Really encouraging game from Hansen. The bench depth outside of Ramirez has been so useless that it’s nice to have someone step up.
When it was 5-2 but still 30 mins. to play, I of course thought, "oh, we can absolutely blow this lead." Felt a little more hopeful once it got to 80'. Some pretty nice goals, eh?
I never have been more off the final score than tonight! I was certain we were in for the whooping! DALE DYNAMO! !!
We had not won in Kansas City since 2014. Coach Ramos first victory for our club as well. Here is a complete game highlights package. Enjoy! https://www.espn.com/soccer/undefined
From MLSsoccer.com: https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020...uston-dynamo-win-2020-season-has-been-brewing Ramos points to a pair of performances at the MLS is Back Tournament — scoring three goals in the first half of a 3-3 draw against LAFC and especially the 2-1 defeat to eventual tournament champion Portland that followed, the “first complete game” — as examples his team was right there. “I was confident in the team, but I wasn’t in a place where I could talk about it. I can only say so many times ‘hey, I really like what we’re doing, I like the team, we’re going in the right direction,’” Ramos said. “I can truly say it now, but we should have won the last three games we’ve played. Unfortunately for one reason or another, a call or whatever, we didn’t get the win. That’s why I say today’s victory didn’t happen today, it’s been brewing.” And it percolated Tuesday night in Kansas City to the tune of five goals, an offensive explosion that the first-year coach said he couldn’t have predicted. “No, I didn’t think we’d score five goals tonight, but i thought we could score,” Ramos said. “We actually could have scored more tonight. We hit the post, we had one called back, a couple other chances.” Ramos said he also feels he finally has true competition for spots, lauding the performances of Darwin Ceren, Christian Ramirez and Niko Hansen who have filled in for injured starters. He also praised the play of Darwin Quintero, whose sacrifice for his team was rewarded with a second-half brace. “Darwin has been working really hard. He plays a position that is difficult where he has to make the difference in the games and today he made the difference,” Ramos said. “That’s what it’s about. Unfortunately sometimes even playing in those positions you have to sacrifice for the team and today he did that quite a bit. I’m really happy with his effort and obviously on top of that with his goals.” Where do the Dynamo go from here? Ramos said it’s now time to prove this wasn’t a one-off and that starts next Wednesday (8 pm ET | MLS LIVE on ESPN+ in US, on DAZN in Canada) against Minnesota United back at BBVA Stadium. “Now we’ve got to prove we can win every week,” Ramos said. “We have to react well to this one and we have to try to keep this going. That’s the most important part moving forward now.”
The Dynamo have had big scorelines but usually in preseason scrimmages with college or academy teams. The only similar game results I could find were '14 we beat Chivas LA 4-1 there, '13 DC 4-0 there, '09 USOC USL Battery away 4-0, '07 Chicago there 4-0. I didn't think there would be many because Dom was into controlled soccer and road draws, and since he left we've had a massive home-away disparity where we'd be lucky to win anything away, much less with a cushion.
not to take wind out of our sails -- more like give perspective -- worth noting what LAFC and SKC have in common as a statistic, despite the wins and GF and GD -- plenty of GA. Portland is actually weird with a positive record but -GD and a lot of GA. comparison -- Dallas has 3 GA in 5 games. LAG is then the anomaly but to me that felt like a team content to head to the flag and hit low percentage lofted crosses. vs LAFC and SKC you have some ground crosses behind the backs and people turning and dribbling right at defenders. my response to this would be that when games seem to be going too consistently to the form book i want the coach to do more. why are you sitting back on dallas. how do you blow the lead on LAFC. but i've argued in previous years that better defensive teams "make their luck" in the several marginal games whose outcome decides how you finish. a team with plenty of GA and a neutral or negative GD is simply more often going to give up the result killer goals -- duh, it's how you get the GA. that comes across as bad luck, and yes, but for a game or two here or there.......but your defense made that luck. lundkvist in LAFC is on the hook for 2/3 of it. who was still starting last night? the offense is at one level, the defense at another, and last night that worked out, but 3-3 is a good offensive night and we only gave up one more goal, really.
ramirez hasn't started any of the losses fwiw a subtle thing he did against both LAFC and SKC was show diagonally to the crosser which drags the CB with him and opens up the weak side