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Speaker 1: I cannot imagine there were many teams in Major League

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Speaker 1: Soccer who needed a break more than FC Cincinnati, just

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Speaker 1: because the sheer volume of games they had played since

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Speaker 1: the start of the season. I'm not sure there's a

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Speaker 1: team who needed what FC Cincinnati did on the pitch

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Speaker 1: in its last game more than FC Cincinnati, a thrilling

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Speaker 1: come from behind win over Montreal. They had to come

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Speaker 1: from behind three times. Kevin Denke with the game winner

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Speaker 1: for the Orange and Blue. Can you imagine how the

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Speaker 1: international break would have felt had they lost that one.

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Speaker 1: On the heels of the previous couple of matches. They

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Speaker 1: take on Red Bull New York tomorrow. It's a road

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Speaker 1: match for FC Cincinnati. Steve Cangelosi has the call for

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Speaker 1: Apple TV and as always kind enough to join us. Steve,

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Speaker 1: good to have you.

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Speaker 2: How are you nice to you?

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Speaker 3: Hear from you, Mo and my Cincinnati Reds.

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Speaker 2: They couldn't get the opening day version of Paul Skins

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Speaker 2: last night. Oh well, I didn't see the game, but

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Speaker 2: I am aware of.

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Speaker 1: What well you know when you give up a three

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Speaker 1: spot in the first inning against Paul Skins. I think

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Speaker 1: the outcome, unfortunately, was at almost inevitable I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: speaking of inevitability, and I'll make it about FC Cincinnati's

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Speaker 1: last game before the international break, with the way they

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Speaker 1: had played. You know, they were down a man against

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Speaker 1: Montreal for much of that game. They fall behind three

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Speaker 1: different times. A loss in that game felt inevitable. I'm

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Speaker 1: kind of curious just watching tomorrow to see if there's

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Speaker 1: any emotional carryover, given the amount of time between games,

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Speaker 1: but also given how they won that game against Montreal.

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Speaker 2: It's such a hard thing to predict, right because two

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Speaker 2: weeks go by since the emotional finish and Kevin Dankate

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Speaker 2: giving them exactly what they needed in that moment. This

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Speaker 2: is such a hard game to piece together tomorrow night,

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Speaker 2: quite frankly, because we have a Miles Robinson who's suspended,

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Speaker 2: a Roman Celentano that we're not expecting to play, and

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Speaker 2: how they play this Tomorrow night, I think is going

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Speaker 2: to be something of a mystery leading right up until

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Speaker 2: first kick. But yeah, yes, the remedy itself of getting

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Speaker 2: the three points was important. I'm not reading too much

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Speaker 2: into this first month of the season in terms of

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Speaker 2: the table in Major League Soccer MO, They've balanced a lot.

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Speaker 2: Conca caff Is a big balance.

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Speaker 3: For every team that competes in the tournament.

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Speaker 2: COCKACAFF Champions Cup nine matches in thirty two days. I

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Speaker 2: think we'll start, if it's not tomorrow, very soon, I

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Speaker 2: think we'll start to see this team settle in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree, and I'll sort of give Pat

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Speaker 1: Noonan the benefit of it out. Although and no you

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Speaker 1: pay attention. It's been interesting to me, and this is

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Speaker 1: more of a statement than it is a question. It's

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Speaker 1: been interesting to me to just sort of gauge his

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Speaker 1: level of exasperation or bewilderment, because for the first time

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Speaker 1: in his tenure, it has felt like he's looking to

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Speaker 1: the heaven searching for ideas on how to get this

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Speaker 3: I think it's a level.

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Speaker 2: Of frustration more than anything else, and I think it

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Speaker 2: stems from two different things.

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Speaker 3: Number one, the inability.

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Speaker 2: To get his first choice keeper and his preferred three

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Speaker 2: because injury and suspension have.

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Speaker 3: Gotten in the path of that. And then the other

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Speaker 3: thing is Evander because.

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Speaker 2: He is far and away the most important player on

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Speaker 2: the team and it's been stop and start for him.

