August 11, 2025 • 50 mins
The Chromaniacs gather late on a Saturday night after a 2-0 SDFC win at Sporting KC.
- Getting your Designated Players right matters in MLS...a LOT
- Individual brilliance from Chucky Lozano for a 1-0 lead
- SDFC holding off an hour of spirited KC attack
- Dreyer using his determination and getting a little luck too
- CJ Dos Santos back in net with a clean sheet
- Why does SDFC play so well away from home?
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome to the Chromaniacs postgame show. I'm Creig Elston, joined
by Tony Sanchez live at Snapdragon Stadium after a.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wave one one draw against Angel City.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Alex Pana Brokay staying home watching it all.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
We are ready.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Thanks for staying up late with us live tonight on YouTube,
and to everybody else who's watching or listening after the fact,
thanks for being here on this co production of San
Diego Punto Football and the Podres hot Tub Podcast Network
boys getting our three point stance Ford myself a nifty
snifty of Trader Joe's whiskey to celebrate a two nothing
(01:17):
victory at Sporting Case. Turns out picking your dps well
might might be the whole ball game.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
L Yeah, incredible stuff from uh Honor's Dryer and TCHUCKU
Losano go last so by Cuksano and honestly just more
of what we've been seeing San Diego do so far.
Outstanding performances, individual performances, team efforts. I mean, Alex, this
is your San Diego FC man.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
How are you feeling about him?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah, it feels good. We got three points away. We
also saw Potter and winning away draw home. It feels
like everyone got a point here. Everybody, it feels good.
San Diego is doing good on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, we're about five or six minutes away from a
perfect night at Snapdragon Stadium. But unfortunately nobody told Angel
City and those those jerks came back to tie. But
this is not the Wave Maniacs tonight. This is the
Crow Maniacs. We thank you all for being here. For
everyone who is here, we ask if you can give
us that thumbs up on the YouTube live video that's
(02:32):
gonna help get more people to this live show. Working
late for you on a you know, this is a
true work night for Tony and me for sure on
a night like this, but we do it because we
love it and we love what's going on with this
San Diego f C Ball Club. Alex, let's start to
dig into this game. But on my broad overview looking
(02:54):
at it and while I was working at Wave, if
you guys saw my Instagra Graham story at six or
nine Sports in Life, you can see my setup up
in the booth to try to keep my eye on
three things at once. But an incredible individual moment, I
Chooky Lisano one of.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The goals of the year, not the I guess Dryer.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Still has the way up in Minnesota, but one of
the goals of the year and then a tilted field
towards San Diego's side for about sixty minutes of relentless
attack by Sporting Case that came up empty.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeah, and this.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Is like a thing that Kansas City likes to do
at home. They do try to get that point. So
they're going to be you know, aggressive and really try
to you know, be take those shots. And that's what
we saw and and get this like this is their
first shutout at home since March twenty second, and every
(04:05):
other game they've played at home, they've scored one, two
or more goals. And yeah, that's that's what they try
to do. But they're not not so successful at it
that they try to complete complete it all and get
the win. Sometimes they do score, you know, they do
score late. They do try to get that draw at home.
(04:28):
But what I was feeling out of this game was
like I kind of felt like you needed to just.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
In case they did. They did sneak.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
That one in, right, So I'm kind of glad that
we got that insurance school we you know, we ended
up getting the clean sheet at home or clean sheet
away and man, yeah, big three points. That's huge because
the rest of away we're playing against playoff contenders and
(05:01):
that's gonna yeah, picking up these the next points, it's
gonna be a hard bought bottle.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
They the restless schedule.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, I mean, look through in that tch.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Goal is in encapsulation of his entire season, the best
of in that moment. Right, we saw what he was
able to do defensively against La Galaxy around here, right,
So he gains that ball, tracks back and it's that
defensive just aspect.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He's a fighter. He goes back.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
You see that in the goal by him getting that
defensive slide, and that's in the final third for him.
So to be able to do that off lays it
to honors Dryer, who just keeps it enough to say
all right, it's your ball.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Here you go.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
But then Choky, out of seemingly nowhere, decides to feel
himself and just has the head up the entire time
and says, all right, I'm gonna go ahead and fly
with this. Nothing nothing for any goalkeeper on earth to
do there nothing incredible goal.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
What a moment of artistry.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, what a moment of power and precision combined, and
I love.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The Dryer gets a goal contribution for that.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Like here you go, just like in slow Bitch softball,
when here you are, please enjoy this, but you know,
give another assist to arms Dryer. And I agree with
Silver Joker in the chat. He's been looking at the
lasso all season long. He's been looking for that perfect
shot for that absolute ripper, and there it is. That's
(06:38):
a goal that's going to be on every European highlight show.
It's going to be on worldwide highlight shows over the
course of the next week.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And I'll say it again, it just when you make
those picks right.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And as we go through the NLS, we're seeing all
these teams that have spent their DP spot on a
offenders that doesn't do anything for them, or a midfielder
that has two goals and three assists. But you know,
I'm sure their head coach praises his work rate. You know,
when you get somebody who actually piles points on the board,
(07:14):
you've got the ability to win in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And that's what the.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
SDFC Chromaniacs have. That's what the chro models, loose cro
models have. They have two guys who can pile up
the points.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, and when you look at both Dryer and tukil Osano,
they're they're not afraid to do that dirty work, right,
They're not afraid to tackle, They're not afraid to track back,
They're not They're this is part of their workload. They
understand this, and I think that's why they bit this
system so perfectly. And yeah, we're in and it seems
(07:54):
like it just all works together, that this system works
for Dryer and Trukey and you see those contributions work
so well, and man, it that the goal for Tokey
was just just so incredible and yeah, there's there's nothing
(08:15):
you can do.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
The ball placement was perfect.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
It was yeah, just over the hand underneath the crossbar,
and man, it seems like, yeah, it was like the
perfect goal for for him, and man, it was like
so much needed on the.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Road, right and then and and.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Also Dryer, Yeah, driver gets that goal contribution, which it
just keeps adding to that tally, right, it keeps adding
to that that MVP conversation because he's contributed more than
anybody else. And and when it comes to when it
gets down to October and you're having those serious conversations.
(08:58):
Dryer has to be in that conversation all the vote getters,
they have to be looking at everything that Dryer has
contributed so far. And that that was another one because
he can He could have honestly just turned and done
it in himself. He could have been like, you know what,
I'm gonna turn and try to score this goal myself.
But no, he leaves it up to Juky. He lays
(09:19):
it up perfectly, and Chucky scores the goal. So that
that was that was perfect Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
No in talking with them, and now a Dryer with
that assist actually broke the record in goal contributions from
Carlos Vela for an expansion team with twenty eight goal contributions.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
With Carla on that side.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
He'd later go on to expand his leading to twenty
ninth with his own goal.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
But I mean talking.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
About the dirty word, Craig and talking about this whole team.
This This was a game where coach mikey Vadas had
mentioned that they were prepared to play this game as
if it was being played through molasses. Last time out,
Kansas City was zero zero. They were able to be
successfu and stopping a potent attack. This time around, Sandy
UFC had a plan. They knew they were going to
(10:05):
face a mid to low block. They knew they were
going to go ahead and have a chance to do
very few chances twenty one shots against SANDYFC, seven on
target to five on target out of five for SANDYFC,
against the clinical nature of Sandy UFC. But again the
dirty work and let me see what you think about
the dirty work from one Monodua, because let me tell
(10:26):
you this is worth a hat trick on its own.
The contribution all the way on the defensive side of
things right there, just point blank, that's a goal and
a half.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
That's a goal and a half right there.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, it's so true that Dua's defense right there, clutch
moments for San Diego FC, a couple of great moments
for CJ Dos Santos along the way, and sporting cases
inability to finish. But I hearken to Wednesday's Cromaniacs episode
(11:02):
where we talked about this match. And you know, I've
been wrong plenty of times and SDFC memes has roasted
me plenty of times.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So I said, first half.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You guys probably remember I said, first half hour, first goal,
Get that first goal, get it in the first half
hour and it changes the match completely. Now here's what
I didn't expect. I didn't expect that to mean that
all of a sudden sporting case would turn into a
relentless attacking machine.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But that's what they were for the remainder of the half.
They were a relentless attacking machine against San Diego. And
I'm gonna show my age right now.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But an old childhood toy that used to be on
the Saturday morning cartoons and I had them at home
were the Weebels. You ever heard of the weebles. It
were just like these little egg shaped creatures. And the
song was weebles wahblah blah that don't fall down. And
that's what the SDFC defense was. They weeble wobbled, but
(12:04):
they didn't fall down.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
There they are I had weebels. I had weebels at home.
You could get different weebles.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down. That was the
SDFC defense. They didn't fall down, and they didn't they
didn't concede. And I really thought one one at the half,
I mean I think I texted it to you, wasn't
the XG at they have.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Like one point one seven to point twelve or something like.
