Digging deep into Matchday 1! Takes & observations from every game
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Andrew Wiebe
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
MLS is back, and the guys dig into the first slate of games, one by one! Best things we saw! Biggest overreactions! St. Louis CITY's first win! Thiago Almada masterclass! And much more!
7:00 - Best things we saw from Matchday 1
13:05 - Biggest overreactions coming off Matchday 1
18:49 - Why the Lorenzo Insigne injury is so alarming
21:06 - STL get their first win in club history!
33:44 - Philly roll over Columbus, but Crew show pluck
40:39 - Thiago Almada MVP campaign is underway
51:46 - Dream home opener for Nashville, serious concerns for NYCFC
56:38 - Why Cincy's flat win was encouraging
59:49 - Quick hit results
1:16:23 - Mailbag!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Action time is exactly how I find out. What's going on in the MLS? |
| 0:06.0 | Get lost. Get lost. Maybe this podcast has influenced me a bit as well. |
| 0:11.0 | Everybody up here. Every single day goes into the office, into the laboratory. |
| 0:18.0 | They're trying to cook up some great stuff for you guys. That's why he's here! |
| 0:24.0 | From New York, New York, you are listening to Extra Time. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Andrew Weebie with my partners in soccer, David Goss, Matt Doyle, Tommy Scoops, |
| 0:36.0 | Match Day One in the books, MLS is back. It's off and running. |
| 0:40.0 | Boys, what's up? How did you experience it? |
| 0:43.0 | We've been talking about this and we've been spilling hours upon hours of content for months, |
| 0:49.0 | 112 days between MLS Cup and Match Day One, the kickoff. Doyle, how did it feel to be back? |
| 0:55.0 | It felt good. It felt good. I had the pleasure of being in the studio, sitting in the green room, |
| 1:01.0 | mingling with all the beautiful people, yourself included, and keeping an eye on multiple games at once, |
| 1:08.0 | which is going to be, look, we've always had to do that on Saturday nights if you're in MLS freak. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm not going to use the word sicko because I believe you have actually copyrighted it at this point. |
| 1:18.0 | Not yet, but all royalties come to me. |
| 1:21.0 | Following all the games at once for my job, it's a requirement, but also having the 360 show on, |
| 1:31.0 | which I thought was a really good start. I think that we'll see them add certain things to it, |
| 1:39.0 | subtract certain things to it over the course of this year as they figure out what the right balance is. |
| 1:44.0 | But it was fun, man. The biggest takeaway was that it felt significant. |
| 1:50.0 | It felt really major league. It felt like a level of coverage wall to wall that we've just never had before. |
| 2:01.0 | And I think for all of us, all the freaks and sickos out there, we've been waiting for something like this for a long time. |
| 2:10.0 | So I was just kind of kind of gassed by all of it. |
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