some moves and he didn't seem to skip a beat at all. So for this being his first match, I was very impressed. And then I'm also going to go with bender. I think the new haircut did it. He looks really cute. Got that hair chopped off. But he came out there and he actually made a difference. There was a couple of times he was actually open and I thought, well, dang, if they just give it to bender, he might can shoot it. His confidence has grown and maybe it was just cutting the hair off gave him that confidence. But he was out there and then he made a cross. That was unbelievable. Unfortunately, we don't know have anybody that wants to shoot on our team, but he made a cross that was absolutely gorgeous. So I'm just really impressed with bender and Mellow this week. So my second favorite went to the subs.
KARA
17:41
I 100% agree with you. I thought that it was super cool to finally see mellow get his MLS debut, get actual minutes instead of just some preseason minutes because I think some of the fans had thought he was a figment of the imagination.
BRIDGET
17:57
We thought he was just sir manti. But wait, we did not see sir manti tonight. We did not. So that theory still stands.
KARA
18:05
Yeah. And Mellow finally showed some of the talent that under 22 DP has. He made some really nice moves on the ball. 2s Switching it up really fast. We're making good passes, and I can't wait to see what he does in a start or more minutes. We want him to stay healthy and not take any knocks. But he had some really nice moves. He had some good crosses, good attempts. I really thought towards the end, even though it was so late after that own goal and things like that. Once they came in, I felt like our momentum 1s got stronger with both him and Bender in. And Bender, man, what an improvement in his defense, his keeping the ball from two defenders. And I really feel like maybe when he cut his hair off, it was like, no more party. This is business, Bender.
BRIDGET
19:04
I don't even know Bender parties, though. Let's not get a little crazy. Last year, I think they asked him a question on the board, and it was like, what's the craziest thing you've ever done? And he said, eat too much food at the mess hall, so let's not think the Benders out there partying. Okay? But I think it might have gave him that confidence. Plus, all the guys on the team have been giving him a lot of credit this week, so I think maybe that build his confidence up a little bit.
KARA
19:28
Yeah, but with bronco and his haircut and that's the thing. He's all business up front, party in the back. Bender was all party. Yeah. And so since he got it cut off, we only have serious business, Bender.
BRIDGET
19:42
Leonardo DiCaprio, who, by the way, my kid thought was a Ninja Turtle, and he's not a Ninja Turtle. Okay. 2s It is Leo the turtle. But I mean, she really had me thinking leonardo DiCaprio played a turtle in a movie. She's like, didn't he play in that turtle movie? And I'm like, he's playing a lot of movies that I don't know about a turtle. So I'm like, what movie? I was like, did he do a cartoon? I was like, oh, my God, I could find this turtle cartoon. And then I realized she's talking about ninja turtles. And I'm like, absolutely not. We are not confusing Leonardo DiCaprio with Leonardo the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
KARA
20:16
But honestly, aren't you kind of glad that she doesn't know who he is? Especially since he likes to date 19 year olds?
BRIDGET
20:22
Okay, well, she's eleven or ten, so we're going to wait a couple more years. But yes. No, I really do. I mean, I'm glad she doesn't. Okay, let's give her a little credit. She did finally go, oh, Jack from the Titanic. So we got there, we finally, eventually got to who he was. 1s But anyway, I'm just saying leonardo DiCaprio is not a ninja turtle. Okay, back to Charlotte. Now back
KARA
20:43
to Bender. 1s He came in for Santos as Cam, right? So he's supposed to be there. He's supposed to be connecting the play. He's supposed to be driving them. And I thought he did a great job I do hope he gets some more minutes, because I felt like last game we didn't see him. First of all get enough time to do much of anything. But also you were questioning why he was in a sub. But I think this was why. Once he saw that Westwood was injured still had some things on him, but with Nuno in there, he knew he'd need another backup. And he was like, all right, maybe Bender has been doing really well, working hard, getting that grind set, because we know it seems like Brandt has been mentoring him a bit this time. And I can't wait to see him try it again and see what he can make happen, especially with the team he had out there tonight, because it was a beautiful attempt at that 85th minute. And there was a couple of others right in the last 1015 minutes of that game.
BRIDGET
21:37
I mean, dare I say, I thought Bender did better than Nuno. But then again, like you said, we've talked about off the radio, nuno had a lot of different tasks to do tonight that he hadn't done before. So I can't go there. But I just thought Bender made a bigger impact, but that's just because he came out at a different time, too. So I've got to calm myself down, calm myself down on that note before I get a little too crazy. Carol, who's your second favorite tonight?
KARA
22:02
Okay, maybe you won't think this is fair, but I get to give my officially to George Mark. Oh, well, that's not right. I'm kidding. Okay, I guess I'll share. Go ahead. No, he had some I'm
BRIDGET
22:14
not going to be mad about it. I'm not be mad about it. I'm not. He had
KARA
22:16
some really great shotstopping moments today that he still kept composure. He, I thought, made smart choices with a lot of the things that he did, too. I think there was only one really random one where he distributed the ball weirdly and I went just like
BRIDGET
22:34
it was. But that was the wind. We're blaming it on the wind. Yes.
