Pre-match: Columbus Crew SC at Toronto FC; 11/29/17 Leg 2 MLS Playoffs

You realize this not turn out well for blondie?

 

Time to #ClaimGlory. One game away from @MLS Cup 🏆!

Here's tonight's #CrewSC Starting XI 🆚 @torontofc.#TORvCLB pic.twitter.com/7TRcJy7GRm

— The Crew (@ColumbusCrew) November 29, 2017

Abubakar at LB? Interesting...

 

Whhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

 

It'll often probably look like a back 3 with Afful staying high to pin Morrow back.

 

The Tweeter-verse thinks 3G is putting Abubakar on the left to give Altidore a more physical presence while he does his target-winger thing.

 

I think the lineup will look more like this honestly:

------------------Steffen
---Mensah---Williams---Abubakar
----------Trapp---------Abu
Afful-----Santos-----Higuain---Meram
----------------Kamara

Regardless, shit is weird. Just play fvcking Jimenez.

 

I was shocked he was benched last gm and it was start Ratiala or Abubakar. If so i think it’s a good move otherwise it’s a strange risk but i agree it will be that 3-4-3 look we had success with as we try to get a 1-1 draw or better

 

I'm not against 3 at the back, it's just an unbalanced formation. We won't have 2 wing backs coming back to help, just one. Meram hasn't played many, if any, full games in what, 2 months it seems like? When Manneh comes on eventually, he sure as shit won't track back.

It's a different 3 man defense than we've had before. I mean, unless Abu is the left wingback? Even then, he doesn't actually run a lot, and would leave Pipa and Trapp as our CMs. No thanks. It just seems a bit odd. I much prefer a lopsided 4-2-3-1 with the attacking formation I described a couple posts back, with Trapp and Abu sitting deep, as opposed to some weird 3 man defense with only 1 wingback, and potentially Trapp and Pipa in the middle.

 

I don't give a damn if Timon's puppy plays. I just want the win.

 

Please win Crew.

 

The Soccer Fredo was “stuck in traffic.”

 

You mean “stuck in foopid”.

 

Confirmation Garber is a sniveling weasel.

 

I'm good with the lineup. I've never said this, but In GGG I trust.

Brew Dog on hand, let's get this done!!!

 

Let’s go boys...