Impact sign new head coach - Marco Schällibaum

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  1. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I watched their recent SKC match very carefully, and, first of all, what a good, good match. Second of all, it appears to me that MI make the 1 striker formation work better than it's worked in MLS for years, maybe since Mamadou Diallo and Carlos Valderrama combined so brilliantly. The player movement is of a different level from the rest of the league. The mids make great runs and take advantage of the space the 1 striker formation gives them. Most every MLS team that runs 1 striker is either parking the bus, or counting on that striker to hold up the ball.

    IMO.
     
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  2. MFG North Side

    Nov 4, 2012
    Montreal
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada

    The standings would tend to agree. It's not about how many changes he's made, it should be about getting the important ones right.
     
  3. profiled

    profiled Moderator
    Staff Member

    Feb 7, 2000
    slightly north of a mile high
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Is there a way to un-eat crow if they complete their pretty amazing collapse?

    9 wins in the first 14 games.
    4 wins in the next 18 games.

    On the brink of missing the playoffs (though they still have a good shot at the playoffs).
     
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  4. SoccerPrime

    SoccerPrime Moderator
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    All of them
    Apr 14, 2003
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It has been pretty sad to see them fall apart in regular season and CCL after an amazing start to both.
     
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  5. MFG North Side

    Nov 4, 2012
    Montreal
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    2nd year team y'all, and progression over the first. The real disappointment will be if they indeed miss the playoffs. Otherwise, if they get in to the post season anything can happen.
     
  6. EvilTree

    EvilTree Member+

    Canadian S.C
    Canada
    Nov 20, 2007
    Frozen Swampland, Soviet Canuckistan
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    unless all the 30+ yr old geriatrics get a steroid shot to last the playoffs, I don't see much. Montreal looks out of gas.
    I blame CCL, which always takes more out of MLS teams than people like to admit
     
  7. profiled

    profiled Moderator
    Staff Member

    Feb 7, 2000
    slightly north of a mile high
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    That's the other problem with the team, they struggled due to a lack of depth and tired old legs, that's not going to get better next year with out more big changes... going to be a struggle again.
     
  8. MFG North Side

    Nov 4, 2012
    Montreal
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada

    One of those geriatrics, is tied for the league lead in scoring (don't know what that says about MLS), and they're not the problem. I think this team did a poor job of using the full squad.


    Besides, what do you know about playoffs?:D
     
  9. MFG North Side

    Nov 4, 2012
    Montreal
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada

    http://www.goal.com/en-ca/news/4175...-winning-the-only-option-for-new-impact-coach

    This is the real problem. It's hard to blame Schallibaum for repeatedly going back to his veteran players, because at the end of the day, if this team doesn't make the playoffs ... He's gone.
     
  10. profiled

    profiled Moderator
    Staff Member

    Feb 7, 2000
    slightly north of a mile high
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
  11. EvilTree

    EvilTree Member+

    Canadian S.C
    Canada
    Nov 20, 2007
    Frozen Swampland, Soviet Canuckistan
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    that's the problem. the old geriatrics are overused and tired. The young defenders actually did well enough, but lack of depth in other positions is killing Mtl, esp not having another striker who can score other than di Vaio. Montreal has done a poor job of developing Wenger

    not much. rumours say it's a nice place to visit
     
  12. EvilTree

    EvilTree Member+

    Canadian S.C
    Canada
    Nov 20, 2007
    Frozen Swampland, Soviet Canuckistan
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    and why I dislike meddling Italian owner syndrome. Joey Saputo is a pretty smart guy but I don't think anyone thinks he's qualified to run a soccer club
     
  13. MFG North Side

    Nov 4, 2012
    Montreal
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada

    20 years would say otherwise.

    And we're crapping on a team, who despite the regression, still has a chance to make the playoffs.
     
  14. USvsIRELAND

    USvsIRELAND Member+

    Jul 19, 2004
    ATL
    Wenger should have stayed at CB.
     
  15. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What was he thinking with that starting 11? I loved it being a Chicago fan.
     
  16. Fiosfan

    Fiosfan Red Card

    Mar 21, 2010
    Nevada
    Club:
    New York City FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The latest troubles with the club steams from Joe Saputo's meddling and tinkering with the lineup, players and the staff don't have the balls to say it's so..
    But they all come out in the wash sooner or later.
     
  17. cthomer5000

    cthomer5000 Member+

    Apr 23, 2007
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Note: I realize that I'm responding to a months old post.

    This seems like some weird reverse-revisionist history. While I was totally on board with the Red Bulls changing coaches this year, Backe inherited a total shit-pile of a team, instantly brought us back to respectability, and made the playoffs in every year of his tenure.

    Most fanbases would kill for that. If we didn't have 1-2 players play the worst games of their career or openly sabotage the team (Rafa Marquez) we probably would have gone farther in the playoffs. You can't call his tenure a failure with a straight face.
     
  18. MFG North Side

    Nov 4, 2012
    Montreal
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    It wasn't by choice. Injuries to Brovsky, Bernier, Nesta and Mapp and suspensions to Arnaud and Ferrari didn't leave him with much choice. Despite all that, last night's performance was still an improvement over the NE game last Saturday.
     
  19. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What about martins and Perkins?
     
  20. MFG North Side

    Nov 4, 2012
    Montreal
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    If that's the case, I guess he must have suddenly lost his touch, cause he was top of the table a month ago. At the end of the day Saputo wants to win, and I'd take that any day of the week over an ownership group that doesn't care, and a fan base that doesn't have the balls to do anything about it.
     
  21. fuzzx

    fuzzx Member+

    Feb 4, 2012
    Brossard
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    I assume he kept Perkins and Felipe out to keep them fresh for Saturday.
     
  22. MFG North Side

    Nov 4, 2012
    Montreal
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada

    Perkins has played every MLS league game this season, and Martins just needs to get his act together. There's also a Do or Die game this Saturday (3rd in 8 days) I suspect both will be in the lineup. If Schallibaum would have used similar rotations through out the season, they might have had fresher legs going into this last stretch.
     
  23. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He's a goalie, they should play every game unless they are injuried. Sounds like our coach

    Either way it helped us out, so three teams with 46pts with two games left each.
     
  24. TopDogg

    TopDogg Member

    Jan 31, 2000
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back so hard.
     
  25. tomásbernal

    tomásbernal Member+

    Sep 4, 2007
    Club:
    Portland Timbers
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I hear people saying that there wasn't a good player rotation to keep key guys fresh. I'm not very familiar with Montreal, but I am with Portland. When Porter took over he talked about being concerned with getting a proper rotation going and lasting a full 34 game season. He's done remarkably well with that--most players have gotten games off here and there, and not just due to suspensions and injuries (and there have been quite a few). I'm not writing this post to talk shit, not at all. Could any Impact fans elaborate on whether they think there could have been more rotation? What's the bench like, and depth beyond the game-day 18? Are there players that have gotten very little playing time that you think should have been given more opportunities? As a reference (and it's obvious to folks who follow Portland), the Timbers had a rough stretch in the second third of the season, mostly due to injuries and suspensions that piled up. That said, Porter has done a good job all season of resting players (to the consternation of fans like myself at times), and it seems to be really paying off now, when it really counts. Now we have a long list of guys who've played together in many competitive matches and can be inserted comfortably as needed. Montreal really was unbeatable at the beginning of the season, and it was no fluke.
     
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