MLS Cup XXV: Full preview feat. chats w/ Porter, Schmetzer, Mensah, Roldan
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Andrew Wiebe
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
It all comes down to this, a season defined by a pandemic ends with the two best teams (our words … and Caleb Porter’s) playing for the 25th MLS Cup championship in the league’s history. Andrew, David and Charlie chat with Porter, Brian Schmetzer, Jonathan Mensah and Cristian Roldan and preview the match. All the hype, the best storylines, all the soccer wrinkles, player spotlights and, finally, predictions. Also, please note this was recorded before Darlington Nagbe and Pedro Santos were ruled out. Sigh, 2020.
1:38 – MLS Cup is finally here!
6:27 – Fitting for Crew and Sounders to meet in Columbus
12:57 – INTERVIEW: Caleb Porter on Zelarayan, Schmetzer
24:57 – Are the Sounders already a dynasty? Would they be with another Cup?
37:14 – From Saved to Cup, Crew’s present and future
42:29 – INTERVIEW: Brian Schmetzer on another MLS Cup, Caleb Porter
51:20 – Breaking down the game, lineup decisions and trends
59:43 – INTERVIEW: Jonathan Mensah on a uniquely difficult year
1:08:15 – Player Spotlights: Nouhou, Artur/Nagbe (sigh) and Roldan
1:13:24 – INTERVIEW: Cristian Roldan, Seattle’s own (kinda)
1:18:45 – MLS Cup predictions
1:22:32 – Rapid fire MLS news: McDonough, Besler etc
1:35:47 – USMNT takes
Transcript
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| 0:05.0 | How are you feeling after that matter? |
| 0:07.0 | I feel a lot better than Bob. |
| 0:09.0 | Extra time is exactly how I find out. |
| 0:12.0 | What's going on in the |
| 0:13.2 | m-l-s. Maybe this podcast has influenced me a little bit as well. |
| 0:17.0 | Get lost. |
| 0:18.0 | Get lost. Everybody up here, every single day goes into the office into the laboratory to try to cook up some great stuff for you guys. |
| 0:29.0 | That's why he's here! |
| 0:30.0 | Ah, from New York, New York, you are listening to extra time, driven by Continental from my apartment in Bedstai Brooklyn. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Andrew Levy with my partners in soccer, David Gus, Charlie Davies, 90 more minutes |
| 0:48.9 | boys, are you ready to rumble? Probably one-pointy in penalty kicks because of 2020, baby. |
| 0:56.0 | You're probably right. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, it'll probably drag on forever and never end and who knows. |
| 1:01.0 | But I felt like a little bit in the... |
| 1:02.0 | Stepson diverse Cuy the room shot 24 to win |
| 1:04.1 | MLS cup no give it to me to me two red cards for coming off the line so |
| 1:08.6 | now confusion rain the joss Williams versus Shane O'Neilling. |
| 1:14.0 | Oh, man. |
| 1:17.0 | Oh, God, this season. |
| 1:18.0 | What an insane season. |
| 1:20.0 | There's a good suggestion. |
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