The Round One Best-of-3 Series grind of the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs rolls on – for some teams.

From the East, one club has booked a Conference Semifinal trip while another six await a decisive Game 3 next weekend. For one other, the season has rolled up after a quick, two-game trip and rolled into a long, three-month offseason.

We’ll soon have post-mortems for the eliminated teams. In the meantime, let’s break down what we saw in Game 2. NEW YORK CITY FC 0 (6) - 0 (7) CHARLOTTE FC

Game 2 in a nutshell: A massive missed opportunity from NYCFC . I generally think Pascal Jansen’s done a very good job this year, but he got it wrong by starting this game in a 3-4-2-1 – really, you could argue it was a 5-4-1 – with Maxi Moralez and Nicolás Fernández Mercau underneath Alonso Martín

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