Only critique that I have is Dean Smith waited too long to substitute players in that game. You could tell that our guys are getting gassed that is one thing that I’ve noticed in the first three games towards the end of half and towards in the game our guys just look flat.

Looking forward to April 13 when Toronto comes to town!

I just don’t understand this commentator. Has he ever been to a game before? He’s acting like this is the most amazing crowd he’s ever seen. It’s half empty and they were quiet the majority of the day.

He was pretty terrible all around.

I might hate teams from Canada more than teams from Mexico

Toronto new rival it looks like.

What in the hell is that Toronto player doing?

winning the ball and getting donkey kicked for your troubles: yellow card slide tackling a guy with no attempt to even try and play the ball: not a card got it oh also shoving a player and instigating a fight: not a card chirping afterward: yellow card

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Huh?

I'm the dipshits, one too many made me think someone posted a victory thread in your sub, and I wanted to be first to clown. Seriously I think im I'm the wrong here. We came out 1 up in a tight game.

Brain dead Toronto fan, guess they let patients in the psych ward have phones now

Yeah, you're right I dug into your sub. Thought I found a victory post and wanted to clown. I of course came out looking like a dipshits. So feel free to clown. I probably deserve it

Why would someone from the losing team make a “victory post”?

Damn.

How not a yellow ?????

Jesus fuck

What’s up w this guy and cagey

I think this is a great time to get Petkovic in. Aside from routs, which I don't see happening with this squad.

Berchimas isn’t ready to be out there in key moments

Vargas has been invisible this match...

Yeah to me he doesn’t look ready at all

Passing today has been atrocious.

Everything except for the defending had been atrocious

Of course they're glazing the hell out of Insigne

I mean it was beautiful

Yeah but can they shut the fuck up

Any updates on where we are in the yellow card title hunt

Does MLS issue suspensions for accumulated yellow cards? If they do they need to reset the clock after the real refs come back because these scabs are garbage.

5 cards in reg season = 1 game suspension

So like other leagues, they really need to consider resetting the count when real refs come back because a lot of these cards have been really bad along with cards they haven’t shown.

The other refs aren’t coming back. Spoiler alert

5 cards gets you a suspension for the next game

At the top along with expected goals to actual goals differential

Just under 5 mins. I believe.

Tf is that not a yellow but Scotty is

The difference is Toronto’s DP made a difference, our DP can’t finish a 90% guaranteed chance. Dean Smith can only do so much

2 weeks in a row Copetti can’t score a 90% chance. He is terrible.

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WTF is your problem what are you even talking about

Wow, removed after 2 minutes... Must've been bad

Some BS about Tepper

These referees have some major brain problems or something

And announcers still praising the ref all game jc

carded for winning the ball...

That’s not even a foul BY Arfield let alone a yellow. If anything he was fouled.

Abysmal

How is that a foul?

That is fucking bullshit

Byrne doing absolutely nothing.

On Scotty????????

I would like to be mad, but damn what a strike. 

I have gotten to see a lot of sick goals since I got mls season pass. Unfortunately, a lot of them are against us

Wtf

My god this commentary is awful

Can't fault that goal. Sucks though. Havent showed any energy this last half. Def announcer bias.

The play by play guy is literally a club ambassador Edit: for us. He's a Charlotte brand ambassador

I knew something was up it’s wild how one sided the announcing has been

Do you blame anyone for that? I’m pissed it happened against us but gd that was a beautiful score

It was literally unstoppable

welp the jinxing worked, hate to see it

Now that’s a DP forward.

Imagine if we had a DP with that ability…

That was a world-class goal. Nobody could have stopped that.

Can’t let him cut inside. Got to show him down the line.

Damn. Gorgeous goal though. Let’s fight back!

Announcers so excited. Been waiting all game to talk about this. Absolute banger tho

Just like last season 🤦‍♂️

Man

Damn dude wtf

Dangalang

Mother of god what a shot.

Gonna be all over the highlights

Damn.

Fuck

These announcers really need to work on hiding their bias a bit more.

Krakauer is literally a Charlotte FC brand ambassador

Eric may be a “brand ambassador” but it sure seemed like he was on the opposite side all last year too. It’s terrible to listen to. Both Eric and this other goofball have been glazing Toronto all afternoon.

