Best match in the history of MLS. Still in progress, going into OT... Amazing. Must be the best match in the history of the league.... Agree, disagree?
I must say it was quite a match. 85th min I am thinking no way SJ can do it. Wow!!!!! 7 goals, enthusiastic crowd. I do agree with you. Home team wins!!!!!
I'm still partial to the Burn - Fire game of 99 or whenever it was, but I hadn't watched four soccer games that day so my eyes were a little less glazed over.
And the guy who everyone thought was washed up in the league scores the extra time winner. Incredible series, well done by SJ to come back from 0-4 (!!!) to win it.
Dallas-Chicago game 3 of the 99 playoffs was way better.... but this is still a great game, but theres been better, most of the MLS Cups, the conference finals in 2000 (were they called the conference finals) KC over LA and Chicago over MetroStars, ya... but again, good game, great crowd also...
Those were just MLS semifinals since it was the era of three divisions. 14,145 looks great in that stadium.
The better team won Wow, being 4-0 on aggregate with 70 minutes to go is not good enough for LA to win? They truly blew it, just like they did all season....I was a bit mad about Dayak and the SJ players bitching about the playoffs, but i was more concerned that such a thoroughly undeserving team like LA should go anywhere deep into the playoffs....Awesome game, great team play...I had thought Yallop had blown it by complaining about how the playoffs were a mockery of the regular season (while true, no need to say it before starting the playoffs), but i'm glad SJ pulled it off...That was some gutsy performance, won with most starting players on their last legs....For those with the Shootout like myself, this game was worth the total price of the package....A game any neutral fan would love to watch!
Wow, LA. I mean, wow. Taking the "can't win on the road" thing a little too far. The one time I'm rooting for LA. Now you know why nobody likes you. My cable company is getting a stern letter for denying me the chance to watch this game.
Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! That was, and it gives me great pain to write this, the greatest comeback in MLS history, and second only to ManUre in '99 among games I've seen.
Have to say, I simply cannot fathom how someone with Jamil Walker's talent can sail underneath the USSF's radar like he has. Walker obviously has some VERY rough edges to his game, but good lord, how was he so missed for so long?
Spartan has never been louder and the wet pitch has never been as needed as it was tonight for SJ fans. I just got back from the game and my ears are still ringing. I am just happy to have been there to see the best game in Quakes history. The fact that my brother (LA season ticket holder) started this post and called me (Quakes season ticket holder) while I was in the stadium to relay his confidence in LA's chances at halftime makes it all the sweeter.
I haven't seen Walker play that much, so maybe someone else can fill me in, but what exactly is he good at? He's obviously not your prototypical target forward, he's not tall and he doesn't seem particularly strong. He doesn't seem particularly good at holding the ball. I didn't see the game tonight (tragically enough), but three of his regular season goals were scored with one touch, the fourth, he settled the ball and then fired it in. But he's not really creating the goals. He's taking advantage of the fact that he's playing for a tremendous passing team, but he's not registered a single assist himself this year. He's quick, but he's not scoring anything because of his blinding speed. He's a hard worker. But, to be honest, the only really apparent thing that he's done this year is score goals. And obviously, that is not an insignificant ability; I would obviously much prefer a forward who somehow scores goals to one who fits some prototypical mold but doesn't. Maybe I've got the wrong impression of him, but it doesn't seem surprising at all to me that he wasn't that highly esteemed. I imagine that most of the posters here thought that his first couple of goals were simply good luck (I certainly did). He simply doesn't have a lot of skills that immediately make it clear that he's going to be a success in MLS. Even in his draft bio, he's listed as a defender. As far as I can tell, that's the position he played at Santa Clara until his senior year. He's obviously a very intriguing young player, but it's always easier to overlook a guy who simply has a knack for scoring goals (he wasn't even doing that at Santa Clara until his senior year) for somebody who has an exceptional skill set. And, to be honest, I think he's been very fortunate to play in San Jose. The team has such tremendous ball movement that a guy who knows how to position himself is going to score a lot, whereas on a D.C. United, or Columbus, or Dallas, or Colorado, he wouldn't be getting the kind of service necessary to do that.
Un-un-unfrickin'believeable game. I don't know if it's he best MLS game of all time, but it's the best MLS game I've ever seen. And the much-maligned SJ crowd not only looked great, but was going absolutely ballistic. Too bad this wasn't the one on ESPN2 so a few more could've seen it.
I think this game solidifies the playoff format. I really like the two game aggregate with no away goal winners. I know alot of fans want the "away goal" rule, however, if it was that way there never would have been an overtime for SJ to win it. The game would have ended 4-2 to SJ and 4-4 in aggregate with LA advancing because they scored 2 away goals to none. However, with the format in place SJ and MLS fans got to see the conclusion and drama of a compleat comeback on the field of play. Plus having the 30 minute overtime in SJ it gave SJ the advantage with the fans they had tonight Don't Move SJ, just get those 14K that went to this game to come back.
Hopefully tonight's performance sold at least a few hundred season tickets for next year. What a game. I just watched it again on Yahoo to make sure it wasn't a dream.
He was pretty good at running Simon Elliot into the ground tonight. Looks very good on the dribble. Very very quick, good on the dribble, nice instincts in terms of making runs. I thought his play to get behind the Galaxy and dish to Donovan for the Quakes' second was the play that turned the tide. If not for Hartman, Walker very well could have had a hat trick tonight. Every time I see him, he brings a spark to the Quakes offense. It would be stereotypical to compare him to DMB (the skinny fast black guy), but he has a _little_ of that in him. Has 5 goals and an assist now, in roughly 450 minutes of MLS play. I mean I don't even think this kid was a regional ODPer, was he?
I cannot believe SJ won the game. I saw referee and flagmen are cheat to help SJ winning the game Repeat they are cheat
HAHAHAha hahahHAHAhaHAHAHAHAHHAHAHhahaahaaaaaaaaAAAA! 5 GOALS MOTHER******!! YEAH - It was the REFS!! Oh the league is so fixed in favor of San Jose, over the LA Galaxy, host team of the final in their shiny new stadium... HA HA! 5 GOALS!!