Tonight, the Menace completely and totally dominated this team... again. Final score 7-0. Scoring summary is as follows Jones (Sithonnorath)-18" Sithonnorath (Boltnar)-26" Grau (Kabwe)-28" Sithonnorath (Disang)-47th" Lovell (Kabwe)-69" Jones (Kabwe)-72" Redhage (Jones)-84" Wisconsin is horrid. As you can see 6 different people scored tonight with 5 different assist men. Kabwe, the guy who scored the bike last week in OT is great but needs to be a little more selfish, if he had tonight he could have put away a goal or two. He also had a nice bike pass to Boltner making a run up field. Disang had an awesome move with the ball in the far offensive corner. He faked one way flicked the ball up over the defenders head and moved around him. Lit up the crowd, even the Menace bench was up and roared. I have to say, this team I believe is better than last years. Now that everyone has had a chance to play together the team is really finding it's chemistry. BTW.. for Lothar... bad night to miss. Lovell's goal was during the Carlos O'Kelley's Minute of Madness. Crowd went nuts. That puts the Menace to 4-0 for the season. 22 consecutive regular season game wins. And we are officially in the Open Cup!
Flipping though local newscasts... channel 8 used the Meance defending their unbeaten streak as their sports teaser.
Yes... yes they are... They showed up in Thunder Bay with only three subs. Their coach actually had to play in the second half.
Re: Re: Re: Des Moines Menace vs Wisconsin Rebels [R] Oh wait, my mistake.... it was Kalamazoo and not Wisconsin. With that being said, Thunder Bay did beat Wisconsin earlier this year (on the road). Thunder Bay almost never wins on the road, but I heard that they have a much improved team this year.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Des Moines Menace vs Wisconsin Rebels [R] Interesting. Kalamazoo is 2-1-1 so far. Good for Thunder Bay. Bad for Wisconsin
I want to see this DM team play. I knew Petersen was going to do a good job, but the Menace sound like their name. Go MENACE!!!
Peterson has so far done a great job of putting together parts of last year and building upon it with new players. The Menace are playing an aggressive attacking style of soccer that apparantly is his signature. Very appealing game.
He had a team in Nashville that looked Dutch to me. They came to New Orleans and pasted us 5-1, thank you Stern John. He took average players and made they look fantastic. Needless to say Nashville was a bogey team for New Orleans.
Stephen Shirley For those of you who have followed the Menace this year, how does Stephen Shirley look? Sounds like Wisconsin wasn't much of a test for the defense. He's coming to VCU after playing for NAIA champs Mobile, and I know he's played for the U-20 nat'l team. Although he's played in the back mostly, sounds like VCU might use him in the midfield on the left side. They already have an All-American candidate at left back, Gonzalo Segares. Any observations on Shirley?
Dammit, I missed out on free food! I was at our men's league game last night and heard the ref for the Menace v. Wissonsin game was supposed to be assessed but since it was so lopsided they couldn't give him an official assessment. He's a Bosnian and is one of the fairer refs when we play the Bosnian teams in our league, I hope he did well.
Looks like it's time to add the Menace to your favorite teams on the side bar!!! The Menace are pleasantly surprising me this year, for some reason I just wasn't expecting them to repeat last year's success.
Re: Stephen Shirley Only had two games at home so far and, as you mentioned regarding Wisconsin, we really haven't been challenged defensively so it's hard to really judge him on that. However, he's been playing midfield and has been involved in some good exchanges moving the ball up field. Even has taken a couple shots, one was at the first home match vs Chicago Fire Reserves and nearly scored.
To be honest i wasn't sure we'd be as good this year either. Turnover on a PDL team is high. I figured our problem might be defense since Peercy is the only returning defender to see action. However offensively I knew things were positive. Obviously Boltnar, the league's leading scorer last year, and Menace record breaker, was big. But we also had 3 returning midfielders: Adnan Junuzovic (whose been playing as defender), Dusty Gau, and Joe Sithonorath. John Jones, Joseph Kabwe and Edwin Disang, are quality additions. Jones and Disang had their first game Saturday and both were impressive. Jones made team of the week.
Cuevas hasn't played yet and he might be the best of the lot. Petersen can coach, but he knows how to get players. John Jones is a man's player. Very talented and loves to play for Petersen as you can guess.