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A day after losing 1-0 to LA in the season opener, Seattle manager Sigi Schmid still feels his team should have come away with at least a scoreless draw. And he offered this nugget to chew on ahead of the weekend: “Our league is a league where the team that usually has more possession loses because it's a counterattacking league.” Does anyone have stats to disprove Sigi on this? I'm sure the ineptitude of strikers like O'Brien White doesn't help, though.
Yes, for the last year plus Seattle's problem has been strikers not being able to hit the target, not the other team counterattacking.
Managers of teams that play on plastic pitches really shouldn't bitch about possession, especially when the game was played in a downpour.
I think LAG had it easy because they only had to tightly mark Montero and Seattle's offense would be ineffective. O'Brian White did nothing productive.
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http://www.rgj.com/article/20110317/COL0301/103170329/-1/TT Well, the good news is that if he fails badly, maybe we will stop hearing "If only Lebron (or any other NFL/NBA star) could be in goal, USMNT would be unstoppable"! crap. Seriously, nothing against Chad Johnson, I know he truly loves the sport. I hope he has fun.
no, the argument is if the US's best athletes chose soccer as their sport from the beginning, not if they switched to on the other side of the arch of their athletic career.
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David James "tried out" with the Miami Dolphins a few years ago... I'm not as upset by this as most people. Hell, Michael Vick can try out for the Union for all I care... it's just a publicity stunt.
I would really like Sigi to come out and explain what makes a league a counterattacking league...this comment doesn't make sense to me at all. Some teams use counter attacking tactics, the other teams have to learn to stop those teams, just how counterattacking teams need to learn to stop possesion basedteams. I don't understand what the league has to do with it at all.
Yup - it is a strawman for Sigi, blaming something on something that isn't necessary true, and doesn't really make much sense. He is deflecting the real problem, which is that his team just isn't all that good. The perception I took away is that he seemed to say that his team was the one with the most possession? That's laughable right there. I thought it was pretty even in the first half (and I would put a lot of the blame on the artificial surface and rain). But there were long stretches, especially in the second half, where LA dominated possession. I think the right team won, and it isn't because LA necessarily played a counterattacking game, although they may have done that too.
What downpour? It was raining, but by no means was it a downpour. I didn't even get that wet at the game.
I got a little wet but nothing serious by Seattle standards. It definitely was not a downpour - just periodic showers. But it was cold and windy - I was freezing.
Ok downpour might have been a bit much, but on TV it definitely looked like a steady rain, especially on keeper close-ups on goal kicks and punts. During the pre-game and half-time shows it looked like it was coming down pretty good. Also, Healey and Harkes made numerous references to the "adverse and wet" conditions as well.
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