British Reactions to Outstanding Lionel Messi Masterclass vs FC Dallas! 

The league cup is held every summer from late July to mid August, MLS and Liga MX both pause their season for the tournament. The league cup has 47 team participants 29 from MLS and 18 from Liga MX. The 2 champions of each league from the previous season get a bye to the knockout round. The other 45 teams are split into 15 groups of 3. In the group stage a win is 3 point, if there is a tie after 90 minutes each team get 1 point and it goes straight to penalties and the winner of that gets an additional point. The top two teams in the group advanced to the knockout round. The winner of each group gets to host the first knockout round game, and starting in the round of 16 the host is determined by the previous season supporters shield standings (which ever team had the most points at the end of the season, because we have playoffs this is the “trophy” that teams get for winning the regular season, although the MLS cup is still the primary trophy and most people forget about the shield winners after the regular season ends). If 2 Liga MX team play it will be a a designated neutral site. During the knockout round after 90 minutes it goes straight to penalties. The teams that make the final and the winner of the 3rd place game qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League.

Interesting the reply that no relegations or promotions will ever happen. I can see where you're coming from due to the enormous amounts of money that are paid for the franchises. However, if the MLS is serious it will have to happen one day!! Perhaps when Messi has retired he may very well advocate this!

There is no Overtime like it seems was surprised to ^^

Yedlin is still fast he isnt slow. Yes the back line needs help because their other defender was injuried and I believe hes out for the season. He got injuried I believe Messi's first game if Im not mistaken. Have a great and safe day/ evening gentlemen

You made a great choice. :)

🤲🤲🤲 First football match live and it was with Messi. What a perfect moment to do it! 👏👏

How do you become rich?

Hope you supported Dallas because that's the most basic thing in football. Club over players. Always. That's how you find the passion for the game.

@@toothlezz16 Just because he is from Dallas doesn't necessarily means he HAS to support FC Dallas, he can be an Inter Miami fan.

Completely agree!

interacting with the french is a bad time? who could've guessed

yeah weird how players being booed for no reason by their own „fans“ are not having fun..

​@@yesmyninja6850this is just a psg problem. The fans feel like customers and the club like a brand.

​​@@yesmyninja6850to be fair they lost the world Cup mainly due to Messi. After that psg fans turned really hostile.Have to remember that psg has no legacy and the fans still basically treated Messi as French enemy instead of psg player. So he got booed despite being the best player in cl match against Bayern and Mbappe being rated lowest was not.

Def. us soccer fans just enjoy themselves and the football it seems, in Europe we get all uptight about our clubs 😊

100% and can’t wait to see him do even more! Always been my GOAT (Damo)

It just brings the MLS to the next level.

Agree

American here. MLS has a LONGGG way to go honestly.

If you put Messi on a pitch and *don't make his life hard* he will give his best. This is the guy who gets tackled, grabbed and pushed and keeps running. He just wants to play. It's who he is.

Он бы не смог просто играть,он не любит проигрывать,у него чемпионское эго и он будет делать все чтобы побеждать в каждом матче😊

He always gives 100% every game. He never phones it in. He just loves to play and he’s competitive.

Nop, very complicated to understand 😂

And the winner of the Concacaf Champions League will represent their club at the fifa club world cup.

Thanks.

@@ronaldchannel Naw, just watch the graphic where it shows you the brackets and you would understand easily.

Update: Inter Miami easily beat Charlotte 4-0, so now they’re going to the semifinals

Ben Crem isn’t a U22, so that was an aside. He’s a homegrown player-meaning he came up through Inter Miami’s academy.

Seems to be a great player with lots of potential. I wonder if Cremaschi will chose to play for Arg or US in international events, like Messi did when he had to chose between Argentina or Spain.

I’m only going to ask you this once, should we be comparing messi to ronaldo ?

@@vickash1072 CR is a legend but Messi is incomparable.

Both Ronaldo and Messi are sensational! We will never see the likes of them again! Two superstars dominating the world stage for over 12 years! Unheard of!! So what happened, the European knuckle heads hounded them out of Europe and one became a trailblazer for Saudi and the other a trailblazer for the USA. Europe will rue the day that this happened!!!

Btw, my personal preference will always be Messi!

@@paulprivitera8458 the same 👍

The goals per game is similar to the Premier League

@@jacquesmalan5950cuz man city plays in the prem 💀 their average is 6-0 win

@@ikkangeennaambedenken8574I thought the prem was supposed to be balanced.

