Eliot McKinley

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Taha Habroune has scored in every game he's played since Doyle put him as #23 on his 22 under 22 list. #Crew96

Just a dominant performance from #Crew96 tonight.

#Crew96 have seemed to have fixed their attacking issues. Giving up easy goals, not so much. Via @futi.live

MLS HQ either spent $10m to get BCG or McKinsey to tell them this before making the schedule change or they had no idea about any of this. I'm almost certain it is the latter. Regardless, they should direct that kind of spending to ASA.

Five months later, Vancouver and SKC are in the running as the best and worst teams by xPoints since 2013. Nashville are likely going to win the Supporter's Shield like most teams over the last few years - by over-performing their underlying metrics. Montreal has had rotten luck.

#Crew96

The positioning of the players on both teams is wild. Also, 2-1 after 12 min, this game is a banger.

Diego, I miss you. #Crew96

lawd almighty this deserved a goal

I wrote about this a couple years ago, but we're really confident Messi is just about an average penalty taker. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2023/10...

Which Matt defends the net for a US-Belgium penalty shootout? The US has rotated both, but my model backs Matt Turner. Data gives him a 77% probability of being the superior career penalty stopper (other pk statistics below) #USABEL #BELUSA #FIFAWorldCup #WC2026 #WorldCup

Curtis Silwa is asking the right questions.

Update: a false lice alarm at D&D camp.

Lice reported at your kid's D&D camp is not something I expected to ever hear.

Okay here's the entire Algeria possession 5 minutes and 34 seconds of completely uncontested midfield possession 109 completed passes And then they scored a goal

I've had this one since '94.

Really cool and thorough penalty analysis to show that Tim Melia is the GOAT penalty keeper.

I wrote about this a couple years ago, but we're really confident Messi is just about an average penalty taker. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2023/10...

Columbus Crew brand ambassador.

Tillman with the coffin corner kick off.

I’ve argued for a minute that MLS clubs should go multi-sport at the youth level. 1) to build greater community integration, but 2) bc if the org running your AAU team also runs a pro soccer academy, they might have more incentives to push kids to the sport they can succeed at.

Of course they show it immediately after I posted this.

Maybe I am misremebering, but didn't the 2022 World Cup broadcasts have a snickometer type thing shown where there were ambiguous ball touches? At least Telemundo didn't show that on Sweden's 4th goal.

Thank you, birthright citizenship, for that goal

STOP THE COUNT

GameFlows will be generated for every World Cup game, but you should really just go download @futi.live instead.

It was a real pleasure to sit down with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and fill out a World Cup bracket. www.theguardian.com/football/vid...

Seems that being anti-data center is mainstream. I just got an email from the Nashville Zoo to oppose one proposed for land adjacent to it.

I'm ready to shut down all vibe coded remembering some guys sites after this BS.

Now the Crew just need to play some kids. www.thedisrespected.com/bezbatchenko...

I rarely use capital letters or exclamation points, but I do here. Tim Bezbatchenko is returning to #Crew96 as Haslam Sports Group's President of Global Soccer. Let the sun shine in. #VamosColumbus No paywall on this one. Have a nice day. www.thedisrespected.com/bezbatchenko...

It’s happening.

Let Courtois take over and play the kids, this season is a write off. Also make Bez an offer he can’t refuse. #Crew96

I don't know exactly why this single seat offer was a thing, but I paid $7.52 after fees to go to the last Nashville SC game. Can't beat $1.25/goal.

Kei Kamara will forever live on in soccer analytics as the example of how xG can never equal one. youtu.be/V_7atDXZexc?...

With most teams having played 8 games, the underlying stats are beginning to become useful while still noisy. Vancouver may be the best MLS team ever and SKC the worst. Both are performing as expected. There's a huge pack of average teams down on their luck.

We were able to schedule a friendly with this team yesterday. The ref had to call the game early because parents were complaining too much about his calls, which is about the most American thing possible.

Let Courtois take over and play the kids, this season is a write off. Also make Bez an offer he can’t refuse. #Crew96