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, and that's that's when you kind of look at
the stats and expected g and it's like, well that
that calculation is wrong, and you kind of kind of
look at the match and well, well you kind of say,
like who executed because you could take as many shots
as you want and add up that XG as much
(12:55):
as you want, but yeah, it's in the UFC executed
like the actually tug.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Put on.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Almost like a one in a million shot right there,
and then.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
You know Dryer did did you know he executed his
his goal?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But I mean I sent another reply back on the
chat where I was like, you could give these guys
one hundred shots. Just give them one hundred shots, are
probably gonna make one because they just couldn't finish.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
They couldn't They weren't good at finishing.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
They really they really weren't aware where they were in
the in the field, and it really did show and
and that that lack of awareness and and it just
it just piled on into this into being shut out.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
They should have had one, They honestly should have had
at least.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
One, but Yeah, like the very last play that that
Tony just ran there on.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
The live YouTube show.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's a pass or a passing at the goal. It's
inch perfect essentially, and in that sense you got a
credit Dosantos as well. I think if it was the
inch closer to get inside the post, Dosantos's position to
parry it. But you know, that's good positional defense by
San Diego. Maybe offering somebody the slightest sliver if you
(14:20):
can put it in the zero point five percent line, yeah,
you'll get a goal here, but otherwise you're not gonna
get it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's a great bet to make. Over and over.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I agree Alex said sporting Casey had a hard time finishing.
But I'll tell you what, what was it ninety two
at kickoff? I saw it flash up on the screen.
H humidity in the fifty sixty percent range. Talk about
a melting pot. That's what I thought the stadium was
(14:52):
going to be. Where the players were going to melt
in the middle of the pot.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That meant, just like you said earlier, you needed that
second goal. You needed that second goal.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Went on the San Diego Punto Football Instagram story. You know,
predict I thought it was going to be one one.
I really did because I thought we might get that
lead and give up one Wilting. But no, seventieth minute
Anders Dryer little bit of fortune on the deflection. But
(15:27):
I'll tell you what, when there's a loose ball and
you're the first man to it, there's a lot of
intention to that as well. And Anders Dryer is not
here to f around. Anders Dryer is here to score.
That's Volakari with a lovely send in. I think it
deflected off a Sporting Casey shoulder on the way in
(15:48):
to give the path. Also, good job by the ref
to get out of the way. Yeah, off the chest
in fact of a Sporting Casey player. But the Dryer
beats two guys to the ball. I mean that's absolute
intention by somebody who has a hunger for maybe not
just goal, maybe MVP two.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And it's that.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Motion that Honors Dryers does to really keep the motion going.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
He sees the clear path, he sees the space.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
The ball should be here by the time I make
it through and break that line.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That's what Honors Dryer is thinking.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Most of the time, that pass sometimes doesn't get respected
by the by your teammates.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
They try to do the individual.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
They hold the ball a little bit too much, a
little bit fortunate there, but that's why you do that
run just in case there is some happenstance, some lucky
bounds that will go your way and the ball.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Just ends up being there.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
And that finish is incredibly just nifty and tight, just
because he's able to cross it away from his body
and just squeeze it by a defender and the goalkeeper
for that goal.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So just those details. If you just want to look.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
At how great Honor's Dryer is, just look at those
little details.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
He went down the middle. That's the center forward spot.
That's where the mossanka should be. That's where you know what,
Honors Tryer's there up front. So at this point were
Sanda UFC.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
If he's there, I.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Don't think anybody should worry about it. Whether or not
the mole is there. Whoever is there, Honorryer will be there.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yeah, it did feel like, you know, Dryer was like,
you know, just screw it, I'm gonna do it myself.
That was very much like I'm gonna get the pass
in and then I'm just gonna keep running and finish
this off myself because uh yeah, that's what Understryer can do,
and it was it was really great to see. My
(17:39):
eyes was on dryer the whole way because it did
feel like something, something momentous was gonna happen, and he
did cap it off with the gold and yeah and yeah,
we I did feel like we really needed that at
that moment.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Guys, why is SDFC so good on the road?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
At this point when you just look at run of form,
run of play over the course of the last six
weeks or so, they have felt like a better, more
complete team on the road than they have at home.
And obviously League's Cup maybe that's you know, let's just
you know, hold up the off side flag for potential
bias on that, Like it's not it's not apples to apples,
(18:25):
But what are your thoughts on why this club plays
so well away from home?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I mean, they absolutely like they want to get a result.
They're not trying to be Sporting Kansas City that will.
I feel like Sporting Kansas City is comfortable trying to
get a point away. You know, they're not trying to
get a win. And I think that's the difference right there.
(18:56):
Like every every single match just feels like Santio on
the road is trying to get a win. And it
does show because right now they have what eight wins
and four losses, no draws on the road, So you
know that that it's it's gonna be a result. They're
either all in or somehow they just you know, it
(19:21):
just happens at that match they lose. But I think
that's the difference, the whole mentality of it, because yeah,
some some teams are just comfortable with just getting a
point away and and I think that's like the focus
point away, try to get the three points at home,
and and that's.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
That's their attitude. But it's it's different with Cindy UFC.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
They're just relentless on the road.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Honors Dryer said it He's actually been one to point
it out throughout is that they just hit a different
gear when they're outside of snap Dragon. That feels almost
like they would need to prove it in front of
their home fans, be like, no, this is the truth.
We are the truth, and the truth is hitting you
right now at your home and you know you can
definitely say in point you like he at the beginning
(20:08):
of the season, there's new team, there's no film. There's
plenty of film on San DIEGUFC. There's plenty of points
that you can pinpoint and say, Okay, let's focus on this,
let's focus on double teaming honor well, let's double team
this person. Let's double team this this area and trying
to neutralize it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
There's ways to attack SANDYFC.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
But on paper, but in practice, San Diego c's has
been able to really bounce back, and that's the strength
that they've been able to really carry in Today. You
saw a little bit different Santiy UFC, where yeah, they
had possessions of the ball, but they said, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
What, they're not going to score. Let them have as
many chances as they want.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
We'll figure ourselves out. We'll do and focus our style
of play. It's eventually going to pay off. Paid off twice.
But just the ineptitude of Kansas City is just like,
all right, this is sterile offense. We're not going to
give up a goal, so let him tire themselves out
on that side.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
We'll try to sneak out through the back door and
just go goal and come out with a victory to zero.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Pretty neat and tidy there for San DIEGOFC, and that
is something that Mikeybotus did point out in the postmatch.
There isn't sound just right now, But it's just that
he himself doesn't see a difference with San Diego FC
away from a snapdragon just kind of bounce back people.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Who will push back there. Thinks it's the same.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
He says, we prefer the same, we play the same.
I don't see a lot of difference.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Maybe that's just coach speak, but I think there's a
difference for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You know, I'll say this though he could be one
hundred percent right. The difference could be very simple, Tony.
The difference could just be luck, because soccer has a
good dose of luck in it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know, baseball has the most.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
That's why I always say baseball is stupid and no
one should watch now Soccer, you know, cool to watch,
but don't take it too serious. Is I don't know,
trying to adjust. We're workshopping the new motto for the
beautiful game of football. But there's randomness in this sport.
And I would say suggest that Chucky Lozano hitting a
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one in one hundred shot, which is probably what it is.
He probably takes that shot somewhere around one hundred times
and puts it in just the way he did, maybe
three times, maybe twice, probably once. That combined with Kansas
City missing multiple twenty percent chances, you know, multiple eleven
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or sixteen percent chances, like all of these opportunities that
went by that individually were richer than either Lozano or
Dryer's actual run at.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Goal, but they didn't cash any of those.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
And you know, as the world of luck goes, Yeah,
you know, if you have a two out of ten shot,
you could miss it forty times in a row. Even
though you've got a twenty percent chance you could miss
it forty times in a row, doesn't mean you're due.
The next one is still twenty percent, and it still
means eighty percent miss. And that's kind of what it's
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felt like on a couple of these SDFC road matches.
And maybe the luck hasn't been quite as good, maybe
the luck has been slightly road tilted on some snap
dragging games, and the result is what the result is
has a bunch of you know, Yahoo's on the internet
saying why are they better on the road and at home?
And the real answer is they're the same team both places.
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But luck is a real thing in the sport of soccer.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
And Tenegovc's just the better team. Like at the end
of the day, San Diego.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Se was and is and should be going into KC
with the two zero victory. I don't care how humid,
how hot it is. That's the result that should have happened. Postmatch,
the k C interim coach actually praised his own team, saying,
there's not much I could have asked my team more
to do.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Maybe score, but there's.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Not much I could have asked them to do, especially
where they're going in their season.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
They just face the better team. So again, just take
those kudos.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
This is where San Diego FC is now nine games
left into the excuse me eight games left.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
And now in the MLS regular season. They're elite and
that's it. You expect these matches and it's gonna be harder.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
You're gonna see some rivals that you haven't seen San
Jose twice.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You don't know what that California rivalry is gonna be.
