Pre-match: Los Angeles Galaxy - San Jose Earthquakes (Sunday, 4/21) pregame thread

Rodrigo Faria Flash Back to his first start, also a very makeshift lineup that could still beat the dog bark out of us.



And possibly the most important goal in our history. Old reliable Ian Russell and LAndy Cakes with the assists.

 

It was the best night I've ever had at a soccer game. Everyone was involved in that game, it was AWESOME as a teenager.

 

It was an awesome night

 

We had issues getting there, got to our seats and saw the Quakes were down 2 - 0.

We didn't give a F**K and started yelling at the the top of our lungs, "LET'S GO QUAKES!!!" and started ringing a cowbell I had gotten at a Shark's game and had written on it, with a Sharpie, "Cobie's a Hack!" and proceeded to support our Quakes and be absolutely amazed!!!!!!!!!!

 

I started to write a lot more then stopped.

Damn, I miss those days...

 

Merc didn’t bother to send a photographer to the game.

 

Oof, Galaxy man Max Bretos, great. Maybe Dunseth will soften the blow a bit but it’s probably going to be a Gal praise-fest.

 

We need something like this to shut his pie hole.

Wait, we don't have anyone that can do that.

 

Judd “scraps” but he seems to lose every battle or gets called for a foul. I’m sure it’s happened but I can’t recall a time this year that he won a challenge against a defender. Also a red card risk.

 

We still had John Todd atleast

 

Nothing fancy, my ass!

The curve on that kick would make a banana blush.

 

he puts in a shift and ebobisse hasn't for a long time. it's a big field and we are only going to have 30-40% possession. ebobisse isn't going to get many chances.

 

Ebobisse is like having another midfielder in terms of his contribution to the buildup - he's one of the hardest working CF's in MLS in terms of the work that he puts in all over the field. We're going to need that if we're going to generate any chances at all. Judd hovers around the offside trap and gets into challenges with CBs - challenges that he always seems to lose, or he fouls.

 

It’s possible to play them both and leave Pellegrino on the bench.

 

Hope to see our grinders and a formation change to 4-2-3-1.

This is one of those games where everybody expects us to get absolutely pulverized. Classic MLS gravity game. A high flying team who can afford to drop points and the other, desperate to crawl up from the bottom of the well. I'm expecting MLS weirdness and a Quake result.

 

It's possible to play them both and to play Pelligrino or Benji. We did it against SKC and IMO it was our best stretch of play all season. For some reason Luchi hasn't gone back to it one time. On paper it's a 4-4-2 but since Jebo plays so deep in midfield it plays more like a 4-2-3-1 or something like that. We could even keep Niko in the lineup by pairing him with Jackson in CM and dropping Gruezo and Morales.

------------------------------Judd--------------------------
Pelle/Benji------------Jebo------------------Espinoza
--------------------Niko-----------Yueill------------------
Marie/Costa----Beason*------Rodrigues----Akapo
----------------------------'Brough------------------

* Bruno is still listed as "out" on MLS Availability

But honestly I haven't been impressed with Judd. As I said, he seems to never win duels with CB's, he's a red card risk, and he has a tendency to ruin our attacks with wild very low-chance shots.

 

Play Marie in Pelle/Benji slot and Munie in Beason's position.