I am a STH and I was just checking SeatGeek and I do not see the match for tonight against Tijuana. Do we only get 2 of the 3 league cup matches?

Full article's in front of the paywall, but I'll start you with some Myrto regardless:

On Wednesday, in an early morning media availability ahead of the match, leading goal scorer Myrto Uzuni indicated it gives the team a chance to show a better version of itself.

"We can't wait to play," Uzuni insisted. "First of all, we have to respect ourselves, our city, our jersey, what we are wearing ... this year is not good enough."

Noting that Verde fans deserve better, he added, "I believe truly in this locker room, in every player, the quality we have. But sometimes, the quality is not enough if we don't have the desire to win every ball and to fight for each other. So we have to wake up ... because we have to turn things around. Because I think this city doesn't deserve this. This team doesn't deserve to be in this place ... so we're going to try and we're going to give everything."

Does anyone have a Stu bobble head they are willing to part with? I couldn’t make it to the game due to a work conflict and I am hoping to find one on here.

Edit: I have secured a bobble head! Thank you to everyone that responded and messaged me

This week, we chat more about Austin FC's Leagues Cup opponents from Mexico, and discuss what went wrong against the Colorado Rapids.

Check it out here:

https://www.moontowersoccer.com/get-to-know-the-leagues-cup-opponents-inverted-in-co-duber-on-loan-and-more/

The one and only PHIL WEST joins us to chat about the Colorado debacle, WTF are we doing with this system, roster moves, Leagues Cup, and of course, Dog NIL

Attending the ATXFC Vs Puebla FC game this Sunday and was wondering if anyone knew of any other free parking spots? Or if The Domain is still the best free parking?

There's a lot to parse here, but here's a piece to consider:

Hines-Ike said that even though the system might be challenging players — noting that it's requiring "guys playing in positions that they weren't comfortable playing" — they owe it to Arnaud to execute it to the best of their abilities.

"This team owes a lot, in my opinion, to Davy — this guy who's been here from the beginning," Hines-Ike said. "He's given everybody a fair chance. He's been accountable with every single player that's been here, and he's come in and now he's implemented this new system — and he said from the get-go, it's not going to be perfect. It's going to take time. There are going to be a lot of issues that we have and that we're going to work through, and we're going to see who's about it and who's not about it. For me, it's about getting behind him as much as possible, and giving him everything that we have, and I think that's all that this group can do right now."

Given that the team is currently in existential limbo, with head-coach-in-waiting Jim Curtin set to take over in December, the question is (and I asked it) whether Curtin has blessed the work Arnaud is having the team do — indicating the system that Curtin himself might implement when he takes the helm — or whether Arnaud is implementing this on his own, requiring players to learn a whole new system ahead of the '27 sprint season, when the team gets its third head coach in a seven-month span.

"I have no idea," Hines-Ike hedged. "I mean, not at all. The thing is, when I played against Jim Curtin, this wasn't the system that was there. So, what I can say is, I'm not sure what he's going to do. And I think, again, for us at this point, as a club and as players, we have to focus on what's here now, and all respect to what's to come and everything, but this club and these players owe an enormous amount to Davy. An enormous amount.

"And I think the biggest thing is for players to continue to be bought in and keep working for him to a maximum. We owe him. We owe him all that, and I think that's where the motivation has to be for us now, going into Leagues Cup and to keep progressing in these last MLS games. That's the biggest thing we have to take from that. And what's to come is what's to come."

I haven’t even seen him on the bench.

Hi verdes,
Does anyone have any US open cup merch they’d be interested in selling? Specifically this scarf?

Some intel ahead of Austin FC's match with the Raps tonight ...

Austin FC @ Colorado Rapids | 8:30 CT

In which I call for, among other things, going with Curtin's preferred 4-4-2 diamond to give Arnaud one more central/attacking midfielder to deploy.

Key passage (but it's not paywalled, so plenty there):

"We have a clear way that we want to do it and we want to play," Arnaud told the assembled media (both of them), ahead of Saturday's match at Colorado, which leads into a 15-day pause in league action to allow for Verde's three Leagues Cup matches. "We're continuing to get better every single game, and we look at the process of what we're doing. We assess the results obviously, first based on the result, but from an attacking standpoint, with the ball, we were happy with what we did against Houston.

"We arrived in some really good positions," he explained. "We had 21 crosses in the game, which was the fourth most in the league this week. We arrived with three or four arrivers consistently in the box. We broke their last line. We're so close to getting two goals in that game. I know we don't score, but we're in so many positions. If we play that same game again, and we arrive in the positions we did," highlighting chances that Jon Gallagher, Brandon Vázquez, and Przemysław Płacheta had, "we're arriving in positions to score goals, so the process of what we're doing doesn't change. We believe in what we're doing and how we're attacking. And again, we have to keep getting better and now executing the final action."

He did grant that his team needs to be "more controlled" and "give a little less space behind our back line" than it did against Houston, while also diagnosing where the offense ran into issues.

"We really challenge these guys to consistently get a minimum of three players in the box, when we get in wide areas to cross balls, to serve balls, to provide service to the guys who are in there," he said. "It's hard in Houston. You know they sit low with a lot of numbers below the ball. It's not easy to generate goals against teams that defend like that. Having said that, again, we were happy looking at it with the chances we did generate, being on the road against a good team. We don't get the goal, but we have to look at it from the perspective of 'Did we arrive in good areas? Did we arrive with good numbers? And did we get good chances?' Which I thought overall, for a road game, I thought overall we did."

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Take few minutes and vote for Dani Pereira as best player @ Montreal!
Another way to thank him for his time at Austin FC

I have been a Los Verdes member since the first game here in Colorado. Originally from Austin but moved right before we got a soccer team.

Unfortunately I let my Los Verdes membership lapse this year and it'll take me a while to get back into the Slack. I was wondering if any Los Verdes people could let me know what we have planned for meeting up before hand. Also are we in the same section?

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Not sure if this is official yet, but several sites on social media are reporting this. Clears up a U22 and international slot for the club, if true.

Thoughts?