Hello,

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

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and today we continue our journey down the strangest for Don Garber darkest timeline by taking a look back at this weekend's MLS playoff results.

Up is down.

Cats and dogs are living together, and Atlanta United shoved Inter Miami into an unexpected vacation. Shortly after, Leonardo Campania shoved Brad Guzahn into his own netting. NYCFC outlasted FC Cincinnati in the Battle of Teams not wanted to score a penalty. And in Orlando, Fakundo Torres missed a last-minute penalty, scored the rebound, and then converted his take in the ensuing shootout to book Orlando's place in the next round.

Oh, and LASC also won.

Joe Lowry, lots to be discussed, including the next round of playoffs.

How you feeling, my friend?

I'm feeling great, man.

The playoffs this year have been wilder than I ever remember. And I guess that's what happens when you lose

the two top favorites for MLS Cup between Inter Miami and the Columbus crew in the first round.

Atlanta United's run spectacular, really, really excited to dig into them. This playoff so far has

been absolute bonkers and I am very, very here for it. As am I, my friend. I'm here to also talk U.S. roster. We're going to be doing that tomorrow as we've got Nation's League games coming up. But we figured better to split that up, spend some time talking the U.S. with Graham Ruffman. He'll be back with us tomorrow to do so. Today, we're going to be focusing on the Major League Soccer Playoffsoffs Joe, and we're going to start with that Atlanta versus Miami game because it was a shocker, as you've already outlined.

I said prior to kickoff, I was talking to my wife and I said that basically I thought Atlanta, thank you, had poked the bear and they were likely Miami going to put like five or six past Atlanta.

I really thought they would put Atlanta to the sword.

And then Miami looked a bit like a bear that had been poked and decided to complain to the Park Ranger about it, basically, instead of actually doing anything.

How surprised were you by this performance from Major Miami?

I was super surprised in some ways and not at all surprised in other ways. I think this

performance, Taylor, was back when you thought about Miami to start the season. If you thought

about the things that could go wrong for Inter Miami, almost all of them happened in this

game. Some of them were in their control and some of them weren't, right? One thing is, wow,

they're a team that is built on a lot of fantastic legends, the guys who are in the twilight of their careers. They're very much winding down. Sergio Bousquet's getting sick and being unavailable to start. In this game, he comes off the bench later on. Really, really hurts this team, and Tatum Martino made some tactical changes in this match to go back to the back four because frankly

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