US Open Cup semis vs. DC PBP

The lineups are up....

New England
Starting Lineup
12 - Doug Warren (GK)
2 - Amaechi Igwe
5 - Joe Germanese
7 - Adam Cristman
17 - Gary Flood
18 - Khano Smith
21 - Shalrie Joseph
22 - Rob Valentino
27 - Wells Thompson
28 - Pat Phelan
32 - Brandon Manzonelli

Substitutes
24 - Brad Knighton (GK)
3 - Chris Albright
30 - Brandon Tyler
34 - Sam Brill


D.C. United
Starting Lineup
1 - Zach Wells (GK)
2 - Gonzalo Peralta
7 - Fred
11 - Luciano Emilio
12 - Ivan Guerrero
18 - Devon McTavish
19 - Clyde Simms
23 - Gonzalo Martinez
25 - Santino Quaranta
26 - Bryan Namoff
99 - Jaime Moreno

Substitutes
40 - James Thorpe (GK)
3 - Jode Vide
5 - Quavas Kirk
15 - Rod Dyachenko
20 - Mike Zaher
21 - Pat Carroll
28 - Craig Thompson

There must be a mistake...

agreed. no way we only have 4 subs.

Yup, the DC's are using one guy who normally doesn't play, we're playing one guy from our First XI.


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how is knighton one of our subs?

ugh manzo is playing and there is no stream. I want to see the kid play lol.

I got the lineups off MLSnet. Nothing's up on the US Open site yet.

Yeah, and I may be wrong, but how can our sub keeper be the guy that's on loan in Portland?

SN is trying to psyche DC out.

Maybe an emergency loan back since he probably won't play? I read somewhere that the Revs were going to use a pool MLS goalkeeper as a backup for tonight's game.

So:

--------Manzonelli-------Cristman---------
Smith------------Joseph--------Thompson
-----------Phelan-----Flood------------
---Igwe--------Valentino------Germanese
-----------------Warren----------------

maybe??????????

maybe switch smith and manzonelli?

God help us

i think you miss read that, it was a "COOL MLS goalkeeper", meaning reis.

Why would they send him back on "emergency" status if he's not going to play? That doesn't make any sense, at least to me.

A pool keeper makes a little more sense (a very little), but even then, why bother when you could just dress Reis, especially if he's not getting in?

I think MLSnet probably just cut and pasted one of the old USOC lineups or something. That's the soundest explanation I can offer.

This pisses me off. I respect the USOC and I can take it seriously, but why does it even exist/why do we play in it if we field this kind of lineup?

Play hard and have fun, kids. Results don't matter.


Nicol channeling his inner U10 coach.

Shalrie better have the game of his life tonight. Because he ain't getting a ton of help.

Why make Albright travel and not start him? Why not even bring Tierney? Or a substitute striker?

This is disappointing, clearly no value has been placed on retaining the Cup.

Maybe it won't be so bad though. Fingers crossed.

My thoughts too.

Were f***** now!

if you watched the pregame video featuring phelan and khano, it appears their content to lose to an mls side instead of risking losing to a usl side

We've gotten here without the first string, so why not let the kids keep playing. They've earned it.


Besides, Wells is in goal for DC.

I thought we might use a pool keeper too, but bringing Knighton back for one game is not unprecedented. Before Knighton, the Timbers had FCD's Ray Burse, who frequently served as backup to Dario Sala because Josh Lambo got hurt.


In the last few games the original MatchTracker left out a sub or two. Hopefully there's one or two other guys they've forgotten to add and will show up later. Either way...this is DC's best lineup with their currently healthy personnel.

That's because we have hardware this year and DC doesn't.

A 4-5-1!? With Wells Thompson at RB!

Anyone else digging the techno intro.

they're playing a 4-5-1 with Thompson in the defense. Christman the lone striker.