Right now, they just beat Vancouver two to one. That's
why you have a four point lead up in the
top of the Western conference.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
So you know, it's still kind of like a pinch
me thing for a lot of Sanday UFC fans.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
The frustration is there. You don't get Huming Song, you
don't get Thomas Mueller, but you.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Have har Angi and a bunch of nineteen year olds
in first place.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yeah, pick yeah, bick.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I want to ask Alex a question because again I
was watching on an iPad while working. What were your
thoughts on the performance of Deehan hovlich Uh tonight, the
guy who's supposed to be the goal machine for Sporting Case.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
How would you describe his path through this match?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean he was okay.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I think he was just getting frustrated that he just
wasn't getting the ball and getting the chances that he wanted,
because I remember early on.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
They were they were heading.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
You know, towards the Cindeo box in the goal and
they just flew one right over his head, and you know,
what is he supposed to do with that? Like, you know,
it just they just weren't connected, and they just weren't
connecting with him specifically, and he just he was just
(25:53):
having a really rough time just getting his chances. And yeah,
he he I could see his like frustrations that he
I think if he had more.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
More of those chances and and have like more one
on one.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Situations, he probably had a better chance at gold than
than than he did. But yeah, we we didn't see
him last time, which was good because that was a
nil nil draw and and this time we we completely
were able to uh you know, have a really strong
(26:30):
back line and getting c J do Santo's uh clean
another clean sheet, and it really yeah, yeah, there must
have been a little bit of luck to that. But
they they also just they're not a great finishing team
and there's a reason why they're they're they're lower in
(26:51):
the in the standings in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Well, uh Tony sdfc's up four points in the West.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
It's it's just like everybody thought it would, right, It's
just like Mikey Badas uh I dreamed it would and
uh it's Tyler.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
It's one are these things where I think not that
they're trying, because they're not at all. They're not trying
to be like all right, guys, that's temperate expectations and it.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Just kind of happened to stumble upon.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Success and wins it's like, no, this is this just
seems more and more intentional the the week, as weeks
go by, where this is a new way to attack MLS,
This is a new way to go into this this
North American version of football soccer, and it's working. And
again the ambition that you know, I for sure scoffed
(27:50):
that at the beginning of like huh this yeah, trying.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
To be that, I trying to be this, trying to
be this is so lofty.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
How about you focus on the league. It's exactly what
they've been able to do. And you know, Vancouver, very
tough team. You've been able to take a positive result
from those two matches.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That's pretty much what you have left.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
In the Western Conference and you still have plenty of
tough games to go. But you're cemented as the elite
in this season's Western Division conference and San Diego FC
needs to definitely be a proud of that. But I
don't think they're taking those accolades and just saying being
happy with them.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
They're just moving forward with everything.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
And that's why I get the same answers from Mike
about us the style of play, the style of play
they are, our identity and it kind of comes become repetitive,
but it's like.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, I know, that's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I don't know what else like we should be surprised
with because they've been honest, they've been transparent.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Yeah, four points ahead, I Thankcouver and it's it's we
have the top spot now, but they have a one
game advantage. They still have to we play twenty six matches.
Vancouver and Minnesota have played twenty five, Seattle has played
twenty four, and l a FC has played twenty three.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And we're going to see l a FC away.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
We're going to see Portland twice, We're going to see
San Jose twice, and yeah, those are going to be
big matches. That are are They're they're going to accumulate there.
We need to get some really positive results out of
those if we want to remain in the top spot.
But I think that's that's gonna that's bringing up a
good question when when it comes to our success on
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the road, like do we need to be that top team.
I think it would be very you know, opportunistic, and
it'd be a good idea to be a top seed
in the West, either the first or the second but
you know, we're playing really good at on the road too.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Not not the type of thing that you can ever
concern yourself with. If you ever try to worry about that,
the soccer gods will just smack you down. They and
the basketball gods go out for drinks two times a
week and they talk.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
So you just you don't make those type of mistakes.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Sometimes the baseball gods come around, but they're like, fuck
those guys. Those guys are ticks, so they try to
hide from them. But nonetheless, yeah, you don't make you
don't make that mistake. Hey, the Shields and play Philadelphia,
the Philadelphia Laski's same number of games two.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Points, two points separated. They have fifty one, we have
forty nine.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Cincinnati won game in hand with forty nine, so put
them on the list. But they treated Corey Baird, so
obviously they don't want to win anymore if they want
to when they would have kept Corey Barrett, so you know,
good news for us.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
That's a real race too. That would be absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And I know I did the little comedic riff half
riff comedic on the last Gromaniacs saying like.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
We kind of thought we'd be not this kind of
thought we'd be less than this.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I also heard Tyler Heaps on a radio interview say
they would make one or two more moves before the window.
What kind of moves are those gonna be? Are we
going to put a win now mentality into this club?
Because this is what I want to say to San Diego.
We deserve it, all right, We're spoiled. We deserve it.
We see what the Padres do every year.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
They go for it.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
They have a chance, they go for it. They might
not win at all, but they're trying.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So far, as DFC has felt very measured in their
pursuit of for place and a potential MLS Cup in
their first year, they felt very controlled, very smooth, very
under control. But they also let their best nine disappear
to the East's best team.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
For something.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
According to some YouTube pardon me Instagram comments on some
posts I've made and some posts we've made, maybe not
as much TAM as we thought, maybe no TAM at all.
Maybe it was a gam move, and maybe SDFC set
a line that was way too low for the market
and got burned in a massive way. And maybe that
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post I made on Instagram several weeks ago was exactly right,
and this was the British definition of a cockup, like
you just screwed it up, you just made a mistake.
With all of that, I'm not trying to pick on you, guys.
We won a huge game to know, I wish Alaski
was here.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
But who you bringing in? Who you bringing in?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
If it's two more kids who still have to ask
mom for permission to stay out past eleven, then like cool,
all right, But I don't think you're trying to win
the MLS Cup. But if you bring in some veteran firepower,
if you brought in a dude right now, if you
brought in a real nine right now, this team might
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put the entire Major League Soccer world on notice.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
I think that's what's missing.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
And I think that's that push for really that ambition
to not just be the greatest expansion team of all
time in MLS, because again, if you want to be
the greatest, you can get bounced out in the first round.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And probably still get that.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
But if you really have that ambition to move forward
deep into it. But I don't want to derail those
kind of talks and necessarily be negative just measure, just
like I said, because MLS playoffs are insane. Are one
of the most backwards thing I've ever seen in terms
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of there being a series of three. So if you
win game one, if you win Game one seven to zero,
you can lose Game two seven to zero, nothing happens,
and then game three you lose one.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
To zero and guess what, You're out. That's it. Then
there's penalties that like.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
The structure, I'm okay with san dieofc being measured because
I think they have to be able to just adapt
with what's coming, and that's been exactly what they've been
able to do. Everything that they've faced is the first
time they've been they've been doing this. It's the first
time they're they're gonna be facing a back to back
opponent in such a short amount of time, first time
they've gone over in case into ninety two degree whether.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
With all literally all the humidity, all of it.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
And at the end of the day, this is gonna
be a challenge for SANDYFC where they need somebody who
knows what it takes in those moments in MLS. That's
why Christmas they successful. He's a veteran, he knows this league.
That that's why Gold always been incredibly successful and had
a resurgence in his in his career. That's one player
that everybody in MLS is like, oh, it's rotation. Oh
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he's not gonna be but no, he's a starter. And
when he's not there, Santa UFC feels it, even if
it's for those two moments where it's when I went
down and they're like, it's gonna be out comes, it
comes right back. And that's the type of mentality that
that SANTAFC has just moved forward and like water, they're adapting,
they're going with the flow.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
M h, it's all about flow, Tony Man. But yeah,
I mean I would agree, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
I would agree.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
If yeah, striker is probably like high on the list.
I feel like our midfield should be good. It feels
like it has a lot of good depth. What's interesting
on the back line.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Right back is a little bit EFFI.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
That would be my pick. He's right back.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Striker in right back would be my If it's a
one to two, I'd say let's have two Tyler, Let's
have a striker and a right back.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Yeah, Like do you want like ver Hoven or HARANGI
to keep going and maybe see Willie Camado out there,
or do you want a little bit more experience, you know,
in right back, it seems like Luca Bombino is really
like he's handling his business. He knows what he's doing
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out there. I'm not worried about Luca Bombino, but the
right back position is a little bit troubling. I did
see some positives out of Harangi. I did see when
he was making a run. He got a received a
pass from Dryer like deep in the penalty area, and
it seemed like that connected well with like he felt
(37:01):
like they were on the same page. It felt like
they were on the same page. Like Harangi took the pass.