KARA
22:38
Could be, could be. We don't know. And that was a thing. It was right around when the wind was blowing against us. I just knew it was kind of out of characteristic for him. Didn't know what he'd seen at that moment, but otherwise, no, I thought he had a good game. He couldn't have helped that one shot because it really was like we beat ourselves at that moment with Byrne doing a Whiff, which 1s we all make those mistakes, but it's getting really exhausting for it to be Charlotte FC continuing to do that. But we're all human. They're all
BRIDGET
23:18
human in our line.
KARA
23:19
Yeah, but I can't be too hard on him, first of all, because he got back up, he turned back around, he put on the speed to try and get back on that ball and then got body checked by Red Bulls, which, and I told this to you earlier, if that was Copetti. As in, like, the other game, that would have been a foul. They wouldn't have got the goal. So I don't know what's different about other than the different ref, but that should have been a foul on Burn because he did make an attempt. He did not very carefully try to foul Red Bulls. He was just trying to still challenge for it. So when it came up to George, he did a great job at blocking some of those shots very close. I thought the one where he got saved of the match, I just happened to look up and to see the one where he catches it rolling to him, and I was like, what? That's the save? No, he got has a really good one right before that. And then it just so happens that Red Bulls just gets a nice little toddler baby kid kick. And George is like, oh, thanks, bud. I think he
BRIDGET
24:23
was put in a lot of weird positions, too. I mean, focus on the goalie a lot because my daughter's in that, and I get frustrated with some of the defenders that are helping them or not helping them or what it is. There was one time I think it's the same when you're talking about where there were so many people in the box, and then it was like the ball came out of nowhere, like you said, at his feet or at the bottom, and he stops it, and then it comes again, and you're just like I couldn't have seen that ball if I was them because there were so many people in there. And where was it coming from and whose legs was going through and what was it doing? He asked that ball. And then the one I think was on the other end from where I'm sitting at, where he slid into was it that he slid into the ball and stopped it?
KARA
24:59
That was like in the first few minutes. I thought
BRIDGET
25:02
there was one at the end of the game where he did that. Yeah, where he jumped at the ball and he just out of nowhere, just slid into it and kicked it out of there. And I was just like, that takes a lot of, first of all, guts, because what if he misses it? Then they go back some minutes in the goal, but then just for him to take that initiative,
KARA
25:17
too. Yeah. And Leukenias from Rebels has a nice shot that he slides and saves. So that was a powerful shot. So he also did well for some of those. I've
BRIDGET
25:28
been telling you all that this guy was good for a while. I just wish lady would have listened to I really think he had to work his way up. Like lady said, he's a really good guy mentally, too. And I think that he's getting his due, his comeuppance. I like him. I think that we could get him a line to work with and somebody to help him out, then I think he could get a clean sheet. Yeah, but I am glad that he got this at home.
KARA
25:52
No, I really do think that Latanzio knew he has a strong depth for a goalkeeper, including last year because Marks was second to Kalina for quite some time there at the beginning of the year and maybe it's just because Mar liked him better, I'm not sure but I do think part of that was just because of his youth. 1s Not because of his talent, not because of his solid play. And so now it's just really nice that he's getting to show his quality that he's had this
BRIDGET
26:20
time. Yeah, I'm glad he's there. So you ready for the raft?
KARA
26:23
Yeah, please. I'm ready to hear who you're going to unleash it
BRIDGET
26:28
on. Actually, we talked about this before, and you're like, please do not do those people. So there's a couple I'm going to do and then there's some
KARA
26:34
we're going to fight it. We
BRIDGET
26:36
will we will probably fight. We will probably definitely. Yeah. I was gonna say Enzo, but we're gonna fight over that one, so I'm gonna go with Nuno. I know that's the sad, and I brought it up a while ago. Everybody was like, Nuno, let's start Nuno. Let's start nuno. We started nuno. Nuno played, and I just didn't see it out of Nuno. Now, no offense to nuno. He's still a great guy. He's still as cute as a button. I'm still only a year younger than his mom, but I just didn't see out of Nuno what I wanted to see out of Nuno. I thought he was going to have that energy coming out. I think that instead he came out and played like a Westwood game instead of playing his game. And I just didn't see it. I just didn't see it out of Nuno that I thought we were going to see. Maybe if I give him the raft this week, he'll show me up next week. Because it seems like everyone I put in the raft decides to come out the next week and show me that I'm an idiot. So, Nuno, please do that for me today. And all you all that are going to hate me for saying this, I just don't see it in Nuno after today. So I'm hoping Nuno comes out and proves me wrong. I think
KARA
27:36
that he had room for improvement. Definitely. I really hope that he only got the 45 minutes, basically last time, maybe ten minutes before that or so. And then this is his first time where he played, what is it? 80 minutes or so is about windbender came in I
BRIDGET
27:51
think it was 70 something, right?
