Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Joe Lowry.

And today we are diving back into the MLS postseason.

Every game two from every round one series, a lot of numbers there, is in the books and the

MLS playoffs.

To join me to talk through all of the latest on-field action and probably a bunch of other stuff too knowing us is the one, the only. It's Jeff Ruder. Jeff, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. I also want to pour one out for the two game ones that we probably won't acknowledge whatsoever that happened since we last recorded, but such as the schedule, isn't it? Yeah, a tree falling in forest, no one around L.AFC, beating Austin, barely, Charlotte losing to NYC.

I mean, really, those things didn't happen.

Effectively, they didn't happen.

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Jeff, let's get right into it.

We're going to start with the series that are still up for grabs. So we've got five series that are sprinting towards a game three. We've got three series that are done where there were sweeps. We're going to start with the ones that are still open. We're also going to work in reverse chronological order because I'm sick like that and I like to talk about games that are most relevant first.

So let us begin with the Seattle Sounders 4, Minnesota United 2. This game was last night as we're recording on Tuesday, November 4th. Jeff, after game one, which was that really tight KG nil-nil-nill that Minnesota won in the penalty shootout, we talked about Brian Schmester needing to make a change to his 11

because the Sounders just didn't create a lot of chances

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