1-0 DC. Very meh performance so far. Terrible corners. Lazy defending. In other words: typical Union.
Rosenberry ********ed up big time on the first, Bedoya screwed the pooch on the second because he isn't a defensive midfielder, and Gooch was way too slow on the third. We are lucky not to have given up 3 penalties as well.
If Alberg is behind Herbers as a 10/second striker, you might as well sell the dude because your never going to play him.
If fitness, desire, tactics and skill don't magically improve in 8 days they're going to get beat worse than Hanover today. I want to slightly divert from this wretch to a more important issue. Kinkaid has been beating his drum for it, and I've avoided thinking about it too much because of the low likelihood of consideration but folks: It's ok to demand everybody in the org. conform to a shape or identity, but at the pro level-if you don't have the materials-you have to move off your dreams until you have players who can conform to it ! Philadelphia lost their DM pacemaker. They lost their playmaker in the middle of the attack. They don't have 2 CB's worth a squirt of piss as starters. They don't use any speed on the wings. Their strikers cannot battle alone and factor consistently in the attack. This is the dress rehearsal game. Time's up on Simpson @ target. Epic fail. People are still being put where they don't belong to accomodate the scared crow. Stop it now ! Figure out the best 2 F system you can come up with and play w/o a 10 and a pivot. Get Alberg on the field in space where he can fire his cannons and do what he does. Get Trusty ready to go by Toronto and live with the mistakes-because he's still the best chance you have. Otherwise Blake is going to get beat all year like the rented goalie he's about to be. Just can't shake the feeling after the totality of this off-season that unless the owner and manager go this franchise's ceiling tops out as a colossal waste of time.