KARA
27:53
Maybe 75. And so he got more minutes, but he also hasn't had too too much, especially not at that camp position. And so for filling in for Westwood is pretty big shoes because I feel like Westwood last week when he was in, they made some really great attempts and just cohesion. 1s But part of his job is pretty invisible, too. And I feel like you're seeing some of that potentially in Santos because his eyeball test yes. It's hard to tell what he's doing out there. His statistics are pretty good and I think that's why he's rated pretty highly this game. Not that I'm going to spend too much, but he did have five successful dribble attempts and then he didn't lose possession in as much. But I do think he had some things that went awry. Like anything, he had some attempts that didn't quite make it. But then I felt like he kind of made up for some because he had some also really nice sweet crosses that either didn't connect or they did connect, but it didn't actually happen. So I think if we would have seen the completion on that, especially in the final third, I felt like his quality would have been more apparent. But he also had his passing was this is the first time he's really been in the middle. He's the first time he's played this long. I hope he just needs more time or two. The Red Bulls are a high pressed team and so we always know that's kind of fight dirty. We knew this game was going to be dirty, especially after playing St. Louis, that they have a very similar style. They got it from each other, so we knew this game was going to be tough and. 2s I can't I can't fault Santos as much. I don't like the foul he has. He gets a yellow on. He's very lucky. So wish he hadn't got a foul. But I can't really fault him too mad much because we got the least number of yellow cards.
BRIDGET
29:47
Well, I can make everybody else mad too and say maybe it's because Bronco didn't do anything tonight too. So if you don't have your midfield doing anything, then how can Nuno do anything? It pretty much was like the midfield decided to just not show up. And I love Bronco, too. I love Nuno, but I don't know what they decided to do tonight. But it was not be there. And if thank goodness, they pushed up like you said, 1s they had Lindsay and a full come in because if those two wouldn't have been in the middle, I don't think we would have had a middle. I really don't. 1s I'm just going to make everybody mad and say that our midfield was struggling. And I know I've said Paul Westwood before, but holy crap, put Westwood back out there because this did not work. You waited
KARA
30:29
right into my raft for the game. Unfortunately, Grant Runico did not have a good game. The mayor, he did some things well, but this was not his game. He made more mistakes. He, I think, was a little more rattled. 1s His consistency, this game was poor. And I think that's also why you saw some of that from Santos and Jones potentially. I don't think I have too much to say about Jones on that one. But poor Baronico, it just seemed like his passing just kept going awry his choices. He had fouls. 1s He
BRIDGET
31:04
could have made a shot. 1s I think he was just going straight to the goal and it was wide open and he was just going. If he would have just made that shot. But he did not. He decided to do some crazy cross pass. I don't know what it was, but it didn't land anywhere. No one was there. And I was like, dude, just shoot it. Usually Veronica is not scared to shoot, but tonight it was like he didn't want to shoot either. I don't know. And I think it was because he didn't shave his face either because his face had a lot of scruffiness on it. So maybe it was because he wasn't clean shaving. Maybe we want to work on that. I don't know. I don't know. And we all have off nights. We all do. No fault. I'm sure he'll come back this week and grind it out and show us up next week.
KARA
31:46
Yeah. And I think this really shows. 1s Possibly because red bull's tough. And you really saw that quality, I think, happen poorly for bronco. There his passing. They just saw right through some of his passes. And so he has a pretty bad, just accurate passing rate this game. But he, however, did have two long balls that actually connected, which is more than I can say for most people who attempted them. So he has 100% attempted and accurate long ball rate, but he lost possession. He passes. It weirdly sometimes. Poor guy. Give him a hug and I hope it does better for him next week in Toronto.
BRIDGET
32:26
I don't mean anything. Maybe if he stopped focusing on his hair poles and his shirt sales and start focusing back on just the grinding.
KARA
32:33
No, he just had a bad game. There are going to be people who are going to have a bad game.
