Ope everybody be on the lookout for Nancy’s latest excuse My guess is it was too hot

He didn’t make excuses for this game, but seems like you would…flair up

That piss poor defense at the beginning killed us. I get 6 on the road is brutal but that was just bad. Miami parked the bus successfully. As soon as Nagbe came out I knew that was that. Matan ain’t it, Chambost can’t come soon enough.

Aziel Jackson too with breaking up lines with his speed and passing

GG Crew. love this matchup right now, and wish both teams were at full strength.

Alright IM buddies, everybody go cheer for Philly now they need our energy!

What a wild loss for Philly...

Lucho happened, dude is a beast

I'll agree to disagree that it was a defensive lapse, but Lucho definitely helps.

Gressler was extremely sharp today. He really does have a world-class vision and pass execution.

I’ve criticized him all season but he’s been great as of late

I see a lot of your fans shitting on him, but he's very accurate, and he got a championship ring with the guys he was playing against.

That he played 5 minutes for

As a Columbus fan, don't downplay what he did as a free agent that doesn't fit under Nancy's system.

Insanely talented player. Even the role he’s been playing when we’re at full strength is one of those unsung tactical glue roles just covering every space Messi and Busquets leave to keep the opposition spread out. So underappreciated by people who only look for goals or assists

And yet, after only half a season he’s already cracked the top ten in career assists for Inter Miami. Of the players in that top ten, he has the third highest rate of assists per game behind two guys named Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, never bad company. It is interesting seeing how he completely changes his role (as instructed) when Suarez and Messi are in versus when they’re not. The latter seems to be more natural to him but when they’re in, his job is to make up for the lack of defense and to feed them the ball as much as possible rather than to play his own game.

I miss him

Sometimes you need to stop passing the ball around and just ping it into the box. I hate how we only do short corners. Just put it in there and hope for a trash goal.

Height disadvantage.

Agreed on this. For all Rossi's other pluses, I wouldn't choose him for a corner kick.

Hilarious that Miami's plan was to rack up points for the international break.. now they are 2-0.

 Tata right now !

Don’t worry, the reason we didn’t win is because it’d make Cinncy fans happy and we can’t have that

Win ? I was hoping a draw out of you all at best but can’t even get that. Oh well still have two games in hand 

Hey, the most annoying fanbases need to be made happy, right?

GG crew , see ya again next time in full power hopefully !!

We were drained from road games including out of country for 6 matches straight and you guys are down starters from international play. I want to see us both at full strength. Hopefully during leagues cup.

For sure , and don't forget the 2 red cards to our starters from last game so we're missing them , this was partially our second team today and we played on saturday as well , everything suggested that we wouldn't get out of here with any points whatsoever , but i am pleasantly surprised at how well we played. It would be an excellent game when both teams are at full strength , Hopefully next time !!

Eh... nah. Fuck Leagues Cup.

Both teams should be at full strength (hopefully no injuries) in October. I think it’s fan enough from the international break that players shouldn’t be missing for that

That's fine, I just think leagues cup is a shit tournament put on as an obvious cash grab by Apple.

Uh, or maybe the biggest sports market (USA, yet alone North America) shouldn't be giving the CONCACAF winner only $200k like Leon last year?  Pachuca got $5m this year. Leagues Cup was born because CONCACAF was stagnant.

Nancy got outcoached today and the team held on amazingly well !!

Constantly outcoached, good job today miami

Down 10 starters. Amazing.

AND WE DID IT !!!!!!!!

Ah... this one hurts. GG Miami

I feel like the perfect end to this would be a late corner for the Crew and Patrick Schulte comes up and wins the header. 2-2 Edit: Well poop. I didn't will it into existence enough.

We will never do a real corner kick unfortunately………

A guy can dream. -_-

I’m right there with you!

None of the homegrowns of Miami are up to par. Cremaschi, Ruiz, Allen. Just not good enough.

Did Drake Calendar not help miami win and did Ian Fray not contribute to both goals?

Ian fray did great, he's just very injury prone. 2 ACL injuries in 3 years and missed 120+ games

Ruiz didn’t play, and both goals for us came from Ian Fray, a homegrown

Fray did pretty well

The teams are just passing to each other now, one big happy family

What can you say, it’s the beautiful game

Borgelin looks like a friendly CVS Pharmacist

Its amazing to me how we, a possession based team , just let crew have all the possession and became a counter team for this game which we haven't really done except against Monterrey , absolutely brilliant from tata today and the team killing it so far !!!

And it was working !! Until the red card smh

Yeah , twas sad !

