Pre-match: DCU vs the Club Foots of Montreal

Blinked and missed the start of the game. Possibly just as well, because I’d hate to think our powerful new lineup would fail to concede 2 goals in the first ten minutes by the skin of our teeth.

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Oh wait — perhaps I should’ve posted this in the Gallows Humor thread …

 

Oh FFS!

Just saw the replay of the goal — at the same time as we almost gifted them another. Saved by a dicey offside flag.

Ummm, Wayne? Just so you know, succeeding as a manager means your players have to know which goal to defend and which to attack. Not sure we’re making progress there yet.

 

Never seen a team try so hard to pass it backwards, even when it's easily the least sensible option

 

Pines is scary...and not in a good way

 

Watching Berry there flashed me back 20+ years, when I used to criticize Roy Lassiter by saying, “I don’t have to pay to see Roy Lassiter to get caught offside and miss sitters inside the six — I can do that myself!”

 

cmon Skundrich
dc playing better

 

Hydration break, and we’d be lucky to be down 3, let alone the 1 we’ve actually given up.

Honestly, WTF are they teaching kids these days? I’ve seen better defending in a U8 pickup game. If Montreal were even moderately competent at attacking, we’d have shipped a half-dozen already.

 

And there it is.

 

that was pretty sad

 

We probably need to sign another forward or two to boost our defense.

 

Ashton’s fiendishly devilish plan is coming into effect. Everyone knows that the 2-0 lead is the most dangerous in all football.

 

There actually is a theory in football that it’s better to play defense 75 yards from your own goal as opposed to 25 yards from your own goal. Good forwards are useful in this scheme.

Of course, that pre-supposes that at any time you’re actually 1) playing 75 yards from your goal in any capacity, and 2) playing defense anywhere on the pitch.

 

Hopkins plays some really nice passes

 

A couple of really nice saves keep Taxi off the board. At least he’s trying.

 

This team has the soccer iq of a fruitfly. The truly awful so far: Pines Dirkin Skundrich Samake Djeffal.

 

Taxi tried a few things but everyone else was trash. Playing young and deeply unready or untalented young guys is not a learning experience and it’s not a good fan experience. People are paying real money for this.

 

Positives: Uhh Taxi?

Negatives: Everything else. Does Djeffal know which team he's playing for?

 

Righto. When you've got to handle the speed of a Quioto, best practice is to not let the distributor pick up his head. Turns out DCU is not a six sigma organization.

 

The Limp act are faster and quicker to the ball all over the field. It's deadly when their attackers are faster than our defenders, and their defenders are faster than our attackers.

Not to mention the fact that none of our players seem to be able to trap a ball cleanly.

 

Pines mad me yell at my screen. This is just depressing, there's not much more to say.

 

This enrages me to no end. Professional soccer players should have a firm grasp of the basic mechanical techniques of the game.

 

One more thing get rid of the ********ing simg along at the start of the secomd half

 

Halftime singalong in stadium to Dancing Queen? Wtf? This is embarrassing from top to bottom

 

good analysis at halftime from Devon and Dave. They're not sugar-coating anything