🇺🇸 WHY NOT US 🇺🇸

I hate to say it… But we winning the Cup.

I'm just a simple country lawyer, but what on earth was the English defense doing at literally any point in that build-up?

Where were you when Flo Balogun said, “Hello, World.”

Pulisic The Paraguayan nightmare.

Newest addition to SDV for the World Cup break. Does your MLS club prefer Youth or Experience in the big year 2026?

First window without Hackworth, btw

Added "Tactics Mode" to the Manager Board - now you can illustrate ball movement, player positioning, pressing, trapping, etc. and download the step by step action as an mp4. www.soccerdatavizer.com/manager-board

Remember when we burned over $1M in GAM into thin air to sign this guy? Rightfully so, many are rejoicing that #AllForCITY didn’t fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. But what about the process and player identification that thought this was a ✅ in the first place?

Heading into the break, Fallou Fall’s #AllForCITY ranks: 2 MLS clean sheets - T-1st 1 MLS goal - T-3rd 1 USOC Quarterfinal victory - T-1st Number of left footed passes by a CB - 1st by a landslide Our star boy ⭐️

How about one last assist while we’re at it!

I’d like to cheer for Teuchert one last time, please Damet.

Good soccer player scored a goal

I imagine those starring on TLC’s “My 600-lb Life” to be much more willing runners than Rafael Santos. #AllForCITY

15 minutes in CITY progress into the final third for the first time. Why? Eduard Löwen comes deep to receive the ball. Duh. #AllForCITY

It may have taken until MD14 and the intermission, but Damet has uncovered #AllForCITY’s best CB group.

Lots of games. Lots of points!? Never forget Tuesday Night. #AllForCITY open.substack.com/pub/chatcity...

The only way I can describe Polvara’s block was like being a 10-year-old running to the dungeon to almost get killed by a cave troll before besting the cave troll so you get -10 points to Gryffindor for stupidity and also +15 points to Gryffindor for bravery

Hector Herrera with the game-losing miss? Couldn’t happen to a better guy.

A BRUTAL half highlighted by an unwillingness of our LCB to progress wide and our CMs to, well, do anything productive. Sang-bin the most productive of a team that hasn’t generated a damn thing. Edu CM, Fall LCB, & Joyner would all be welcome changes. #AllForCITY

F A L L O U (We ain’t gonna talk about the rest of it)

Qualified for a g+ card after that performance as well. 🔥 #AllForCITY

Ranking the individual moments of this goal: SBJ touch Tots run Hartel FTP Edu assist Timo ball Edu run Tots finish SC movement Creating good chances is a better predictor of strong teams than scoring goals, and why process > outcomes. Lots of good processes → good chances Random shots → goals

I’ll take “Things I never thought I’d say in 2026” for $500, please Alex. Losing this guy sucks. #AllForCITY

We’ve subbed this out, and we can no longer possess the ball

HT #AllForCITY thoughts: - Totland - Löwen - Baumgartl HT stars. ⭐️ - Polvara been very good stopping the ball, very not good with the ball - Santos just ain’t it. - Being able to progress through Edu or wide is much better. No more R10 nonsense.

Not to be overdramatic, but having a CM that can receive and turn is quite the difference.

YUP

Edu CM is a huge W. JSB is rewarded with a start. Orozco RWB v Bouanga makes some sense. Fatigue is French for pseudoscience. #AllForCITY #STLvLAFC

Nothing from me today - #AllForCITY winning was fun last weekend. A couple more and we can have an overwhelmingly positive discussion next week.

To further highlight this decision-making problem: 5/10, or 50%, of #AllForCITY's highest earners do not even qualify for cards as they have not met the 450-minute (5 games) minimum.

#AllForCITY hierarchy saw 2025 Roman Bürki make $1,707,469, the highest-paid goalkeeper in the league, and said, "We can do better." Better, meaning a multi-year, million-dollar-plus raise to $2.75 million.

A fun viz on @soccerdatavizer.com that I am calling "Do you rotate and/or are you shite?"

Ugh. I came uncomfortably close to celebrating that

I think we need to make an MLS exception and relegate this KC side

Fallou Fall has kept a clean sheet in 50% of MLS games in 2026. #AllForCITY

This makes me very happy

Three points. Sang-bin 🔥

That’s as bad of a call as I’ve ever seen

Winning while playing like *ass* is a big change from the last couple of playing well and losing. #AllForCITY #COLvSTL

If Edu sits for tactical reasons

Y'all are the best proxy QA team. The new "state" code wasn't implemented fully on a set of fields for passers, including "Intentional xA", causing some data replication in the joins. Behold the corrected Intentional xA numbers for Even player state (which re-emphasizes the players I highlighted).

5 games in 14 days, always good to rotate the… only position we rotate.

Tomorrow, probably: Colorado: We’ve got a young, tall, promising left-footed CB who likes to pass the ball. Let’s play him and see what happens! St. Louis: We’ve got a young, tall, promising left-footed CB who likes to pass the ball. He looked really good in 2025! Let’s never play him! #AllForCITY

Do we think Kylian Mbappe knows what Ewing Theory is

I debut the Minutes Budget at lunchtime, and before you take your afternoon smoke break, it’s available @soccerdatavizer.com for all to use. soccerdatavizer.com

Let's talk about #Freshness. #AllForCITY #ATXvSTL open.substack.com/pub/chatcity...