MLS Cup Playoffs - October 28 - Charlotte (Away)
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Carolina Panthers are home on Sunday, October 26 so no way we play this game on a weekend. They’re also home on Sunday, November 9 for the game three. So this series will be on weekdays or some weird Tuesday, Saturday, Wednesday thing…
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They should be forced to play somewhere else, like we are. Is Atlanta's stadium available?
In all seriousness, I wonder how many days they need to turn the field around. Maybe they can play on the Monday each week? We'll have football lines on the field, but at least if it's Mondays it would be doable to have a regular weekend game for our home game. I imagine they wouldn't play it the day before the NFL game, but who knows.
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Looked like he punched the guy to get the red card -- wouldn't really surprise me if he gets more than one game for that.
On a different topic, the PA announcer said after the game we would learn the Round 1 schedule tomorrow night.
I think Zaha will get the special DP benefit and only have one game suspension so as not to "ruin the playoff matchup" or some other nonsense reason. I didn' tsee the replay but if he truly just wound up and punched someone then he deserves to additional games for sure. I just don't think he'll get it.
Just went and watched the replays. (A) It was open handed. (B) Kinda looks like he missed; like he was going for the side of the head and the guy moved forward; so his hand maybe grazes (or maybe doesn't) the back of the guys head. (C) A really kind interpretation would be that it looks like he was trying to shove the guy and accidentally got his hand above the guy's shoulder.
I can easily see it staying a 1 game suspension.
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Tuesday it is.
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The Zaha red was from a second yellow. To give him 2 games would require first upgrading it to a regular red. They're not doing that.
It was not a punch. FootyLovin covered it exactly. Open handed and he missed. Only thing I dissent from is there's no real way to interpret it as an attempted shove, even if I try to be as charitable as possible. It was one of those intentional open hand almost punches that players make when they have enough sense to not make a fist but not enough to avoid trying to hit someone in the head. Honestly, the open handed pseudo-punch is so universally prevalent I would be inclined to treat it as evidence of purposeful assault. That's not going to happen, however, and certainly not at this moment.
It was not a punch. FootyLovin covered it exactly. Open handed and he missed. Only thing I dissent from is there's no real way to interpret it as an attempted shove, even if I try to be as charitable as possible. It was one of those intentional open hand almost punches that players make when they have enough sense to not make a fist but not enough to avoid trying to hit someone in the head. Honestly, the open handed pseudo-punch is so universally prevalent I would be inclined to treat it as evidence of purposeful assault. That's not going to happen, however, and certainly not at this moment.
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They should have to host the game at Red Bull Arena. Fair is fair.
EDIT: Sorry, Sports Illustrated Stadium.
Heard from someone that the Zaha second yellow is not being reviewed by PRO in their internal VAR review for a missed red. Obviously Disco could do something else, but probably a long shot that it gets upgraded.
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Can you spot the mistake in this graphic from the forever-sloppy NYCFC media team? (Hint: It's in the playoffs explained page, which is hilarious)
luckily anybody reading the club twitter feed already knows what the playoffs are all about.
They ran it through AI for accuracy where the damn AI confused MLS with MLB Best-of-Three rules.
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They've already fixed it. ICYMI, The original graphic said the higher seed hosted all three games in the first round.
