Post-match: HEROGASM PART 2 MLS MATCH DAY 19 CREW @ SWAMP CREATURES WEDNESDAY JULY 13TH 8:00PM (DC UNITED)

Yada yada yada words. So many words just to say we pissed on the fye-ure.

 

Idk. I got a feeling this is starting to turn around. I got a feeling we’ve turned the corner and will be a force for the last three months, pending health of course.

 

Someday, an internet searcher is going to find this thread looking for a subject quite different.


All Hail Cucho!

 

I’m not saying we are going to the cup, but I am saying we are gonna be much more entertaining and I’ll be disappointed and shocked if we aren’t hosting a home playoff game.

 

Agreed. Crew still have major holes (as discussed in other threads by brighter minds than mine) that a signing like Cucho will not cover up. Prior to his signing, I was very low on Crew’s prospects of making the playoffs. The coach and the team looked defeated.

Now? They better make a nice run up the Eastern conference standings. Playoffs or bust.

 

This thread probably won't even show up with safesearch on.

 

We only need to get to 4th to host a playoff game. Currently that's Montreal with 29 points in 19 games. We're on 25 points in 18 games. If we can win our game in hand, we'd only need to outpace them by 2 points over the remainder of the season with Cucho as our reinforcement. That certainly seems possible.

 

Five posts in the span of less than 24 hours? Good to read you, @cleazer.

 

Crewster point standings as of today. Looks a little different that it did a couple of weeks ago:

EAST

NYRB 6
Philadelphia 3
Montreal 2
Columbus 1
Cincinnati -1
NYC -1
Orlando -2
Charlotte -4
New England -5
Miami -5
Atlanta -7
Chicago -10
DC -10
Toronto -14



WEST

Austin 13
Nashville 6
LAFC 6
Salt Lake 3
Dallas 1
Minnesota 0
Portland -1
LA Galaxy -3
Seattle -4
Vancouver -6
Colorado -7
San Jose -8
Kansas City -8
Houston -11

 

Looks like DC will have their new manager for the game Wednesday.

 

Maybe not by Wednesday.

Rooney won’t coach until his Visa is sorted, of course. Unclear to me how long that will take but it won’t be Wednesday.

— Pablo Iglesias Maurer (@MLSist) July 11, 2022

 

We have a goalscorer with a goal every 28 mins record. It'll be difficult to lose from a guaranteed 3ish goals per game. Win by 3 or more for me

 

Agreed.

CB's do the least amount of running of the field players. With Milos out, I suspect we go with 2 CBs (Mensah & Williams). Could see Anibaba rotate in for 1 game. I diybt we go 3 in the back. If we do, Moreira at RCB is possible.

Even with Arty out, we still have good CM options between Nagbe, Morris, Zawadzki, Igbekeme, and moving LZ back. 353 or not.

FB/WB is light. Is Hairston gonna get healthy this year? Without him, Pedro, Moreira, Sands, and Etienne are it. Coachbot obviously prefers the FBs as WBs, but we might have to see someone spell Pedro at some point here soon.

We have plenty of rested bodies up top and as wide atrackers, given Porter's 352 eith the FBs as WBs. Should be good.

LB seems the biggest issue. To me, at least.

 

What is up with all these away games?

 

We play at least 17 a a year. It's diabolical.

 

Honest answer - or theory at least:

We no longer have to load up the May/June/July schedule with home games to allow for a full month of away games due to the Quarter Horse Congress.

But it could also be vast conspiracy. Who really knows.

 

4 out of are last 5 have been away. MLS has such a chaotic schedule.

 

Maybe this has been talked about before but we have a pretty favorable schedule for the rest of the season. I have a prediction we finish in the top 3 of the east.

 

Or MLS scheduling is so all over the place that weird things happen.

 

So, you're saying we make the playoffs -- there's the optimism we've been missing!