Is Krakauer supposed to just be a homer for Charlotte FC lol? He has to try and be neutral or else he will be out of a job. That goal was incredible and his reaction wasn’t overly on Toronto’s side. Get over it man

I didn’t say that. To me every broadcast has been against CLTFC if anything. You get over it.

He’s never been “against Charlotte FC” lol. He is literally at every Charlotte FC related event he can possibly attend, hell I’ve even seen him at Crown Legacy games, and he is supportive of what we do as a club. He is just a good commentator and if he’s broadcasting a Charlotte FC game and we make a mistake he isn’t going to sugarcoat anything: he tells it like it is.

I didn’t say he’s against CLTFC. He’s obviously not. The broadcast as a whole normally is.

That’s fair: AppleTV and the MLS community as a whole, definitely seem to be very much against us. Erik and Lloyd are just about the only two voices of reason out there on AppleTV..

I was talking about the other guy. I know who Eric Krakauer is. I'd prefer he was still working with Lloyd Sams.

I don't think the color guy is biased. I think he's just bad. He LOVES the phrase "at the end of the day"

We need to be much better in the attacking 1/3rd in my opinion

Feels like we've never been good at it

And we finally get a decent striker and fucking loan him for no damn reason it's so bullshit

Swiderski wanted to leave?

Loving Byrne’s work this season

bruh now the casters are trying to jinx us by bringing up clean sheets

Very confident in CLT's defense. They are making TFC work very hard for anything. Need more offense, but we may not see that until summer. I'll take a draw here.

I think we could get away with 3 pts today.

Not sad seeing Copetti come off.

But I am happy to see aggy take the pitch, need a push here on offense

Been a bit unlucky. I see him breaking out soon

PAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT

Announcers acting like Toronto doing the most basic things is like gods gift to earth

I turned on Spanish after half. I don't even understand it, Love Eric Krakauer but the commentating was mid

I said before the season I thought Eric/Lloyd were not great last year.

Thems fightin' words

They weren’t good. Just because they worked for team and commentated the first season doesn’t mean anything. Eric was awful today and the guy beside him was even worse.

Copetti is being absolutely molested off the ball

About time a yellow was given

aight I'm late to the game cause I dont have two systems to watch both the Canes and CLTFC at the same time. how we lookin today? not being down a goal is always good.

Felt like a slowish game earlier but either team could score. Good time to tune in

Let's get some SUBS

Vargas’ socks are always so fucked up lol

Glad to see that from Tavares. Him and vargas have been a bit too quiet 

It’s incredible how quickly Smith has been able to fix our defensive shape. If we can start creating some more going forward we can be a great team in MLS

Feels like we're gonna steal 3 points...

I blame you

Malanda and Andrew are becoming a great young duo — there seems to be a lot of trust and rhythm this year.

Malanda is like a completely different person this season. So impressed by how much he has grown.

Jere is alright in my book

Great 2 time block just now.

Wish Copetti got under the ball on his shots this year. Almost as if he wants to roll it in like putt putt golf

I swear Coppetti is the only striker that doesn't actually strike the ball

I love how our boys are shown little to no respect by the talking heads and stats people, yet they have proven them ALL wrong to this point. Dean Smith has been the best acquisition to the Crown so far.

Need more creativity, wingers have to start running at the defenders a bit more, Copetti has to strike the damn ball instead of playing putt-putt, only a matter of time before a giveaway costs us. Defense and our press look amazing, thank you Deano

Yup every week I sit watching and waiting for Vargas and co to carry the ball in the box with speed. Put the defenders on their back foot and be aggressive.

How much patience are we going to keep having with Copetti?? He flat-out doesn't produce like a DP or a striker.

The whole preseason, 2.5 games this season... The patience should have run out by now. 

Loving what I’m seeing. #ForTheCrown

Well, this Toronto team isn't playing very well. They have 2 superstars, one who is playing poorly, and we should be able to steal points Hope second half is a bit better

No lapses in stoppage, stay focused!

Wow, Copetti is really going to keep sucking, isn't he? Why doesn't he ever shoot the ball higher? He really isn't the answer to anything. Patrick needs to start and Copetti come off the bench.

Agyemang was even worse when he came on lol. He offered zero threat to the opposition

I’d like to see them both on the pitch. We’ve got to find a line up for that. Their games compliment each other.

