Really easy to be negative after tonight’s mediocre and at times awful performance, but we also have to keep in mind that multiple times this season we’ve played a significantly inferior opponent at home and lost spectacularly. Tonight was ugly and overwhelming but we got the win and the points. (Resists negative commentary about GBS’s game management and poor player decision making so close to the playoffs)
Yep. It's because of this that I am finding it hard to be happy with this win. We should have mopped the floor with this team and instead we squeaked past them because we were inept.
It’s the mentality of the players and the coach. They have one gear - run upfield as fast as possible. Pavon for example has the talent to play in Premier League but doesn't because he has no layers to his game. It’s turn and run, turn and run. It’s aggressive but it’s not smart and it’s not efficient.
Help GBS. He has no tactical awareness at all. Corona should have been subbed at 70 minutes. As everyone has said, you need to be smart and manage the game. Knowing our defense is vulnerable, hold the damn ball and pass it around. We have the talent to play some possession, instead we made a team of scrubs look world class, good thing Piatti didn't make the trip or we don't win that game. So hard to watch the G's play right now. Bruce would never allow this.... it's all on the coach.
Big 3 points. We didn’t play particularly well and Pavon definitely had an off night. But this match had “trap game” written all over it so I will gladly take the 3 points and the 3rd or 4th place in the west that will come with them. And now a huge 6-pointer roast trip to Salt Lake City......
Reviewing the thread. I think it was you who wrote trap game all over the match. Otherwise we would have been fine.
On the upside we won in a moderately ugly fashion. That should be a good moment leading into the playoffs when earlier this season we would lose or draw these moments.
I don't put this on him. The same squad destroyed skc. Our front there just played like they had hardly any chemistry. Pavon kept playing like a youngster (dribble into traffic then lose the ball or play a poor cross), Ibra showed hardly any effort that didnt make him travel more than ten yards in any direction, Antuna was arguably our most dangerous attacker tonight, but has the same issues as before. Our midfield trio were excellent, we won the ball numerous times and kept possession a lot. The announcers had it right, we needed more patience with passing, like we had in our Tika taco year (like Golden States game), pass the ball around and force them to chase us and eventually we'll find an open man in the final third. Our game is STILL go to the end line and cross it. No we are crossing it from the 18 instead of the end line, so it's a bit better, but odd that the cross that scored DID happen from the end line [emoji38]
I think a fairer result would have been 5 to 0.75. I know it was stressful at the end (it always will be in a tight game with our mediocre defense) but you can’t ignore that, but for some uncharacteristically bad finishing by Ibra and others, it wouldn’t have been close. Jonathan Dos Santos our clear man of the match if you ask me.
I think we sort of agree. The midfield played great, but by minute 70 we were exhausted. That's a time to hold the ball up, let your teammates catch their breath, clear out of our penalty box. Instead we run straight down the field, try a crazy hard pass, lose the ball and Montreal is back on our 18. It's just not intelligent play and their is no need for it. It will kill us in the playoffs against skilled finishers. SKC could/should have had 6 last week.
First back-to-back win since April, and you can see why. If they have Piatti, there's a good chance we tie or even lose this one. This is the team. It's as good or bad as Zlatan is and he had a poor night. The defensive issues start with Ibra; same with the idea of trying to hold possession. So I can kinda see why GBS thinks the best gameplan is to keep attacking. It's taking advantage of our greatest strengths, which is Pavon's dribbling and Zlatan's goal threat.
The Gs did definitely dominate, but the game was a lot closer than it should have been due to poor play in the final 3rd (e.g., bad passes, errant crosses, etc...) and in finishing. Though Bush did make some good saves too.
As long as he recognizes our greatest strength, that is the midfield trio of Corona-lletget-dos santos. They are the glue holding the team together. Our tactics just need to evolve more than just allowing the ball to attempt to gravitate towards the big black hole that is Zlatan.