This entire article is based on data from just 8 weeks of one Premier League season and it's set up the biggest hand-wringing about data in soccer since Jesus Ferreira scored 1 trillion goals against Concacaf opposition in 2022. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

My kingdom for a commentary crew who can understand that one team has more possession and chances because the other team is intentionally giving them the ball.

Best player name in the history of the sport.

Australia is a bad team and they should feel bad.

This ref crew would really fit in at a US Open Cup final.

I really needed a camera on Richards & D'Agostino after that goal went in.

Australia being too stupid to pay attention after another cheap foul, and then getting scored on, is fucking delicious.

An Aussie player injured our best player on a cynical professional foul 26’ min in. That told you everything you needed to know about how this game was gonna go.

US playing better with an actual playmaker, Pulisic or no.

This also serves as a reminder: If your club hasn’t taken the time to do so yet, this weekend is its last chance to regress to the mean for the season.

Starting to find the proliferation of G+ in every piece of analysis to be a little … frustrating? Annoying? Especially because it is meant, as the author says here, to measure “general impact” writers just toss it in an article and think it stands on its own. www.talkinsoccer.com/the-storylin...

If Austin swept LAFC this season no need for a playoff series imho. Auto-forfeit and on to the next round. verdeallday.com/morning-afte... verdeallday.com/morning-afte...

Nico easily a top two coach in Austin FC history. bsky.app/profile/then...

Owen Wolff with three header goals this season is fucking hilarious.

I would apologize on behalf of Austin FC for this boring game on Sunday Night Soccer but it’s the league’s own damn fault for playing during an international break.

I have come to the conclusion there will never be clouds in Austin again.

At about 70% of my Twitter followers after a year on Bluesky exclusively. Engagement on my posts is roughly equivalent even with fewer followers …EXCEPT for the absence of reply guys. Bluesky is not full of dudes who follow you just so they can disagree and argue on every post you make.

I’m not saying anything should be laminated here I’m just saying f that it’s always good to remember that no one actually knows what they’re talking about in this league.

Stand with me, Bluesky!

The home form could be the worst in team history in terms of wins and is why Austin isn’t in the top 4 in the West

This team’s ability to lay absolutely massive eggs at home is truly unrivaled.

A ripple just happened in space time. Something so improbable—actually downright impossible —just happened and the entire universe just shook and fractured. We are definitely in a new timeline now. Zan Kolmanic took a shot with his right foot.

Sabovic has to be one of the most disappointing Austin signings ever… and that’s saying something because I don’t think the expectations for him were THAT high to begin with.

I would like to kindly request that Austin players start having kids only once they’ve left the team.

I blame Pochettino. Get him out of Q2.

This is very much a “put Wednesday behind us” lineup. Very little rotation. Let’s go. bsky.app/profile/aust...

After 2 rounds, the USA leads the U20 World Cup in: xG xG Against* Field Tilt Field Tilt Against PPDA in attacking third Possession Started in Final Third (tied w/ Colombia) They are 2nd in: Possession Set Piece xG

Agreed! My only complaints from the stadium were waiting so long for subs and not including Kolmanic. Our team played great and on paper outplayed the supposed "better side" in every way except the one stat that matters. We finish better, and we are lifting that cup.

I would implore locals and/or national media who think Nico was outcoached and out-tactic’d last night to please rewatch the game. This is coming from someone who has been highly, highly critical of Estevez all season.

A team of mostly MLS kids just stomped France. I bet USMNT twitter is super reflective and soul searching right now.

The fact Surridge thought he could get away with kicking the ball away and took a second yellow for it is all we really need to know.

I don't really care about it and am glad we won't lose Stuver in October but... Brad Stuver is a better keeper that everyone on this roster not named Matt Turner. bsky.app/profile/usmn...

Moral victories don't count for anything.

I'm gonna be annoyed at Tori Penso for at least another 1,000 years. It was a poorly called cup final. Nashville players absolutely manipulated her and controlled the game for the final 30 minutes. Not blaming her for the loss though -- Austin had enough control of the game, and quality, to win it.

"austin fc is a stolen team despite the team that was stolen not getting stolen" remains such a weird take to me but sports fans are sports fans i suppose as a born houstonian ive watched people Be Normal about the astros every day since 2017

Yall remember when Columbus lost their MLS team? The greatest tragedy that ever happened in American sports. bsky.app/profile/socc...

Penso can prove this wasn’t a soft penalty by calling these fouls consistently the rest of the season. We’ll be seeing some games with two, three, ten penalties. I look forward to the Penso Revolution. bsky.app/profile/cboe...

Imo, we could have won this game. Aside from the missed pen, the team just was not effective or clean enough in that final action shot (like all season). So many scuffed chances after a nice buildup. Decent performance, I would have also liked to see Zan but I don't fault Nico at all for the result

Honestly can't complain about our performance despite the scoreline. If we play like that through the playoffs we'll make a decent run and I'll be satisfied by it. Is that enough? Probably not, but with the way we looked earlier in the season the goalposts have moved.

Nico made some odd calls in this one (if CJ is you Option B scorer off the bench you need the Option B chance creation off the bench too). But it’s hard to view his choices negatively just because of the result: the reality is Austin outplayed Nashville most of the game.

That ref was, uh, not ready for this game.

Austin was very clearly the better team in the first half. Nashville isn’t exactly lucky to get that goal. But they will need to slow the game down to stand a chance. We’re getting behind their back line every other play.

Very interesting to see Biro with the start. Good to see Desler on the list. bsky.app/profile/aust...

The only right socks are Moontower Soccer socks.

I'm excited about tonight's game but I also like to always be prepared. The top 5 people I'm blaming if results don't go our way tonight: 1. Josh Wolff 2. Matt Doyle 3. Leslie Pool 4. Emiliano Rigoni 5. Claudio Reyna 6. The one guy who didn't wear the right socks tonight

Not gonna read very much into a lucky deflection on a low xG shot in an otherwise pretty smothering defensive performance from our second string.

Diego Luna jewelry break.

For the first time, #AustinFC has taken points from all Western Conference teams in a single season. Having already swept two clubs in 2025, Austin can complete sweeps against 3 of its 4 remaining opponents. Austin is 3-0-1t against its remaining MLS opponents in 2025.

Yeah these guys are good but CJ is .2 npxG+xAG better than Son on a /90 basis. That's just facts.