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American Soccer Analysis
American Soccer Analysis is a podcast that covers American Soccer from an analytical perspective founded in the belief that soccer is best understood not by fat old men in smoky rooms, but by people adept at Excel spreadsheets.
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Season Preview Week — Chicago Stars FC, with Lesley Ryder of Gal Pal Sports
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Season Preview Week — Boston Legacy FC, with Emma Healy of the Boston Globe
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Season Preview Week — Denver Summit, with Catalina Bush & Kieran Doyle-Davis
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: USWNT in SheBelieves, Portland Thorns' New Coach, and Gabi Portilho's Move to San Diego
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American Soccer AnalysisBreaking Down the USWNT SheBelieves Cup Roster
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: Croix Bethune and Claire Hutton Spark the NWSL Offseason to Life
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ASA Show - g+ Draft and League Preview
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ASA Show - Check out futi with John Muller and Mike Imburgio
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: xOG Live in Houston 2026, with Catalina Bush & Chloe Dhillon!
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ASA Show - Arman Kafai Recaps ASI Conference and MLS Roster Shenanigans
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: Jessica Berman and U.S. Soccer Fail to Meet the Moment(s). Plus, USWNT and Trinity Rodman's Contract
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ASA Show - US Soccer Announces Glass Onion
Akshay Easwaran of US Soccer joins the boys to talk about Glass Onion, their new package for synchronizing identifiers among soccer datasets. More info can be…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Offseason — What on Earth Are the San Diego Wave Up To?
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: Lindsey Heaps is Coming! Sam Coffey's Going! The USWNT is on the Move in the NWSL!
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: The xOG NWSL Best XI!!!
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ASA Show - Year End Extravaganza
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: The Trinity Rodman Saga, Explained
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ASA Show - Can Messi Summit The Whitecaps?
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: USWNT Recap — The U.S. finishes the year strong against Italy
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Championship Recap—Gotham FC Take Down Washington Spirit, Earn 2nd-Ever Title
Fly Bats, fly! Gotham FC won their second NWSL title on Saturday, squeaking past the Washington Spirit 1-0 on a miracle goal from Rose Lavelle in the second…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Championship Preview — Washington Spirit vs. Gotham FC
The moment has finally come! In the now-most-played fixture in NWSL—and in what may now finally be called a true rivalry—the Washington Spirit and Gotham FC…
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ASA Show - Conference Semi Finals and a Schedule Change
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Semifinal Recap — Jaedyn Shaw Golazo Sends Gotham Past Pride to Championship
It was more than 90 minutes of dross, capped by a moment of magic: 2023 NWSL champs Gotham FC squeaked past 2024 champs Orlando Pride thanks to Jaedyn Shaw's…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Semifinal Recap — Spirit Deliver the Goods and Send Thorns Packing
The Washington Spirit are headed to their second straight NWSL Championship game on the heels of a commanding performance against a depleted Portland Thorns…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Semifinal Preview: Orlando Pride vs. Gotham FC
Our second semifinal preview looks at the other two recent champs, Orlando and Gotham. Gotham has the better and deeper roster, but are they invincible?…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Semifinal Preview — Washington Spirit vs. Portland Thorns
The first of our two semifinal previews drills down on the Portland Thorns coming to Audi Field to try and force an upset on the Washington Spirit. The only…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Quarterfinal Preview — Orlando Outlasts Seattle
There was only one NWSL quarterfinal that wrapped in regulation time, but it wasn't exactly a classic. The Pride's early goal let them wait Seattle's anemic…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Quarterfinal Recap — Portland Take Down San Diego in an Attritional Grindfest
Everyone knew that the Portland Thorns and San Diego Wave could go any number of ways. But a raucous home crowd and a moment of magic from Olivia Moultrie and…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Quarterfinal Recap — Aubrey Kingsbury Heroics Get Washington Past Louisville
The Washington Spirit played like the no. 2 seed by the end of the regular season. They offered a genuinely strong attacking performance. But Racing Louisville…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Quarterfinal Recap — Gotham Defeats Kansas City in an All-Time Upset
Though some may have predicted it—and Gotham didn't exactly play like a no. 8 seed this year—the Bats delivered the upset of the decade, beating the Current in…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Playoffs Preview, with Abigail Segel!
The 2025 NWSL regular season is in the books, but the fun is just getting started. Defector columnist Abigail Segel joined us to walk through all the…
American Soccer AnalysisUSWNT Friendlies Recap, plus the Laura Language Model
RECORDED BEFORE SARAH GORDEN'S STATEMENT ON ELIZABETH EDDY'S NEW YORK POST ARTICLE The U.S. women's national team logged three more friendlies on their way to…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 25 — Trying to be Proud of Orlando
Four more teams punched their tickets to the NWSL playoffs, while Racing Louisville and the North Carolina Courage are staring each other down. Meanwhile, the…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 24 — How Do You Beat the Kansas City Current?
