~Soccer Thread~

[utee94]

damn, forgot about 2nd leg and didn't watch.

uefa cl 2nd leg of semis are today (bayern and real madrid) and tomorrow (roma and liverpool) if you want to catch some high quality soccer.

My team is knocked out of Champions, but remains alive in FA Cup, so there you have it...

[Brutus Buckeye]

Round 1 of the US Open is completed.

The winners have to play the USL teams in round 2, on May 16th.

2018 Bracket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_U.S._Open_Cup

[TyphonInc]

Just past half time on the Crew Fire MLS game. Crew up 2-0

Local channel 53 The CW, if anyone else wants to watch.

[TyphonInc]

Have fans moved on or are they still showing up?

In yet another deceitful / poor practice of Precourt/MLS; 22 teams report tickets sold, Only the Columbus Crew reports tickets scanned at the gate.  But only about 9k die hard fans show up to the game.

[Brutus Buckeye]

US Open

http://thecup.us/2018/04/04/2018-lamar-hunt-us-open-cup-schedule-results/

There was actually quite a few semipro teams that took down their USL opponent in round 2. Enough so that there will be two games in round 3 that don't involve a USL team. So at least two semipro teams will make it to the fourth round, where the MLS teams are introduced. There will be five more semipro teams that will be going up against a USL team in round 3. There will also be five round 3 games played between 2 USL teams. 

The winners of those 12 games will be shoehorned into a 32-team bracket with the 20 US-based MLS teams. It will simply be a normal bracket format from that point forward. 

Cincinnati will play Pittsburgh on May 23rd. The two teams have already played once in the USL regular season, resulting in a 2-2 draw. They will play twice more after this. 

[Brutus Buckeye]

US Open Cup

The Bracket is set

[Brutus Buckeye]

I'm bummed. I was hoping that the Crew would have one more crack at FC Cincinnati after last year's Cupset. But alas. They'd both have to win their round 4 game in order to lock horns with each other.

The Cinderella story so far is FC Golden State; an amateur team that has already taken down two USL teams. They will square off with the LA Galaxy in round 4.

[Brutus Buckeye]

US Open Cup

The Bracket is set

Bumping the match ups to this page

[ELA]

Pittsburgh had been playing really well, I think they were the last undefeated USL team this year (but they were like 5-0-5, so not in 1st), but Cincinnati is the best USL team this season, so no shame in that loss.  I think I may take my son down to one of their games in a couple weeks.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Oh yeah, those games are all on June 6th. 

Also on June 6th the Canadian Championship gets underway. In the past, the three MLS teams would be seeded according to the MLS standings, while the two USL teams, Ottawa and Edmonton, would play for the 4 seed. Well Edmonton folded, so instead of just giving Ottawa the 4 seed, the top semi-pro team from each Ontario and Quebec will play a round, whereby the winner will get Edmonton's spot against Ottawa for the 4 seed, at the end of June. 

So the June 6th game is Oakville(ONT) vs Blainville(QUE), with a second leg on June 13th.  

Essentially a play-in round for the play-in round. 



Bracket 
Bracket 

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[Brutus Buckeye]

Cincinnati got their MLS promotion. 

[TyphonInc]

Cincinnati got their MLS promotion.

Garber said, “We don’t have the level of corporate support in the community that that team needs to be successful, and the level of support here in Cincinnati almost rivals other MLS small-to-mid-market clubs and totally outranks what has been committed to in Columbus.”

[Brutus Buckeye]

 

Looks like it's happening next season. So they slid to the front of the line, ahead of Miami and Nashville by a year. 

I guess we can pencil in Cincy, Miami and Nashville to the East, with Austin in the West. 

Two thirteen-team divisions.

[ELA]

I know Detroit was in the running, but it seems like their bid was far less serious.  It was a couple of MSU alums and current NBA owners (Dan Gilbert - Cavs & Tom Gores - Pistons) leading the bid, so it seems like they could have been a lot more serious about it if they wanted to.  They scrapped plans for a new outdoor stadium, and were going to play in Ford Field, which hurt them.  There was also a strong push AGAINST the bid by fans of Detroit FC, which has actually grown to be a substantial fan base for a low tier soccer club, so I think MLS was worried about granting a team to a city where the hardcore soccer fan base was opposed to the team.