PBP: MLS 2019 Season Week 12 Game Thread (R)

On Manotas’esses goal, I think Attinela saved initially with his RIGHT and the put it in swiping with his LEFT.

Edited for not knowing my right from left. I may also be seeing it incorrectly.

 

I'm at BBVA for HOUvPOR. Some good chances so of course the one actual goal was sort of garbage. Thanks to the half of the referee crew that follows me on Twitter for the *eleven* complimentary tickets, ten of which I had no use for and arrived too late to offload.

 

TFC have been sitting in DC's end the entire game. They have done nothing with all that possession. No penetration, no dangerous combination play, nothing.

Pretty embarrassing.

 

And how embarrassing do you think it is for DC fans watching their team not be able to get out of its own half?

 

I still miss Marco DiVaio, one of my favorite all-time MLS players, if only because the guy was such a ridiculously lethal finisher that he had a mediocre Montreal side drawing and winning games they had no business even being in.

Now we get all this tactical talk about strikers who “stretch the defense” and press the CBs in possession but can’t hit the side of a barn from any distance and sh*t themselves in 1v1s with the keeper.

I’m hoping Brian Fernandez has ice water in his veins as a finisher, we need more of those in this league, I’m tired of strikers who are just tactical pieces out there at the service of their midfielders.

 

I go to subway... come back, and Portland’s losing.

WTF guys

 

DC could still win. The good players have been subbed on.

 

They hit the post once!

 

Chara is out, what did you expect?

 

Why are all of those players crowded around Acosta and not trainers? I hate this stuff. He's probably fine, but I hate seeing injured players crowded. There's no reason for that.

 

Just a bunch of plodders for TFC on attack except Pozuelo.

 

Meanwhile United asks "what is an attack?"

 

This is the second week in a row I've watched DC United games.

I've not enjoyed watching them.

 

Brian Fernández is on. Hopefully his finishing is a little better than Ebos.

 

Just to make sure, you're not naming your kid Diego are you? I'd think your wife would prefer Caleb.

 

Even TFC fan boy Steven Caldwell is being honest enough to say everyone but Pozuelo sucks for TFC.

DC are getting a point on the road. Not what their fans want to see, but some starters got some rest and they got an away point.

What is Greg Vanney possibly going to say to spin this post game?

 

I think we are going with Harper.

 

Please tell me your last name isn't Valley.

 

...another ********ing boring scoreless tie.

aka Bennyball 1 point road win

 

Thankfully, no.

 

So what you are saying is that sometimes its a benefit to having a game blacked-out?

 

That was some serious bunkering by DC. Got their point.

 

DC United temporarily takes over 1st in the East with that result.

 

Harper does have PTFC connection though.

 

Nice move B. Fernandez