Predicting the USL East
Our foolishly fearless forecast is made without benefit of any on-pitch observations.
Analysis
Analysis / Philadelphia Union II
Analysis / Philadelphia Union II
Pressure creates diamonds – the Steel’s 2018 schedule
The newly-released USL game schedule for 2018 demands that the Steel improve markedly as spring progresses through summer into fall.
Analysis / Philadelphia Union II
The Real, McKenzie signings’ implications for the Steel
While Bethlehem will need to sign another player to replace Matt Real for practice and to fill its minimum USL roster, recovering McKenzie back into the defense on game days plugs a significant hole with a proven USL player since both men are likely to play their games with the Steel next season.
Analysis / Philadelphia Union II
Roster-building: Bethlehem Steel 2018
Lessons from Bethlehem’s 2016 and 2017 rosters and 2018’s partial list allows an incomplete guess at 2018 in the Lehigh Valley.
Analysis
The Union, the expansion draft, and a depth chart
PSP guesses whom the Union will protect and expose in the LAFC expansion draft, within the context of its best understanding of the organization’s current depth chart.
Analysis / USL
Monday’s night’s player development lessons
While Red Bulls did not win Monday night’s first leg hosting Toronto in the playoffs, their excellent player development process was fully on display.
Analysis / Season Reviews / Union
A creativity problem — the Union’s No. 10s
PSP’s Adam Cann breaks down the DEEP numbers that reveal what went wrong at the Union’s No. 10 position this year.
Analysis
Chaos: The Canadian Premier League, NASL, and USL
Soccer Canada has approved the Canadian Premier League for play in 2018. NASL met Friday to try to appeal from U. S. Soccer’s demoting them from division 2. The only certainty about the future of minor league professional soccer in North America is that it won’t be the same in 2018.
Analysis / Featured / Philadelphia Union II
The Steel and the playoffs — it’s gonna be close
PSP looks at the Steel’s playoff chances, both the old-fashioned eyeball instinctual way and using Chris Sherman’s statistics. the techniques both old and new say it will be extremely close against Red Bulls 2 for the final slot and the right to go to Louisville on Friday October 20th.
Analysis
A more frugal 2018 Union bench?
Possible off-season organization roster promotions ranging from plausible to bold. They would clear salary space for needed help, if our salary guesses are anywhere close to reasonable.
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