Evander da Silva Ferreira

Oh, fun.

Messi versus Evander down in South Florida.

And then on the weekend, Sunday night, soccer will be Miami playing at the New England Revolution.

So that's before Portland-Houston.

Malasia back in, in, on the, on the left side, You get Hedebe, Hagelin, and Kyle Smith as your center back trio.

And then Daudera on the right with Obi, Buka, and Evander in the middle.

And then, of course, the kind of consistent duo that we've been seeing, which has been nice in Barlow and Denke.

Kenta, what do you kind of make of the lineup there?

You don't really have to do that as much.

And I think that really played to the benefit of Newton's system.

But overall, yeah, strong lineup, right? Especially with the attack to the, I guess, the trio of Denke, Barlow, and Evander has kind of been the most fruitful in terms of creating chances and putting the ball in the back of the net.

yeah i mean as of recent obviously maybe not on the the score lines but that trio um has been kind of building a little bit more uh you're seeing flashes of what we saw in the spring a little bit as far as goal scoring prowess but um haglin appearance record i mean he broke in this one um at 181 officially uh you know after the other dc match but Very cool to get the honor at home.

I'm Vikas, your host, and this week, like every week, we're talking DC United.

This is a week in which the main character was none other than Evander.

I mean, it's boring, but when a guy gets a goal and two assists and functionally buries your season, it's hard not to pick him.

I obviously like to go a bit more creative or silly with this, and so I was a bit disappointed in myself to go with kind of the boring answer.

Like they are just down and down and down, like pulling up depth players to fill these three very important spots.

And they've given up a hell of a lot of goals this year.

But the back three, Nick Hagelin, Kyle Smith, Teenage Adebe, and then five across the middle, the most interesting being Evander at the number 10.

And then up top...

But you know what I noticed, though, is that they're getting goals from a lot of different players.

Like in this last game, I mean, listen, Evander put in a blazing goal.

But then Tom Barlow put in a goal.

the game before that against D.C. United again, you had Dwaydra, Duderah, and Hadebe that scored as well.

I mean, who doesn't? I mean, if you guys are going to sit there and you're going to say you don't miss Noah Allen, you're out of your mind.

And let me tell you who's on the right side, just so you know.

And Evander can stray to the right side if he feels like it.

But Tom Barlow is on the right side, and he's been scoring goals, okay? And...

So, I mean, when you break down the games, it was, you know, lobbing balls into the box, trying to find anything, trying to search for anything.

Um, and that's just not an effective strategy when you other side of your, of the equation has Evander has Denke has other, I mean, basically they went up against.

Other teams, there are four losses in this game they went up against teams that had big stars, big difference-maker stars.

Griezmann, Messi, Suarez, Denke, Evander.

And DC has Barribo.

Barribo will register 16 goals this season.

They're more agile than anything.

You see it in Evander's play.

You see it in maybe some people trucking really hard to get upfield.

but you can't do that for 90 minutes of counterattack.

He just doesn't do it in the loud ways.

It was interesting hearing Nos Odietes on Friday and talking about the impact of Albert Rusnak that some fans start to get tired because, you know, he's not an Evander.

He's not a Hany Mukhtar.

He's not going out and scoring a banger every single game.

He just doesn't do it in the loud ways.

It was interesting hearing Nos Odietes on Friday and talking about the impact of Albert Rusnak that some fans start to get tired because, you know, he's not an Evander.

He's not a Hany Mukhtar.

He's not going out and scoring a banger every single game.