Pre-match: DCU @ Seattle Sounders, 6.9, 2200

You could tell for the last 10 minutes that that goal was coming. I don't understand why Olsen is sitting on all 3 subs. WTF is he saving them for?

 

MLS boxscore has the attendance at 39,465. I've been to Seattle many times there's better stuff to do on a rainy Saturday night.

 

2-1 Seattle. Moreno lost his mark, who scored.

 

I'm really starting to think the delay in signing Rooney is because Kasper and Olsen know Wayne wouldn't put up with such inept coaching displays as we saw tonight. He'll be demanding a new head coach within 3 weeks.

 

Awful. Guys are tired, and there's a game Wednesday. Makes one sub in the 85th minute. Can't make this up.

Lucho no mucho. He is inconsistent, I'm expecting more from him.

 

yeah, acosta had a sort of bad one. Arriola and Brillant, pretty good. Weird game, wide open midfield but neither team could connect much in the final third, Mattocks got his goal but cant do anything else. That was pinball luck, too bad we came out on the losing end.

I think this team is a bit better than people realize, the acquisitions from last year are playing better together now...

 

I usually like to hear the bad news right away but at 1-1, I decided to hit the sheets and pull the seemingly inevitable news of a loss off the net. Kudos for the Seattle fans who sat and watched that merciless torture for so long and hats off to the teams for rewarding their dedication. Olsen handed that game to them, once again with his inability to make tactical personnel changes. At least all the disgraces were out of town yesterday.

 

First goal was a set piece and sometimes those get down to luck, but we should have had someone on top of the box. Long grows are basically corners and you always have at least one guy there.

Second goal was all about “want to.” I’m sure the match plan had DCU closing down Roldan at every opportunity, but we were too tired to make an effort.

Seattle was about the most unathletic team I’ve seen in MLS for years. We should have killed them. They are gonna have a long season.

 

How is coaching to blame for players twice not marking up. Do you really think Olsen or that idiot Ashton are telling these guys "Don't worry someone will mark that guy you just pay attention to the play." Come on Oslen has his warts but these player are 100% to blame for this loss.

 

We need Wayne Rooney here ASAP so that Shawn has someone new to blame when we lose to one of the worst teams in the league

 

All I am saying is that coaches did not cause our guys to leave their players unmarked. At this point I could replace Ben with the right man. However just blaming him when the players crew up is pointless.


Oh and Shammy as a Man U fan I would never blame Rooney no matter what he does.

 

Wait until you find out Rooney gets 10 assigned parking spots for his personal training crew at the secret stadium lot

 

Seattle has been awful so far, but it is a similar situation to recent years, then come la June / July they started winning almost every game and made the playoffs no problem. I don't know if this is the end of a cycle, but I wouldn't be surprised if this happens again. Maybe it all started with yesterday's win against us.

 

Still can't believe Benny didn't make any subs until we were down. What a joke. With competent coaching we definitely could have gotten a point out of this game.

 

Yeah his staff are all named after cars, perfumes, or meteorological conditions.

 

Not to mention we have a road game on the other side of the continent (from Sea) on Wednesday.

Gonna be some dead legs in the first half.

 

So what's the point of even having a coach? Not responsible for tactics, not responsible for running practice, not responsible for set piece prep, not responsible to get the players' heads in the game. Shit ... I could do that job. Where do I sign up? I'm pretty sure I could get this group into last place.

Although I admit, I don't pull off tight training pants as well as Ben.

 

Promising start; predictable finish. How many times have we left someone totally uncovered at the edge of the penalty area because United's players have fallen back to the six yard box? And our "attack" was usually uncoordinated. Moreno wasn't heard from; Asad was almost invisible except when kicking a corner; and Acosta was bad as often as he was good. And Miranda is going to win it for us in the last four minutes?

 

As I have said at this point I would replace Ben with the right man.

 

Have to say this was at least as disappointing as the Orlando game. I didn’t have us taking anything from an opponent we normally struggle against, but at the point we were up 1 versus an opponent who has been shut out in 8 of the 11 prior games, anything less than 3 was an epic fail. just like @ Orlando.

 

He wanted to make sure they were well rested for practice.

 

Moreno started out like a man possessed. He ran out of gas around halftime. Would have been smart to bring in Durkin -- especially since he was recovering from injury.