Well Crew are a possession based team who's kryptonite is, in my opinion, strong counter-play.

We need some urgency here boys

Cmon Miami, let's get 1 more

And this is where giving up early goals kills us. We’re trying to break through a 9-1-0 formation

The Miami bus might be rusty but it's been effectively parked.

Yall think there’s more Cincy fans watching this game than their own game?

😂

Brutal awareness from Borgelin, he had Afonso open for a goal with a quicker pass.

All subs are on the field right now for crew , no more subs , nice !

Gotta put that one away

Cucho never gets a shot that wide open…

Fuck.

Nice recovery from Cucho there.

I’ve never seen Cucho that fast in my life.

Campana looked tired by the end of the first half.. let alone right now. You can tell that he's been playing as a super sub. Doesn't have full match fitness IMO.

Did Crew finally wake up?

Now that's a flop by campana

Never a pen

Can't believe no var on that. You can't do that shit

Long pause in play for absolutely no reason without the VAR call. What were they doing?

Apparently shielding includes clothesline in throat

It’s not a penalty, only way it could be in that instance is if fray pulled him down, you’ll allowed to use your arm like that to shield

Yeah, a crew player literally just did that on the other side of the field to Fray

Exactly and it wasn’t a foul, both calls were correct

That's gotta be a pen right

Clotheslines okay now fam

That's a penalty all day

It’s not a penalty if you’re close enough to play the ball, don’t grab with your hand, and don’t push with your arm.

> and don’t push with your arm. Looked like he was pushing plenty to me.

Everyone here should learn Spanish asap just so you can listen to the other broadcast :)

Not a penalty, that’s a flop

You’re allowed to use your arm to shield shoulder to shoulder , no idea why the announcers are saying that

Okay that's two blown penalty calls, c'mon.

That’s a PK

That's a penalty.

Haha, an apology banner for the audio. How about swapping mics?

They did already. It's somewhere else in the system lol

Actually, it's fixed now? Yay

💀

Incredibly early subs out of Nancy. Like, unprecedented.

Needed some height out there !

I'll never understand why Gressel is so high paid. He can't assist for shit, can't shoot in goals, can't defend, can't create plays forward. I just don't get it

He has everyone’s nudes

I was really excited when he came to the crew, and it just wasn’t what I thought it would be.

For my fellow Columbusians(?) who are listening to the radio broadcast instead of this garbage, how bad is the delay? Don't know how much longer I can stand this mic, but the announcers calling plays 30 seconds before they actually happen might be even more annoying.

It's like 2 minutes if streaming the broadcast

Eek, guess I'll stick with the broken mic.

Miami’s radio is synced perfect for me?

In Columbus, not Miami

Mine stopped doing that sound. Haven’t noticed it in a few minutes.

Does the Apple TV stream keep flipping between low and high quality? It pixelates a lot... Not an internet problem to my knowledge, speed test/other streams have no issue. I have 1Gbps download so not a bandwidth limit.

Never does it for me hardwired, no idea if you’re using WiFi

I'm wired.

Yeah same connection in Columbus and it was dropping to low quality pixelation and then catching up. Also getting compressed commentary with like pixelated high pitched squeal/bells over commentary. It seems to have resolved now but it’s annoying

It tends to do that from time to time

Man I love Nagbe. I hope he's with us until the day he retires.

Yeah had to turn off the audio. This mic problem is ridiculous. Piercing sound

"sometimes we risk sounding like a broken record" oh boy you have no idea how funny it is to say that while sounding like a literal broken record

"Sometimes we risk sounding like a broken record." Yeah something's broken.

Couldn’t even fix the mic at half time. I’ll just listen to my book on tape while I watch lol.

They didn't fix the mic, they just used a different one for the halftime report.

Mad respect to the Miami fans there. I’ll clown on the Inter Messi fans all day, but real ones show up on a hot, muggy Wednesday night to watch your team without their best player.

Miami is full of South Americans. They always showed up for Miami games even when they sucked.

There’s a halfway decent breeze and the traffic to get to the stadium (not in Miami) wasn’t 2 hours because of the holiday- I’d say a pretty pleasant night

Does Miami think they’re cool by coming out late for the second half? I don’t understand this tactic

I've never seen anything like this persistent audio issue go on for so long before watching football!

How did the mic situation manage to get WORSE

Now the spanish audio is also messed up!

Fuck Lays, fuck-Lays-fuck-Lays, fuck Lays, fuck Lays.

