Hello, everyone, and welcome to MLS assist, a podcast created to give insight into the tactical side of Major League Soccer.

I'm your host, Joe Lowry, and I'm joined by my co-host, Jordan Angelie.

Jordan, we have American Soccer back.

Oh, my gosh.

Yes, NWSL started.

MLS is about to start.

Let's go. I spent a good chunk of my, what was it, was MLS is about to start. Let's go.

I spent a good chunk of my, what was it, was it Saturday? It was Saturday. The days do run together, but I spent a good chunk of my Saturday on the couch watching NWSL. I hope, I don't want to say that you did, but I hope you did the same because it was pretty fun. Yeah, I watched both of the games. I thought it was as well, you know, very interesting to see

this is our first real taste of what it's going to look like on little preparation with

heat and altitude and all that that these women had to deal with. I thought that there was a big

difference between the first game of the day and the second game of the day just as far as tactics go.

And I kind of thought that was going to happen with North Carolina high pressing and finding a way to win there in the late stages of the game.

But all in all, it was a good, good day of soccer.

It's taking everything I have not to turn this show away from

what it's supposed to be and just talk about Rose Lovell and Debiana, but we won't do that because

we really could. We could and maybe we'll do that another time. But Jordan, today our show is

very specific predictions. We kind of did this already, right? This is a bit of a runback, but with a new tournament starting up, MLS's back is coming July 8th. We want to do this again. We did it in preseason. We went through all 26 teams. I think we both thought that doing 26 predictions for this episode would probably be a bit much. But we still have plenty of VSPs to go through. That's very specific predictions, by the way. I didn't want to just slide that in there without explaining it. Plenty of very specific.

It's long. You got to give a little abbreviation there. It's long. We're just saving our vocal cords for plenty of shows to go through when the actual tournament starts. But we've got, we've got plenty of predictions today, don't we? Yeah, we do. We each picked five VSPs and I'm excited to hear what you have because you kind of took over the West. I took over the East and we're trying to see what exactly we can

pick out from all these games that we're going to be seen coming starting next week yeah it's soon it's really soon one

thing before we begin i know i just started the vsp train but i hate it and i'm i'm advocating that

we never say it again i mean you can say it if you want to it just didn't come together like i

wanted it to i'm fine i'll like that very specific predictions okay gives gives us a little

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