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News in Brief: MLS Playoff Round-up, Goal of the Year Nominees, and More
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: News in Brief: MLS Playoff Round-up, Goal of the Year Nominees, and MoreMLS playoff round-up Toronto FC and New York Red Bulls went at each other in New Jersey with Toronto winning 2-1. Thanks to goals by Victor Vazquez and Sebastian Giovinco, Toronto will take a one-goal lead back to BMO Field. New York managed to equalize through a Daniel Royer penalty but still ended up with the…
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News in Brief: A Chapocoense Return, Timbers Throw Shade, and More
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: News in Brief: A Chapocoense Return, Timbers Throw Shade, and MoreUplifting moment Brazillian club Chapocoense played a friendly against Barcelona at Camp Nou as the former continues to recover from last November’s terrible plane crash. The three surviving players from the Chapecoense plane crash were honored before the team's match at Camp Nou against Barcelona. pic.twitter.com/aYN9bwzbmw — FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) August 7, 2017 After the…
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Community Match Ratings: Portland at Minnesota
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Community Match Ratings: Portland at MinnesotaVoting for community match ratings is open for 48 hours following the match. Contribute by rating each player. Want to know more about what these ratings mean? Check out our Match Ratings Primer. You can see how the team and players progress through the season on our Match Ratings page.
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Match Preview: Minnesota United FC vs. Portland Timbers
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Match Preview: Minnesota United FC vs. Portland TimbersWhile Minnesota is dreadful on the road (they are tied for the second worst away record in MLS) they have a respectable 12 points (of 21) at home this year. They will return home hoping desperately for relief against a Portland team which has not exactly set the world ablaze on the road this year.…
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Quarterly Review: Updated MLS Rankings
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Quarterly Review: Updated MLS RankingsWith over a quarter of the 2017 MLS season gone, we can start to assess the teams and our own evaluations of those teams. At the beginning of the season our writer poll made some bold predictions: some correct and some dead wrong. In our quarterly review, we adjust those rankings, no doubt to be…
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Match Preview: Colorado Rapids vs. Minnesota United FC
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Match Preview: Colorado Rapids vs. Minnesota United FCOstensibly, a game preview exists to show readers a glimpse of what they may see when the game unfolds. Minnesota’s first two performances have made that extremely difficult. In truth, it is a major challenge to predict what Adrian Heath and the Loons will do to staunch the bleeding. The solutions aren’t obvious and, even if…
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Adrian Heath’s Loons Look to Rebound in Home Opener
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Adrian Heath’s Loons Look to Rebound in Home OpenerA 5-1 loss was far from how Adrian Heath and Minnesota United FC wanted to open their season. With fellow expansion side Atlanta United visiting for the home opener Sunday, the Loons hope to get their first points of the season, while Atlanta will attempt the same. When any team loses a game by four goals,…
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The Tailgate: Minnesota United Loses Its MLS Debut 5-1
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: The Tailgate: Minnesota United Loses Its MLS Debut 5-1This week we ask the fans: “Minnesota United began its MLS journey in inauspicious fashion with a 5-1 loss to the Portland Timbers — the worst loss by a team playing its first league game in MLS history. What is your take on United’s poor opener?” “Awkward, embarrassed, tearful, Bob Ross in the background……
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FiftyFive.One Podcast Episode 24: Real. Breathing. MLS Action
Categories: MediaContinue Reading: FiftyFive.One Podcast Episode 24: Real. Breathing. MLS ActionFinally! Minnesota has made its debut in Major League Soccer. Just don’t ask what the result was. Adam and Katie Jarvi join Jeff to talk MNUFC, plus a couple of major discussions around fandom in U.S. Soccer today. iTunes Google Play Stitcher Send us questions at wesburdine[at]fiftyfive.one or on Twitter: Jeff Katie Adam FiftyFive.One is…
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News in Brief: The Dream Is Reality for MNUFC, New Rules in Soccer, and More
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: News in Brief: The Dream Is Reality for MNUFC, New Rules in Soccer, and MoreMNUFC in MLS, the dream is reality Minnesota United FC has its first MLS game in the books. For many, this is something they have dreamed about for years. While most fans joined the Dark Clouds, Wolf’s Head, True North Elite at watch parties or held intimate watch parties of their own in their living rooms,…
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The Sights From Minnesota United’s MLS Debut
Continue Reading: The Sights From Minnesota United’s MLS DebutThe result may have been disappointing for Minnesota United FC supporters, but the night was still a historic one. The Loons made their MLS debut and the game ushered in a new era for Minnesota soccer. Will Bramlett, special to FiftyFive.One, was on hand at Providence Park in Portland, Ore. for the match and captured…
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Minnesota United FC’s Debut Spoiled by the Portland Timbers 5-1
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Minnesota United FC’s Debut Spoiled by the Portland Timbers 5-1In a way, it doesn’t matter what the score was tonight in Portland. Minnesota was played off the pitch by a superior squad, that’s true. It’s the multiple other watch parties around the Twin Cities and around the state bringing in new fans and giving a space for long time fans to celebrate the culmination…
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Community Match Ratings: Minnesota at Portland
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Community Match Ratings: Minnesota at PortlandVoting for community match ratings is open for 48 hours following the match. Contribute by rating each player on a scale of one to ten. Want to know more about how this works? Check out our Match Ratings Primer.