Marco Reus

We knew Chucky Lozano would be out, but Philly...

It would be no flu game for Marco Reus.

He would just sit this one out, a late scratch, coming down with a flu or an illness or something.

That was a massive loss, although, I'll put it out there, if Marco Reus... starts this game joseph pancel does not so it certainly worked out very very well for carson in that one with joseph pancel starting with that philly let's get into the lineups let's talk about this match uh greg vanny in his 239th match at the helm for carson after 250 matches with toronto 4-3-3 that Galaxy have been coming out with all season.

JT Marcinkowski, who played very well in this one.

Kudos to JT.

It crops up on that.

It's not the first time that Hot Wheels have got involved with a footballer, but we'll have to hope it goes better than 2013 when they created an MR11 football car inspired by Marco Reus, then with Borussia Dortmund.

Oh.

But unfortunately, a few months after they'd created this car, Royce was fined 540,000 euros for driving.

But a player that is neither one of our players to watch only because I think we were trying to go a little bit deeper than the most important player to watch on the Galaxy.

Marco Reus, eight goals, 12 assists in MLS play.

He'll cross the 2,000-minute mark for the Galaxy in this match.

And after this match, he will have played about 800 minutes more than he did in 2025.

But like we have seen with Hugo Lloris in 2026, where the clock seems to be turning backwards rather than forwards, how good and how dangerous is Marco Reus?

uh yes and yes um yeah no he's been he's been great for the galaxy i mean this is a guy that was never supposed to be a starter or much less play what did you say two two thousand plus minutes i mean that's yeah that's a ton for what a 38 year old uh he's contributed just under just under 50 of Galaxy goals either goals or assists you mentioned gel Klaus him and Jacques Klaus have Combined for I believe five or six goals already there their understanding is becoming really really Telepathic on occasion they seem to know where they're at but yeah and Marco Reyes is another level, and at least as it pertains to the Galaxy roster, he sees things quicker than his teammates.

You can tell on occasion that he'll play a pass, and they're just not there.

Robert Taylor, who seems to be...

He definitely is in terms of form.

I mean, after, you know, a couple of, as you say, poor seasons at Dortmund as well, where it was almost like he'd come in to replace, like, a role that wasn't needed at Dortmund with Marco Reus leaving, um, at the end of that, you know, the European Cup final loss.

But, you know, for him to come in and have the impact that he once had on the Brighton team in the past as well, in the spell before, you know, to, to get back, straight back into that squad under a com- you know, completely different manager, a different technicality and, and tactics as well.

And, you know, for him to play the way he has and, and interact with the players around him and by actually being that ball-playing midfielder, if you like, but also finding the positions to score goals 'cause he wasn't...