BRIDGET
32:37
I'm going to go ahead and tell you what my second raft is going to be tonight. Can't wait. I'm going in and saying the back passes. I'm sick and tired of the backpassing and that is going to be my wrath. And I know that goes back down to Laddie. I'm saying the full name tonight, Latanzio. Because this backpassing is frustrating. And thank goodness George knows how to pass and he knows what he's doing with his footwork. But it got to a point tonight where there was a guy in front of us, jesus, number one, jesus. But he would just yell, kick it. And there's times that Enzo would be wide open and you just want to kick it. And you know, George is not kicking it because Latanzio doesn't want him to do that. So we're just going to backpass. And I literally think we passed it to ourselves the whole game. And I don't understand. I get that you want to waste time. And that was another thing. My kid, she said, mom, this is in the first half. Mom, I know what we're doing. I know what we're doing. I said, what are we doing? Oh, we're just trying to kill time. Well, why are we killing time in the first half? It makes no sense to me. I get you want to buy time, but I've never heard of it. Let's kill time in the first half. No. 2s So that backpassing got out of hand and there were a couple of times where it almost didn't work. I mean, it almost didn't work. There was a time where there was a backpass to George that almost didn't he didn't stop it. He had a jump to stop it. And I'm like, dude, if that would have went in the goal, I'd have lost my mind. I would have probably totally been thrown out at that point because I'd have jumped over. But the backpassing is getting out of hand. Do you know why he doesn't? I mean, I get that he wants to control the ball and lord knows that when we do those long passes, we do not win 50. Don't know why we can't do that either. 1s I didn't see Enzo win one of those. Not a one out of the five we did. Why will he not let him kick the ball?
KARA
34:25
He can kick it.
BRIDGET
34:26
He can kick it well, so why do we not at least half the time do something else other than backpass in the first half? Yeah, I
KARA
34:34
thought for sure you were going to say Byrne got your second raft because he was supposed to be getting a backpass that he whipped on.
BRIDGET
34:41
He's got my eternal wrath. Let's just go there. You don't even have to ask me about him. He's got it every week. Wrath. Burn, he says on the bench. Burn. Subs burn. It's always going to be burned.
KARA
34:52
It's just going to be me sticking up for people.
BRIDGET
34:55
Just kidding. 1s Still going to be burned.
KARA
35:01
But I think part of the backpassing is one, you're right. That's how Latanzio wants to play. Two, I thought one of the reasons why he did it, this game especially, is because you saw those long passes that we kept attempting and this weighed kind of right into my wrath. So I'm going to throw it in here. Kind of wrapped up in yours a little.
BRIDGET
35:22
I mean, it is two in the morning at this point.
KARA
35:24
Mine kind of falls a little bit on me. Wanda. And it's not that I don't love him. I didn't feel like he had a grave a game. But I think this is also because of the style of play, because of that high press, that high energy press, and the extra job that the center backs are having to do so much. And he now has a new partner in Byrne,
BRIDGET
35:44
who is five five foot two compared to Milanda.
KARA
35:47
His passing, that's one of the things we say so much about him is that he just has high quality passing. He has good vision, but 1s his passing was picked off a few times. The one thing I felt like that really dragged him down was that he with all of the back passing that we had to do to kind of move the ball around, expose spaces, make Red Bull run some more, which was great. When he would do a long pass, he just kept attempting them and they weren't working. And there's at one point where I remember hearing Lloyd Sam go, that hasn't been working all game. Why are you doing that? Again? I just cracked up. Not that I fault him. That might be something that they work with him on, but I just didn't feel like like Bronco, he did not have a good game with that moment. But I am going to stick up for a little bit burn here because other than that one mistake, which, again, we love shooting ourselves in the foot. And that's what happened. He. 2s Did a great job for a center back position. Otherwise, like, he didn't make more mistakes after that. He didn't get a
BRIDGET
36:57
card. No, he didn't. Not today. Neither him
KARA
36:59
nor Melonda did. And they were pretty in trouble sometimes. They were high pressed. Right. Other than that and the fact that it's much harder for Byrne to win the balls just because he is shorter than Milanda, it's a little bit easier for me to win those. I thought he did good and solid other than that one poor
BRIDGET
37:18
mistake. It's just those mistakes that he makes are the costly ones. But
KARA
37:22
you can't say that necessarily because Tuliloma in that same spot has had two of them.
BRIDGET
37:27
Well, I don't like Tuli Loma there either. Well, here's the thing. Why can we not have what in the world has Sobo done? What has Sobo done to piss lady off? He was on the bench today, so at least he's there.
KARA
37:39
Latanzio said that he felt that this game fit better the qualities of Burn than Soposinski, and that's possibly because of how fast Burn can run at times and the fact that he didn't have to ask him because he's not doing that right back duty. He's not overlapping up front. He has more energy to do that in the back when he needed to. And I feel like sometimes there's a lot of pressure because of those inverted fullbacks, that it's putting all that extra pressure on the center backs. And that's why you're seeing those mistakes happen a lot more and happen more frequently. And 1s it's like the leaking bathtub or whatever it is. There's a hole in my bucket. 2s We got to patch that hole somehow. Everybody. I hope that we'll get to see Sobosinski, because, like you said, I'm a little worried about how he'll play. But Latanzio said in the press conference that he does hope he'll get his chance. And he says that and Marx has got his chance now, right? So we got to hope that maybe Silosinski He still has qualities that the team likes, but if he doesn't play in the next month or so, especially if Tui Loma's. 1s Not good next game for Toronto or something. I don't know. I just think he was on the bench last week, so that was odd. And I just think there's something there. And Latanzio does put a lot of into the work ethic and everything and he's not going to dog a player anyway. Even if you ask him about Yon, he wasn't going to say, well, Yon is not going to do well. He's just going to say Yan's got to work his way and do what he's got to do. I thought last year Yan was pretty good and he's a bigger guy and he was very defensive. And I actually thought Yan was very good at Preston, too, sometimes. So it was very odd to see them go with Burn because Burn is smaller and that does right there leave it open. But
BRIDGET
39:32
who knows? We might see. Jack neely, come on up. If Bill doesn't come back, I wouldn't be opposed to it.
