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The Galaxy continue to struggle out of the gates - I have some thoughts on their situation here: open.substack.com/pub/500wp90/...

I believe Apple has invented a shot for both teams? Every other provider has it 6-2 in shots

What’s going on here - why are thelse numbers so wildly different

Alex Freeman is so, so good.

Happy Friday, it’s a new 500 Words per 90 - this one on two of the Californian MLS teams. open.substack.com/pub/500wp90/...

Have really appreciated The Outfield's coverage for a while now. Legitimately great, top-tier analysis, and putting clips like this on social is a fantastic use of this platform. And yeah, Jansen's right – NYCFC need CFG to open up the checkbook (to buy Gio Reyna).

Max Falcon really living up to his name and hairstyle tonight

Max Falcon really living up to his name and hairstyle tonight

Playing around with ways to display how a premiership side comes together over time

Full 1996 MLS preview is now available (free to read) along with 1996 issues at LA84 collection of Soccer America magazines: digital.la84.org/digital/coll...

More details to come, but the Dynamo will be posting a job in the next few weeks to join the club as an assistant video analyst: Working under me and the other members of the technical staff to help support our analysis provisions in Houston! Get those CVs ready! 👨🏼‍💻📊🎥

Episode 3, best episode of Onside yet

This kind of post is tiresome and feels like engagement bait but imagine knowing so little about the game that you equate MLS with the third tier of German soccer. Opta global rank has 150 clubs between the best 3.Liga club and worst MLS club. It’s closer to USL than MLS by a fair margin

I don’t think an LA Galaxy midfield of Lepley-Parente-Ramos would be any worse, and I’d be willing to bet it’d be a good bit better than… this

The LA Galaxy are playing like a team that lost every midfielder they had

Sebastian Berhalter is at this moment better than any other holding midfielder on the Chicago Fire roster and would help that team out a lot. Just saying.

Inter Miami CF vs NYCFC 23-02-2025, MLS Score: 2:2 Expected Goals: 2.44:0.81 Possession: 48:52 #InterMiamiCF #NYCFC ⚽🤖

Pretty slanted game, that NYCFC still probably should have won. But there is a lot of work to do before next game.

At some point I expect teams to stop passing it directly to Alonso Martinez but I guess that’s not today

And it’s Johnny Shore with the debut for NYCFC - could there be another today?

First guaranteed young player debut of the MLS season is Frankie Westfield, starting at right back for the Philadelphia Union

5 homegrown on the bench and one in the lineup - could we see a debut for @newyorkcityfc.com today?

If you can’t win on talent, make your opponent beat themselves. That’s exactly Jansen did to Lazio in 2023. @treyfillmore.bsky.social breaks down the high-intensity press that broke Lazio’s spirit at the Stadio Olimpico. Can Jansen do the same against Lionel Messi and Inter Miami tomorrow?

New 500Wp90: Preseason Prognostications and the weirdness of trying to pin down MLS: onssoccer.substack.com/p/preseason-...

New 500Wp90: Preseason Prognostications and the weirdness of trying to pin down MLS: onssoccer.substack.com/p/preseason-...

Fantastic post by @treyfillmore.bsky.social here

Onside is good so far, but.. is there a version with audio that I can watch with my kids?