MLS Cup Preview: Seattle's budding dynasty, Zardes and Zelarayan’s combination, players to watch, and much more w/Jordan Angeli and Matt Pentz
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🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
MLS Cup is less than a week away! On Saturday, December 12th, the Columbus Crew and the Seattle Sounders will battle for a serious piece of silverware. To preview Saturday's final and shine a light on the two teams playing, Joe Lowery is joined by not one, but two excellent guests on today's show. Up first, Jordan Angeli, also known as the "Crew Guru", talks all things Columbus. Then, Matt Pentz comes on the show to dis-Pentz his Seattle Sounders knowledge.
2:15 - Columbus Crew preview with Jordan Angeli
- What do the Crew look like in the post #SaveTheCrew era?
- How do they play under Caleb Porter?
- The connection between Gyasi Zardes and Lucas Zelarayan
- Much more
31:50 - Sounders Sounders preview with Matt Pentz
- What's the latest on the Brian Schmetzer contract situation?
- Players to watch
- Are the Sounders a dynasty?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, |
| 0:07.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Total Soccer show. |
| 0:26.9 | My name is Joe Lowry, and today's show is an MLS Cup preview extravaganza. |
| 0:32.7 | MLS Cup, that's Major League Soccer's championship game, is coming up on Saturday, December 12th. |
| 0:38.7 | The game will be in Columbus, Ohio, between the Columbus crew, who were the Eastern Conference |
| 0:43.0 | champions and the Seattle Sounders, who came out on top in the West. |
| 0:47.3 | To give us a ton of insight into the two teams playing in Saturday's MLS Cup, I'm going to be |
| 0:52.1 | talking with not one, but two guests on today's show, |
| 0:55.6 | one expert who is either covered or been involved with each club. |
| 0:59.7 | Up first, Columbus crew television analyst Jordan Angeli is going to be our crew guru. |
| 1:05.8 | Then the athletics, Matt Pence, who has his finger right on the pulse of soccer in the |
| 1:10.1 | Pacific Northwest, |
| 1:11.3 | will be joining me to talk all things sounders. So, without further ado, let's get into my |
| 1:17.1 | MLS Cup conversations with Jordan Angeley and Matt Pence. I am now joined by Columbus |
| 1:23.4 | crew TV analyst and former professional soccer player Jordan Anjali. |
| 1:29.2 | Jordan, thank you for coming on the show. |
| 1:30.7 | Oh, of course, Joe. |
| 1:33.8 | You ask and I'll, you know, it's hard for me to say no. |
| 1:43.9 | Well, I appreciate that and I appreciate you being willing to come on and shine a light on all things Columbus crew related as they head into MLS Cup on Saturday, later on we're going to |
| 1:45.4 | talk style of play, tactics, players, all that stuff. |
| 1:48.7 | And I want to get your perspective on some more big picture crew things too. |
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