Bootsy Collins
13 Sep 2007, 10:54 AM
We now have 10 days off. Or in more florid terms, "On the first through the tenth days, they rested."
On the eleventh day, we play @ Chicago, and with that game we begin the toughest stretch of our entire season: five matches in thirteen days. Jeebus.
We have:
Sunday 9/23 -- @ Chicago
Wednesday 9/26 -- CD Guadelajara, home leg (Copa Sudamericana)
Saturday 9/29 -- Toronto FC
Tuesday 10/2 -- @ CD Guadelajara, away leg (Copa Sudamericana)
Friday 10/5 -- @ Kansas City
Other biscuits of adversity:
in that match against Chicago, we'll be missing Fred, Gomez and Olsen because of accumulated yellow cards.
Guadelajara is at 5200 feet.
We have yet to play well this year against KC, with a 4-2 drubbing at home and a 1-0 win at Arrowhead that was against the run of play.
After starting out pretty poorly, Chicago seems to have found some rhythm and is getting results; they've worked their way into the 8th playoff spot. A key in that resurgence has been the play of legendary Mexican international Cuauhtemoc Blanco, better known as "that goddamned motherfscker" and the most disliked player in the world by yours truly. A lot of teams have appeared to be hacking him pretty hard this last month and a half, hoping that his famous temper will come out and he'll get in trouble (a la getting mocked into retaliation during the Gold Cup); but it hasn't happened. He's just played really well, goddammit.
The Chivas team we'll be playing has undergone some roster changes since we saw them in March/April -- Bofo Bautista and Diego Martinez are both gone; but Omar Arellano is now there, on loan from Pachuca.
While I would surely like to do well in the Sudamericana, I don't know how I feel about doing well at the expense of our lead. I don't have high hopes for the away Chicago match missing those three players; and I don't have high hopes for the away KC match three days after a hard match at 5200 feet. And if Moreno and Emilio both go 90 minutes at Chicago and at home against Chivas, they'll probably get no more than a half each against Toronto, especially given that they'll be needed three days later. Last night's play by Kpene, and this stretch coming up, really really really makes me wish we had that third forward. But I dunno how we could get one now without breaking something else that's working well.
On the eleventh day, we play @ Chicago, and with that game we begin the toughest stretch of our entire season: five matches in thirteen days. Jeebus.
We have:
Sunday 9/23 -- @ Chicago
Wednesday 9/26 -- CD Guadelajara, home leg (Copa Sudamericana)
Saturday 9/29 -- Toronto FC
Tuesday 10/2 -- @ CD Guadelajara, away leg (Copa Sudamericana)
Friday 10/5 -- @ Kansas City
Other biscuits of adversity:
in that match against Chicago, we'll be missing Fred, Gomez and Olsen because of accumulated yellow cards.
Guadelajara is at 5200 feet.
We have yet to play well this year against KC, with a 4-2 drubbing at home and a 1-0 win at Arrowhead that was against the run of play.
After starting out pretty poorly, Chicago seems to have found some rhythm and is getting results; they've worked their way into the 8th playoff spot. A key in that resurgence has been the play of legendary Mexican international Cuauhtemoc Blanco, better known as "that goddamned motherfscker" and the most disliked player in the world by yours truly. A lot of teams have appeared to be hacking him pretty hard this last month and a half, hoping that his famous temper will come out and he'll get in trouble (a la getting mocked into retaliation during the Gold Cup); but it hasn't happened. He's just played really well, goddammit.
The Chivas team we'll be playing has undergone some roster changes since we saw them in March/April -- Bofo Bautista and Diego Martinez are both gone; but Omar Arellano is now there, on loan from Pachuca.
While I would surely like to do well in the Sudamericana, I don't know how I feel about doing well at the expense of our lead. I don't have high hopes for the away Chicago match missing those three players; and I don't have high hopes for the away KC match three days after a hard match at 5200 feet. And if Moreno and Emilio both go 90 minutes at Chicago and at home against Chivas, they'll probably get no more than a half each against Toronto, especially given that they'll be needed three days later. Last night's play by Kpene, and this stretch coming up, really really really makes me wish we had that third forward. But I dunno how we could get one now without breaking something else that's working well.