Post-match: San Jose Earthquakes - Los Angeles Galaxy (Friday, 8/28) postgame thread [R]

WOW

 

Muy bueno!!!!!!!!!!

 

One word: "Beautiful!!!!"

 

Three quality games in a row, four shutouts in a row.

I'm impressed.

 

Always wonderful to see the Scum get the shit kicked out of them. Especially when they're the Millionaire Club.

 

Little annoyed the team switched off after the red card, similar to the DC game. Made the final 45 more even then it should have been. But all in all, a solid performance.

 

4 down... more to go. The team played really well. When Wondo is your weakest link you know there is something right going on. That midfield of Pelosi and Godoy did wonders. The problem is with Kinnear and Yallop is that they don't make changes to the team unless they are forced to by injury. MPG needs to come back in the team for Cato and push Wondo out of midfield. That really is only change that needs to happen.

 

Four shutouts in a row, let's hear if for Bingham and the defense. They're finally starting to gel. Having some better pieces in front of them lets them do their thing and not see the ball on their end as much.

We've outscored opponents 9-0 in the past 4 games.

If I had to knit-pick anything (and I will), it would be Dom waiting until the 84th minute to make his first sub, and only using 2 subs at that. We could have used a switch after the 70th minute when LA brought on Gordon and was attacking a lot, even down a man. We are lucky they didn't tie it up.

It's nice to feel wins again.

 

Wins are much more enjoyable than losses. Especially against LAG.

 

Glad LA got a Red, bad it was in a defender so their firepower remained complete.
Quincy you are the MVP of our team.
Pelosi showed great glimpses. He is very good. He actually tries to play long diagonals and he knows how to use his body to shield the ball. 4 in a row and we've jumped Seattle for the moment into playoff position.

 

Yallop usually uses all three of his subs this season. 1 Win for Chicago and they leap frog 4-5 teams into playoff contention as well I think.

I don't mind if a coach subs or not especially if we are winning. I am also glad the Tommy Hype Train is coming to an end. There's also a few coaches this season who don't sub all too often, Toronto, New England, Houston, LA to an extent and Columbus don't sub all often at all.

 

Yeah I don't mind not subbing. If it's working don't mess it up. Our guys had almost a week between games. They should be able to go the full game of asked to. Unless your Quincy and go all out every play and get burned out.
Only sub complaint id make is not using your extra subs in stoppage time to kill the clock.
And also, I agree with the TT hype train.
*grabs popcorn and waits for jazzy to tell me why TT is our best player*
He's young. He should have been loaned out since day 1. But I think our team forgot Sac is our affiliate.

 

It's hard to criticize the shitty subs when the team wins, but it's those little things that turn wins into ties then losses. The positive is that the players on the field are playing really well, the coach just needs to stay focused on his duties as the game winds down.

 

Excellent game by Pelosi. If he keeps playing like that, he will be a great pickup.

 

I wonder if what happens there is that you're getting a rise in team confidence and the guys feel they've got the match in hand. I agree though that I would like to see them continue to retain that initial effort through the game.

 

There was little reason to sub earlier. After the EQ weathered the initial storm when LA responded to the red card, they made the ball do the work and did not expend much energy. Quincy seemed to take a minor knock and came out right after that. Made sense to me.

 

I actually think its not having enough experience seeing out a game. Right now the defense has been solid enough that they havent really been burnt on it.

 

The last 15 minutes of the game is the best time to bring in some fresh legs to match the opponents fresh legs. Gordon provided a spark and I think it would have been fine to sub off Pelosi for JJK so he could shadow Gordon until the end.

Everything worked out fine, so I don't want to be too critical. It's not like the team bunkered for the last 30 minutes like they would do under Watson.

 

Keane will have a very strongly worded email to Daddy Garber about the red card. Love watching him throw his hissy fits.

 

Agreed. At times they played the slow buildup, which the Gals seemed to be daring them to do, but least it killed time. At the same time, the Gals launched some scary counters off of it. What was more annoying were the cheap possession wastes. I think Cato was the biggest culprit for that.

TBH I thought that the Gals were going to make the team pay for wasting chances and possession when up a man. Honestly, they started playing worse the moment they went up a man. Weird.

 

We were stringing together some beautiful passing sequences tonight.

Pelosi is surprisingly strong on the ball and made some awesome defensive plays. Very impressed.

Godoy can switch the ball on a dime. Countless times tonight he would send a 20 yard pass to the other touch line and relieve the pressure.