KARA
39:38
Byrne, right before you had that Whiff, he had a really nice save and there was a beautiful slide tackle at the very beginning that was super cool. Also, I have to shout out, apparently we didn't know this, but I guess he's a gymnast because he was doing cartwheels when people would hit him. Yeah. I was like, all right, good job, old man. And he's like a few years younger than me. 2s I don't really mean old man, but getting hit that hard and doing a cartwheel at his age on there, I was like, oh, I'm glad he's okay because I was kind of worried about him. I hope he gets an ice bath later. You're right. Can I have some bruises or
BRIDGET
40:16
something? I mean, I do give him a hard time. He did get burnt a couple of times, but he did save. There was at least two that I know. He went in and he saved. 2s When he does play 100%, you can see he does have a lot of speed and he is in there. Yeah. There. I gave him a positive.
KARA
40:35
Yeah, you didn't give him a positive. That was good.
BRIDGET
40:37
Look at me, I'm growing up.
KARA
40:41
So is there anything else we want to say about this game other than that we still hate the Red Bulls? I really
BRIDGET
40:46
do. I have a question. So last game, even George got a yellow card for delay of game. This game was the most insane waste of game by team I've ever seen in my entire life. Is there nothing that the MLS could have done about this? It was insane. And like, that one guy literally was on the ground probably at least 15 minutes himself. I think that it was just to the point where, oh, my shoes untied. I'm all laying on the ground for 45 minutes. Stop it. And they never did. And even when we said, hey, they're delaying games, it was like the ref went with them. How does that get determined? I
KARA
41:24
think for that I really had to go back because I'm frustrated every time we do something like that. And I'm too hot headed in the middle of the game, which I'm sorry to everyone who sits around me because I am
BRIDGET
41:37
very vocal at that point. I think the lady in front of me got if she's listening, I apologize. She got really frustrated with my two preteens yelling benny boy or benny something stupid when benner came out. But I was really yelling, too, at the people on the ground. I was like, just get up. Yeah. So I apologize to her.
KARA
41:54
So when I went back for my rewatch because that's the one of the things I like to look for. Okay? Am I crazy? Because we don't see the replays down on the field, right. So we just see it if the jumbotron thingy shows it. And then even then, I don't have the best faraway eyesight, so I'm still going, what happened? So I really like to look at that when I watch my replay because, okay, am I being incredibly biased toward our team or what and why? But I did make a note to myself, all right, count the fouls and count the time wasting. So I do have some notes on that. They're not super comprehensive because I needed more time to do that correctly. And math's not my strong suit. Much better at writing and books. At the beginning, we saw what was it? There was a minute wasted. Right around the 11th minute. 2s There were a lot of fouls this game. We expected that because it's new york red bulls. And actually at the end of the game, in the counted fouls, we didn't have the most fouls per game anymore. Shock and awe. We also didn't have the most
BRIDGET
43:07
yellow cards. Right. We didn't have oh, we had, like, three. Oh, my goodness. We had
KARA
43:12
three. There could have probably been one more given to us. But we got enough last game. So I feel like we're good for a bit because maybe red bulls needed, like, two more. That have been great.
BRIDGET
43:23
I don't understand why they didn't get more than they did. Yeah,
KARA
43:26
I think there were two opportunities that I noticed and I wrote down, like, this should be a yellow. But I also think some of them were incidental contact and they had to review them and be like, okay, did he get a stud? Was he doing it because it was malicious? So those things that the VAR official has to go and look at and then to the official. But I do think there was three and a half minutes wasted within the first 21 minutes. So that was already pretty fast. And then at some point. 2s Bronco gets a yellow because number 27 on Red Bulls gets on the ground. Right. To me, it looked like his foot bounced off the ground into him upward and Crack hour even said that could have been a red. But Red Bulls were incensed and arguing. There was, like six of them around them trying to argue for that call, but they ultimately decided it wasn't malicious, which is good for us, because it didn't really look it to me. It looked like his heel bounced up, and it went right into the guy's leg. Let's see what else. There was a couple of fouls where it was just like it seemed like a wind or branch knocked Red Bulls over John Tolkien, who drove me nuts tonight, not just then. And Justin Willie agreed that a window branch knocked knocked him over. And the same thing happened to us, it seemed like, multiple times, but we weren't getting those calls, which I think is why Enzo didn't have such a great game. In some ways, that's what it looked like. I think you had said, I want to give my wrath to Enzo earlier, and I was like, but wait, but wait. I have some things.