He tried to get a pass off in the penalty area,
but it was blocked. But it seem it seemed like
that's that's more of a work in progress. But we're like,
we only have eight matches remaining here, like we we
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we don't have time to.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Be working with work works in progress.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
We don't have time to be like you have to
be coming in and be be ready to go for this,
because yeah, we're trying to make a deep playoff run.
And I think I hope that everybody from here at
Cromaniacs to Tyler Heaps, like we should be all on
the same page.
Speaker 6 (37:42):
Like this is a playoff.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Team, you have a big goal differential, you're one of
the top teams in MLS.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
You should be playing for an MLS Cup.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Like, you know, if you want to be serious about it,
maybe you should shore up that right back position.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Maybe maybe that'd be good. Yeah, that'd be good. That'd
be interesting. Some talks are happening.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Tanner Heap is still in negotiations and discussing and trying
to activate, uh negotiations in order to have people signed in.
But again, don't be don't be overly, you know, optimistic
of knowing you know, just oh wow, this is the
players coming in.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I can't believe it. This is a Marquee player.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Well, it might be Markee in certain markets, in certain aspects,
but it's with Sandy UFC needs and again six months
ago who and don't lie, who.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Knew honors Dryer?
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Who knew yepes Erskov? Right, we're barely learning to know
how to pronounce his name.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
And the other thing about it is like, yeah, those
same people that didn't know their names and cover the MLS.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
You know, they wrote us off a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
They were like, you know, this team is going to
finish in the last because I don't know who yep
at the first cop is, I don't know who Andrew
Dryer is. And now it's like they're doing a whole
one eighty about it and they're like, oh, yep at
the first off is the best player I've ever seen,
Like and on the tryer, that's the best winger I've
ever seen. And like they completely flipped and now they
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just want to keep seeing some more Sandy UFC and
watching us be more successful like throughout the season. So yeah,
I really do do hope that happened. And yeah I
heard I heard Hoyland is he's availaball a loan.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Right, No, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Alex, I'm sure you paid attention. What were your thoughts
on Sunny's debut in LA And then I'm going to
have a tag question to that and it might be
the last question of the show, but go ahead.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Yeah I did pay attention. Yeah, came around like the
sixtieth in it. Uh, and yeah, he he was gonna
make a quick run. Was prevented that caused the penalty
in the penalty area. He was chopped down by a defender.
So but Woga came in sport of penalty. But yeah,
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I mean Sonny. The thing about Sonny is I saw
this last year. I mean, he he might be elite
at MLS, but he's not. He's kind of gonna be
worked out of Premier League, right he Spurs have other options,
and it seems like that's he lost a step and
(40:46):
maybe that step is kind of right at the level
of MLS.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
And he did.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
He did show some breakaway speed that I was I
was worried about when he was playing with Spurs, and
but you know they did and they did.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
Catch up to him and brought him down.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
So I think that's the biggest part of his game,
his speed, his agility, you know, being very quick with
the ball and that you know he and and if
you ask what it's gonna look like in a few
weeks from now went to the UFC, is gonna face them,
I don't know, because he had he had a little
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bit of a preseason.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
He's still trying to get his minutes.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
You know, they gave him thirty minutes today and I
think they're just gonna keep working them in until he,
you know, feels comfortable and they he can get a
like a full ninety minutes out of him. But yeah,
he's still he kind of seems like he still needs
to sometime to you know, get some training in and
get his body acclimated to the season, all right.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Which leads to my last question for you guys.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
We're going down the stretch here, just like the Padres
are going down the stretch. And I think a fun
question that people have been asking is like, who's the
NL team that you're the most scared of? So my
question to you is, who's the Western Conference MLS team
that you think is sdfc's biggest threat. Understanding already putting
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aside the vagaries of any team could beat you, MLS
is crazy, blah blah blah. Who's the team that scares
you right now? Who's the team that you would put
at the top of your threat index.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
I'd throw in a Seattle in there, just because of
the experience. That's the team that what's like, SANDFC has
always had a blueprint in the way they want to play,
that they want to identify, but they've had the experience,
they've won Conka champions. They've really kind of been a
team to be and they know what it takes in
this end of the season to really just turn it on.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
And it's one of those teams where.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Even on an international level, people knew the Seattle Sounders
and they knew that Seattle Seattle Sounders are is a
destination right for la f C. I do feel like
it's a little bit like when Christian Christiane of course
Christian Bale.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Where Gareth Bail joined.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Yeah, Christian Belt to LAFC would be incredible too, but
when Gareth joined l a f C and kind of
given that breath of life, Bail was.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
In that same type of.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
Really good for MLS but not necessarily for Europe. But
you know that's what LAFC needed in that time to
unlock themselves for.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
That championship run.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
So those are the two teams that I look at
and I don't know about you, Alex, but you know
we've never seen Santa a UFC and playoffs and now
there has any other team, So that could be a
strength or that can be a challenge.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
I don't know how you see that, but who do
you think?
Speaker 5 (44:01):
Yeah, I got I gotta go with Minnesota. I mean,
they're they're a really good team. I mean I know,
I know that, and that the biggest factor in the
game really when we faced them was Milan and Alasky,
you know, getting those goals late and then and and
then we're gonna face them in September, and if they
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you know, get a few wins, and once we face
them in September, you know, we might be talking about
playing for a first play spot. So I mean, they've
they've done really well. I mean, they really haven't lost
in the in the last and it's just seems like
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ten fifteen games. They yeah, they're they're really well coached.
They they they're very it seems like they they know
what they're doing. I think we just caught them at
a wrong time because remember that was the Gold Cup.
That was when they were out of players. We were
out of players. Milanailosity just came in and you know
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and took over. And but we don't have them anymore.
They have their players back, We have our players back,
and I feel like that that that's gonna be a
difference and we're going to see a whole different team
when September thirteenth rolls around and I feel like I
feel like that's going to be a really big match.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
For San Diego.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Well, I'm going to just let my slip show as
well and all of my inherent biases, and the answer
for me is LAFC. I mean, you just added Sonny,
he could gather momentum. This is a program that's got
a lot of prestige behind it. It's got basically everything
that you ask for. And that's a club I don't
(45:51):
want to see in October and November. That's a club
that I'm worried about having the experiential edge over side
that allows them to prevail in a big moment, in
a big match, and even if that match was here
at Snapdragon Stadium, I feel like LAFC is the kind
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of club that can overcome that type of disadvantage against
a new bile expansion team, fresh fans, the desperation excitement
that we would all feel in that moment if you
had them here with the season on the line, that's
the club that makes me worried. I give them a
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lot of respect and I think they've earned it for
what they've done. And honestly, I think SDFC, from Tom
Penn upward, their dream has been to be like LAFC,
to be as much like LAFC as a team in
San Diego not LA could be. And I think they've
done it. I think they have absolutely done it. And
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that means SD versus LA is a real thing again.
And that's why the team I'm not worried about Minnesota.
We might lose or win, but it won't affect our
lives like it won't affect We won't remember it for
the rest of our lives, but l A SD every time,
we'll remember it the rest of our lives.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
So let's all be real. It's l a FC.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
Okay, Yeah, that's gonna be a big one and I'm
going to be attending that one away.
Speaker 6 (47:30):
So there.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, keep your belt on, Alex settle down.
Speaker 6 (47:39):
Yes for sure? All right?
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Uh what a huge result, What a huge result for
those Kromados. Three more points on the road, keeping things
rolling heading forward. Very exciting for San Diego Football Club.
Up next onto San Jose and as our friend procastinating
(48:09):
Kuma put in the chant a chance to win the
El Camino Reale Cup and clinch it if you get
three points up in San Jose. We'll talk about that
a lot more later in the week on O Maniacs
episode number twelve. Tonyde's been working very hard all day
long and it's still at Snapdragon Stadium after the cleaning
(48:31):
crew has left.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
He's still there.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
He fall I did. I saw him leave.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
Tony before you had to in and out to duplicate
my menu order. Tell everyone how to support the incredible
work you guys are doing.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
Go ahead and check it out over on San Diego
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It's back on live streams, YouTube, Chromaniacs, two Balls and
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Speaker 5 (49:09):
Yeah, I'm over at Chromatic, Tipsy on Substack and I
talked to Tony. I might have a little exclusive exclusive
on Sandue Punta football this week, so that that should
be really fun. I might be double dipping on Substack
and Zandia put the football, so that should be a
(49:31):
lot of fun. So check that out. That's gonna be
coming out this week.
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Speaker 2 (50:36):
Got all three. Have a great rest of your weekend.
