It's fun sitting near the away bench, too. Guy in row in front of me needs to up his trash-talking game, but he's loud and annoying enough. So much so that Andrew Farrell turned and flipped him the bird at one time late in the second half. There are these twins who sit in 108 right behind the away bench. Union STHs. Red Bull STHs, too. Were gushing all over Kamara during warmups, one of them gesturing they wanted his jersey after the game. Sure enough, Kei is subbed off, promptly takes off his jersey and gives to them. Dafuq?
Great forum you have here guys. Lots of intelligent talk about the team, I have been looking for a place like this. I have season tickets and sit in 106, 4 years on now. Comment about the game: I am not tricked by the win vs a team that had their 3 best players missing because of national team duty. There were lots of problems in the defensive third that many teams will take advantage of. Nothing you guys do not already know. Ilsinho: sick of him already but we don't really have an option at 10 unless we force Najem into the lineup. Fafa: he is 0-5 on breakaways or 1 on 1 vs the goalie this year. And gets run off the ball too easily. Same size as Giovinco, maybe we need to run him through the middle like Toronto does with Gio. Medunjanin: best player on the field. one hiccup is that he does let a guy run right past him from time to time but his work rate is high and active.
How can anyone really dare criticize Fafa? He's creating those chances with his unbelievable speed and work rate. So what if he's missing on some of them as long as he's bending the other team's back line to the breaking point. Look at his assist to Ilsinho yesterday. He had space to dish the pass because the bad guys don't dare step up on him. Fafa - the new Hoppenot without the 'atty-tood'.
Jack Elliott & Oguchi Onyewu have been on the field together for 731 MLS minutes. They've allowed 4 goals.— Matthew De George (@sportsdoctormd) July 3, 2017 I'm honestly not surprised at all. Those two have been nails.
Before we get all giddy about our defense, soccer is a zero-sum game and its easy to prevent goals at the expense of scoring by dropping everyone back (see 2011 Union).
I remember a number of thrilling finishes that year. That team may not have been pretty to watch, but the stingy D allowed them to snatch enough points, despite being a crap team, to make the playoffs.
And then we went zero for two in round one. Bunker ball isn't an option unless you have a very efficient counter, which we do not have the players for.
I wasn't making the point about the achievement of making the playoffs as much as trying to show how, with a stingy defense, a crap team can get points. We were tough at home that year. I think we only lost 1 home game and Nowak's guys salvaged a point late in the game 3 or 4 times - plus a couple the road. Bunker ball? I thought the discussion was about how good the Elliott-Gooch pairing has been. We're hardly playing bunker ball.
Yeah, I'm in 108. Those guys are always there and I saw them at RB during the Cup game. They're not just STH, but Managers Row here and what looked like Club there. That's ballpark $8k per seat combined. That's pretty impressive fandom. I've been questioning my four club seats for crap soccer, but I guess if you got it why not.
They are doctors and they were wearing red bulls gear a few weeks ago so those guys can get ********ed
A win on Thursday would propel us to a 2.1 ppg (over last 10 games) for the first time in our history. #wtf