BRIDGET
45:05
I mean, I still give Enzo my raft, too, but he didn't wallow around the ground a lot, so we'll go with it. He did a
KARA
45:11
good job keeping his upsetness in check, and I do think he had a lot of things to be upset about tonight. There was one point where he got triple teamed and then did a cartwheel, so who knew our team was so good at gymnastics?
BRIDGET
45:23
That's what they've been doing in their spare time. Okay. Right. Vargas has been teaching them vargas has been doing a side job with them and been teaching them his aerobatics because they were jealous and they wanted to learn.
KARA
45:35
Yeah. I think it was like to me, it was like five you could argue five to six minutes in the beginning. However, two of them are off, like. 1s Free balls, free kicks that Red Bulls gets. And if you balance that out with the ones that we took some time for, kerwin all right, I had to let those go. There's a couple of times where one very egregious where the ball went out on the other team, and they're like, nah, Red Bulls, you're going to have it back, man. Some of those things where Gains got held down, enzo got held back and getting hit a lot, and I just felt like he didn't get some calls that he should have gotten, and that's why he was so frustrated. And he was rightly to be frustrated. He was hit from behind at one point, and even Crackhauer says the ref swallowed his whistle on that one. There were some things that just didn't quite work right, and I think the team got frustrated with that. We had some miscommunications and things like that because I think they were just frustrated with how it was going. And then at one point, he was yanked down in the box. He doesn't get that call. And then did you on the replay, if you give me a minute, I'm going to see if I can go find where precisely that is. But there was a whole shoulder, like, clothesline into capti. I think he gets that one, but it was just like he kept getting hit. He got the most, like, fouls on him, and he's a physical player. There's one where Nuno does a long pass, which I said to the moon, because I was like, where is on earth does he think this is going? There's no one there. Oh, yeah,
BRIDGET
47:18
I remember that one. There was absolutely no one out there. Yeah, it was around the 62nd minute, and Enzo goes to chase it down, which Tolkien already going for it, right? And they said he does, like, an unnecessary shove on Tolkien, and he gets a call. So that's why the free kick is given right there. But Tolkien is so mad that he throws the ball back at Enzo and hits him. 1s Which doesn't really get seen. And then Yozoiak sees it because they were on the side warming up. Yeah. So he goes to try and talk to Tolkien, and Yozwiak gets shoved by Tolkien. Oh, wow. And then the official is not paying attention on the sideline there because he's pushing Enzo back, trying to talk him back from retaliating against getting the ball thrown at him because Enzo's also getting a yellow at that point. But when Yoseviak talks to the ref, then that's the point right around there that Tolkien gets his yellow. So at least there was something happened there. Hey, at least Yoshiak
KARA
48:19
showed up. Yeah. He protected his team. There we go. What's so frustrating, too, is right after that is yet another minute wasted. That's the minute by the goalkeeper. Wasted what? Got Georgia Card last week.
BRIDGET
48:29
That's what I don't get. George didn't even do anything close to that. And this dude's out there jerking around. He's out there picking daisies, sending love letters to his girlfriend and smoke signals. I mean, he's out there just having a good old time with himself, and they're like, oh, nobody cares. Just didn't make
KARA
48:49
sense. Yeah. And then there's that one where Gaines goes down right before the box. 1s And Red Bulls gets booked a yellow. But then they waste time trying to figure out, oh, I don't know how to do a wall, is what it looks like when it gets kicked. It hits one of the nila's guys right in the face. Really reminded me of that Ted Lasso like, oh, my face
BRIDGET
49:10
hit us. 2s I thought Bronco was going to get a goal with his face. Remember that one hit Bronco in the face and was like, oh, Bronica is trying to be like Ted. Lastly, he wants us to go with his face. Yeah, we don't need to do that, guys. We don't need to be funny about it. He
KARA
49:25
does get hit in the head, but to me, it also looks like his teammate hits him. And so that's why there's like almost two minutes there wasted for concussion protocol, but yet he still does it on the field. And then he's told to go off but doesn't stay off for the full minute. That's what's really frustrating, I feel like. So part of that time wasting is that crap where he is like he needs to stay out for a
BRIDGET
49:47
minute. Well, and then that one time he wasted I think it's the same dude. He wasted time. It was a free kick he got and he, like bent down and messed around. And then the goalie came all the way out and asked him what he was doing. I thought the goalie was actually going to kick it for him. At that point, the goalie comes out and talks to him. Then homeboy starts tying his shoe. Yes. And I'm just like, are you seriously serious? I don't know what happens, but this is professional soccer and anyone listening to me needs to learn how to double tie them shoes. Pablo had this talk and he got it under control. There ain't no reason that one of these dudes is out there and their shoes aren't double tied. That's
KARA
50:20
that one at the 11th minute. But, like, right after the goalkeeper was wasting time. Right after that, Jones is booked for a challenge because they say he led with his elbow where it hits a Edelman for the Red Bulls. And then not only that, so it hits him kind of with an elbow as he's going up. And to me, it looks like Jones is, like looking at the ball. He is not seeing what's underneath him because he's kind of, like already in the air 2s to me. More incidental contact. He doesn't really see him, but Red Bulls is incensed, especially when Edelman lands on his head. So that was part of the wasting time right there and we couldn't see that. I felt like I had to watch that on the replay. So it was like, yes. They really need to make sure he was okay because he landed awkwardly. But we're really lucky because Jones just got a yellow. He didn't get a red card and Red Bulls. 1s With VAR checking it, it could have had a case for a red card, and we're lucky.