Take care,
Welcome to the Chromaniacs postgame show. I'm Creig Elston, joined
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Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wave one one draw against Angel City.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Alex Pana Brokay staying home watching it all.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
We are ready.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
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boys getting our three point stance Ford myself a nifty
snifty of Trader Joe's whiskey to celebrate a two nothing
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victory at Sporting Case. Turns out picking your dps well
might might be the whole ball game.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
L Yeah, incredible stuff from uh Honor's Dryer and TCHUCKU
Losano go last so by Cuksano and honestly just more
of what we've been seeing San Diego do so far.
Outstanding performances, individual performances, team efforts. I mean, Alex, this
is your San Diego FC man.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
How are you feeling about him?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah, it feels good. We got three points away. We
also saw Potter and winning away draw home. It feels
like everyone got a point here. Everybody, it feels good.
San Diego is doing good on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, we're about five or six minutes away from a
perfect night at Snapdragon Stadium. But unfortunately nobody told Angel
City and those those jerks came back to tie. But
this is not the Wave Maniacs tonight. This is the
Crow Maniacs. We thank you all for being here. For
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(02:32):
gonna help get more people to this live show. Working
late for you on a you know, this is a
true work night for Tony and me for sure on
a night like this, but we do it because we
love it and we love what's going on with this
San Diego f C Ball Club. Alex, let's start to
dig into this game. But on my broad overview looking
(02:54):
at it and while I was working at Wave, if
you guys saw my Instagra Graham story at six or
nine Sports in Life, you can see my setup up
in the booth to try to keep my eye on
three things at once. But an incredible individual moment, I
Chooky Lisano one of.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The goals of the year, not the I guess Dryer.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Still has the way up in Minnesota, but one of
the goals of the year and then a tilted field
towards San Diego's side for about sixty minutes of relentless
attack by Sporting Case that came up empty.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeah, and this.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Is like a thing that Kansas City likes to do
at home. They do try to get that point. So
they're going to be you know, aggressive and really try
to you know, be take those shots. And that's what
we saw and and get this like this is their
first shutout at home since March twenty second, and every
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other game they've played at home, they've scored one, two
or more goals. And yeah, that's that's what they try
to do. But they're not not so successful at it
that they try to complete complete it all and get
the win. Sometimes they do score, you know, they do
score late. They do try to get that draw at home.
(04:28):
But what I was feeling out of this game was
like I kind of felt like you needed to just.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
In case they did. They did sneak.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
That one in, right, So I'm kind of glad that
we got that insurance school we you know, we ended
up getting the clean sheet at home or clean sheet
away and man, yeah, big three points. That's huge because
the rest of away we're playing against playoff contenders and
(05:01):
that's gonna yeah, picking up these the next points, it's
gonna be a hard bought bottle.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
They the restless schedule.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, I mean, look through in that tch.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Goal is in encapsulation of his entire season, the best
of in that moment. Right, we saw what he was
able to do defensively against La Galaxy around here, right,
So he gains that ball, tracks back and it's that
defensive just aspect.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He's a fighter. He goes back.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
You see that in the goal by him getting that
defensive slide, and that's in the final third for him.
So to be able to do that off lays it
to honors Dryer, who just keeps it enough to say
all right, it's your ball.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Here you go.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
But then Choky, out of seemingly nowhere, decides to feel
himself and just has the head up the entire time
and says, all right, I'm gonna go ahead and fly
with this. Nothing nothing for any goalkeeper on earth to
do there nothing incredible goal.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
What a moment of artistry.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, what a moment of power and precision combined, and
I love.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The Dryer gets a goal contribution for that.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Like here you go, just like in slow Bitch softball,
when here you are, please enjoy this, but you know,
give another assist to arms Dryer. And I agree with
Silver Joker in the chat. He's been looking at the
lasso all season long. He's been looking for that perfect
shot for that absolute ripper, and there it is. That's
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a goal that's going to be on every European highlight show.
It's going to be on worldwide highlight shows over the
course of the next week.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And I'll say it again, it just when you make
those picks right.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And as we go through the NLS, we're seeing all
these teams that have spent their DP spot on a
offenders that doesn't do anything for them, or a midfielder
that has two goals and three assists. But you know,
I'm sure their head coach praises his work rate. You know,
when you get somebody who actually piles points on the board,
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you've got the ability to win in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And that's what the.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
SDFC Chromaniacs have. That's what the chro models, loose cro
models have. They have two guys who can pile up
the points.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, and when you look at both Dryer and tukil Osano,
they're they're not afraid to do that dirty work, right,
They're not afraid to tackle, They're not afraid to track back,
They're not They're this is part of their workload. They
understand this, and I think that's why they bit this
system so perfectly. And yeah, we're in and it seems
(07:54):
like it just all works together, that this system works
for Dryer and Trukey and you see those contributions work
so well, and man, it that the goal for Tokey
was just just so incredible and yeah, there's there's nothing
(08:15):
you can do.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
The ball placement was perfect.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
It was yeah, just over the hand underneath the crossbar,
and man, it seems like, yeah, it was like the
perfect goal for for him, and man, it was like
so much needed on the.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Road, right and then and and.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Also Dryer, Yeah, driver gets that goal contribution, which it
just keeps adding to that tally, right, it keeps adding
to that that MVP conversation because he's contributed more than
anybody else. And and when it comes to when it
gets down to October and you're having those serious conversations.
(08:58):
Dryer has to be in that conversation all the vote getters,
they have to be looking at everything that Dryer has
contributed so far. And that that was another one because
he can He could have honestly just turned and done
it in himself. He could have been like, you know what,
I'm gonna turn and try to score this goal myself.
But no, he leaves it up to Juky. He lays
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it up perfectly, and Chucky scores the goal. So that
that was that was perfect Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
No in talking with them, and now a Dryer with
that assist actually broke the record in goal contributions from
Carlos Vela for an expansion team with twenty eight goal contributions.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
With Carla on that side.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
He'd later go on to expand his leading to twenty
ninth with his own goal.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
But I mean talking.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
About the dirty word, Craig and talking about this whole team.
This This was a game where coach mikey Vadas had
mentioned that they were prepared to play this game as
if it was being played through molasses. Last time out,
Kansas City was zero zero. They were able to be
successfu and stopping a potent attack. This time around, Sandy
UFC had a plan. They knew they were going to
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face a mid to low block. They knew they were
going to go ahead and have a chance to do
very few chances twenty one shots against SANDYFC, seven on
target to five on target out of five for SANDYFC,
against the clinical nature of Sandy UFC. But again the
dirty work and let me see what you think about
the dirty work from one Monodua, because let me tell
(10:26):
you this is worth a hat trick on its own.
The contribution all the way on the defensive side of
things right there, just point blank, that's a goal and
a half.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
That's a goal and a half right there.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, it's so true that Dua's defense right there, clutch
moments for San Diego FC, a couple of great moments
for CJ Dos Santos along the way, and sporting cases
inability to finish. But I hearken to Wednesday's Cromaniacs episode
(11:02):
where we talked about this match. And you know, I've
been wrong plenty of times and SDFC memes has roasted
me plenty of times.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So I said, first half.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You guys probably remember I said, first half hour, first goal,
Get that first goal, get it in the first half
hour and it changes the match completely. Now here's what
I didn't expect. I didn't expect that to mean that
all of a sudden sporting case would turn into a
relentless attacking machine.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But that's what they were for the remainder of the half.
They were a relentless attacking machine against San Diego. And
I'm gonna show my age right now.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But an old childhood toy that used to be on
the Saturday morning cartoons and I had them at home
were the Weebels. You ever heard of the weebles. It
were just like these little egg shaped creatures. And the
song was weebles wahblah blah that don't fall down. And
that's what the SDFC defense was. They weeble wobbled, but
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they didn't fall down.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
There they are I had weebels. I had weebels at home.
You could get different weebles.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down. That was the
SDFC defense. They didn't fall down, and they didn't they
didn't concede. And I really thought one one at the half,
I mean I think I texted it to you, wasn't
the XG at they have.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Like one point one seven to point twelve or something like.
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, and that's that's when you kind of look at
the stats and expected g and it's like, well that
that calculation is wrong, and you kind of kind of
look at the match and well, well you kind of say,
like who executed because you could take as many shots
as you want and add up that XG as much
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as you want, but yeah, it's in the UFC executed
like the actually tug.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Put on.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Almost like a one in a million shot right there,
and then.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
You know Dryer did did you know he executed his
his goal?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But I mean I sent another reply back on the
chat where I was like, you could give these guys
one hundred shots. Just give them one hundred shots, are
probably gonna make one because they just couldn't finish.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
They couldn't They weren't good at finishing.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
They really they really weren't aware where they were in
the in the field, and it really did show and
and that that lack of awareness and and it just
it just piled on into this into being shut out.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
They should have had one, They honestly should have had
at least.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
One, but Yeah, like the very last play that that
Tony just ran there on.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
The live YouTube show.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's a pass or a passing at the goal. It's
inch perfect essentially, and in that sense you got a
credit Dosantos as well. I think if it was the
inch closer to get inside the post, Dosantos's position to
parry it. But you know, that's good positional defense by
San Diego. Maybe offering somebody the slightest sliver if you
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can put it in the zero point five percent line, yeah,
you'll get a goal here, but otherwise you're not gonna
get it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's a great bet to make. Over and over.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I agree Alex said sporting Casey had a hard time finishing.
