Houston Dynamo v. FC Dallas, Saturday, May 18

GET F'N STUCK IN BOYS!!!!!!!

Dale Dynamo!!!

 

this is a must win

 

Fwiw a draw would still have them on pace with last year’s team

 

Yes.
However, that was when our team actually scored goals!

 

bingo

 

Frisco has severely underperformed so far this year based on their talent level. They are absolutely looking to today's match as a way to get well and jump start their summer. Winning here against their rival would do wonders for them and they want this one.

We want this one too. Not to just jump start the middle of the season, but to actually keep us out of panic mode and swimming with the bottom dwellers of the league. We are actually (or near actually) the worst scoring team in the league but we can't act like that today. Yet another zero goal game from us will yield some deserved outrage from the fan base.

Lets hope the team plays above it's talent level and respects their home field.

 

Points dropped... Really frustrating.

That being said, how did Dallas get 6 subs with 4 breaks and I saw no medical attention to warrant a head injury? We had 5 subs with a head injury and our reserves sat down after the 5th. I'm seriously confused with this.

 

With a home record like ours, were destined for great things.

What a frustrating season so far.

 

Injury to a keeper results in an extra window for both teams. Lucky for us as we used that extra window to sub off an injured Gaines.

 

trash again

trash ass performance from trash ass players. The whole top line is trash. Coco's lazy stupid decision making directly leading to a goal is trash. Ben's dumb a^s "possession is the most important thing" philosophy is trash.

to top it all off, Ol Ben deciding to sub HH off might be the ruin of the locker room. you lose HH, you lose the team. I've NEVER seen a player take his captain band off and throw it to the ground before. NEVER. This can't be waved away as "passion" or "desire". This is Ol Ben not communicating with the one player on the team that is worth a sh^t ahead of time that he may sub him out or communicate during the game that he might make that decision. HH was gutted and embarrassed by his coach. I'm sure everyone will say all the right things in front of the camera, but this season is coming apart at the seams & it's taking arguably the most talented player to wear orange down with it. And why the sub at minute 83?? To put in some stork legged journeyman who couldn't make it 5 minutes.

Trash

 

The Dynamo have been steadily bringing HH up to match fitness. He has clearly been on a minute count and I guarantee you he was aware that he would be subbed off at a certain point in this game. That doesn't mean that a competitive player doesn't get frustrated when he's coming out in a 1-1 game. There's science behind this stuff, though, so whether he likes it or not that's what happens to minimize the risk of re-injury.

 

We actually score right before halftime!
The mentality in the locker room thus must be "all together boys, let's see the second half out, focus on securing a home win against our eternal rival"
Then Coco goes and wants to get cute. Cute inside his own defensive third!!! Bobo!
Team drops points at home.

 

you gurantee it? how? what kind of sub plan involves a subbing off at the 83rd minute??? so HH was fit enough to play 80 but couldn't go another 10? A player showing up the coach and throwing away his captains band is science?

nah

 

It would have been another 20. I can guarantee it because a) I've watched how they have managed his minutes since his return, b) I've spent time around teams and have known players coming back from injury. The minute count is meticulously planned in building a player back up and it's communicated with the player. Again, it doesn't mean the player likes it but sometimes you have to protect the player from themselves. You say "what's another 10 minutes plus stoppage time when a player has gone 80 minutes?". That's exactly the stretch when a player returning from a serious leg injury is most likely to experience re-injury and I'm sure if that happened you'd be screaming about the idiots who overused him and caused re-injury.

 

whats up with Dyanamo FO allowing FC Dallas to bring their band I was in that section in the first half was ringing in my ear thank god I moved second...freaking amateur hour where else in world football does that happen??

 

Yup.
There is traditional seating for this sport. An away section tucked in a corner or upper deck section. It really is a global standard of etiquette. Invision Celtic hosting Rangers or River Plate hosting Boca Boca Juniors, there is traditionally an away section that home team fans and supporters are a good distance from or if a big derby match, set aside to allow both sets of fans n supporters to be safe.
We had this in place at our old Rob days, not so much now.

 

in the 15-22 period the primary problem was defense, it generally became uncompetitive as many nights we shipped 2 or more. olsen has stabilized that with scheme such that the team now has an average defense and with that hovers around the line on its own. but folks on here per usual overrated the individuals composing it, advocated their being kept around, and so the defense is just mediocre, not excellent like say cincy with miazga and robinson. to rise further you need a good defense or a good offense. right now we have neither. i have advocated make the defense excellent as we have no seeming interest in keeping up with the joneses in LA or miami or whoever the spender that year is. it negates their offenses and gives us a chance to win it all. but to do that it needs to be not just statistically ok but under a goal a game. right now we allow a goal a game which means the offense has to score 2 to win. we don't have the offense for that at this point.

our hopeful colleague compares this year to last. he forgets this sharply pivoted in the summer, with HH and baird having career years. baird then left. people were blase about it or had self-serving cap excuses. but the last thing a minor miracle of a team needs is less miracle to play with. last year was fairly miraculous, greater than the sum of the seeming parts. anyone with a brain knows not to stand pat on a team that outperforms what the roster said it should have done. but they did anyway. the signings have been largely developmental kids or sub level. we needed rearming on offense; so we brought in a DM and kids. they didn't make the decision on sebas. if the defense is going to be merely mediocre, then the offense needs to be exceelent, more like 17 or last season to overcome the leakage. otherwise, 1-1, 0-0, 1-0, middling, par for the course.

 

the questions are, are we cap-locked and just playing out this season to get past it, or can we make moves.

and, are we stuck as team continuity or are we willing to shift around some surplus to push this up the standings a little. trade an excess vet, see if we can get some offense in. or see about upgrading the defense. surely we can do something like for like on salary.

i will repeat myself that they need to make the hard decisions on HH and sebas. HH can't stay healthy long enough to make this more than a blip. sebas hogs a DP and can't do what we want in this offense. but we tend to resist such hard decisions which is why 2017 or 2023 becomes an outlier. we double down and double down on age. it's a bad bet. ching, etc.

our postseasons are isolated because we don't spend money, don't make sure the defense is solid, and emotionally hold onto anything that briefly works. we lack the guts to say, ok, i can build around you, you, and you over there, but you're getting old -- even if you were MVP a year ago -- and i can do better than you or you. so we plateau at modest elevation then slip back down.

 

I’d really like to take your analysis seriously but you get the most basic information wrong. You vault Cincy up like they’re doing something defensively way above what we are but the Dynamo have only conceded **two** more goals this year than Cincy has. The Dynamo are tied for 2nd in goals conceded and tied for 3rd in goals conceded per 90. They have an elite defense as far as I’m concerned.

I do agree that they need to figure out the DP situation. Sebas should have been gone yesterday. HH has an option on his contract we’ll see what happens there. In a Saturday chalk talk Asher said the team is searching for a 26-29 y/o striker to sign as a DP in the summer. Also looking to fill the other two U22 spots with attacking players. The team has the 9th highest salary bill in MLS also so the idea that they don’t spend money is not relevant anymore.

 

Rep for not writing a novel for all of us to read while at work Juve!

 

I think the D is more than adequate for us to be successful in the league. Especially if we ever get Escobar back.

It's the trash offense that has, and will continue to let us down until the entire front line is replaced.