He had a few nimble, Higuain-like touches I wasn't expecting. I agree. Solid first half, weak second half. Two points squandered at home.
I saw more passion and urgency from employees shouting “CODE RED” than I have ever seen from all of the combined MLS2ATX efforts.
Poor second half for sure, but give Marsch credit, he really turned it around after halftime. Showed again why he's being linked to Leipzig this summer.
Thought it was an enjoyable match. I noted to Mrs KG that you usually pay for missed chances. We did. But NY is a pretty good team. Entertaining match and the point was fair.
This was 2 points dropped. We should have scored multiple goals in the first half. NYRB were missing 5 starters to international duty so we should have taken advantage. We'll miss those points at the end of the year.
The Crew's quality is all about ball movement. In the 1st half, the ball and players were humming around the field and NYRB was just scrambling most of the half. For some reason, the Crew came out stagnant after half-time and paid the consequences. The Crew didn't move the ball quick enough, and Red Bull suffocated the play as they moved as an entire team towards the ball. Anyone notice how compact Red Bull made the field? I swear the whole game was being played within a strip of 20 yards at times. Things got better when Argudo was subbed in. I am really digging him and Sosa - they really make the ball move when they enter the game.
I thought that I was gonna have to be the one to come here and point out that this was two points dropped. That Marsch made halftime adjustments and that the Crew came out stagnant. To piss in the cornflakes of the the sunshine brigade. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that this has already been covered.
I thought we would lose by two (or more) so was pleasantly surprised and have nothing to analyze to death or complain about.
First half great. Second half sucked. Points lost. Distribution from the back still awful. Robles saved the first half for them. Same stuff. Move on
Overall my feeling is that we would have won that game with Wil and Zack. Artur has clearly regressed since last season. Zardes is consistently getting himself into dangerous positions, and is starting to really get a really good relationship working with Afful (When Harry Met Gyasi) Grella was invisible in this one. I think he was too focused on trying to beat his old team that he got away from his strengths. Credit to the defense for taking BWP out of the game pretty much entirely. Higuain played well throughout the match. Santos was on far too long and is a liability on both sides of the ball at the moment. Kempin did better than last week. Although that is saying a whole lot... 2 points lost, particularly since Atlanta and NYCFC tied as well. —————— Alejandro Moreno is a champion for Columbus. LEGEND.
By the way... to the certain posters here who were blasting Berhalter for not playing Kempin in the Open Cup game... please note that one of the big reasons this match was a 1-1 draw instead of a 1-0 win was because Kempin came off his line and flailed at that cross and came up completely empty. If he stays on his line, that header's right at him.
I think we would have won the game if Santos didn't play. He was so bad in the 2nd half that he brought the team down with him. His biggest skill seems to be falling down.
Both Kempin and Ketterer are crap. Nothing personal, I just don’t have any confidence in them as starting keepers. Makes the potential of Steffen moving for big money to Europe in future that much scarier TBH.
Yeah, between Kempin and Ketterer, Kempin is much better. But we're going to lose Steffen sooner or later and need to upgrade the backup keeper position. We're not going to spend big on someone in the next transfer window but we should have lots of GAM available and should be able to trade for a better backup keeper.
Kempin as a backup is ok. When steffen leaves though, a new starter is required. Kempin is not good enough to start regularly.
I'm not really "on about" anything. I'm just making an observation. I really didn't see any of the Open Cup match besides the penalties. But the big complaint I was hearing about Ketterer was that he didn't come close to any of the kicks. But those were penalties. They're supposed to be scored. Sure, I wish he'd put up a better effort, but there are worse negatives I can think of for a goalkeeper than not being good at PKs. Kempin, however, cost us a goal in real time that cost us a result and two points in the league standings because he didn't know when to stay on his line.
Plenty of blame to go around for the lost two points. Putting it on Kempin is pretty harsh when our back half couldn't get the ball out of the back half for 40 minutes of the second half and Muyl was mostly unchallenged on his goal.
I'm not saying he's exclusively to blame. Abubakar didn't exactly blanket his mark on that goal, and we should have put the game out of reach in the first half. But if we're going to discuss the goalkeeping situation, a goalkeeping error is part of the discussion, don't you think?
True, it is part of the discussion (as your original post was comparing Kempin to Ketterer and complaints about Greg's decision on who to play). My reply was to Kempin (singular) costing is a goal and points because he made a mistake when even if he didn't "chase butterflies" (Ale Moreno) there is no guarantee any goalkeeper makes that save without allowing a rebound. We both agree there is no exclusive blame.