He's So Wondo! The continuing chronicle of Chris Wondolowski's career

Wondo is suddenly exactly on pace to score a dozen goals for the season and thereby break Landon's record by a single goal before the end of the year.

 

We are pushing him over the finish line by giving him all the PK's . I'm OK with it, but would rather he was banging in most of his goals "the old-fashioned way" (and actually I think 4 of his 6 this year are non-PK). Last time Eriksson was "fouled" in the box, he got to take the PK. This time, both on Eriksson's and Hoesen's penalty, Wondo got to take it. I think the FO wants to get this thing over with. Or at least get it to a point where they can really start hyping it.

 

Let's hope Wondo gets enough pk's to beat LAndy!

 

It's 3 or 4 PKs iirc. and the reason the time Eriksson took the PK was because Wondo was on the bench.

 

Thanks to the sleuths on Quakes' reddit board for unearthing the data to show that, excluding penalty kick goals, Wondo is already the all-time leader among MLS players. He already leads Donovan 116 to 114. (Donovan had 31 PKs among 145, while Wondo only has 24 among his 140). So, even if every Wondo goal from here on is from the spot, Wondo is the GOAT.

https://www.mlssoccer.com/stats/alltime

 

It will be interesting to see how they record his first goal last Saturday. Since, by the Laws of the Game, a Penalty Kick is a restart, then the ball is in play once it is kicked forward toward the goal. That kick was saved by Bingham. But, of course, since the PK is a restart, play continues and Wondo scores on the rebound.

In my book, that should be recorded as a PK saved by Bingham and a goal scored by Wondo in the "run of play".

 

That is correct.

 

Wow, that's cool!

 

I guess that would explain why he's listed with 2 PK goals this season (think he had another one outside of the clasico). That is according to whoscored.

Honestly it's kind of a cheap way to get a "run of play" goal. I mean the opportunity came about because he had a not so great PK (which he did not earn) blocked, But I'm not going to complain knowing that Wondo's already passed Donovan in non-PK goals.

 

Sweet mural outside of Jack's (Japantown).

 

That is awesome! See everybody there at 4:30 p.m. today.

 

Completed mural.

 

Great! And great image of Wondo. That is a classic pose. Kind of his mad / glad celebratory pose.

 

That's his, "Dammit Garza, why didn't you pass me the f***ing ball" pose.

 

Well that too. It's multi-purpose.

 

https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/07/18/frustration-blame-evident-san-jose-earthquakes-locker-room

I am posting here because the MLS website headline features Wondo.

Apparently, the media has limited access to Stahre's and Fioranelli's doghouse:

"Alashe was unavailable for comment Tuesday. The 24-year-old did not train with the team; a spokesperson said Alashe had already undergone treatment for his groin injury and left the Avaya Stadium complex."

 

So, there is absolutely no chance Alashe came into the Team Building, received his daily groin injury treatment, and then left before any reporter/media showed up? Does not seem that far out of the realm of being possible.

I know it's all the rage here to dump on the team for very perceived injustice they may have committed, but, I can remember when there were people posting here lambasting the Quakes for the (assumed) mistreatment of Marvell Wynne, which turned out to be totally without merit, with Wynne saying, 'the Quakes have been the good guys here".

I am not saying the Quakes are necessarily the good guys here, but, it is totally conceivable that Alashe had left the building before the media bothered to show up.

 

Even if the injury stories are entirely true, and they may very well might be, there are still issues with the game management.

1) Why did Godoy have to call out to be subbed 3 or 4 times, and only after the 4th time they subbed him? Why were they trying to make him stay in the game? He's not helping the team at that point. You aren't doing any good "saving a sub" for a handful more minutes.

2) Clearly there was a miscommunication between Alashe and the coaching / training staff. Stahre says:

Then, just before I went out of the locker room – I was alone in the locker room at that point – they called that we have to change [from Alashe]. So I told him you have to give us just a few minutes to prepare, so he was aware of that.”

If Alashe knew all about the plan, why was he surprised and angry to be pulled off the field?

But the greater issue with Stahre is - 2 wins in 19 games. I haven't seen basic game management issues to this point other than what to me is very frustrating substitution decisions - not the mechanics of getting the players on and off, where there were issues in this game, but just who are the subs and when.

 

That is probably what happened. However, injured players usually stay for the entire practice because ........team. The press gets access to the players as soon as practice ends.

But this week, Alashe is long gone. A coincidence?

From the Merc: “We will never withhold a player from having the opportunity to speak to the media nor will we script what they have to say,” the GM said. “On the contrary, we trust in our players. We know they care about the team and their teammates.”

 

Funny thing, that quote coming out after both issues were discussed on our boards, Jesse must have people reading our posts.

 

I would say Flo's quotes don't show care for his teammates. He is publicly saying that they are not good enough to compete in MLS. That's why I wish Jesse had shown more backbone and come out against those kinds of comments.

 

God - all of this so reminds me of Tom Tomorrow:

 

Are you saying he is incapable of reading these boards on his own?

 

My guess is that Jesse explained this to Flo privately in non-confrontational way, and that he is publicly circling the wagons.

 

I hope so.