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.
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.
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.
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.
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.