BRIDGET
51:18
Well, that's just even scarier that we got that close in two different plays. And let's talk about the ongo. We got an ongo, and then we decided to go have a fight in the box. What was that about?
KARA
51:31
Yeah, so there's two things with Enzo that happened right there, like what you're pointing out. So, right 71st minute, like, right after that or something, capetti takes an elbow to the face. There is no yellow. To me, it looks deliberate. So while an elbow got jones, there's none on whoever hits capeti, which I didn't see who that was. And then right after that, we get our own goal. The 73rd minute just about enzo comes to go, get the ball to return it to the front. But the red bull guy who's retrieving the ball shakes him off and goes to punch him. Okay. And I guess they don't see it because they don't do anything to him, but it just seemed like angel's like, let's go, let's go. And the rebels like, moon, get off me. Moon. Yeah. He was like, about to fight him in the net. Yeah. I was like,
BRIDGET
52:17
oh, my God. I know. I messaged you. I was like, oh, so that's how we're doing it. We're having goals, and then we're going to have fights in the box. Like, that's how we celebrate. Now, this fight, 1s I get it. I mean, you got to do what you got to do, I guess. Enzo get that aggression out somehow. No, but, I mean, you had said that that was on him. And that just goes to show that I think the ref tonight, there was a lot of calls that, to me, weren't seen either fortunately or unfortunately for us. Fortunately for them. There was just a lot that wasn't seen, in my view. And there were some times when the ball went out and they just did not call it out on the right possession. It was just. 1s I don't know what the I don't I think I think the rebels brought the the ref
KARA
53:01
today. No, it was just again, we were talking about protection. We're talking about be fair on some of those. And I felt like it was kind of similar to the actual game. It was kind of like a grapple with those fouls, and there were times where it felt like you're stopping the game too much because of these fouls, and there's also times where it was pretty necessary, because what if they had gotten hurt seriously? But also, who on earth is faking? And that was kind of hard to tell, especially when you didn't get to see the replay or see the replay up close or what they were saying. I
BRIDGET
53:36
think that's about it. Is there anything else you want to talk
KARA
53:38
about? I think we just need to say that this game showed determination and resilience. Going one down at home is incredibly frustrating, and it's really nice that the team didn't give up at that. They did keep trying. They struggled. I think we saw that. But I have to give them. 1s Credit for hanging in there, for continuing to try in such frustrating and physical grapple, struggling that again, I think, showed some of Westwood's grit from last week.
BRIDGET
54:14
I think that's the thing that latanzo he really wants, which I don't want that to be our identity is that we have to fight. Okay. I just don't I know he wants our identity to be we're fighters and I get it. I want to always be able to fight and come back. I just don't want to always have to do that. I don't have to come back. I want to win like Columbus did, okay? Six to one. I want to win by a lot. But goes to show that if our team does get down, they're not giving up. And I felt like the first couple of games we gave up and it shows the last two games, I feel like we haven't given up even though it's not been an easy win either way. And there's a lot of times that I think we do it to ourselves. We put ourselves under a lot of pressure because we're not trying to score. We're just trying to keep the score even or waste time, whatever we do. So I think just being able to do that and keep it up and then, like you said, for Byrne to make that mistake, but then get up and keep playing and continue to do what he did for the goal to go in and march, to just shake it off and then keep it on out there, ends up getting knocked down. I don't even know what's up with Enzo's hand. He's got it wrapped. But for him to just keep for them to keep on that grit, that determination, it's good to see out there. Even when you don't have westwood out there to push them on or so dareski out there to push them on and you have a fool that's just out there like, go, go. It's just nice to see that those guys are coming together and doing that. I think Lindsay played the whole game, too, didn't he?
KARA
55:39
Yeah, he played the whole game. I thought he had some things where. Was crossing into not great areas because he was trying to make what happened last week happen again, have some good vision. And he had an almost attempt. I didn't feel like he had a bad game. I also didn't feel like he had some things that really made him stand out. Right.
