Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Liverpool Lead Manchester City, Messi Steers Miami, and MLS Conference Finals Preview
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
Is the English Premier League title race over? Landon Donovan and Tim Howard debate Manchester City’s fifth straight loss and Liverpool’s 8 point lead. Landon’s FIRED UP for the LA Galaxy’s Championship hopes, and Tim knows down in Miami there’s only ONE person Inter needs to keep happy with their personnel decisions. Plus, the guys give flowers to the Orlando Pride and Michelle Kang, get chills from heading down memory lane at Goodison Park and welcome the heat for their thoughts on Pulisic’s goal celebrations. New episodes of Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim drop every Tuesday. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow on all your favorite podcast platforms. For bonus content and to send your mailbag questions in to the show, follow on all social media platforms @UnfilteredSoccer. (www.flowcode.com/page/unfilteredsoccer). Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard is presented by Volkswagen. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4g8bZG3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What happened in the MLS playoffs?
Five points, you sneeze and you can lose a fight. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Right? And so for me, I will make a... Real abrupt final decision. Final. Got a long way to go. After next weekend. Because it matters to me. It matters to me. If it goes from 8 to 11 or 8 to 5. That to me is a big difference.
All right. We'll follow up after next weekend and we'll see where we're at. All right. Let's move to the other team in Manchester. United under Ruben Amorin for the first time. So they score after whatever. However many seconds. Yeah. Less than a... Under two minutes or something. Under two minutes into the game. Yeah. But from that point on, I would say not real inspiring.
I just want to, for United fans out there, take a deep breath. This is going to take so much time. And I'll tell you why, Tim. So I watched the game and I was curious why his lineup was the way he was. It was a pretty old, mature, seasoned lineup, right? And he came out after. Yeah, not his best.
And he came out after and said, look, I went with the guys who were here with me all week, not away on international break. Totally get it. But The reason Manchester United signed him and brought him on board was because of what he did in Portugal. And what he did in Portugal took a long time. It takes time to develop a way of playing. And so I'm going to have a little dig at your...
your commentators on NBC. I was waiting for them to walk us through what exactly they did, besides saying they're in a 3-4-3. Okay, I can see that with my own eyes. Can you tell me what's going on in the field? And what I found interesting is, so first, just positionally where they lined up. Mazzarelli played as a right center back. Diego Dalo as a kind of a left center back.
They were almost like double width with he and Garnaccio there on the left. And there were some moments where Dalo would start really high and come down to receive the ball. And it made it tough because Ipswich were basically pressing man to man.
So Rashford, you can see why this will help Marcus Rashford long term if teams come after them because he gets isolated kind of 1v1 or he can run in to out and run in behind defenses. But their problem early is going to be personnel. He does not have the players that fit the way he wants to play. So I wouldn't be surprised if Mainu comes in, Mason Mount comes in.
I mean, Luke Shaw is a left center back I really like. So he needs players. Xerxe, I think, will help. But I think personnel right now is going to be the biggest issue. But if you're a Manchester United fan, just take a breath. This is going to take time.
Yeah, Manchester United fans are brilliant because they always back their manager. They do. They're traditional for backing their managers, sticking with them. Ruben Almiron, as of right now, is the right guy for the job. And I'm not saying that after one game. Because here's the thing.
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