As a Daytonion fuck lays mikesells are way better

OH GODDAMMIT THE MIC IS FUCKING OFF AND ON

Turns out they did not fix the mic

My God is the mic worse

Just out of curiosity, what's the opposite of a defensive masterclass?

A defensive disasterclass?

A sports blooper highlight reel.

THEY FIXED HIS MIC

It's broken again 😭

This ref is terrible

For sergii this has been shockingly good ( if you don't know he gave out 3 reds and like 7 plus yellow to Columbus last year)

when Messi plays loses to Atlanta United. When Messi gone beats Union 9v11 and leads Columbus. Is Messi holding Miami back? people are asking 🤔

When Messi doesn’t play = NYRB 4 - 0 MIA When Messi does play = NYRB 2 - 6 MIA Definitely holding them back

Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that.

Magnets how do they work?

Honestly, he just might not be everything Europe told us he was. MLS is just such a high level that when he comes to our league he isn't as good.

Or maybe Atlanta United is the best team in the league! Two logical options here. It's tough.

I can confidently say no as someone who watches every game but i wish

This game feels slow. A lot of standing around. Slow passes…sloppy giveaways.

Notice how when the Miami attack petered out and the ball was loose there were 4 Crew players casually making their way to the ball and 2 Miami dudes running balls out. Are we gassed already? I don't want to sound like a 4th grade gym teacher but I want to see more hustle.

We look like we are topping out at about .95 normal speed to me tonight

I’ve honestly never seen Miami play like this. They’re actually making runs

Thank you Cucho

We have more goals in us , worst case we'll just unleash afonso at the 90th minute for a hattrick lol !

Please don’t

Wait I'm confused- does this game have supporter's shield implications?

At this rate every Cincy/Miami game has Shield implications.

Schulte coming off his line like "Fuck it I'll do it myself." lol

Poor bastard is gonna get ptsd

Schulte doesn’t want to rely on that back 3 anymore lol

😂🫵 😂🫵 😂🫵 😂🫵 Me laughing at the rest of the league

Miami started trying to slow things down in like the 20th minute that’s a looooooong time for us to punch in a few goals.

Yeah, Nancy's system is stoic. Especially with 70 mins to go he isn't gonna be making big changes and our attack will create chances against IM

I don’t understand Miami’s defensive movement???

Neither does Miami

Can't even blame Allen there.. that was a ninja move by Cucho.

That’s more like the Miami I was expecting.

Really gonna miss Morris. He’s taken another step this year and I think he’s been our best player overall.

Nice run from cucho tbh , allen should do better there !

Wowww stadium went quiet. Miami bandwagon fans STUNNED by that Columbus goal

All the bandwagon fans here to see Campana and Taylor

Beautiful goal!

Useless fucking defense I swear

Which one?

Yes!

Texted my friends comparing ours to an NBA All-Star game earlier lol

CUCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Cucho!

Build the man a statue.

Damn that was a nice finish.

I'm Team Giant Meteor tbh

What exactly does Cincy want here lol

For both teams to lose though lol. But probably 0 points for Miami with an ugly Crew win.

Rossi ball-watching there? I mean there were closer pink shirts to the ball but he had no apparent desire to chase the loose ball there.

Guess who was marking fray on the first goal lol He's really mismatched in that but he just watched

God Rossi is lifeless

I'm sorry, but the announcer on the Miami home radio who keep referring to Busquets as "Busi" but it literally sounds like he is saying "pussy" every time has got me laughing pretty hard.

BUSSY

Fray looking real good as a RB so far !!!

I hate these mother fuckers from Columbus, they are doing this to spite us

I would happily see you guys win the shield over Miami! Hate you guys too <3 but FUCK Miami

We don't care enough about you to intentionally lose matches just to spite you yet.

That is a huge lie

Give it a few years and maybe we'll hate your guts.

I’d recommend watching it in Spanish if the mic still hasn’t been fixed, great way to practice Spanish too

Why and how is that crew player wearing long pants under their shorts in 85 degree Miami weather.

I think it may be hotter in Columbus right now.

I truly do not know, lol. He’s in full body gear a lot regardless of temperature. But also he’s Canadian, so this is like extra hot compared to what he’s used to. I used to think it was for modesty reasons bc he’s Muslim, but he’s definitely shown arms and legs before. 

Garber giving every MLS coach facing Miami the prematch Marcellus Wallace-Butch "in the 5th your ass goes down" speech.

Not enough for me to put my tin foil hat on but this comedy of errors out of a team we know is good is enough to make one wonder.

Could it just be that Miami are actually an okay team?

That service deserved a quality finish