Me: "Honey, why haven't you put something else on. Wife: I hate LA's coach. I want to watch him fail.
I guess the moral of the story is young, hungry, cheap South Americans > old, tired, overpriced Europeans.
What a horribly constructed team by Booce. Old, slow, mercenaries. Van Damme looks like an absolutely brutal signing. Booce is either doing what he did with the national team, and that's after being in the job too long, relying upon players he revered many years ago, or he's past his prime like them. Getting blasted 4-0 on their own homefield against Seattle wasn't to be dismissed because it was a friendly. Both teams fielded their a-squads, and were in their preseasons. That scoreline looked like it could have been worse, too. LA will go the way of NYCFC last year if they don't cut their losses and bench their over the hill names for younger, but better little knowns. At least unlike NYCFC they have an academy to pluck from. It's the best of the league. But they're just wasting that right now.
But the Europeans sell jersey's and tickets and allegedly get rattings. And after all isn't that what really matters.
According to some. Personally I'm looking forward to Dallas and Portland next year. These four MLS teams are all MLS 2.1.12.3 v 5. We need some 2.2.3 teams in there. That's a mix of sarcasm and truth.
Both games have been cat-and-mouse. Queretaro finished with their kits clean. When you wear white kits and all the players leave the field with the kits all still white, it means they didn't have to make much of an effort. Here, Santos gets close to scoring at will. They're saving some energy for the game away at Atlas on Saturday at this point --a game a lot harder than this one. It's embarrassing. I watch these MX clubs play in their league, and frankly they're beating us in second speed.
Doesn't matter. They're old and bad this year. The days of winning with fossils ended a couple of years ago.