DCU versus Team Lex Luthor

It's a sure sign of bad management (at the league offices this time) that this is but our first of 3 road games this upcoming week.

Last time I saw Toronto play they looked pretty good. I think their new foreign DP guy is better than their previous foreign DP guy. But they still seem to give up goals pretty easily so as much as them scoring is a danger, teams can keep up.
We're pretty good at discouraging teams in their own stadium, so we have a good chance to get some points here - we'll just have to see what surprises VAR holds

I'd feel better about Altidore if Pines was healthy - the last few years I advocated for Opare to start over Birnbaum when the opposing team had bigger, stronger, slower forwards - Birnbaum is better with the smaller faster forward types. Altidore is not fast, or really all that good, but he uses is body and pushes people around pretty well to open up space, and with space you can score.

DC United - 2
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment - 2


I will leave you with a pic of one of the most disgusting and unnecessary of baby Canadian animals

luckily, of the 5 I saw last week in and around my pond, only one has so far survived. Still, one too many.

 

If I was reading Twitter correctly last night (it was in Spanish so I was relying on Google translate) I think Junior Moreno's father passed away and he will miss tonight's game and Saturday's game.

 

RIP Carlos Horacio Moreno, Junior's father.

 

I had no idea there was a game tonight.
Someone should sticky this thread.
I don't get "Team Lex Luthor"

 

I think Lex Luthor grew up Mississagua???

 

I can see us taking advantage of some weak defense and goal keeping. 3-2 good guys.

 

If you're a Canadian geography geek, sit down.

Toronto FC have their administrative offices at Scotia Bank Arena and play in Bank of Montreal Stadium, which is bounded by Ontario Drive, Quebec Street, Nova Scotia Avenue and Nunavut Road.

 

All I know about Canadian geography is that all you need to find downtown of a city, find King Street.

 

******** what anyone says, he's a villain. He's bald.

 

You mean like Bradley.

 

Usually people refer to Skeletor or The Crypt Keeper - but he does also look similar to Lex Luthor if you want to be too-polite

 

These I would have gotten.

 

Lets be frank, Lex Luthor was a criminal genious. Bradly is just some twat who jogs around the field, at half speed, shooting dirty looks a people who think he gave up on 2 national team coaches in a year.

 

I always thought his old man looked like Skeletor.

 

I always thought Bradley looked like a childhood cancer survivor but since you are not allowed to make fun of childhood cancer survivors I don't do this anymore.

 

PC gone mad.

 

Goff has Durkin starting, but somewhere I read that Moreno's father died, which suggests that this sad fact, and not Ben's desire to rest his players during this intensive week of matches, was the reason.

 

Canuck overload....................canuck overload....................canuck overload..............

 

FWIW, Goff posted an article on the Post several days ago (datelined May 11 but I think it may have gone on the web on May 10) about Durkin and it included this quote:

"Canouse’s return last weekend bumped Durkin back to the bench, but with two matches in four days approaching, Olsen said he will shuffle the lineup to some extent.

Olsen’s first priority is United, not the national team, but in the back of his mind, he said he also wanted to do right by his young player and the U.S. program."

I think the rotation here was planned before Moreno's father passed away...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...y-dc-uniteds-injuries/?utm_term=.2372e00e3afd

 

I hope you are correct. Yes, I remember Goff's article, but I also read something later (today?) that seemed to suggest that it was the death of Moreno's father that led to Durkin starting. FWIW, Moreno is only 25 so his father must have been young - and Arriola's dad was only 48 when he passed.

 

He was 70.

 

Goff's article yesterday discussing the schedule congestion (posted Monday night I believe) also touched on the squad rotation plan:

"With the heavy schedule, Olsen will make lineup changes from game to game. Though he does not reveal his starters in the days leading to a match, Olsen confirmed defensive midfielder Chris Durkin, a reserve the past two weekends, will get the call against Toronto before joining the U.S. under-20 national team late this week for the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland.

Midfielders Ulises Segura and Zoltan Stieber also seem likely to start in one of these two matches. Rooney might require a breather at some point soon after playing all but one minute in the past six matches."


With regard to Moreno's father, I couldn't understand most of it because it was in Spanish - so I could be way off here - but from the social media posts it looked like his father was a coach or technical director of a club at some point in his past.