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Horrible game. Oribe looked like shit and terrible terrible subs. I love escoboza but the kid should not be starting for Renteria
We were set up to fail from the start. A defensive 4-4-2 formation - What's the reasoning here??? It's obvious that our best defense is our offense, and playing defensively against a team like Pachuca, that is accustomed to dominating the ball and has good 1 on 1 players, is just asking for an ass-whoopin'. Terrible decision. Opting to play a net negative player like Salinas - There's only room for one slow, uncreative player, and Chato seems to have that spot on lock. Having both on the field means that we can kiss our possession and attacking options goodbye. Another awful decision. Did the staff not learn anything from the America game? Playing Ezcoboza defensively - We're already short on attacking options, and Ezcoboza is wasted. Strange move, but we've been using him like this for the last three games with bad results. I'm dumbfounded by this decision. And this was before the game even started. It's bad enough that we have to deal with Oswaldo's old man reflexes, but then you continue to leave Araujo rotting on the bench, while trotting out a mega slow defender in Figueroa, and a mediocre CB playing RB (Lacerda). The defense is easy to fix. We've been top 3 the last 2 - 3 seasons defensively, but the insistence of playing Lacerda has killed this team. Chato Rodriguez is pretty much Salcido on the NT levels of terrible now, right down to launching long shots into the seats on a regular basis. The lone productive player on the midfield, Ribair, is forced to do too much work on his own. The worst decision in a night stacked with bad decisions was not playing the most productive wing player BY FAR, Renteria, instead, opting for a player who hasn't done a single positive thing this entire season (Calderon). Not only that, but they sub him in for Ribair. Just inexcusable levels of WTF coaching decisions. Did Caixinha get infected with Mexican coach syndrome? I haven't even mentioned that we waited till the last 15 minutes of the game to attack. Emabarrassing, cowardly performance. I swear we went out the same way last year? Expecting the team to score 3 at home is putting on an awful lot of pressure on the players. It's hard to play well under pressure, but then you have to think about how the hell we're going to stop Pachuca from scoring 1 goal. We need to score 3 and have a clean sheet. We haven't gotten a clean sheet in our last 16 matches. Yeah, we're f*cked.
Oribe is fine; his game was never about speed. He has 11 goals/7 assist this season in all competitions (not counting NT games). His work rate is second to none. In games like the last one, where we stand back and defend, he's going to look average because he has the attention of the entire backline with no help up front (other than Darwin, who is also being double-marked).
That's a truly retarded and disgusting display on his part. Como para retirarlo a fuerza, y el otro pues es obvio que la primera division no es para el... deberiamos ir por el subcampeon sub-17 de chivas
That's a truly retarded and disgusting display on his part. Como para retirarlo a fuerza, y el otro pues es obvio que la primera division no es para el... deberiamos ir por el subcampeon sub-17 de chivas
41 year old Oswaldo Sanchez handed Pachuca a trip to the finals by acting like an 18 year old. His overall performance in this liguilla has to rank as one of the absolute worst in recent memory, and definitely the worst in the history of Santos. We made it this far in spite of him. If this grand demonstration of inability isn't enough to convince upper management that he is finished as a 1st division GK, then we are truly stuck with this as$hole until he, himself decides it's time to hang 'em up. God knows when that'll be. He already has geriatric reflexes and thinks he's still got it. F'ck you Oswaldo. You immature, over-entitled, human-waste basket, piece of shit, cock-smoking m@therf'cker. The spawn that impregnated your jackal whore mother should have been nutted on her face instead of inside her cavernous pus$y. I'll see you in the depths of Hell, dickface.
Crazy part is we almos fvcking made it through anyway. You live by the away goal you die by the away goal. No words for Oswaldo. The umpteenth time he fvcks us in liguilla, im done.
This was my reaction after he got that red card. As I gazed upon that jackass with the hardest of hardcore death stares, I thought to myself, not only has this idiot demonstrate a complete lack of self-control in the most important match of the season, but he is about to cost the best offensive team in the league a chance towards another star, and quite possibly cost Caixinha his job. I have to say, Helder Baptista did an outstanding job managing the team in the second half. I'm very proud of the team regardless of the outcome. They fought till the end and nearly pulled it off. The odds were stacked against them, and they responded like true warriors when many teams would have tuck their tails between their legs.
Libertadores served as great exposure, as well as being an excellent experience for the team. I'd choose it over Concachampions every time. The atmosphere, competition, history etc, trounces the CCL.
Not to mention that the continued exposure to this tournament will only increase our experience and allow us to go further into the tournament and not make the rookie mistakes we made last time around