MLS Assist — tactical analysis of Major League Soccer

0:00 - The details and pertinent info for the MLS is Back tournament

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16:58 - The structure of the tournament and its inherent imbalance

Then some Quick Hits on the individual groups:

21:44 - Group A

24:29 - Group B

26:46 - Group C

28:21 - Group D

30:19 - Group E

31:47 - Group F

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34:57 - Individual player news, featuring LGP, Andy Najar, Federico Higuain, and more

48:34 - Answering some listener questions

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Joe and Jordan name 10 MLS players who could and should move to Europe. But, there are conditions to being on Joe and Jordan's Future Transfer List:

1. No USMNT-eligible players, because that's next week's show
2. Must have bee in MLS at least one year
3. No loanees
4. Must be 26 or younger
5. No more than two players per MLS team on the list

And here are the timestamps:

6:30 — Latif Blessing (LAFC)

12:40 — Eddie Segura (LAFC)

17:20 — Julian Gressel (DC United)

25:10 — Franco Escobar (Atlanta United)

29:45 — Artur (Columbus Crew)

36:40 — Ezequiel Barco (Atlanta United)

42:30 — Milton Valenzuela (Columbus Crew)

48:45 — Valentín Castellanos (NYCFC)

53:05 — Mauro Manotas (Houston Dynamo)

57:25 — Alberth Elis (Houston Dynamo)

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This week, your intrepid hosts return to discuss which Americans could (and should) make the jump to Europe. The rules, as with last week:

1. Players must have been with their current team for at least one season
2. No players on loan at their current MLS team
3. They must be under 26 years old
4. No more than 2 players from any one team can be on the lists

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Joe Lowery is joined by John Muller of American Soccer Analysis to talk about goals added, the new soccer metric that captures the effect of every touch on the ball on that team's chances of scoring or conceding and might change the way we measure soccer.

John says goals added is a soccer metric that "tells us what matters" on the field.

See more of John's work at AmericanSoccerAnalysis.com

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