Join us and the Lou City Tailgaters for all your pre-match festivity needs! Tailgating typically starts around four (4) hours prior to kickoff but you may find a few die-hards out there earlier. The tailgate is supporter run and supporter funded. We recommend BYOB and food contributions. If you do partake we ask that you contribute to the general fund. The main tailgate is located at the corner of N Preston St and E Witherspoon St in the Riverside Parking Cobalt Lot. The Coopers are joined here by several other SGs, so come say hello to everyone!

About 30-40 minutes prior to kickoff we’ll start the March to the Match. Join us as we march around the tailgate lot, up Preston St, and into the east entrance. Flags will be waving, smoke will be popping, and we’ll be chanting and singing the whole way!

After the match concludes, we have beers at Against the Grain which is conveniently located right outside the Slugger Field gate. Make sure you order a pint of the Coopers-inspired Ball Control! $0.50 from every pour (on home match days) of Ball Control goes to Shirley’s Way, a most excellent local charity helping families of those afflicted with cancer.

WHO, AGAIN?

This is our first match against the Baby Bulls this season. As usual, it’s a team of some fairly new, very talented faces. Regardless of the names and numbers on the shirts, RB2 plays a well-designed system to keep the ball and get their forwards or attacking mids behind the defense and through on goal. It’s exciting soccer, the kind of game a not-tired Louisville City team usually relishes playing.

This year’s edition of the Red Bulls II is a little Jekyll and Hyde. They’re consistently bad to mediocre on the road, picking up just five points and zero wins in eight away games. They can score, having put five on Tampa Bay and the Battery this season and four on Indy Eleven, with 27 goals total this season. They can concede, too, having given up three goals to Pittsburgh, Bethlehem Steel, and Ottawa Fury, totaling 25 goals agaisnt. Red Bulls II have been shut out four times in their eight away games, and have only scored more than once in a 2-2 draw at Bethlehem on June 20.

This season, Amando Moreno leads the Baby Bulls in scoring with six goals. Justin Stroud, whom I guarantee you’ve never heard of before just now, is New York’s assists leader with five. Andrew Tinari is the main chance creator with fifty (50!). Stefano Bonomo, a wily veteran at this point, has just three goals and two assists, but he was released from the team on Wednesday. Interesting timing, hmm?

We’ll probably see something fairly expected from Louisville City on Saturday, the only changes being in attacking midfield if I had to guess. Hopefully the knocks that took Shaun Francis and Oscar Jimenez out of the game on Wednesday weren’t too serious. City are going to have to be patient tomorrow night and more efficient with their chances. They need three points. New York’s not an easy team to get them from. Let’s do it anyway.

VAMOS MORADOS, VAMOS A GANAR!