Pre-match: DCU vs the Philthy Onion

Dang, by 10am on a game-day I have been told about it twice already Here is my second time. Twitter was first.

Interesting, two week-day games this week. One of you bastards out there has a spreadsheet that could tell if that's ever happened before

#WeWinMondays
... will it be #WeWinFridays or #We********UpFridays ?

I am thinking we win, though I have nothing but raw hope and optimism to justify that thought

DCU - 2
Chester - 1

guaranteed nail-biter if we do end up winning.

 

This one's airing on ESPN, as our mod was too lazy to include that in his post.

 

eriF ehT doM !

 

Regrets, @Winoman? If you delete it now, he'll never see it!

I'm pretty sure that's how time zones work.

 

Philly hasn't scored more than 2 goals in a game all year if my quick scan of their results didn't miss anything. They also don't give up many either. The optimist in me wants to see a 1-0 smash and grab on an individual piece of Taxi brilliance.

 

Nothing.

 

Man, you got me on the time thing - here I thought the match was almost halfway over!

 

We played two games 39 hours apart back in 2005, when MLS not only didn't support DC in the CONCACAF Champion's League, it treated us like we were playing in a renegade competition and had to be punished for it. We kicked off a Wednesday night (4/13) 10pm EST match in altitude in Mexico City against Pumas, and MLS scheduled us to play a Friday night (4/15) 7:30 game in Columbus. The CONCACAF schedule, but not the brackets, was set well before the MLS schedule was issued.

That's a part of MLS history that got forgotten after Seattle invented sports. MLS seemed annoyed that we took CCL so seriously and never gave a thought to postponing any regular season games to help. Scheduling us to play a Friday road game after we play in altitude in another country late Wednesday is as low Garber got.

 

Philly isn't Orlando. They aren't as explosive but they're so much more organized.
I suppose coach feels like he has to start the same players that won in Orlando, but Skundrich and Durkin are going to get overrun by the Union midfield. Starting a three-man frontline made sense against Orlando, but not Philly.

 

This has bothered me quite a bit in recent threads.

 

I'm waiting for espn to apologize for having an early game tonight. They've barely mentioned the first game from their set on LAFC's field (with Olsen).

 

Some dude named Ben Olsen on the pregame. Looks good in a suit.

I assume he shaved at like 8am this morning.

 

That can't be Ben. He's too clean - shaven

 

what am I saying? - it's getting darker by the minute

 

this is going to be a long night

 

Estrada still doesn't look like he can fully open it up after that hamstring tightness.

 

that looked pretty offside

 

I think Birnbaum just kept Bedoya on.

 

New defender Guediri looked painfully slow on that first goal. He couldn't keep up with Bedoya.

He'll fit right in.

 

Absolutely no defending of multiple players in the box.

0-2

 

will they make it to 6 or 7?

 

So far this looks like one of those games that gets a coach canned.

If we were a respectable team.

If we lose like 4-0 to the lowest scoring team etc.

 

FFS... that should have been #3. No excuse.