BRIDGET
55:58
He didn't make any mistakes that we noticed that I noticed or anything that was like, oh, my gosh, nothing apparent. But he didn't make those flashy. No one made those flashy things. But because all we were doing backpassing I guess I'm going to end with saying that
KARA
56:12
you're going to jump on that soapbox again.
BRIDGET
56:14
Maybe that's why we didn't see Enzo doing so much or seeing Nuno doing so much or the Strikers doing so much just because we're too concentrating on that stupid backpassing mess that we didn't have time to do anything else. So I will give them a little grace there because if we Latanzio wasn't backpassing all the time, we could actually give our guys a chance to actually score and that might have been one of the reasons we didn't see so much out of those guys today. So
KARA
56:38
one of the things I want to see us do better for next game is I thought we had some opportunities to score, especially Capeti had one where he was trying to be generous and passed it off when I just think he should have just scored it and gone forward. If Bronco makes a one touch kick at one point he could have had a shot. There was an opportunity, I think, for Jones to have a shot for Lindsay. Other people are getting in those areas but it's just not connecting and we really need to keep making those shots on goal. We need to continue to work in transition and keep those holes and. 1s With Latanzio saying tonight, part of his presser was talking about how they played, how Red Bulls played, which was kind of ugly. And I felt like we were getting frustrated and fouling a little bit. I think ours were mostly unintentional where I felt like some of them that's their style of play, that it was intentional. I don't blame Latanzio for saying, this happens again. We're coming out to fight. We're not going to get this kind of attitude out us again. You're not going to come at us with this. If you want to fight, we're going to fight. I can't wait to see
BRIDGET
57:43
that. Yeah. I'm glad they're fighters. At least we're not giving
KARA
57:47
up some things to look forward to this upcoming week. We have, first of all, shout out to Swedesky. We really hope he gets to play on Monday in the Poland game. Tomorrow is the which this will be passed after when it actually airs. But Crown legacy gets to play. So if you missed this game and you can't go, make sure to watch that on MLS season pass. Supposedly it's supposed to be on there. And next week we go to Toronto, which, if you remember, we did not have great showings in Canada. So I have a deep dislike for going to Canada, which any of you who watched last year, you probably do too. So I'm really hoping that we have a good showing this time and go up to Canada and really make a difference. This isn't another away game. We don't know what we're going to get now. Let's just hope Westwood comes back. Let's hope Bill does whatever Bill does and comes back or does something. Maybe we can magically have a fairy godmother come in and bring us a CB and be like, oh wait, we have Jack Neely. Nah, he has to get his time in. I just hope that we can have all our guides back healthy. Westwood Tuloma.
BRIDGET
58:57
Yes. That's the main thing. No COVID. None of that mess. Let's just send our whole team up there to play. Let's hope George starts again. I don't see a reason why he wouldn't.
KARA
59:08
They're going to be cold.
BRIDGET
59:10
Oh, yeah. Westwood. He'll be fine. I'm sure a lot of people have a great time up there. If you live up there, you go up there. I hope that they have a good showing. I know it's going to be hard. I know that that Toronto crowd is very loud, but I know that we're all going to be down here yelling for them. I do have faith that we can win. We did so in Orlando. Hopefully they'll work on whatever they need. They have a lot to work on. I hope they work on it this week. But I have faith in our team and I think that we can do it. Hey, look, we won one, we tied one. We did not lose. So two weeks in a row we have not lost. I'm going to say that's a winning streak. Kind of. Not really, but I'll take it. I'll take it.
KARA
59:49
It's an undefeated almost streak. 1s It is important to know that, you know, New York Red Bulls are only just two points ahead of us in this table. So Toronto is neck and neck pretty much with them. They've got two more goals that they've scored. They're not too far ahead of us. If we get three more points, of course, depends on what everyone else does, but we're within three points of number five in the Eastern Conference, so that's not too bad. We're still hanging in there, which is important, but we're also we we look still 14th. Red Bulls in Toronto are only a few up above us, and so we're really kind of going for those teams that are right around where we are as opposed to some of the top ones that we played. New England right now is sitting at twelve. Atlanta is sitting at ten. And they had a crushing defeat
BRIDGET
60:38
today. And St. Louis is undefeated. I'm not going to talk about that. I'm just saying we're going by who we played, okay? So let's just go by who we play.
KARA
60:46
Well. And it looks like Orlando got another win today too, from what I
BRIDGET
60:51
see. Look at us. At least we're going upward. We're not going backwards. We're going forwards. I do trust our team. I trust that we have the right people on there. And I do think I'm going to give Westwood I'm going to give Westwood a chance. I do like a full being the captain, though. Yeah. Think maybe we could have Westwood and a fool out there and like we did last week. But on that note, I hope everyone has a great week and stay safe and Kara, I'm out. Have a great week,
KARA
61:22
all. Thanks for listening.