The League Soccer

 Gregg took a new tactic, that I'm sure won't continue in non-friendlies but he named his starting eleven for Saturday's match in St. Louis. From the looks of things Gregg really wants to beat Uzbekistan. Let's have a look at what he announced: GK: Matt Turner (Nottingham Forest) RB: Sergino Dest (PSV) RCB: Chris Richards (Crystal Palace) LCB: Tim Ream (Fulham) LB: Jedi Robinson (Fulham) CM: Luca de la Torre (Celta Vigo) OR Tanner Tessman (Vanezia) AM: Yunus Musah (AC Milan) AM: Weston McKennie (Juventas) ST: Florian Balogun (Monaco) half time sub Ricardo Pepi (PSV) RW: Tim Weah (Juventas) LW: Christian Pulisic (AC Milan) First off, that is an impressive club list to type, especially considering everyone except Chris Richards is a regular starter/important role player for their club. You have Premier League and Champions League players all over the field. It's our best XI minus Gio and Tyler Adams.  The result is far less important to me than how we look tactically....

On Saturday night, I had the privilege of going to the first ever Derbeque/I-70 Derby/Whatever you want to call it between St. Louis City SC and Sporting Kansas City and it was a mad house. The stadium was standing room only and we parked a mile away from Children's Mercy Park. So by the time we got inside we were in the second row of standing room only, and it was totally worth it.  I have been to college football and basketball rivalry games, been a Chiefs season ticket holder, witnessed probably a dozen Cubs-Cardinals games and this was far and away the most wild atmosphere I've ever seen at a sporting event. The St. Louligans were there en masse chanting as loud as the KC Cauldron supporters section. Big Sam Adeniran opened the scoring up in the 22nd minute and the place went nuts, only to be matched by Alan Pulido's 31st and 43rd minute goals.  The second half was full of hard tackles and questionable challenges. Adeniran thought he had pulled City level in the second ...