San Diego FC’s debut, Berhalter is back, Atlanta United’s star-studded attack & more | MLS Update
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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The 2025 MLS season is officially underway! Taylor, Graham, and Joe combine to look back at the biggest and most interesting games, stories, and performances from the first weekend of action. What did we make of San Diego FC’s debut? How did the Chicago Fire look under Gregg Berhalter? Will Atlanta United top Inter Miami’s goals tally (both for and against) from last year? Plus, so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:14.7 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:24.4 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and I'm here to tell you that much like Mom Jeans, Corderoi, and Brad Guzahn, MLS is back. |
| 0:30.5 | And what an opening weekend it was, an expansion team stunned the reigning champions. |
| 0:34.2 | The Chicago Fire are enjoyable to watch. |
| 0:36.4 | San Jose won a game 4-0. Cats and dogs are living |
| 0:38.9 | together. It's an exciting time to be alive. Joe Lowry, we had 13 games on match day one, I believe. |
| 0:44.9 | Did we have more or fewer than 35 goals scored? Wow. We had more than 35 goals scored. I believe |
| 0:52.6 | there were more goals scored this weekend than any other opening weekend in MLS history. |
| 0:57.0 | And I'm sticking with it. |
| 0:58.6 | There were also, I believe, more four plus goal scoring teams over the weekend, where there were 15 games because there are 30 teams now and everybody played. |
| 1:06.5 | There were more teams that scored four plus goals than in any of the last like 12 years |
| 1:11.6 | since American Soccer Analysis started tracking that stuff. |
| 1:14.1 | That's from Jamie Moore on Blue Sky. |
| 1:15.8 | It was a goal-filled weekend, Taylor. |
| 1:17.8 | Also, thank you for noticing my quote, Roy Jack. |
| 1:19.3 | What sort of percentage of those goals, Joe, came from teams playing out of the bat? |
| 1:24.4 | Really? |
| 1:24.8 | Totally. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, like 80%. |
| 1:27.0 | It really felt like. There were a lot of goals back really, truly. Yeah, like 80%. It really felt like. |
| 1:28.8 | There were a lot of goals that were direct results of brutal turnovers inside of |
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