Sep 11, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
Episode 1: Why so many, uh, fallings down? 0:00 /1928.646530612245 1× Among the things covered in this, the very first episode of the JonMarthaler.com podcast: - The Loons are resilient, sure…
John MarthalerHost
Boy, I can sure pick them in terms of times to be launching a lot of coverage of Minnesota United stuff.
It would be nice from a business perspective if Minnesota United was winning every game, but that's not what's happening right now.
They haven't won a home game in MLS play since April 18th, and now they don't play another one until September 19th, so it's going to be five full months without Minnesota winning a game at Allianz Field.
The hard thing to me about Minnesota United right now is that I keep looking for sort of green shoots for things to be optimistic about, for things to get excited about, and they have some of those things.
They switched it up a little bit, and all of a sudden, they scored 12 goals in three games, an absolute, maybe the most they've scored in a three-game stretch in club history, and except they won one, lost one, and drew one of those games.
It's hard to score five goals and then three goals and then four goals and end up with just four points out of those games, but Minnesota managed it.
And then they turned around, and on Wednesday night, they came back home against FC Dallas and just sort of laid an egg in front of the home crowd.
It was one of those where you just go, man, I just cannot understand what's going on with this team.
And the other problem you sort of look at is you can give Minnesota credit in a number of these games about coming back from being down.
They were down 2-0 against Orlando last They came back to lead 3-2 and ended up drawing 3-3.
At some point, we have to focus on why so many falling down moments rather than how many times they've managed to get up from those.
Boy, I can sure pick them in terms of times to be launching a lot of coverage of Minnesota United stuff.
It would be nice from a business perspective if Minnesota United was winning every game, but that's not what's happening right now.
They haven't won a home game in MLS play since April 18th, and now they don't play another one until September 19th, so it's going to be five full months without Minnesota winning a game at Allianz Field.
The hard thing to me about Minnesota United right now is that I keep looking for sort of green shoots for things to be optimistic about, for things to get excited about, and they have some of those things.
They switched it up a little bit, and all of a sudden, they scored 12 goals in three games, an absolute, maybe the most they've scored in a three-game stretch in club history, and except they won one, lost one, and drew one of those games.
It's hard to score five goals and then three goals and then four goals and end up with just four points out of those games, but Minnesota managed it.
And then they turned around, and on Wednesday night, they came back home against FC Dallas and just sort of laid an egg in front of the home crowd.
It was one of those where you just go, man, I just cannot understand what's going on with this team.
And the other problem you sort of look at is you can give Minnesota credit in a number of these games about coming back from being down.
They were down 2-0 against Orlando last They came back to lead 3-2 and ended up drawing 3-3.
At some point, we have to focus on why so many falling down moments rather than how many times they've managed to get up from those.
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