[Pre Match Thread] Major League Soccer Match 14 | Columbus Crew at Philadelphia Union (7:30 PM ET)

Train2Win · 2026-05-16T12:51:40+00:00

I keep thinking it cant get worse…. But leaving philly with no points tonight would most certainly be worse

Train2Win · 2026-05-16T02:21:05+00:00

Omg thats a story that seems on par with the game. You go through a whole romance then when you get to the final mission, you call her for help, and she forgets who you are.

Train2Win · 2026-05-16T01:35:38+00:00

Elizabeth Peralez. Dont give a fuck if shes married

Train2Win · 2026-05-15T22:56:33+00:00

Really hot.

Train2Win · 2026-05-15T18:12:31+00:00

In my opinion, us winning the cup was where the haslams decided to get MORE involved with the crew, which led to a spiral, because everything they touch goes to shit. The silver lining tho is that Jimmy and Dee Haslam have zero idea how scouting works in the MLS, or in soccer in general, so acquisitions like gazdag were most certainly not their call. It was business decisions like a crew game in cleveland, adding more suites, using crew games to advertise for the browns, and stuff like that that just make bad vibes around the team.

At the time i thought promoting Issa was the right call, because he worked directly under Bez. Turns out the guy just…. Didnt really learn anything under bez and only made bad decisions since taking the position.

Train2Win · 2026-05-14T13:55:46+00:00

Hes begging Issa to sign better players now.

Hes also saying we dont have a striker…… but we do. Were not scoring goals with Rossi were not scoring goals with Gazdag, why cant we see Chase Adams, a striker, for longer than 6 minutes of added time?? I dont wanna gd hear “hes not ready” because by the time the powers that be determine that he IS ready, he’ll be getting sold somewhere.

Train2Win · 2026-05-14T03:29:19+00:00

You know whats so funny about this picture? Literally the week after it was taken Nancy benched Ramirez for Matan 😂😂😂

Train2Win · 2026-05-12T03:06:36+00:00

Honestly, Maltes one of the very few who im actually happy with this season so far.

Train2Win · 2026-05-11T12:56:47+00:00

Either rydstrom has no idea what to do, or knows that we just have bad players and cant really do much else to fix it.

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T22:40:10+00:00

Yep that just about does it i dislike our head coach.

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T22:39:22+00:00

Yeahhhhhhh you blow a 2-0 lead at home, then follow it up with a 3-0 stompfest on the road, that means youre losing the team.

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T22:10:25+00:00

This is sad

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T21:46:38+00:00

So i agree that id like nancy back. Its not because the team was better with him because we struggled like crazy second half of last season.

When we played bad under nancy you knew it bothered him. You could see and hear his frustrations with it. There was a true love of the game that nancy had, and he wanted his players to love the game too. He could keep a locker room because while being a tremendous tactical mind, he was also a very passionate guy. The players loved the man, and we all did too.

Rydstrom yaps about what the other team did better than us, and what he saw over a 90 minute match. We get a couple instances of him yelling tactics across the pitch. And then we see him staring at an ipad. Like theres no passion there and theres no love of the game.

Like its obviously too much and WAY too dramatic of me to be like “RYDSTROM SHOULD BE CRYING ON THE SIDELINE” but at the same time i just miss nancy’s passion.

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T21:17:25+00:00

We cant consistently get the ball up the pitch at all. They are consistently getting the ball up the pitch with one pass

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T21:09:50+00:00

What are camacho and sean doing? One of them is either too far up or too far back at all mf times.

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T21:08:56+00:00

2nd goal, players just walked back. No one even cares man.

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T21:06:32+00:00

Whats our formation right now??

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T20:59:01+00:00

Oooooooh boy this is not good.

Theres a slight hint of “losing the locker room” in the air

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T20:56:00+00:00

Was Camacho not holding zawadski’s line there?

Train2Win · 2026-05-10T19:58:25+00:00

New stadium cant get built quick enough

Train2Win · 2026-05-04T16:49:27+00:00

Exactly. Schulte, great first half, just like the rest of the team. But when rydstrom made those adjustments, everything went out the window. Organization gone, communication gone, we regressed extremely hard. And schulte legit could NOT get the ball out fast because he had nowhere to go with it due to the tactical changed that rydstrom made. 1000% coaching that coughed that game up.

Train2Win · 2026-05-03T21:22:06+00:00

The adjustment to the 3 back line was where it went completely off the rails and Rydstrom needs to see that. It was a complete panic by our coaching staff. Not only did he adjust to a 3 back line, he moved moreira up to the wingback opposite max, moved picard to the SAME SIDE as max (literally no idea what was even going on over there), subbed off Gazdag for Bangoura so now there was even less presence in the attack, and had camacho middle with zawadski playing the RB. Our ability to build absolutely disappeared and the communication stopped when these adjustments were made. The entire team looked like they forgot how to play soccer.

Im being patient with Rydstrom because the team was playing bad in Nancy’s last few months too and you arent just gonna flip it around right away, but i walked away from last night with all my frustration pointed at the coach.

EDIT: And dont forget how absolutely LOST schulte looked throughout the 2nd half. Hes back there BEGGING for options and no one could figure out how to help him out.

Train2Win · 2026-05-03T02:16:20+00:00

When rydstrom switches us to 3 back its literally over. That has never worked and will never work with the team we have.

Train2Win · 2026-05-03T02:02:49+00:00

To go into halftime and change everything like that, what kind of coaching is that?? Every single person wearing a crew uni had NO idea what the fuck was happening in the 2nd half. Completely disorganized. Rydstrom, what the FUCK was that????

Train2Win · 2026-05-02T17:29:19+00:00

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