But I'll tell you what, what was it ninety two
at kickoff? I saw it flash up on the screen.
H humidity in the fifty sixty percent range. Talk about
a melting pot. That's what I thought the stadium was
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going to be. Where the players were going to melt
in the middle of the pot.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That meant, just like you said earlier, you needed that
second goal. You needed that second goal.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Went on the San Diego Punto Football Instagram story. You know,
predict I thought it was going to be one one.
I really did because I thought we might get that
lead and give up one Wilting. But no, seventieth minute
Anders Dryer little bit of fortune on the deflection. But
(15:27):
I'll tell you what, when there's a loose ball and
you're the first man to it, there's a lot of
intention to that as well. And Anders Dryer is not
here to f around. Anders Dryer is here to score.
That's Volakari with a lovely send in. I think it
deflected off a Sporting Casey shoulder on the way in
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to give the path. Also, good job by the ref
to get out of the way. Yeah, off the chest
in fact of a Sporting Casey player. But the Dryer
beats two guys to the ball. I mean that's absolute
intention by somebody who has a hunger for maybe not
just goal, maybe MVP two.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And it's that.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Motion that Honors Dryers does to really keep the motion going.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
He sees the clear path, he sees the space.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
The ball should be here by the time I make
it through and break that line.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That's what Honors Dryer is thinking.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Most of the time, that pass sometimes doesn't get respected
by the by your teammates.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
They try to do the individual.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
They hold the ball a little bit too much, a
little bit fortunate there, but that's why you do that
run just in case there is some happenstance, some lucky
bounds that will go your way and the ball.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Just ends up being there.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
And that finish is incredibly just nifty and tight, just
because he's able to cross it away from his body
and just squeeze it by a defender and the goalkeeper
for that goal.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So just those details. If you just want to look.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
At how great Honor's Dryer is, just look at those
little details.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
He went down the middle. That's the center forward spot.
That's where the mossanka should be. That's where you know what,
Honors Tryer's there up front. So at this point were
Sanda UFC.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
If he's there, I.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Don't think anybody should worry about it. Whether or not
the mole is there. Whoever is there, Honorryer will be there.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yeah, it did feel like, you know, Dryer was like,
you know, just screw it, I'm gonna do it myself.
That was very much like I'm gonna get the pass
in and then I'm just gonna keep running and finish
this off myself because uh yeah, that's what Understryer can do,
and it was it was really great to see. My
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eyes was on dryer the whole way because it did
feel like something, something momentous was gonna happen, and he
did cap it off with the gold and yeah and yeah,
we I did feel like we really needed that at
that moment.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Guys, why is SDFC so good on the road?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
At this point when you just look at run of form,
run of play over the course of the last six
weeks or so, they have felt like a better, more
complete team on the road than they have at home.
And obviously League's Cup maybe that's you know, let's just
you know, hold up the off side flag for potential
bias on that, Like it's not it's not apples to apples,
(18:25):
But what are your thoughts on why this club plays
so well away from home?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I mean, they absolutely like they want to get a result.
They're not trying to be Sporting Kansas City that will.
I feel like Sporting Kansas City is comfortable trying to
get a point away. You know, they're not trying to
get a win. And I think that's the difference right there.
(18:56):
Like every every single match just feels like Santio on
the road is trying to get a win. And it
does show because right now they have what eight wins
and four losses, no draws on the road, So you
know that that it's it's gonna be a result. They're
either all in or somehow they just you know, it
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just happens at that match they lose. But I think
that's the difference, the whole mentality of it, because yeah,
some some teams are just comfortable with just getting a
point away and and I think that's like the focus
point away, try to get the three points at home,
and and that's.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
That's their attitude. But it's it's different with Cindy UFC.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
They're just relentless on the road.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Honors Dryer said it He's actually been one to point
it out throughout is that they just hit a different
gear when they're outside of snap Dragon. That feels almost
like they would need to prove it in front of
their home fans, be like, no, this is the truth.
We are the truth, and the truth is hitting you
right now at your home and you know you can
definitely say in point you like he at the beginning
(20:08):
of the season, there's new team, there's no film. There's
plenty of film on San DIEGUFC. There's plenty of points
that you can pinpoint and say, Okay, let's focus on this,
let's focus on double teaming honor well, let's double team
this person. Let's double team this this area and trying
to neutralize it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
There's ways to attack SANDYFC.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
But on paper, but in practice, San Diego c's has
been able to really bounce back, and that's the strength
that they've been able to really carry in Today. You
saw a little bit different Santiy UFC, where yeah, they
had possessions of the ball, but they said, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
What, they're not going to score. Let them have as
many chances as they want.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
We'll figure ourselves out. We'll do and focus our style
of play. It's eventually going to pay off. Paid off twice.
But just the ineptitude of Kansas City is just like,
all right, this is sterile offense. We're not going to
give up a goal, so let him tire themselves out
on that side.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
We'll try to sneak out through the back door and
just go goal and come out with a victory to zero.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Pretty neat and tidy there for San DIEGOFC, and that
is something that Mikeybotus did point out in the postmatch.
There isn't sound just right now, But it's just that
he himself doesn't see a difference with San Diego FC
away from a snapdragon just kind of bounce back people.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Who will push back there. Thinks it's the same.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
He says, we prefer the same, we play the same.
I don't see a lot of difference.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Maybe that's just coach speak, but I think there's a
difference for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You know, I'll say this though he could be one
hundred percent right. The difference could be very simple, Tony.
The difference could just be luck, because soccer has a
good dose of luck in it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know, baseball has the most.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
That's why I always say baseball is stupid and no
one should watch now Soccer, you know, cool to watch,
but don't take it too serious. Is I don't know,
trying to adjust. We're workshopping the new motto for the
beautiful game of football. But there's randomness in this sport.
And I would say suggest that Chucky Lozano hitting a
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one in one hundred shot, which is probably what it is.
He probably takes that shot somewhere around one hundred times
and puts it in just the way he did, maybe
three times, maybe twice, probably once. That combined with Kansas
City missing multiple twenty percent chances, you know, multiple eleven
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or sixteen percent chances, like all of these opportunities that
went by that individually were richer than either Lozano or
Dryer's actual run at.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Goal, but they didn't cash any of those.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
And you know, as the world of luck goes, Yeah,
you know, if you have a two out of ten shot,
you could miss it forty times in a row. Even
though you've got a twenty percent chance you could miss
it forty times in a row, doesn't mean you're due.
The next one is still twenty percent, and it still
means eighty percent miss. And that's kind of what it's
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felt like on a couple of these SDFC road matches.
And maybe the luck hasn't been quite as good, maybe
the luck has been slightly road tilted on some snap
dragging games, and the result is what the result is
has a bunch of you know, Yahoo's on the internet
saying why are they better on the road and at home?
And the real answer is they're the same team both places.
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But luck is a real thing in the sport of soccer.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
And Tenegovc's just the better team. Like at the end
of the day, San Diego.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Se was and is and should be going into KC
with the two zero victory. I don't care how humid,
how hot it is. That's the result that should have happened. Postmatch,
the k C interim coach actually praised his own team, saying,
there's not much I could have asked my team more
to do.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Maybe score, but there's.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Not much I could have asked them to do, especially
where they're going in their season.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
They just face the better team. So again, just take
those kudos.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
This is where San Diego FC is now nine games
left into the excuse me eight games left.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
And now in the MLS regular season. They're elite and
that's it. You expect these matches and it's gonna be harder.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
You're gonna see some rivals that you haven't seen San
Jose twice.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You don't know what that California rivalry is gonna be.
