Pre-match: Crew at D.C. United (MLS 03/18 07:00 PM)

The game this week are really going to help sort out who are the good or bad teams or just lucky or unlucky.
Seattle v Red Bulls. Should be interesting.
Colorado defend first, second and third v Minnesota.
And of course this game
DC have 0 goals this year. 4 against in a pretty sieve-like manner.
Probably without Mensah but I am not sure that really matters . . . Not sure who starts between Crognale, Abubukar and Williams but hey it might be Tchani.
Who is really the bottom dweller of the East this year?

We shall see.

 

Since Mensahs out, im assuming Gregg slots Williams in. I would much rather see Crognale or Abubakar get that chance though.

I would love it if one or both of them can rise to the occasion this year and we can go forward in the future with out DP center backs for a while.

 

I'll always hate DC more than any other team.

My second most hated team is whatever team Bob Bradley happens to be coaching if he's in the league. That comes out of his early 2000's in Chicago, followed by the Metrostars. What an asshole. Caleb Porter levels of asshole.

DC hasn't scored yet this season. After DC we have Portland at home. We face a winless March if we don't find a way to get 3 points here.

 

I'd hope that we decided against appealing the Jonathan red decision, for a couple of reasons.

1. Last season, our appeals were successful because the decisions were almost comically incorrect. In this case, however, I'm not at all certain that Penso has made a clear and obvious mistake.

2. If it were me, I would keep the powder dry simply because we know how many bad decisions we got last season, and we also have healthy, available bodies behind Mensah that can slot right in on Saturday. I'd feel compelled to use an appeal at a later juncture in the season, if the suspension would leave us scrambling to fill the position due to possible injuries, international callups, etc.

For these reasons, I feel like it is kind of a wasted appeal, even if successful.

 

I agree. Let him sit it out. There is certainly an argument to be made that Mensah lost his footing when trying to make a cut and that lead to the very awkward tackle. But, the risk of losing appeals for the remainder of the season is too high a price to pay. It was dangerous, I don't think there was intent (I don't even think there was an intent to make a tackle) but he was a bit out of control.

 

is the 3rd game of the season too early to be considered "must win"?

 

We didn't appeal.

 

Prediction...Crew keep playing out of the back...DC pressure....turnover leads to first DC goal of the year.
Prediction...Pipa turns the ball over 6 times in the first half by passing directly to a DC player.

 

I just watched the Dynamo highlights again. Big man Mensah is standing around in the box close to Torres on his goal and again for the Dynamo's chance in the 83'. This guy is terrible. Spinning ballerina in game 1 and a statue with a red card in game 2. He deserves to sit for more reasons than his red card. Two games in and the guy is already a bust. Put a fork in this team, they're done.

 

Great news everybody: I'll be at the 24-hour sci-fi movie marathon down in Columbus this weekend, which means I won't have to watch the Crew this week!

 

Up is down! Down is up! Crew win 2-1.

 

Up is down!
Down is up!
That's the way we win the Cup!

 

I couldn't hear that. It sounded a bit muddled. Can you restart that one, with a capo leading the song?

Thanks!

 

This is going to be great.

 

We'd win more if we had capos.

 

Maybe there should be a capo thread . . .

 

Complete agreement. The biggest problem facing the team in 2017 is an annoying lack of blind obedience and conformity among the supporters.

 

Come on Columbus, FIGHT and WIN!

 

I hate you.