PBP: Brenden Aaronson, Tyler Adams, Weston McKennie, All Games

Great game by our guy. First time for me watching. The way he played today, he is Pulisic competition. Right footed playing on the left and floating right and left. A little more bite in his defensive posture, but creative and energetic, for sure. It will be fun to see him in CL games against mostly better competition. The future is bright, still.

 

No worries. Something just seemed fishy and tendency is to assume the worst with this type of story.

“Hanlon’s Razor - never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.”

 

Aaronson & Richards will be solid additions to the NT in the near future.

 

@tomásbernal — thanks for the pbp, great stuff!

 

Interesting. Never heard of anyone taking altitude sickness meds at less than 8000 feet. Then again, I'm thinking of skiers and not the highest-level soccer players. I mean 1700m is basically Denver.

Just wondering what they might have taken, this is from drugs.com:
"If you have experienced high-altitude illness in the past and are planning to again go to high altitude, you may want to discuss with your doctor the option of taking a prescription drug. The ones used are acetazolamide (Diamox, generic versions) and the corticosteroid medicine dexamethasone (Decadron, generic versions)."

I don't know Diamox, but Decadron is definitely a banned corticosteroid, and it would be highly unusual for a sports doctor not to know it wasn't banned. I mean impossible. Okay, looked up Damox, it's a diuretic, and those are used as masking agents, and are banned too. Like with corticosteroids, it's hard to believe anyone involved in sports doesn't know that diuretics are banned.

Obviously, I don't know what they took, but what a strange case. Taking altitude meds for a game played at Denver's altitude, with it likely being either a corticosteroid or diuretic! I mean come on.

 

early goal for salzburg. game on

 

Aaronson has been really good defensively. Key man in the press.

 

This very easily could be 2-2 already on aggregate. Salzburg are pounding on the door.

 

this is really fun

 

I strongly dislike Unai Emery

 

Well Villarreal have regained their 2 goal aggregate lead.

 

I didn't even recognize that was Unai for a second. It's like he decided to go back to Spain and reinvent himself completely, with glasses and bangs

 

they need aaronson more involved. not sure why jesse switched what worked.

 

Emery's got to be the most successful manager in the history of this tournament, right?

 

Subbed out for Sucic in the 60th. That sucics.

 

WOW Villarreal gets away with a penalty yet last week Salzburg were called for a softer penalty

 

sucic chokes on a shot from the 6 ooof

 

Starts

 

And 20 minutes in and they are down by 2

I didn't see the first goal but the second was a beau

 

I am tuned in to where I thought this would be on, and I see guys chopping wood non-metaphorically. Disappointing.

 

That's what happens when you chase the game and don't have the discipline to play the game that got you there.

Aaronson is out and so am I.

 

brutal week for everyone involved in rbs

 

no aaronson starting but guess this is pbp still stuff. familiar story of late of rbs despite dominating are finding themselves tied about 35 minutes in vs wsg tirol.

 

Wattens going on here?

 

half time tied and wattens/tirol/whatever they are called now definitely had some golden chances to go ahead. salzburg getting results but not feeling so much like a buzzsaw. goal differential difference between this and last season seem to corroborate that. 25 tighter this campaign tho granted in 6 or so less matches