WHO:

Ottawa Fury, 12-5-13, 41 points, 7th place Eastern Conference

WHAT:

A USL match

WHEN:

Saturday, September 22, 2018, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE:

Louisville Slugger Field, 401 E. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202

WATCH:

At the game! Tickets are still available! This game matters in terms of playoff seeding for both teams! You should be there! But if you can’t because your attempt to do parkour went about as expected, you can still watch on WBNA 21, listen on 790, and stream it on ESPN+.

WHO, AGAIN?

Ottawa. That city in Canada that everyone forgets exists. It’s the capital! No one (in America, anyway) seems to remember that! And why would they? I don’t know, either.

The Furries are okay. They’re a pretty big, physical, fast team, but they haven’t figured out how to play together particularly well. There isn’t one thing they do that teams need to game plan for, specifically. However, Ottawa’s not a team City should give too many chances on set pieces of any stripe, mainly because of the aforesaid size and physicality.

Ottawa’s not a good road team, but neither was Torontwo and they came into Slugger and made us into a meme. Let’s not repeat that, please. They play a more direct style than Nikola Popovich probably likes, but it seems to suit his team. Yay, another team built to defend and kill you with speed on the counter! Sure haven’t had to deal with much of that lately, hm?

I don’t have any idea what Hackworth is going to do with this game. City hasn’t won a game at Slugger in about two months. They’ve been doing different things with personnel and tactics lately. Hack hasn’t found a plan that suits the friendly confines all that great yet.

I’m guessing we’ll see something a little different again tonight. I’d like to see Morados return to playing pretty soccer, possessing the ball, and scoring some goals. I’m not sure that’s what we’re going to get in this matchup, mainly because it appears Hackworth is determined not to get burned on another counterattack ever again. I certainly understand that, but it’s taking an adjustment from me from an aesthetic standpoint.

Either way, City is better than this team and should win. Vamos a llevar tres puntos por Noche Latina!

VAMOS MORADOS, VAMOS A GANAR!