Pre-match: DC United v. NY Red Bull NY of Harrison, NJ

red card cancer
red bull causes cancer

it's very confusing

FSM, I hate that ********ing Jersey team

 

Geiger was refereeing Cancer so he only gave it a warning.

 

Yep if they get 6 they are heroes, but my point was consistency, not so much points. The only consistent thing about DC play has been BMac (team leader in minutes) and Hamid. The newbies at outside backs has been matched by the carrousel in the middle and the rent a striker up top.

Passes to nobody are a direct result of not knowing your teammates and your teammates not knowing how to get open. It is team wide, even St. Dudar when he made an appearance got in the swing of sending it long to nobody. It kind of makes you think the backs (not Najar) just pass it forward so the 50/50 ball is in the final third instead of the middle of the pitch.
Whatever camaraderie existed in the club house has been dramatically altered by the FO moves. There is no recreating that clubhouse atmosphere before the end of year and playoff time. What was there is now gone. Spilt milk worrying about it tough.
Playoffs; is what the MLS is all about IMO. Ten of 19 teams get in, then there is the unbalanced schedule, aging marquee players to be had and roster moves galore in attempt to generate interest for the playoffs; MLS FO's rightly look to the last 2 months as the time to shine so they can call the season a success. That is why I looked to these 5 matches for DCU to put it together. What DC is putting together is a Picasso abstract; or beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Me, I will pass on what DC has put on the pitch for 5 of the last 6 halves in the last 3 matches. No consistency, no passion, no rhythm, just zip. There is one more opportunity to get it together; 5 matches in 21 days this time (9/15 - 10/6). The only problem with those 5 matches is that there is not one playoff team in that group (truly dreadful squads). Doing well (playing consistently) vs them will be expected and unimpressive.
IMO, DC needs to develop a signature or this season will waste away after such a great start.

 

New York's alright if you like saxophones.

 

“We’ve forgotten that already,” said Andy Najar, when asked about the 3-0 result against the Impact. “There’s a more important game Wednesday. We are going in with the full intention of taking all three points.”

Something about this quote makes me furious. Shouldn't we have gone balls to the wall for both these games? At least tried to get a point out of montreal?

 

This is possibly unintentionally telling. I think there was a concerted effort to put the emphasis on the NY game within the team, and that would have to come from the coaches.

 

They'll be happy, those ones who made the trip up...

 

This isn't the response of a fan - This is the response of a player, a highly competitive player, and more specifically a professional - You have to put aside the emotional impact of a bad play, a bad first 10 mintues, a bad last 10 minutes, a bad first half, a bad game - You have to put that behind you

To a limited extent, you can use those emotions as a prod to do better next time (or rather to prepare to do better next time), but only in a positive sense - You can analyze what you did wrong and figure out calmly what to do better next time - But you cannot let it bother you

And oddly enough, the other half is just as true - You have to put aside the emotional impact of a great play, a great first 10 minutes, a great last 10 minutes, a great first half , a great game - Be glad, be happy, but put those overwhelming emotions aside

 

Absolutely right. The "more important game" is the one that is to be played. Dwelling on what happened in Montreal won't change the result.

 

MLSNet preview here:

REFEREE: Ricardo Salazar. AR1 (bench): Peter Manikowski; AR2 (opposite): Craig Lowry; 4th: Ted Unkel
MLS Career: 156 games; FC/gm: 27.0; Y/gm: 3.5; R: 45; pens: 57

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INJURY REPORT:
D.C. UNITED – OUT: MF Lance Rozeboom (L knee ACL tear); DF Robbie Russell (L plantar fasciitis); DF Daniel Woolard (concussion-like symptoms); DOUBTFUL: FW Maicon Santos (R toe soreness); PROBABLE: MF Lewis Neal (L adductor strain)
NEW YORK RED BULLS – OUT: DF Rafa Marquez (L calf strain); GK Ryan Meara (hip injury)

INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
SUSPENDED: none

WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD:
NY: Joel Lindpere
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS:
DC: Maicon Santos, Chris Pontius, Dwayne De Rosario, Andy Najar, Dejan Jakovic, Lionard Pajoy, Bill Hamid
NY: Kenny Cooper, Connor Lade, Victor Palsson

HEAD-TO-HEAD

• ALL-TIME (58 meetings): United 31 wins(1 shootout), 114 goals … Red Bulls 20 wins (1 shootout), 85 goals …Ties 7
• AT RFK (30 meetings): United 18 wins (1 shootout), 65 goals … Red Bulls 9 wins (1 shootout), 47 goals … Ties 3

Thx,

Jay!

 

FYP. I don't care what the situation is, playoffs or not. Those apes need to be ground into the dust at all times and in all places, to remind them that they are but half-dried pig shit beneath our feet. The object is not merely to crush the enemy, but to make them understand that they were wrong to ever think they could challenge us in the first place. It is our sacred duty to bury them, whether it's here, or in that toxic fuckhole they call home. Die Metro Die. Vamos United, motherfuckers.

 

********ing ******** these mother********ing ********s.

 

As one of those who went to Montreal, I would say, yes.

 

Great another game not on a channel I get.

 

I'd rather not have half dried pig shit beneath my feet, but - tailgating in lot 8, I can adapt.

 

If you've been tailgating in Lot 8 in recent years, you have already adapted.

 

You can scoff about Lot 8 but since DCU has new ownership we have stopped to countdown to when DC United is leaving town and replacing it with when Lot 8 (or the experience of it) is done for. I'll understand it being no more but I'll certainly miss it.

 

Starting Saragosa is the only thing that makes me scratch my head so far

 

Okay wtf, is Benny allergic to starting Salihi and Bosko?!

 

per Goff....

DCU: Hamid; Najar, McDonald, Jakovic, Korb; Pontius, Kitchen, Saragosa, DeLeon; De Rosario, Pajoy. Subs: Willis, Dudar, White, Boskovic, Neal, Salihi, Tan.

It doesn't suck, except for the fact that Bosko and Salihi are still nailed to the bench.

 

Win.

 

Head here for PBP folks - https://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/dc-vs-nyrb.1973921/