Post-match: San Jose Earthquakes - Real Salt Lake (Saturday, 6/24) postgame thread [R]

I don't think Dom cared which forward came off after Lima's red as at that point he was just trying to preserve the win. Their goal was scored at the very end and was a non factor. Hats off to the game plan and to great individual performances. It's looking like it will be tough getting rid of any of those guys after last nights game. Good job Dom for bringing the best out of the players! Maybe he is starting to feel the heat?

 

I'm glad they played better & won the game. But I think the AR completely blew it on Hyka's offsides call. It sure seemed to me that he was a few yards behind the defense, but I could be wrong. I wish I could see a replay of this.

 

Urena is "Jordon" like & needs to be the focal point of the team. Jordon often bricked for the entire game but guess who had the ball in his hands during crunch time?

 

Wow...don't know what to say...I'm speechless. Wrong in so many ways.

And if you can't even spell "Jordan" right, disqualified!!

 

Nice win but we should be expected to beat RSL at home especially with how they lined up last night. I wouldn't go drawing any conclusions about guys like imperiale, cato, ceren, urena, or godoy on this one performance. People risk making sample size mistake, like when people were praising sarkodie earlier this year after his one halfway decent game. It was a mirage and he went back to being trash the rest of the season.

 

RSL has lost 11 games already this season, including by the following scorelines:
2-0, 4-2, 1-3, 3-0, 0-3, 4-0, 5-1, 6-2
This was pretty much only their third "non-embarrassing" loss: 1-2, 1-0, and now 2-1

 

Way to play games with statistics. RSL came into the Quakes game on a winning streak. They defeated Minnesota United last weekend, 1-0. (Minnesota beat the Portland Timbers a few days later, midweek, so they're in better form than you think.) RSL has also beaten NYCFC and Colorado, two teams the Quakes couldn't handle. RSL is a professional soccer team, a win is a win, and the standings are a zero-sum game. All those 10 other losses by RSL involve three points in the standings for other MLS teams (many in the Western Conference), whose playoff chances will be determined in part by those wins. San Jose gets the same consideration.

 

Also, we should not be deluded with the idea that we're "back in the playoffs!". We are still below the line by PPG. OTOH only 0.12 points off of 3rd place. So it is really packed in the middle - even more parity than the usual parity.

 

Good point, obviously cherry picking "X team beat Y team who once beat Z team" is a lot more useful...

Minnesota are not very good, certainly not consistently so. Sure they beat Portland, who are decent, but Portland has 2 wins 5 losses in their last 9 games, so clearly Minnesota caught them at the right time. Yes NYCFC are a good team, RSL beating them is impressive... Although what exactly are we supposed to take away from that as Quakes fans? Colorado are crap, the fact that they managed to beat the Quakes says more about the latter.

You can go however many degrees away from RSL as you want (eventually you'll be going in circles as it's a 22 team league where every team plays each other, and even the worst teams sometimes beat the best teams given the parity), but the bottom line is the Quakes played RSL at home and it was a 2-1 victory. That matchup should be an expected win for any team that's not utterly terrible, given that RSL are in last place in the west in PPG with just 17 points in 18 games, a league worst -20 goal differential, and a 1-8-1 record on the road.

All I'm saying is it was a good opportunity for a blowout win, as plenty of other teams have done to RSL this season (with scorelines like 3-0, 0-3, 4-0, 5-1, 6-2). Goal differential matters, and the Quakes are still at -3. It would be nice to really beat up on opposing teams once in a while, 1) fans like to watch their team crush the opposition and 2) fans like to see lots of goals. That matters when the Quakes haven't made the playoffs since 2012 and Avaya Stadium looks half empty at most games. The Quakes still only have one multi-goal win in the last calendar year (3-0 over Portland on May 6, their previous one was 3-1 over Houston on May 11, 2016).

From last night: Announced sellout crowd of 18,000 for #SJvRSL. #MLS pic.twitter.com/B0qT0Bah2c

— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) June 25, 2017

 

How true, and that's why with a .500 record the Quakes remain in the thick of the playoff race and their chances of achieving it are as good as virtually any other team's right now.

 

aaand there it is:

NEWS: Earthquakes Part Ways with Head Coach Dominic Kinnear and Assistant Coach John Spencer

 

YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

 

YESSSSSS!!! Management finally had enough of watching a crap product in a half empty stadium with no atmosphere. Time to rebuild this club.

 

Replay showed it was a clear offside.

 

Who was pulling the strings in last nights game?

 

Finally. I could feel it was coming after that awful game against Kansas City. Kind of humorous to have it announced after a win, but I'm glad it happened. It was long overdue.

 

Haha excuse my poor spelling

 

Hopefully you've learned your lesson not to root for losses. The Quakes don't always fire their coach, but when they do, it's after a win.

 

Wow 10 whole minutes? You can spend that much just hitting traffic lights wrong.

 

My rep Alyssa got back to me on Sunday and said it was a planned change! So let's keep up the pressure on them to stop doing that. Otherwise, drivers will all try to exit from the second row of the Platinum lot, and we will get backed up in the lot. I have hardly seen anyone turn left onto Coleman coming out of Earthquakes Way.

 

Not making excuses for Lima, but didn't it seem he was wearing the wrong cleats? Just on the highlight package I see him slipping on his plant food several times,

 

so they decide to change it without notice after 3 years? I am not surprised. I'll definitely keep emailing and in the meantime, I guess I'll park elsewhere.

Some of us want to get home as soon as we can. Mj mentioned her husband needed to get up at 3am. On Thursday, I wake up at 4am to go to work. It was an unannounced change after 3 years. It makes no sense to force more traffic down that way and it definitely adds a good distance around the airport to get back on 880S.

 

Yes, another dumb decision. I always try to get into that left lane when leaving since it always more open than than the right lane. Saturday I luckily took the right lane so didn't get forced to turn left on Coleman. And you're right, hardly anyone turns left on Coleman.

 

While I enjoyed the game, I'm not getting too excited about it. We had too many opportunities not to score at least one more goal.

This team has been consistently inconsistent. Ceren was my MOTM. Monster game from him.

Attack
Urena was making great runs and was unfortunately not to score off the post in the first half and was fortunate to score in the second half on a really poor angle (Nick R screwed up and backed into the post). Wondo seemed to out of synch and getting in the way a lot. I don't like seeming him so deep.

Midfield
Good game across the whole midfield. Hoesen had a goal and assist. Godoy was all over the field. Liked Hyka's spacing and attacking more in the middle.

Defense
Both centerbacks were solid and Bingham's distribution was better. Both outside backs had good and bad moments. Hopefully, Lima learned a lesson on two stupid plays.