With St. Louis City SC’s hopes and dreams officially dashed as of last Saturday, the team doesn’t have much to lose and has very little to gain, at least in the standings.

City SC is 13th in the Western Conference, 24th overall, and that’s the best it can do. City SC isn’t mathematically clear of finishing last in the league, but as long as one of the six teams beneath it loses twice over the final weeks of the season, that won’t happen either. So if ever there was a time for experimenting, City SC’s game at Austin on Saturday is it.

How much of that interim coach David Critchley will do is in flux, because even if the team can’t change its place in the standings, wins still resonate for a team that has had so few of them this season.

“The last couple of games, not the LAFC one, but the

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