USMNT weekend viewing guide: What a treat

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We’re closing out October with some tasty matchups including some head to head action in Ligue 1 and an early season matchup in the Eredivise between title contenders. There are some injury concerns as well

which is a nasty trick but there are still plenty of good matches to watch this weekend. Here’s what we’re keeping an eye on:

Friday

AC Milan v Pisa – 2:45p on Paramount+: Christian Pulisic remains out for AC Milan, likely through the November international break according to Max Allegri. Milan currently sit top of the Serie A table and are facing off against a Pisa side that have yet to win a match and sit bottom of the table.

Saturday

Borussia Monchengladbach v Bayern Munich – 9:30a on ESPN Select: Joe Scally, Gio Reyna and Borussia Monchengladbach who are coming off a 3-1 loss to Union Berlin and sit at the bottom of the table still looking for their first win on the season won’t see things get any easier this weekend as they host Bayern Munich. Bayern already look like they are running away with the league title, they are perfect through their first seven matches and hold a five point lead over RB Leipzig who are second in the table. Bayern have scored 27 through their first seven matches, and allowed just four; they aren’t just winning, they are dominating.

Augsburg v RB Leipzig – 9:30a on ESPN Select: Noahkai Banks received his second straight start last weekend in Augsburg’s 1-1 draw with Koln. Augsburg have four points from those two matches and are currently in 13th place. On Saturday, they host second place RB Leipzig who are coming off a 2-1 win over Hamburg.

Eintracht Frankfurt v St Pauli – 9:30a on ESPN Select: James Sands and St. Pauli have lost four straight matches and currently sit in fourteenth place. Sands has started every match for St. Pauli who started their season with two wins and seven points in their first three matches but since then have scored just once across all four losses.

Newcastle United v Fulham – 10a on USA Network: Antonee Robinson remains out with his knee injury that is becoming highly concerning for a US player that has shown to be one of the most important features of the USMNT setup. Fulham have lost three straight matches and sit in 15th place.

Middlesbrough v Wrexham – 10a on CBSSN: Aidan Morris has come off the bench in two straight matches, both wins for the English Championship side that are currently in second place, a point back of Haji Wright’s Coventry City, through the first quarter of the season.

Monaco v Toulouse – 1p on beIN Sports: Folarin Balogun and Monaco host Mark McKenzie and Toulouse on Saturday afternoon in a Ligue 1 matchup. Balogun came in off the bench last weekend and ten minutes later scored the opening goal for Monaco. Unfortunately, the team would give up a tying goal in the 85th minute and settled for a draw with Angers, their second straight draw and the third straight match that they have failed to win, they have fallen from first in the standings three matches ago, down to seventh place. Mark McKenzie also came in off the bench for Toulouse as his team defeated Metz 4-0 for their second straight victory, to move into eighth place.

Cremonese v Atalanta – 2:45p on Paramount+: Yunus Musah did not appear for Atalanta last weekend as the team was held to a scoreless draw with Lazio. Musah had appeared as a substitute in the four prior matches for Atalanta who have yet to loose this season but have drawn three straight and currently sit in eighth place, though they are still just five points back of league leading AC Milan.

Lens v Olympique Marseille – 3:05p on beIN Sports: Tim Weah and Olympique Marseille defeated Le Havre 6-2 last weekend with Weah coming into the match as a substitute to play the final 20 minutes of the match. Marseille were up 2-1 when Weah came into the match, he did not score or assist on any of the subsequent four goals to be scored by Marseille but let’s just assume the correlation is causation here people.

Sunday

Feyenoord v PSV – 9:30a on ESPN Select: Ricardo Pepi and Sergino Dest both came off the bench for PSV midweek with Pepi scoring a goal and adding an assist in the team’s 6-2 trouncing of Napoli in Champions League group stage play. This weekend the team will travel to Feyenoord looking to overtake their hosts for the top of the table. PSV have won three straight, and four of their past five but are currently three points back of Feyenoord who have just one draw to blemish their record through the first nine matches of the season.

Bournemouth v Nottingham Forest – 10a on Peacock: Tyler Adams and third place Bournemouth will host a Nottingham Forest side who are in eighteenth place and fired Ange Postecoglou basically at the final whistle of last weekend’s 3-0 loss to Chelsea. The team responded midweek with a 2-0 win over Porto in Europa League play to snap a ten match winless streak across all competitions.

Arsenal v Crystal Palace – 10a on Peacock: Chris Richards and Crystal Palace will look to bounce back from a home loss to Cypriot side AEK Larnaca in Conference League play on Thursday. Richards did not appear in the match for Palace who are winless in their past two league matches as well, including last weekends come from behind 3-3 draw with Bournemouth, as they converted a penalty in the seventh minute of stoppage time to draw level and salvage the point.

Bayer Leverkusen v Freiburg – 10:30a on ESPN Select: Malik Tillman’s thigh injury is expected to keep him out another week. The midfielder picked up the injury while on international duty causing him to miss the match against Australia as well as the two matches played by his club since returning from the window, including Tuesday’s embarassing 7-2 loss to defending champions PSG.

Olympique Lyon v Strasbourg – 3:45p on beIN Sports: Tanner Tessmann played the first half of Lyon’s 2-0 win over Basel in Europa League action on Thursday, coming out with his team up 1-0 at the half. Tessmann had come off the bench last weekend for the final 13’ in his teams 3-2 loss to Nice, a loss which dropped Lyon to fifth in the Ligue 1 table. On Sunday they host a Strasbourg team that are a point ahead of them, and in third place.

Lazio v Juventus – 3:45p on Paramount+: Weston McKennie also came off the bench last weekend as Juventus fell to Como 2-0 but then started midweek and went the full ninety as Juve fell to Real Madrid at the Burnabeu in Champions League action. With last weeks defeat Juventus fell to seventh place in the league table, four points back of the league leaders.

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