From the @soccerwisehq.bsky.social discord (which everyone should join).

The Doctor thinks #DCU has won three MLS Cups. @gregoryroche.bsky.social

Agreed.

Playing Indiana Vassilev and Bruno Damiani over Cavan Sullivan and Malik Jakupovic shows you really don't wanna play.

Counterpoint:

I saw the last 10 performances before that and you still kept trotting him out there.

MVPs are the travelling supporters who drove up to the game knowing that was exactly the game they were gonna get.

Point on the road!

Couldn't have said it better.

Anecdotally, I am frustrated that on the counter, DC isn't looking for Baribo more.

I'm in favor of force feeding touches to him.

Per DCU comms, Baribo trained Thursday and Friday.

Pirani's absence is, I'm told, a "coach's decision."

Baribo is back.

Is Markovic the 6 and Peltola the 8?

LOUIS not on the roster at all.

Two keepers on the bench...again.

Oh, BlueSky is back.

It would be worse especially since he publicly announced a reset in August.

Buuuuuut...Montreal just did this last week and shamelessly acted like they haven't said the same things for the last decade.

You think Levien has any shame at this point?

(He does not)

Avilez got that "Don't hit me with the bad vibes. I'm only 16 and didn't even play" look to him.

I'd like to agree with @mattdoyle.bsky.social about Weiler's seat heating up.

And Levien never seems to have qualms about spending money.

But that's an awful lot of salary to eat.

Remember in Along Came Polly when Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character hired a film crew to do a documentary on him.

This is just like that.

Well, he was around in February. We can confirm that.

Seriously though, there's no chance THE DOCTOR was watching that match live, right?

The CSO is in Orange County (probably at a self help seminar) right now so we'll see what his reaction is when he hears about the result (no chance he was watching the match).

Was Aman cup tied to Loudoun?

Two thoughts after that result.

1. LOUIS being a non factor is concerning.

2. The kids made mistakes but wouldn't you rather see:

-Markovic make mistakes than Bartlett?

-Turner try shit than whatever tf Pirani is doing out there?

-what you have in Avilez then more meh from Stroud?

All good, can fully focus on winning the league now.

So it's a team that probably USL Championship quality is taking a team that's probably USL Championship quality to PKs.

Got it.

No offensive player in this game has given One Knoxville cause for concern.

At all.

P+ really screwed this up.

They never showed the subs during the team news and the PbP announcer specifically said he was on the bench as a sub going into ET.

He's the best striker in this game.

By a lot.

Yes, there was. Another Levien comment unfulfilled.

But you are THAT guy, Peglow.

What a club I support.

If Clark isn't warming up, he may not be available.

I'm tempted to say I'd take Avilez over Stroud.

But I won't.

But I'm tempted.

Weiler went with this over Caden Clark???

Pirani finds Stroud unmarked at the top of the box...

Five seconds later, Stroud now 5 yards up from the top of the box, passes it to One Knoxville who go the other way.

I'm disappointed with Murrell's development.

Still early days for him (this would be his junior year of college, I think) but he's another player who would benefit from an MLSNext Pro team.

You ain't that guy, Peglow.