Zlatan Ibrahimevich, a man who took this Galaxy team on his back and let it out of the abyss to the brink of the playoffs, was nowhere to be found.

Following the carnage on the field,

in which he failed to score,

Zlatan then fled into the Hollywood night

without a word and left his teammates

to face the music.

That is WeSoss.

Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union

podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the

lens of red white and blue colored glasses. As you heard, we'll be

talking about Zlatan, the good and the bad. We'll have our Mossy Makes the Case segment.

We'll be answering your questions in our hashtag Ask Alexi segment and so much more but first as always

joining me my friend my colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer

savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary how are you you, Mossy? I am good. This jersey might not age well.

This is a grammio jersey. They host River Plate. We're taping this on a Tuesday.

That game is tonight. The second leg of the Copa Libertadores

semi-finals. They do have a one-ill aggregate lead. They won in Argentina last

week, but I have a bad feeling about this game. They're short-handed

again. They were short-handed last week and somehow pulled off this amazing result but I think it's playing with fire to try to do it again

So I'm smelling a river plate comeback here which is good news for the neutrals who are rooting for a Boca River final.

We talked about that.

Very well placed to advance in the other semi-final against Palmyra.

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