St. Louis CITY SC just keeps winning, and Kev picked a pretty interesting week to go on vacation.
With CITY now 18 matches unbeaten across all competitions, Duds jumps over from NFNP to fill in for Kev and figure out how a team that struggled early in the season suddenly became one of the hottest clubs in MLS.
Matt breaks down the 3-1 win over Toronto, CITY’s first-ever trip to the U.S. Open Cup Final, the impact of Rafael Navarro, Carlo Holse, Alex Mățan, Simon Becher and the club’s new depth, plus the bigger question: who deserves the credit for the turnaround, Yoann Damet or Corey Wray?
We also look ahead to CITY’s first-ever MLS regular-season meeting with Red Bull New York, talk matchday bets, the increasingly crowded run-in, the possibility of finishing at the top of the Western Conference and whether anybody really wants to face this team in the playoffs.
And with Duds providing the casual-fan perspective, the conversation eventually goes much bigger: MLS vs. European soccer, St. Louis youth soccer, expensive club programs and whether America’s pay-to-play system is holding back the U.S. player-development pipeline.
STL Soccer First. Always.
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