Right now, they just beat Vancouver two to one. That's
why you have a four point lead up in the
top of the Western conference.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
So you know, it's still kind of like a pinch
me thing for a lot of Sanday UFC fans.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
The frustration is there. You don't get Huming Song, you
don't get Thomas Mueller, but you.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Have har Angi and a bunch of nineteen year olds
in first place.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yeah, pick yeah, bick.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I want to ask Alex a question because again I
was watching on an iPad while working. What were your
thoughts on the performance of Deehan hovlich Uh tonight, the
guy who's supposed to be the goal machine for Sporting Case.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
How would you describe his path through this match?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean he was okay.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I think he was just getting frustrated that he just
wasn't getting the ball and getting the chances that he wanted,
because I remember early on.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
They were they were heading.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
You know, towards the Cindeo box in the goal and
they just flew one right over his head, and you know,
what is he supposed to do with that? Like, you know,
it just they just weren't connected, and they just weren't
connecting with him specifically, and he just he was just
(25:53):
having a really rough time just getting his chances. And yeah,
he he I could see his like frustrations that he
I think if he had more.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
More of those chances and and have like more one
on one.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Situations, he probably had a better chance at gold than
than than he did. But yeah, we we didn't see
him last time, which was good because that was a
nil nil draw and and this time we we completely
were able to uh you know, have a really strong
(26:30):
back line and getting c J do Santo's uh clean
another clean sheet, and it really yeah, yeah, there must
have been a little bit of luck to that. But
they they also just they're not a great finishing team
and there's a reason why they're they're they're lower in
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the in the standings in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Well, uh Tony sdfc's up four points in the West.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
It's it's just like everybody thought it would, right, It's
just like Mikey Badas uh I dreamed it would and
uh it's Tyler.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
It's one are these things where I think not that
they're trying, because they're not at all. They're not trying
to be like all right, guys, that's temperate expectations and it.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Just kind of happened to stumble upon.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Success and wins it's like, no, this is this just
seems more and more intentional the the week, as weeks
go by, where this is a new way to attack MLS,
This is a new way to go into this this
North American version of football soccer, and it's working. And
again the ambition that you know, I for sure scoffed
(27:50):
that at the beginning of like huh this yeah, trying.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
To be that, I trying to be this, trying to
be this is so lofty.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
How about you focus on the league. It's exactly what
they've been able to do. And you know, Vancouver, very
tough team. You've been able to take a positive result
from those two matches.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That's pretty much what you have left.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
In the Western Conference and you still have plenty of
tough games to go. But you're cemented as the elite
in this season's Western Division conference and San Diego FC
needs to definitely be a proud of that. But I
don't think they're taking those accolades and just saying being
happy with them.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
They're just moving forward with everything.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
And that's why I get the same answers from Mike
about us the style of play, the style of play
they are, our identity and it kind of comes become repetitive,
but it's like.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, I know, that's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I don't know what else like we should be surprised
with because they've been honest, they've been transparent.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Yeah, four points ahead, I Thankcouver and it's it's we
have the top spot now, but they have a one
game advantage. They still have to we play twenty six matches.
Vancouver and Minnesota have played twenty five, Seattle has played
twenty four, and l a FC has played twenty three.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And we're going to see l a FC away.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
We're going to see Portland twice, We're going to see
San Jose twice, and yeah, those are going to be
big matches. That are are They're they're going to accumulate there.
We need to get some really positive results out of
those if we want to remain in the top spot.
But I think that's that's gonna that's bringing up a
good question when when it comes to our success on
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the road, like do we need to be that top team.
I think it would be very you know, opportunistic, and
it'd be a good idea to be a top seed
in the West, either the first or the second but
you know, we're playing really good at on the road too.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Not not the type of thing that you can ever
concern yourself with. If you ever try to worry about that,
the soccer gods will just smack you down. They and
the basketball gods go out for drinks two times a
week and they talk.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
So you just you don't make those type of mistakes.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Sometimes the baseball gods come around, but they're like, fuck
those guys. Those guys are ticks, so they try to
hide from them. But nonetheless, yeah, you don't make you
don't make that mistake. Hey, the Shields and play Philadelphia,
the Philadelphia Laski's same number of games two.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Points, two points separated. They have fifty one, we have
forty nine.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Cincinnati won game in hand with forty nine, so put
them on the list. But they treated Corey Baird, so
obviously they don't want to win anymore if they want
to when they would have kept Corey Barrett, so you know,
good news for us.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
That's a real race too. That would be absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And I know I did the little comedic riff half
riff comedic on the last Gromaniacs saying like.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
We kind of thought we'd be not this kind of
thought we'd be less than this.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I also heard Tyler Heaps on a radio interview say
they would make one or two more moves before the window.
What kind of moves are those gonna be? Are we
going to put a win now mentality into this club?
Because this is what I want to say to San Diego.
We deserve it, all right, We're spoiled. We deserve it.
We see what the Padres do every year.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
They go for it.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
They have a chance, they go for it. They might
not win at all, but they're trying.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So far, as DFC has felt very measured in their
pursuit of for place and a potential MLS Cup in
their first year, they felt very controlled, very smooth, very
under control. But they also let their best nine disappear
to the East's best team.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
For something.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
According to some YouTube pardon me Instagram comments on some
posts I've made and some posts we've made, maybe not
as much TAM as we thought, maybe no TAM at all.
Maybe it was a gam move, and maybe SDFC set
a line that was way too low for the market
and got burned in a massive way. And maybe that
(32:37):
post I made on Instagram several weeks ago was exactly right,
and this was the British definition of a cockup, like
you just screwed it up, you just made a mistake.
With all of that, I'm not trying to pick on you, guys.
We won a huge game to know, I wish Alaski
was here.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
But who you bringing in? Who you bringing in?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
If it's two more kids who still have to ask
mom for permission to stay out past eleven, then like cool,
all right, But I don't think you're trying to win
the MLS Cup. But if you bring in some veteran firepower,
if you brought in a dude right now, if you
brought in a real nine right now, this team might
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put the entire Major League Soccer world on notice.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
I think that's what's missing.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
And I think that's that push for really that ambition
to not just be the greatest expansion team of all
time in MLS, because again, if you want to be
the greatest, you can get bounced out in the first round.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And probably still get that.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
But if you really have that ambition to move forward
deep into it. But I don't want to derail those
kind of talks and necessarily be negative just measure, just
like I said, because MLS playoffs are insane. Are one
of the most backwards thing I've ever seen in terms
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of there being a series of three. So if you
win game one, if you win Game one seven to zero,
you can lose Game two seven to zero, nothing happens,
and then game three you lose one.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
To zero and guess what, You're out. That's it. Then
there's penalties that like.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
The structure, I'm okay with san dieofc being measured because
I think they have to be able to just adapt
with what's coming, and that's been exactly what they've been
able to do. Everything that they've faced is the first
time they've been they've been doing this. It's the first
time they're they're gonna be facing a back to back
opponent in such a short amount of time, first time
they've gone over in case into ninety two degree whether.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
With all literally all the humidity, all of it.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
And at the end of the day, this is gonna
be a challenge for SANDYFC where they need somebody who
knows what it takes in those moments in MLS. That's
why Christmas they successful. He's a veteran, he knows this league.
That that's why Gold always been incredibly successful and had
a resurgence in his in his career. That's one player
that everybody in MLS is like, oh, it's rotation. Oh
(35:10):
he's not gonna be but no, he's a starter. And
when he's not there, Santa UFC feels it, even if
it's for those two moments where it's when I went
down and they're like, it's gonna be out comes, it
comes right back. And that's the type of mentality that
that SANTAFC has just moved forward and like water, they're adapting,
they're going with the flow.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
M h, it's all about flow, Tony Man. But yeah,
I mean I would agree, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
I would agree.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
If yeah, striker is probably like high on the list.
I feel like our midfield should be good. It feels
like it has a lot of good depth. What's interesting
on the back line.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Right back is a little bit EFFI.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
That would be my pick. He's right back.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Striker in right back would be my If it's a
one to two, I'd say let's have two Tyler, Let's
have a striker and a right back.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Yeah, Like do you want like ver Hoven or HARANGI
to keep going and maybe see Willie Camado out there,
or do you want a little bit more experience, you know,
in right back, it seems like Luca Bombino is really
like he's handling his business. He knows what he's doing
(36:39):
out there. I'm not worried about Luca Bombino, but the
right back position is a little bit troubling. I did
see some positives out of Harangi. I did see when
he was making a run. He got a received a
pass from Dryer like deep in the penalty area, and
it seemed like that connected well with like he felt
(37:01):
like they were on the same page. It felt like
they were on the same page. Like Harangi took the pass.
He tried to get a pass off in the penalty area,
but it was blocked. But it seem it seemed like
that's that's more of a work in progress. But we're like,
we only have eight matches remaining here, like we we
(37:22):
we don't have time to.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Be working with work works in progress.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
We don't have time to be like you have to
be coming in and be be ready to go for this,
because yeah, we're trying to make a deep playoff run.
And I think I hope that everybody from here at
Cromaniacs to Tyler Heaps, like we should be all on
the same page.
Speaker 6 (37:42):
Like this is a playoff.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Team, you have a big goal differential, you're one of
the top teams in MLS.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
You should be playing for an MLS Cup.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Like, you know, if you want to be serious about it,
maybe you should shore up that right back position.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Maybe maybe that'd be good. Yeah, that'd be good. That'd
be interesting. Some talks are happening.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Tanner Heap is still in negotiations and discussing and trying
to activate, uh negotiations in order to have people signed in.
