We’re not even running anymore. This is a defeated team in every sense of the world. I may go to bed soon…
Not enough! We should pull Harkes for Fernandez. We only get three windows so making just one sub is not efficient.
We made three individual subs leaving two on the bench. So either Bruce thinks our bench is crap, or he just blew it. We should have subbed earlier. We should have started Nonso instead of Judd. Our guys looked totally unmotivated. What the hell?
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Well that sucked. We looked very good the first 20 minutes or so but couldn't take advantage of our chances. The only player who I thought played well was Ricketts. He saved us so many times. Bruce should have pulled Harkes at halftime, put in Fernandez, and moved Beau back to the #8. We needed goals, not backpasses. Why not make an attacking oriented sub? Skahan for Marie is lateral move at best. Fernandez can make plays in the box in tight spaces - it's what we needed. Remember I think before the season started, I was saying that Roberts plays a little "handsy" especially when he's getting ready to play the ball, and that he's at risk for handling the ball. Welp, there it is... That cocked left arm is there pretty much every time he plays the ball. I don't think he was playing the ball there, but possibly getting ready to. It becomes instinctive at some point.
Winless since Niko went out, we have no replacement for him unfortunately. We won some games sans timo, but we’re short a central player in the attack, and we also have zero depth for Judd. Was bound to bite us in the butt eventually
We dominated the game in the 1st 30 minutes or so but did not take our chances. That was the time to do it, because we're playing on short rest and at altitude. This was always gonna be a dicey game. Bruce gambled and put all the starters in, hoping we could get a lead and then take the air out of the game. Didn't work, but not for lack of chances. Marie skied a great chance, Munie header over the bar, possible uncalled PK on Marie, etc. Defense on balls in the air in the box was quite poor and we were lucky that the 1st goal was overturned. Still don't really understand the call, unless he was calling a foul on Navarro, who looked like he pushed Munie. I've seen many times where a pass comes in and several players are offside but if they are not in the play it's not called. We were lucky on that one, but take the uncalled possibly PK on Beau and I guess those things evened out. Can't blame the ref for the loss. Open headers at the far post is a problem we need to work on. We are bunching up ball side and leaving guys wide open far post. That was little DeRo's goal and that was CO's first goal tonight.
FYI the can thrower was identified by a combination of C38 leadership, Argus security, and Commerce City PD. He was handcuffed and escorted out by CCPD (and presumably arrested).