Post-match: San Jose Earthquakes - Seattle Sounders FC (Saturday, 9/12) postgame thread [R]

That was a pretty ugly game until MPG got subbed in.

Fatai wins Goal Celebration of the Year.

 

Empty stadium, empty performance. Only in SAN-JO-SE, I think we got a bit of "neigh neigh" for this performance as well....God, we replace one wretched announcer for another.

 

The stadium was as full as always. Lots of families watched the game on the grass by the big board. Plus standing room people.

And do you mean the PA announcer? Then yeah, we downgraded.

 

Not an unfair result, but definitely a missed opportunity.

Thought Fatai did well on the backline and, along with Clarence, did a good job with Dempsey and Martins. Hope Clarence's knock isn't serious.

And, not sure at this point why we're even bothering with Adam Jahn. It doesn't seem like he's winning that many headers, and when he does it doesn't seem like we're really getting good opportunities off of the knock downs. When Quincy needed to come off, perhaps we would have been better off bringing Tommy Thompson on with MPG and trying to play through or over the Seattle backline.

 

I got 2 bobble heads. The red line took about 10 min, and getting out of the VIP lot tonight was ok too.

BuT I sure don't understand the reason for the post-game distribution. They could have done that pre-game in a different part of the stadium (e.g., at all the concession stands, which usually have no lines).

 

But the game was a real disappointment. First half was so listless. I don't even care if we make the playoffs, cuz we are too inconsistent to go very far anyways.

 

Valdez doesn't seem to be a popular player amongst Seattle's starters. When he went down, not a single Seattle player came over to him nor approached him when he left the field.

I could see Dempsey saying something to Waldo about him when Valdez called for himself to be subbed out after shanking a shot on goal.

 

Another disappointment. Playoff teams don't lose a lead at home two weeks running.

Hard to analyze such a dreadful, lackluster, boring game.

MPG should start.

If Adam Jahn is the answer, you are asking the wrong question.

Defeating Drogba and the Québécois is a must.

 

I didn't get the reasoning for doing it post-game, but it really wasn't that bad. Of course, if we parked on-site and were trying to beat traffic, I might have felt differently. Blue line was 3 minutes or so.

I hadn't seen clutching and grabbing like Seattle was doing in the box since the '90 Detroit Pistons.

 

Danny Miller was at the Sharks rookie scrimmage vs. the Ducks. We caught the first two periods before heading over.

Ted Ramey sounded at times like no one gave him the script.

 

my friend asked the customer relations people and they told him its now league policy to do giveaways after the game. Seems they don't want anyone throwing items onto the field. Cause it happened one time somewhere

 

Wondo was held with both arms on the last ball into the box, and there was no call.
Just saying.

 

Nice call by Dom to play Alashe at CB. I thought it would be Wynne knowing he played CB while at Colorado, but in hindsight it makes a lot of sense. Alashe is a solid 1 v 1 defender, better on the ball with better distribution. I thought his overall game against Oba was very good.

I was bummed with our wing play and lack of overlaps with the fullbacks. I would have liked to have seen Cato and Salinas be more decisive to go at defenders and get up field. Seemed like Seattle was squeezing the middle of the field forcing everything outside. Probably thinking, go ahead beat us with Francis, Salinas, Wynne and Cato...we want them on the ball as much as possible. I don't know how many times we entered the attacking third on the wing and meandered around and cycled it back to Wynne or Francis. Or when Cato and Salinas took turns cutting into the middle for overload opportunities...unfortunately the ball found them a lot in those situations and they had no answers...turning it over a ton.

 

Absolutely the biggest non-call of the game...should have been a PK.

 

So are we gonna play in blue on Wednesday and give away more points? Goal differential in blue is minus 9.

Salinas is a beast in white and a disaster in blue.
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Two thinks happened. One was a head-to-head with Chad is bad. The other was Martins kicked him in the head on the goal....but I guess when you score a goal it's fair play to kick people in the head. Just as it is when you've just fouled someone who is lying on the ground--just kick them in the face as you run by.

I think Clarence played while concussed and I hope the Quakes get fined for it. I know other teams play concussed players and MLS doesn't care, for example the Galaxy playing Omar when he was concussed. Even so, I don't want our team stooping that low.

 

Not to whine too much, but we got yellow cards for comparatively soft fouls. They got away with a lot of fouls and some yellow cards not given. But the PK we should have had in stoppage was outrageous.

But if we hadn't tried to bunker after we went up a goal, we'd have won too.

Even so, two of our guys got kicked in the face, and no cards were given. One of the fouls on MPG should have been a straight red. On the shittle goal that was called back, the only foul on that play was Dempsey throwing an elbow, but he didn't get a yellow for it.

Bunch of crap. We should have won that game.

Go Quakes!!

- Mark

 

Gutless ref.

 

The refs did not cost us this game... you all sound like Sigi and Arena.

 

I have to agree, the official didn't lose the game for us but he was far from optimum, really far. That being said, this tie feels a lot like a loss, a very lackluster performance in a pivotal game.