Cause MLS have evenly matched rosters..cannot predict the next champion..not super teams like the top European leagues where you can already predict which teams will have the best chance to win every season

@@sactybpsg, bayern, manc already won. Calcio A & la liga each have like a top3 Mls is like a top10 I mean cincinati aint winning i can tell you that

I agree so much! Love to see him happy and just enjoying himself on the pitch.

Interestingly, after a long break Pachuca lost their first match-while LAFC beat Juarez 7-1.

Definitely they're giving their best when playing against him, I was at the Dallas game and one of our argentine players had the best game I've ever seen him play, he was pulling off skills and nutmegs and playing incredible, he's the one that scored the free kick that bounced and no one touched. I believe Messi swapped shirts with him at the end of the match. But I've never seen him more motivated than this game.

@@joeymedina7115Alan has had multiple fantastic games. Idk if you’ve watched enough tbh.

They need a fast CB

Thank you Carlos!

Thank you, really appreciate your support as always 🙏 and that was a lovely touch too

Can’t argue with that…hopefully we’ll get better defenders

I don’t blame him!! 😂

Thank you!

I think his parents are?

If your parents are argentinians, you are too.@@TokyoBlue587

Thank you, really appreciate that. Thanks for this context too, makes a lot of sense

Thank you so much 🙏

Well said, yes! Here’s hoping!

They weren't happy with him either. He has brought nothing to the club. On the field. But I think he was happy to win a lot of money.😁 But shhhttt...

@@youtpfpm6097let‘s play a game it‘s called:stupid? or hater?

he did the same at psg…

@@yesmyninja6850 I rather play the results game. Messi stayed 2 years at PSG. The 2 years before his arrival, Paris went to the final and then the semi-final of the Champions League. The 2 years with Messi, Paris is eliminated in the round of 16. What a huge contribution from him! 🤣

So he would not be playing this next match?

Good! We can beat them that way.

@@Neyenn the quarterfinal matches in Miami.

😅 I try to explain too but they don’t understand

They are not going to do promotion/ relegation. Won't happen

They should make 120 new teams around the USA and Canada and put them in five divisions with relegation and the MLS being the top division obviously. Think how awesome that would be with passionate little fanbases everywhere. You could have like 35 teams in California in smaller cities and other small towns. It would be awesome

I don't think you need relegation/promotion to make a league successful. Just look at the NBA and the NFL. What makes a good league is the infrastructure, and the ability to scout young players and give them proper training at a young age. Just look at the NFL. They don't have academies. Americans just learn to play football in high school. Same for the NBA and MLB. The young players learn to play in high school. And then they go to college and play there. Then they get scouted by pro teams. The problem is that there isn't a proper pipeline for young soccer players in high schools. And there aren't proper coaches and trainers in high schools either.

Great points being made but it's not enough for the MLS just to be entertaining North American audiences. David Beckham understands this and he knows little by little big changes will eventually happen in his MLS with Messi leading that charge!!

Better let the goat do his thing which is futbol ❤

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I think it's not just the defenders. From what I'm seeing teams seem not to use the midfield other than as a quick transition zone. There's no real pressure at defending the midfield. This makes the games more exciting, but it makes the defense work really, really hard.

Americans should stop making all sports the same. Forget about NBA and NFL. Make your soccer with the same rules as in Europe. Im sure some Oil moguls from the Middle East would want to buy clubs and spend billion usd for new players.

@@unwokeneuropean3590 Salary caps were a necessary set of training wheels for an MLS that follows in the footsteps of the NASL that failed in large part due to the bloated salaries of rosters with imported international talent. They felt it a necessary step to have a consistent league without regularly bankrupting teams before they do anything else. Especially given how incredibly unpopular soccer has been in the US up until the last decade or so, this at-least ensured a long lasting league. It's probably not needed any longer and we may well see it lifted in the near future. But I'm happy it was there when the league needed it.

Don’t you worry Pete, we’ve got you covered 👍😅

Specially if old man Alba is attacking all the time 🤣

Quakes fan, but my pick is the Union to go all the way. Jim Curtin is the closest thing to a mike Tomlin or Belichick in terms of consistent success.

I know some people who watch the World Cup but then nothing else. I wish more Americans were into soccer. Most of the fans are from Europe or South America or Mexico. I can’t get my basketball-fan friends to watch soccer with me, even though I told them about Messi. I hope things change eventually.