The Kansas City Current have officially become the best regular-season team in NWSL history. Their win over Gotham ensures that they will break the all-time…
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ASA Show - The First Annual ASA Awards
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 23 — Are Louisville In? Are North Carolina Out? Will San Diego Hang On?
Only three games left in the NWSL regular season, and Racing Louisville pulled off an emphatic road victory over the North Carolina Courage to solidify their…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 22: The Great Seattle Reign Caper
The Seattle Reign, who take fewer shots than anyone, whose defense is mediocre at best, are somehow in fourth place in the NWSL standings. How did we get here?…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: The NWSL Stretch Run Heat Check
Only five games remain in the NWSL regular season, and hardly anything separates those teams on either side of the playoff line, not to mention those hoping to…
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ASA Show - Playoff Odds Drop
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 20 — Are Gotham on the Ascent? Are San Diego on the Decline?
Savannah DeMelo's collapse on Lumen Field on Sunday quickly became the most important story in the NWSL. DeMelo was responsive and alert before she was…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 19 — How Utah, Houston & Chicago Have Found Rich Veins of Form
Though all three are still firmly planted in the bottom half of the table, the fortunes of the Utah Royals, Chicago Stars, and Houston Dash have changed…
American Soccer AnalysisNWSL Week 18: Angel City Win the Battle Against Bay FC, but Did They Lose the War for Alyssa Thompson?
A very intense Labor Day shaped up for the NWSL. After the guys whip around the league, they drill down into Angel City's first-ever results against Bay FC, a…
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ASA Show - Reviewing predictions, are we dumb?
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 17 — San Diego and Louisville, Fully Transformed
The NWSL acted semi-normal this week, so we can concentrate on the actual soccer. The guys whip around the league and touch on the Morgan Gautrat loan to…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 16 — Draws, Heat, Misery Define the Weekend's Action
RECORDED BEFORE THE ALYSSA NAEHER - LIZBETH OVALLE INSANITY For the second week in a row, we do not have a featured game of the week. That's because external…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 15 — Derbies, Oppressive Heat, and Unpacking the Sean Nahas Firing
For the first time in over six years, we saw the second straight weekend where more than half the games ended in a draw. Oppressive heat? Weather delays? Who's…
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ASA Show - Mihailovic, Muller, Min Son (Heung) Moves
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American Soccer AnalysisNWSL Week 14: Rodman and Sentnor and Copa América NARRATIVE CHAOS
The NWSL is back! And boy oh boy not much happened, until everything did. The guys dissect the blockbuster transfer of Ally Sentnor to the Kansas City Current…
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ASA Show - Analytics Tiers and Survey
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: USWNT Recap — For the Irish, Denver & Cincinnati are Houses of Pain
The USWNT tore off a couple friendlies over the weekend, hammering the Republic of Ireland 8-0 across matches in Commerce City and Cincinnati. There were few…
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ASA Show - Club World Cup Conundrums
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 13 — We Need to Talk About Utah
We've reached the halfway point of the 2025 NWSL regular season, and though we've been putting it off as long as possible, we have no choice but to discuss the…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 12 Recap — Bay FC's Home Loss to Orlando; plus, Angel City head coach Alex Straus!
Another week, another slightly chaotic result. Bay FC lost 1-0 at home to the Orlando Pride, but not without producing some scintillating stuff in the…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 11 — San Diego Returns to Baseline, Seattle Sacrifices to Sufferballs Gods
NWSL clubs came out of the international break a little rickety, and with plenty of fire. The guys whip around the league to hit the officiating controversy…
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ASA Show - Harrison and Ben Go On An Adventure
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American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: USWNT Recap — Two More First Caps, Plus NWSL Messiness
The U.S. women's national team put two more friendlies in the books. What can a 7-0 aggregate scoreline against China and Jamaica really tell us about the…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 10 — Unpacking the Sam Laity "Era" of Angel City
Six games, 27 goals: 4.5 goals per game this weekend marks the second-highest per-game goal total over a single NWSL matchweek in league history. It's been…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 9 — HEAT CHECK Part II
The numbers? Still Sticky! But before they dive back in, Eric and Evan briefly discuss the latest USWNT Roster and one very notable omission (hint: it rhymes…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 9 — HEAT CHECK Part I
The numbers are sticky (or, at least, stickier)! Finally, we have a clearer picture of which teams are contenders and which teams still have some (or a lot of)…
American Soccer AnalysisEXPECTED OWN GOALS: NWSL Week 8 — Chicago Stars are Blind
Believe it or not, the guys were already planning on featuring the Chicago Stars' 3-2 loss at home to the Washington Spirit as their game of the week, and then…