When: Today Where: Audi AF Why: FTRB all the way to the the top of FTRB mountain where we can throw the RB down the mountain What Time: 4:30 My time - figure it out How: Human/Animal tactical hybrid of Ashton Ball/Bennyball/Losada Press Do it for the children.
I hate the metros. DCU - 2 NJ - 1 I predict a really ugly game resulting in at least one long-term injury. We can only hope it's not to one of ours
Anyone here going? I am thinking of making the trek. It would be my first game back since the pandemic began.
I'm going. I'm not really sure why. With a Nats game at the same time the parking/traffic is going to be ugly. And who knows who's going to be on the field. I guess I just love watching soccer... Goff reports we pulled up some guys from Loudoun. Loudoun United players loaned to D.C. United for U.S. Open Cup match Tuesday vs Red Bulls:F Azaad LiadiD Sami GuediriD Rio Hope-GundMF Houssou Landry #dcu #mls #USOC2022— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) May 9, 2022 I have no idea who we're going to play in defense. I assume Alfaro will be one. I suspect our central midfield will be Durkin and Ku-di. I'm hoping our attackers will include Hopkins and Yow. Probably with Estrada at the top... Goal could be the new guy or Kempin. Red Bulls like to press. Depending on who they play and what tactics they use, it could be problematic for us to have a thrown together back line... Here's hoping for an Open Cup run!
We don't have tickets, and don't have ESPN+, so I guess we'll follow the game on ESPN FC Matchtracker.
Even worse: I was gearing up to go but there's some sort of connectivity issue between the DCU Account Manager sub-page and the ticket handover to Google Pay (to store said tix for entry through the AF gate). DCU says I've already downloaded, but there's no sign of it on Ticketbastard/GooglePay. The URLs keep bouncing back and forth between the DCU and Ticketbastard sites. ESPN+ tonight Call to DCU ticket rep tomorrow
I know MLS teams don't really take USOC seriously, but wow. Romo Hope-Gund (?) Pines Alfaro Yow Durkin Skundrich Guediri(?) K Smith Hopkins Liadi(?) bench: Kempin, Sargis, Garay, Greene, Ku-DiPietro, Landry, Estrada Does Loudoun play in this tournament? Or I guess they're already out by now with none of these guys cup-tied?
How it started: How it’s going:#RBNY #RBNYvPOR pic.twitter.com/RrDnfR9y4j— Jay! (@JayRockerz) May 8, 2022
theirs is almost as questionable. Too bad Aaron Long went out injured. Of course there's not much cohesion to either side. I feel bad for people who bought tickets
About the first 15 minutes was all I could take. It was just dire. It looked like the best we could hope for was a scoreless draw. Well, that didn’t happen …
Loudoun does not play in the tournament, nor do any pro teams owned by other pro teams, which is why MLS teams often call up many players from their affiliates during the early rounds. But yeah, the amount of call-ups in today's match is... something.
Embarrassing. Maybe no one within the org cares anymore, but when you play Red Bull, you play to win.
Can't expect much with that lineup but disappointing not to see any good individual performances. Maybe KuDi, he has a little pop, but I'm stretching for that.
I understand that Open Cup games are often low priority but you have to at least do right by the fans that paid hard earned money for tickets. That and we should never give up if we're playing the Harrison New Jersey Pink Bovines.