St. Louis City SC return to CityPark on Saturday to face arguably the best team in MLS (well, they have the most points; that counts for something, right?). But after two straight losses \u2013 and more than 180 minutes without a goal \u2013 questions and concerns are swirling around the club. Well, okay, maybe not \u201cswirling\u201d.<\/p>\n
Maybe they\u2019re just sort of \u201cfloating\u201d around the club. You know, like mosquitos on a sweltering July day in a South City bar whose air conditioning is broken. Regardless, there are some truths that the team \u2013 and their fans \u2013 ought to come to terms with before the whistle blows in St. Louis on Saturday or they\u2019ll face some consequences they\u2019d rather not experience. Here are three:<\/p>\n
A few weeks back, half of Gateway City was thinking that their new team might just be invincible<\/a>. You may say that\u2019s nuts, but remember, this is a city that sent its hockey team to the Stanley Cup Finals in its inaugural season<\/em><\/a>. A city whose football team won its first Super Bowl with a quarterback who had been bagging groceries a few years earlier<\/a>. A city with the second most World Series championships<\/a> in the majors. So, you know, it\u2019s not crazy for them to think that something crazy might happen.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> \u201cIn My End Is My Beginning\u201d: St. Louis City SC Lose to Minnesota<\/a><\/p>\n But it didn\u2019t. St. Louis lost to the Loons in a heartbreaker and then they got stomped by the Sounders, and now they\u2019re lining up against a team that\u2019s on a four-game winning streak while they\u2019re reeling from back-to-back losses. That\u2019s the nature of MLS, isn\u2019t it? But look, a lot of teams win a lot of titles and don\u2019t go undefeated on their way to doing it. In fact, nearly all of them do<\/em><\/strong>. So St. Louis lost. Big deal. As coach Bradley Carnell said after the MUFC match, \u201cWe\u2019re not superhuman.\u201d Frankly, it\u2019s a measure of your success that you actually have to say something like that in a press conference.<\/p>\n Full-time. pic.twitter.com\/o4peDypPhk<\/a><\/p>\n — St Louis CITY SC (@stlCITYsc) April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nJust Because You Lost Your Next Three Doesn\u2019t Mean You Suck.<\/h3>\n
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