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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we're getting set for a decision Day in Major

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Speaker 1: League Soccer. FC Cincinnati has the two seed in the

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference on the line. They can clinch it with

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Speaker 1: a victory over Montreal home game for the Orange and

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Speaker 1: Blue earlier start for Decision Day at six o'clock on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: evening the match on Apple TV's MLS Season Pass, where

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Speaker 1: Ross Smith is an MLS match analyst. Ross, It's good

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Speaker 1: to have you. FC Cincinnati is playing for something. Montreal

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Speaker 1: is not. That organization seems like a bit of a

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Speaker 1: train wreck right now. Do they pose a threat on

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Speaker 1: Saturday night?

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Speaker 2: They do? They do, you know, despite moment that they've

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Speaker 2: had an awful season, the worst in club history in MLS,

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Speaker 2: they're fighting. They're fighting and credit they've got an interim manager,

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Speaker 2: Marco Donadel, who took over you can say about a

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Speaker 2: quarter of the way through the season. She's done a

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Speaker 2: good job. He's a former player with them name you

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Speaker 2: know in the soccer world. He's done a good job

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Speaker 2: just at stabilizing, at getting guys back to putting in

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Speaker 2: an effort which has to be said. They're gonna give

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati a good goal for it. You know, despite not

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Speaker 2: having much to play. They're playing for jobs. Guys are

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Speaker 2: playing for next season. There's a couple of guys who

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Speaker 2: are doing all right. They're they're gonna give c Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: a good goal for this, so they're not gonna lay down.

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Speaker 2: Says they're going to be a walkover as you step

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Speaker 2: into two playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Sc Cincinnati's home record isn't awful eight victories, four draw

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Speaker 1: five draws this season, Yet, Dave, I think they've played

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Speaker 1: unevenly in their own building. Any idea why, Wow, it's tough.

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Speaker 2: It's so tough. I do feel like, yes, Cincinnati, they're

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Speaker 2: seeing that when they click, and I can't put it

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Speaker 2: down to like a home more a way. I feel

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Speaker 2: as though when they click, though, watch out. But if

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Speaker 2: they're not clicking, then all of a sudden you can

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Speaker 2: get them, you can get at them. And and I

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Speaker 2: bet bat Newton, I'm gonna chat. I'm gonna sit down

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Speaker 2: with Pat Noon tomorrow. I'm gonna chat with him. And

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Speaker 2: Pat is so open, which is is just one of

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Speaker 2: the you know, there's many attributes that I really admire

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Speaker 2: about Pat Noon. That's one of them. He'll tell us straight.

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Speaker 2: But I think that's one of them. Is the consistency

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Speaker 2: But what they have at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: when the when it's not quite happening, they've got individual brilliance.

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Speaker 2: And I still give creditton managers for bringing out the

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Speaker 2: individual brilliance. You know, some managers, you know, might have

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Speaker 2: a top player in their team but not be getting

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Speaker 2: the best out of them. Pat Noonon is so when

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Speaker 2: the style is not quite happening, he still has a

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Speaker 2: couple of I call them heavy hitters. It's got a

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Speaker 2: couple of heavy hitters and the team of course at

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Speaker 2: Vander you know that can that can deliver. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Homer away. I don't think it makes

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Speaker 2: much of a difference. I don't think these guys are

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Speaker 2: I just think it's a matter of when it clicks

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Speaker 2: and when it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Pat Newman was the coach of the year or two

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Speaker 1: years ago. I think this has been his best coaching job.

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Speaker 1: Would you agree?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, he's he takes all the boxes, and I

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Speaker 2: think the box that he takes the best is he

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Speaker 2: tells guys straight. And granted I'm not on the training

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Speaker 2: ground all the time. I actually played with Pat for

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Speaker 2: Pat in terms of he'll tell you straight, and he'll

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Speaker 2: tell you straight without feeling as though you have to

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Speaker 2: turn your back on him and think, you know, kind

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Speaker 2: of screw you, I'm out of here. He'll tell you

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Speaker 2: you know when you're doing well, and you know when

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Speaker 2: you're not doing well. And I don't think there's as

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Speaker 2: many coaches. I don't think there's as many characters in

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Speaker 2: the game as Pat Newman that delivers it that way,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's missed. So I think that's one

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Speaker 2: of his skill sets that he can't hide it. He

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Speaker 1: Ross Smiths MLS match analyst for Apple TV MLS Season Pass.

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Speaker 1: Regardless of whether they're the two or the three, FC

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati is in the playoffs the East. Last year it

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Speaker 1: and the Eastern Conference got turned on its head. What

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Speaker 1: do you expect this year?

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Speaker 2: Eastern Conferences by far the better conference, by far the

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Speaker 2: better conference. However, Vancouver coming out on the other side

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Speaker 2: with Thomas Mueller Thomas, but they haven't lost yet, and

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Speaker 2: the Germany has come across. After spending his entire career

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Speaker 2: career with Bayern Munich, he has been sensational, so watch

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Speaker 2: out for him, watch out for son On with LAFC,

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Speaker 2: it's the same. The effect of those two players coming

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Speaker 2: into their team is something else. But still the Eastern Conference,

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Speaker 2: you know, right the way through, the teams that are

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Speaker 2: making the playoffs are a different level. However, there's a

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Speaker 2: couple of teams that are having a dip right now,

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Speaker 2: and Orlando's one of them. So for Orlando right now,

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Speaker 2: it's shaken up that they could say Cincinnati, that's a

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Speaker 2: good matchup. And even though Orlando came in to your building,

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Speaker 2: not looking like themselves, which is a horrible team to

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Speaker 2: you don't mind taking on Orlando in the first rounds

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Speaker 2: if that if that's the matchup, But whenever team comes

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Speaker 2: out of the Eastern Conference, they've done well because that

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Speaker 2: is a tough conference.

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Speaker 1: Right now, feels much more wide open. And that's Philadelphia team.

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Speaker 1: It felt like every time they needed to win in

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Speaker 1: the supporter shield race, they did And so I want

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Speaker 1: to watch Pat Noon and coach against his four organization.

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Speaker 1: We will see first things first, wrap up the two

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Speaker 1: seed with a win on Saturday night against Montreal six

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Speaker 1: o'clock MLS season past Apple TV Ross. Awesome to have

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Speaker 1: you man, Thanks so much all greaty here

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Speaker 2: You thanks for having me on