16-05-2025
Who has the upper hand ahead of the Hudson River Derby?
Who has the upper hand ahead of the Hudson River Derby?
Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros chat with MLS reporter & analyst Michele Giannone ahead of MLS rivalry week and break down NYCFC & New York Red Bulls ahead of the Hudson River Derby. Hear the full conversation on the 'The Cooligans' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
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What are you looking forward to for this matchup?
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I really like New York City, but it's sometimes so frustrating to watch.
The midfield.
It's such a mess.
Now, The Keaton Parks, uh, injury, I think it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's huge, like completely drastic.
You're basically now depending on what an 18 year old Jonathan Short, who I love, but you cannot put all the weight of the midfield on him, right?
39 year old, 38 year old Max Maxi Morales.
So I believe New York City has to be or try to be all in towards Kevin De Bruyne.
I mean, he's in the family.
He's in Manchester City.
The last thing I heard and I already heard, I think he's very close to Napoli in, in, in Italy.
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He would be.
for New York City and that's what you need.
Let's talk about the other side of the river, uh, New York Red Bulls.
This is a team that they do.
They miss Lewis Morgan, of course.
Like they don't have a guy that, that has that change of speed that now it's more like that you can just play direct or throw it in a space, yeah, throw into the space and then we can all set up and, and, and, and I think they're missing that guy, that piece when Forsberg is engaged.
Now when Chopomoti is engaged, you'll see the quality and you see the results, right?
But when one of.
Those guys, uh, have a, has a bad game or is not engaged or, or maybe has maybe just like bad luck on a game.
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You see how the team falls and those players like Lewis Morgan that necessarily are not like big DP stars but are on that like next tier 2 or tier 3 that top, yeah, top 10 like max time that can make those um um impact on the game, not necessarily from that.
I think they're missing that.
It's always something with uh Red Bull and the Southern River derbies that they're, uh, I watch.
I think both teams level themselves up for this.
This is a part of it that I like in the culture of this Hudson River Derby is that these young players that never even even maybe played in the derby, come in with the the anger and and uh uh uh and sort of veracity of ferocity of like the, the history of the Hudson River derby.
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And now, now, you know, we had, uh, last year we had the, the Hudson River Derby trophy, the, the, the third rail, they brought the trophy here and stuff like that.
So there's, there's just, uh, I think we're on the precipice of another like a big game this weekend.
