No margin the rest of the way. RSL needs 12-14 points to reach the playoffs. That's better than the team has managed in any five game period. Reaching the playoffs is now at sports movie levels of improbability, and I don't think we're in one.
Nicky isn't who he used to be but Vancouver had unmarked dudes in our box on every single goal...granted Waston's was pretty chaotic.
After the Utes game i decided to open the mls app to see if it would be worth watching the rsl game, saw we lost so I opened the box score...both Wingert AND Beltran scoring in the same game? Gonna start packing up my zombie apocalypse kit and execute my survival plan...something bad is coming.
Those 2 scoring at all, let alone in the same game is much more worrisome than the huge hurricanes in the east and the crazy fires in the west.
Was I the only one who found great joy in Ousted completely ********ing up the first goal for us? Talk all you want about the cross by Wingert (it was good) or the attempted header by Yura (dear good this guy sucks in the air). Ousted should have saved that. In fact he did. He was just such a moron that he lost a ball he parried and, with the turf, it spun in. I don't know if I laughed at that more or the BYU student section trying to be "intimidating"
Interesting stat time: We haven't taken a shot inside the 6 in our past three games We had 5 set piece shots in this game, the highest it's been since the LA away game We dominated Vancouver in pretty much all of the passing statistics. This is by design for Vancouver. They aren't a possession team. Our numbers aren't higher than they have been in any other game, which is slightly concerning. We played 40 passes with our heads - one of our highest marks of the season. The pitch sucked We had 204 backward passes - the second highest of the season, behind the CLB game We had more passes in our defensive third than we had in our previous 6 games We only attempted 4 dribbles in this game (2 of which were successful) both the lowest they've been all season (the successful being tied with a few other times) Our aerial win percentage (61%) was the highest its been since the away to LA game Conversely, our tackle success rate (64%) was the second lowest it's been since that same LA game As a whole, the stats were underwhelming for a team that should have been pushing for a road result