Jeong Sang-bin

... where you're just gonna have those moments.

La- uh, what was it? Against Toronto it was Sangbin that got in his way.

Um-

Yeah.

63 minutes Red Bull sub, 71 St. Louis, 84 Red Bull, 85 St. Louis, and 87 Red Bull.

But for, so it's, it, it very back and forth is what I wanted to illustrate.

Now, for St. Louis, uh, looking at their first set of subs at 71, Simon Becher and Sangbin Jeong came in for Alex Mattan and Carla Holza.

We had a two striker look again with Becher and Navarro.

Uh, what I was, what I showed prior to our podcast recording was some visuals of the movements that I've seen courtesy of soccer data visor, where you can build your own little manager mode movements.

And the movement that Conrad Vollum has been able to successfully employ between bombing high on the right, underlapping in these high runs on the right side from a Sangbin or a Holsa, but then also cutting into the midfield.

He's making himself...

He's forcing the story of making himself a key piece to this attack from that right wing back spot.

Holsa can do that.

But then this past game, the thing that impressed me the most is he can actually drop outside.

It's not a backline breaking run that Sangbin does when he's outside on the right side, acting like a wide second striker.

It is more cerebral in play.

And we're in the fall now, and some of these players might stay with their clubs, of course.

Um, but these are players who are a few months away from f- officially being MLS free agents, and just a couple names to keep, keep in mind if, if that were to happen, like Thiago Martins, Ti, uh, Matias Laborda, Joao Klauss, uh, Kosi Tafari, Steven Marrero, Sang Bin Jeong.

Those are kind of six that, that I looked at, and I don't...

If you put the over-under at three and a half of how many of these guys will actually-

Colorado never felt in it from the jump.

You know, you had the Sangbin goal where the goalkeeper, you know, hooked his leg basically, but Sangbin got back up and knocked it in.

I do want to ask you about that real quick, just that one moment.

I mean, of course, Matan and Betra scoring a little bit later on.

I mean, whether it's him playing with Sang Ben, him now forming a relationship with Carlo Holsa, it has not mattered a bit.

And it's been phenomenal to see and has brought balance to this team.

And you bring up Sangbin, too.

At some point down the road on Red Spoke Rising, we need to have a difficult conversation about whether or not Sangbin comes back to St. Louis after this season because he doesn't have an option.

You also have Chris Durkin as the only other player whose average position from our starting 11 was in the defensive half.

Everybody else from Thomas Tolan to Alex Matan, Conrad Volum, Sangbin Zhang, Carla Holsa, and Hafa Navajo were in the attacking half as their average positions.

Defending from the front is the way that St. Louis largely mitigated what Toronto was able to do.

And once they fell into this consistent aspect of possession, it just escalated from there.

But there's a few things that I kind of really want to talk about that Chris Gebhard from STL Soccer News, our friend who provides these videos to us, he does a good job of really visualizing on his highlights.

And so check that out on social media when he posts them on Sunday.

But a couple of things as this plays building up that you'll see is when Matan makes his move from left to right, you have Sangbin cutting over from right to left.

Sangbin was in that central striker position as Matan had it on the left side.

And the starting 11 that went into this one was Roman Berkey, Dante Pulvera, Timo Baumgartel, Lucas McNaughton, thomas tolton chris durkin daniel edelman conrad volum alex matan sang ben jong and simon betcher i did get did come out after the game that carlo holsa was said to be ill or dealing with a bug or a sickness and it was something that was kind of moving through the locker room so that's going to be something to watch going into toronto where we just don't know what the they might not carry a tag or a designation on the player availability report but holsa was named to the matchday roster so if we needed him he would have been available it's just capacity to go 70 plus minutes just wasn't there.

And honestly, if you're going to have that happen, it's probably one of the better matchups for it to happen against Colorado, where Sangbin has experience in exploiting Colorado a lot.

And he continued that form today.

So I was excited seeing this, not even knowing the Holsa and the illness factor from the jump.

I don't believe the Open Cup publishes XG numbers.

At least I couldn't find them on SofaScore or FopMob or anything like that.

But at the same time, this was a this was another match where we had great XG opportunities for both Matan, Betcher and Sangbin.

I mean, go back and look and we'll show the goals here in a minute.

You know, this weak link of the space between him and Fori is exposed again.

He can't keep up with Sangbin as he's played in, but luckily, you know, Pants' strength is that one-on-one rushing out and he does a really good job of bailing us out with a big save.

It could easily have been 2-0 in the first 10 minutes.

Yeah.