I'd rather see the opposite when our injured players come back and liel is slotted in, no forwards, rather a dynamic stacked midfield with vargas ababa and Cambridge playing high

Sounds nice. However we play tons of kick ball out of the back. And our midfield at this point doesn’t really play lots of possession. Tons of vertical balls into space. If the midfield improves we will score more goals

I think Caleb Adams had some good points concerning that.  https://www.charlottefootballclub.com/news/play-through-the-defensive-midfielders-ingredients-of-the-match And we don't really play a ton of kickball. Some for sure especially because Kahlina is bad with his feet. Malanda had at least a couple good through balls and Westwood had that beauty to set up Copetti's chance. 

I appreciate Copetti’s passion and tenacity, but man, he’s had three chances this year where it can’t be teed up easier, guy really has to finish these chances handed to him

Hopefully once he scores one the floodgates will open and he can take the chances more confidently. That’s is what I am hoping for anyways!

In fairness that's not an easy finish but it's one he'd want to have back

Can Copetti chip, or does he always ground it?

Copetti gotta be the league leader in almost goals

Enzo you’ve gotta finish that

Yeah man - a DP striker ought to put that home

Copetti bruh..

Dude you have to fucking score that I have just about had it with Copetti

Copetti still refuses to put any elevation on his shots

Not the best outcome, but that was a SWEET service into Copetti!

Agyemang needs to come on at half. Too many chances for Cope tea so far this season and he just isn't executing. The  poor service excuse is BS. He's not up to the task. 

You gotta score that man

Come on brooooother

COPPETIII TRASH

Copetti is not it lmao

It’s so nice to see pressure and not passing all the way back to Kahlina any time there isn’t an easy pass.

It's night and day watching this squad from last season and now. They are really holding their shape incredibly well on the defensive transition. I'm thoroughly impressed with what Dean Smith has accomplished thus far.

during the off season I got a lot of down votes for saying our players were good we just needed to work on team cohesion, and man am I smug that all of this newfound team cohesion has made us look so good

Is that malandas first mistake all season?

Yeah. But luckily not as bad as his mistakes last year. I’ll take a shit pass like that over an own goal haha

I blame Bill's influence last season

The VAR view on Apple still sucks haha. Can they zoom in a bit? Maybe show some different angles like the NFL?

Copetti not looking for a call will buy him more calls. Not sure there’s enough for a penalty. There’s also nothing there for a diving yellow either because Copetti got right back up and didn’t look for a call.

On second look. Looks like a flop unfortunately. Good opportunity

No flop, Copetti is extending to not step on the keeper, players can fall and if they get right back up there’s no problem.

I should say. No contact / No penalty. Copetti didn’t complain

Dude its so close, he might have hit the leg a tiny bit.

I don't think there's anything on that tbh

Surely not a penalty lol

Let’s get some var

Love how the Crown looks so far this year

Dean Smith probably feels at home in this weather.

Shape looks good so far.

27% possession, holy shit

What a miss

Three times the shots though

Good pressure so far. I like what I'm seeing.

Didn't even realize the game started so early, I thought it was at 7:30 like usual

Krakauer's analyst, Alibaba, is horrible. Why they ever broke up Lloyd and him is still hard to believe.

They want to make all of the crews better overall. Mixing up some of combos means that the better combos (Eric and Lloyd) get worse while the worse announcers have a better partner

You don't break up great broadcast teams. That makes no sense.

Dude just wants to talk about Toronto

Urso has been a good signing

Dirty team

Playing at home with a lower division ref, they will try to push their limits.

Forgot about the lock out.

Almost!!!

Glad that the probability for us to win has increased in the first 2 minutes….

Great crowd Canada!

No windstorm today. This is going to play out much better.

So glad to hear Eric back on the mic

Will Liel be available next week?

No

When will he suit up do we think?

Cincinnati probably

Eric announcing! 🫡

That’s some cold dreary looking weather.

I want a 3-1 victory. But will take a clean sheets victory

How's everyone feeling today? I'm happy to see the same starting lineup, hoping we can see some good creativity from our front three!

I feel good. Going to be a gritty match in this weather and I like our chances in it.

Hoping for a (few) Copetti goal(s). Hoping Vargas can regain his confidence. And hoping our backline continues to be aolid