But again, don't be don't be overly, you know, optimistic
of knowing you know, just oh wow, this is the
players coming in.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I can't believe it. This is a Marquee player.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Well, it might be Markee in certain markets, in certain aspects,
but it's with Sandy UFC needs and again six months
ago who and don't lie, who.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Knew honors Dryer?
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Who knew yepes Erskov? Right, we're barely learning to know
how to pronounce his name.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
And the other thing about it is like, yeah, those
same people that didn't know their names and cover the MLS.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
You know, they wrote us off a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
They were like, you know, this team is going to
finish in the last because I don't know who yep
at the first cop is, I don't know who Andrew
Dryer is. And now it's like they're doing a whole
one eighty about it and they're like, oh, yep at
the first off is the best player I've ever seen,
Like and on the tryer, that's the best winger I've
ever seen. And like they completely flipped and now they
(39:23):
just want to keep seeing some more Sandy UFC and
watching us be more successful like throughout the season. So yeah,
I really do do hope that happened. And yeah I
heard I heard Hoyland is he's availaball a loan.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Right, No, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Alex, I'm sure you paid attention. What were your thoughts
on Sunny's debut in LA And then I'm going to
have a tag question to that and it might be
the last question of the show, but go ahead.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Yeah I did pay attention. Yeah, came around like the
sixtieth in it. Uh, and yeah, he he was gonna
make a quick run. Was prevented that caused the penalty
in the penalty area. He was chopped down by a defender.
So but Woga came in sport of penalty. But yeah,
(40:20):
I mean Sonny. The thing about Sonny is I saw
this last year. I mean, he he might be elite
at MLS, but he's not. He's kind of gonna be
worked out of Premier League, right he Spurs have other options,
and it seems like that's he lost a step and
(40:46):
maybe that step is kind of right at the level
of MLS.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
And he did.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
He did show some breakaway speed that I was I
was worried about when he was playing with Spurs, and
but you know they did and they did.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
Catch up to him and brought him down.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
So I think that's the biggest part of his game,
his speed, his agility, you know, being very quick with
the ball and that you know he and and if
you ask what it's gonna look like in a few
weeks from now went to the UFC, is gonna face them,
I don't know, because he had he had a little
(41:29):
bit of a preseason.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
He's still trying to get his minutes.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
You know, they gave him thirty minutes today and I
think they're just gonna keep working them in until he,
you know, feels comfortable and they he can get a
like a full ninety minutes out of him. But yeah,
he's still he kind of seems like he still needs
to sometime to you know, get some training in and
get his body acclimated to the season, all right.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Which leads to my last question for you guys.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
We're going down the stretch here, just like the Padres
are going down the stretch. And I think a fun
question that people have been asking is like, who's the
NL team that you're the most scared of? So my
question to you is, who's the Western Conference MLS team
that you think is sdfc's biggest threat. Understanding already putting
(42:22):
aside the vagaries of any team could beat you, MLS
is crazy, blah blah blah. Who's the team that scares
you right now? Who's the team that you would put
at the top of your threat index.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
I'd throw in a Seattle in there, just because of
the experience. That's the team that what's like, SANDFC has
always had a blueprint in the way they want to play,
that they want to identify, but they've had the experience,
they've won Conka champions. They've really kind of been a
team to be and they know what it takes in
this end of the season to really just turn it on.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
And it's one of those teams where.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Even on an international level, people knew the Seattle Sounders
and they knew that Seattle Seattle Sounders are is a
destination right for la f C. I do feel like
it's a little bit like when Christian Christiane of course
Christian Bale.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Where Gareth Bail joined.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Yeah, Christian Belt to LAFC would be incredible too, but
when Gareth joined l a f C and kind of
given that breath of life, Bail was.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
In that same type of.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
Really good for MLS but not necessarily for Europe. But
you know that's what LAFC needed in that time to
unlock themselves for.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
That championship run.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
So those are the two teams that I look at
and I don't know about you, Alex, but you know
we've never seen Santa a UFC and playoffs and now
there has any other team, So that could be a
strength or that can be a challenge.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
I don't know how you see that, but who do
you think?
Speaker 5 (44:01):
Yeah, I got I gotta go with Minnesota. I mean,
they're they're a really good team. I mean I know,
I know that, and that the biggest factor in the
game really when we faced them was Milan and Alasky,
you know, getting those goals late and then and and
then we're gonna face them in September, and if they
(44:27):
you know, get a few wins, and once we face
them in September, you know, we might be talking about
playing for a first play spot. So I mean, they've
they've done really well. I mean, they really haven't lost
in the in the last and it's just seems like
(44:47):
ten fifteen games. They yeah, they're they're really well coached.
They they they're very it seems like they they know
what they're doing. I think we just caught them at
a wrong time because remember that was the Gold Cup.
That was when they were out of players. We were
out of players. Milanailosity just came in and you know
(45:08):
and took over. And but we don't have them anymore.
They have their players back, We have our players back,
and I feel like that that that's gonna be a
difference and we're going to see a whole different team
when September thirteenth rolls around and I feel like I
feel like that's going to be a really big match.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
For San Diego.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Well, I'm going to just let my slip show as
well and all of my inherent biases, and the answer
for me is LAFC. I mean, you just added Sonny,
he could gather momentum. This is a program that's got
a lot of prestige behind it. It's got basically everything
that you ask for. And that's a club I don't
(45:51):
want to see in October and November. That's a club
that I'm worried about having the experiential edge over side
that allows them to prevail in a big moment, in
a big match, and even if that match was here
at Snapdragon Stadium, I feel like LAFC is the kind
(46:13):
of club that can overcome that type of disadvantage against
a new bile expansion team, fresh fans, the desperation excitement
that we would all feel in that moment if you
had them here with the season on the line, that's
the club that makes me worried. I give them a
(46:34):
lot of respect and I think they've earned it for
what they've done. And honestly, I think SDFC, from Tom
Penn upward, their dream has been to be like LAFC,
to be as much like LAFC as a team in
San Diego not LA could be. And I think they've
done it. I think they have absolutely done it. And
(46:58):
that means SD versus LA is a real thing again.
And that's why the team I'm not worried about Minnesota.
We might lose or win, but it won't affect our
lives like it won't affect We won't remember it for
the rest of our lives, but l A SD every time,
we'll remember it the rest of our lives.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
So let's all be real. It's l a FC.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
Okay, Yeah, that's gonna be a big one and I'm
going to be attending that one away.
Speaker 6 (47:30):
So there.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, keep your belt on, Alex settle down.
Speaker 6 (47:39):
Yes for sure? All right?
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Uh what a huge result, What a huge result for
those Kromados. Three more points on the road, keeping things
rolling heading forward. Very exciting for San Diego Football Club.
Up next onto San Jose and as our friend procastinating
(48:09):
Kuma put in the chant a chance to win the
El Camino Reale Cup and clinch it if you get
three points up in San Jose. We'll talk about that
a lot more later in the week on O Maniacs
episode number twelve. Tonyde's been working very hard all day
long and it's still at Snapdragon Stadium after the cleaning
(48:31):
crew has left.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
He's still there.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
He fall I did. I saw him leave.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
Tony before you had to in and out to duplicate
my menu order. Tell everyone how to support the incredible
work you guys are doing.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
Go ahead and check it out over on San Diego
Punto Football at San Diego dot Football, the website, the
everything that's where we're at Instagram. We made it on Instagram.
It's back on live streams, YouTube, Chromaniacs, two Balls and
a Mic Interviews Everything Soccer in San Diego, Sande Alex.
Speaker 5 (49:09):
Yeah, I'm over at Chromatic, Tipsy on Substack and I
talked to Tony. I might have a little exclusive exclusive
on Sandue Punta football this week, so that that should
be really fun. I might be double dipping on Substack
and Zandia put the football, so that should be a
(49:31):
lot of fun. So check that out. That's gonna be
coming out this week.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
Hey for the folks, still there still about twenty five
plus people watching. If you haven't hit that thumbs up button,
yet the math says you haven't. Some of you haven't.
Please hit that thumbs up button on the way out
and give us that grace for being here for us.
Padres hot Tub still rolling. We did a postgame show
that I was literally on while I was in line
(49:56):
at In and Out to get the order that I hate.
You can find that and more at patreon dot com
slash Padres hot Tub where we are grinding every day
and hopefully the Padres are grinding their way toward a
division title Slash, Trip to the World Series Slash, the
thing that would mark many of our adult lives actually
(50:21):
winning it. Monday Night, Two Balls and a Mic Live
at eight pm Chromaniacs Back on Thursday four Alex Payne
to Tony Sanchez, I'm Craig Elston two Nothing the final
Tonight Sport and Case got Barbecued SDFC.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Got all three. Have a great rest of your weekend.
Take care,
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