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Speaker 1: By the way, you just heard the forecast for the

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Speaker 1: next couple of days. Saturday looks pretty good. FC Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: and Columbus at six, kickoff at six, so temperature is

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Speaker 1: going to be fifty five according to our folks at

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Speaker 1: Channel nine, and no rain, So it should be a

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Speaker 1: good night, should be a great If you love soccer, man,

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Speaker 1: this weekend is awesome. You have all these deciding game

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Speaker 1: threes including obviously hell is Reel Saturday six o'clock at

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Speaker 1: TQL Stadium, the match on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.

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Speaker 1: Steve Cangelosi, who has joined us many times in the past,

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Speaker 1: has the call and kind in us, kind enough to

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Speaker 1: join us this afternoon. Steve, it's going to have you.

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Speaker 1: How are you.

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Speaker 2: Out there on Saturday night?

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Speaker 3: And this is going to be a heck of an occasion,

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you. It is all on the line, A

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Speaker 3: game of importance for so so many reasons. For FC

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati in particular, I think it's a game they've got

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Speaker 3: to win mo for a lot of reasons.

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Speaker 1: And I think that the pressure is amplified because they

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Speaker 1: won game won and look so good in doing so.

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Speaker 3: They did, and the script certainly flipped now in all fairness,

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Speaker 3: in game two, we see a Columbus team that played

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Speaker 3: the majority of the match from the thirty eight minute

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Speaker 3: on eleven v ten. But in all fairness, the Crew

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Speaker 3: got the better of it before that with I think

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Speaker 3: a very good game plan.

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Speaker 2: They were the more aggressive team.

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Speaker 3: And now we'll see what adjustments come here from patent

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Speaker 3: staff for.

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Speaker 2: The decisive Game three.

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Speaker 3: This is something that I think is largely on the

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Speaker 3: shoulders of his best player, of Ander, and I think

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Speaker 3: if you're looking for the tactical headline of the first

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Speaker 3: two games, even in the opening win, and it carried

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Speaker 3: over certainly to the four and nothing loss, I think

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Speaker 3: Columbus has done a very good job of minimizing the

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Speaker 3: impact of one of the best players in MLS, and

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Speaker 3: it's on the Blue and Orange to one their number

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Speaker 3: one attacking talent with the season on the line, I

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Speaker 3: think that's going to go a long way towards deciding

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Speaker 3: which one of these teams gets to a conference semi final.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of went to where I was going

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Speaker 1: to go next. I'm waiting for Evander to, for lack

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Speaker 1: of a better way of putting it, show up on Saturday. Also,

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Speaker 1: I worry about this. You mentioned all the pressure on

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Speaker 1: FC Cincinnati, all the reasons why they need to win

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Speaker 1: this game. It's been rare during Pat Nonan's time in

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati that I thought his team kind of came unglued,

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Speaker 1: kind of came unhinged. I thought that happened on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I worry about giving up an early goal, and then

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Speaker 1: I know what that crowd is going to sound like.

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Speaker 1: I know what the weight of that pressure is going

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Speaker 1: to be like, and I worry about something similar on

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Speaker 1: Saturday evening.

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Speaker 3: I think that the pressure comes in many ways, shapes

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Speaker 3: and forms, and you've mentioned one path that it can

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Speaker 3: certainly come if you find yourself chasing the game much

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Speaker 3: of the night before an anxious crowd. Yes, but we've

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Speaker 3: seen a pattern when these teams.

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Speaker 2: Meet where a one goal lead and even a two

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Speaker 2: goal lead is not safe.

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Speaker 3: And you know, discipline and you know, having that cool

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Speaker 3: as a cucumber attitude in the crunch moments of this

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Speaker 3: game will be significant. And I think which team is

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Speaker 3: ready to enact it's game plan better is the one

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Speaker 3: that will survive the night.

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Speaker 2: I'm interested to see.

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Speaker 3: How Pat lines up his team for this game.

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Speaker 2: Look, Gid, He's a heck of a player. He's got

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Speaker 2: a lot of technical ability.

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Speaker 3: But if a being a Wolbedo is able to come back,

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Speaker 3: and if he's got starters minutes in him, you know.

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Speaker 2: Buka side by side with Wolbodo.

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Speaker 3: I think that gets well Buka into the attack a

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Speaker 3: lot more and I think that's something that's a positive

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Speaker 3: for Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Physically where Obita is at this point. Evander's got a

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Speaker 3: lot of this on his shoulders. As I said, one

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Speaker 3: thing that I think he has to forget about is

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Speaker 3: the fact that he's carried two yellow cards into this

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Speaker 3: game on Saturday night, and if he gets another one,

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Speaker 3: he'd be suspended for a conference semi final. You can't

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Speaker 3: think that far ahead because a lot of this is

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Speaker 3: going to define your season.

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Speaker 2: I think this is a heck of a.

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Speaker 3: Coaching staff that they have with Pat with Kenny Arena,

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Speaker 3: with Dominic kennear with Chris Albright leading the technical staff.

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Speaker 3: And I was talking to people about this earlier today,

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Speaker 3: and I do think that all things considered equal, this

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Speaker 3: as any in the league. They're well respected. They did

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Speaker 3: a nice job putting the team together this year, and

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Speaker 3: you'd have a hard time doing better.

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Speaker 2: The problem is, Mo, not all things.

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Speaker 3: Are created on Saturday night, because think about the consequences

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Speaker 3: of a loss.

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Speaker 2: Here. You'd be looking at a loss.

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Speaker 3: An elimination game on your home ground, your season ending

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Speaker 3: on your home ground for a third straight year, not

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Speaker 3: to mention the fact that you would bow out at

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Speaker 3: the expense of your opponent for the second time in

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Speaker 3: three years. So there's a lot going on there and

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Speaker 3: I can't speak to how ownership, you know, would deal

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Speaker 3: with that, but there's a lot that goes into winning

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Speaker 3: or losing this game. And if they do survive it, MO,

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Speaker 3: I think they're going to be really brimming with confidence

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Speaker 3: for as how long they remain in these MLS Cup playoffs,

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Speaker 3: which I think can be a very long way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope. So it's going to be tense, it's

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Speaker 1: also going to be a lot of fun. Saturday at

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Speaker 1: six o'clock, Steve have a great call. We we appreciate the time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, MO, Thank you and take care. I'll

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Speaker 2: see you guys Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Most definitely Steve Cangelosi MLS season past Apple TV. He

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Speaker 1: has the call for Game three,