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Speaker 3: Right he gets hurt fifteen minutes into the season. He

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Speaker 2: Very little role, if any, over the course of the

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Speaker 2: next two games. And here we are a guy who's

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Speaker 2: lights out each of the last two seasons. I think

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Speaker 2: he was a bona fide MVP candidate each of the

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Speaker 2: last two years, and there's one goal contribution for him

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Speaker 3: I think that will flip.

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Speaker 2: I think it'll be interesting to see how this plays

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Speaker 3: Both of these teams have big issues defending right now.

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Speaker 2: It would not surprise me if we see a lot

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Speaker 1: Net well, and I was going to ask about New

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Speaker 1: In New York's last match, they fell six to one,

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Speaker 2: And it's a similar issue with Cincinnati and that they

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Speaker 2: played their last game. I believe without their preferred two

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Speaker 2: center backs, which would be Justin Shay and Dylan Nilis.

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Speaker 2: Now Nilas is getting close to coming back from injury,

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Speaker 2: that would help tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot going on in New York in terms

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Speaker 3: of the transformation of the team.

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Speaker 2: They have a first year coach in Michael Bradley, who's

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Speaker 2: never coached a first team prior to this year. MLS

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Speaker 2: Next Pro Championship for the Man last season. But they're

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Speaker 2: changing the system, they're changing the coach. They've changed over

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Speaker 2: a lot of starters. I mean, there are variables to this,

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Speaker 2: treading water as a five hundred team, and I think

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Speaker 2: we're looking at something good. This is a very different

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Speaker 2: Red Bull team from the ones MLS is known in

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Speaker 2: recent years under Jesse Marsh and a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of the other coaches. They value the ball.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna have more of the ball than Cincinnati tomorrow

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Speaker 2: and at their top two possession in the league. And

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Speaker 2: if Cincinnati wins this game, it's gonna be because of

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Speaker 2: what electrifying players like Evander do on counter attach Tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Steve Cangelosi Apple TV has the match tomorrow, Cincinnati on

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Speaker 1: the road against Red Bull New York. You mentioned this

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Speaker 1: time of year don't really pay attention to the table,

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Speaker 1: which I'm not gonna because it's been a while since

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Speaker 1: I've looked at the Eastern Conference and seen Cincinnati middle

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Speaker 1: of the pack. Give me a snapshot to the stage

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Speaker 2: Well, the Eastern Conference is a conversation that begins with

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Speaker 2: the reigning champions enter Miami, right, I think that's only

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Speaker 2: fair to throw that out there to start conversation. What

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Speaker 2: I don't see any way you make the argument other

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Speaker 2: in first place.

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Speaker 3: There are a lot of variables to this this year.

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Speaker 3: It's a World Cup.

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Speaker 2: Year for players like Leonel Messi and probably Rodrigo de Paul, who,

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Speaker 2: by the way, has been something less than what we

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Speaker 2: expect from the Argentine World Cup champion from a.

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Speaker 3: Couple of years ago.

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Speaker 2: But I think FC Cincinnati will be there in that conversation,

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Speaker 2: and New York City FC is the other team I

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Speaker 2: think to look out for because they're very well coached

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Speaker 2: under Pascal Janssen, and it would shock me if when

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Speaker 2: all is said and done, they're not a top three

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Speaker 3: They're already good.

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Speaker 2: And you're going to see a player like Alonso Martinez,

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Speaker 2: the Costa Rican who scored seventeen goals last year, come back.

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Speaker 3: From injury later this year. They're going to be a hard,

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Speaker 3: hard out at some point.

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Speaker 2: But I'll Putami, or rather Cincinnati in that group of

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Speaker 2: top three or top four when the dust really settles here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that still seems to be the consensus, and we

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Speaker 1: certainly hope so here. FC Cincinnati on the road against

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Speaker 1: Red Bull New York seven thirty tomorrow, Apple TV. Steve

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Speaker 1: have a great call. We'll do it again soon, man,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Mao. Having a good weekend. Bye bye,