Sacramento Republic FC (34 pts., 9-6-7 overall, 4-3-4 away ) at St. Louis FC (28 pts., 7-8-7 overall, 4-1-6 at home) Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. kick-off atWorld Wide Technology Park Television: none Radio: none Online: www.SacRepublicFC.com/Matchday Last five: SRFC: L-L-T-W-T StL: L-L-W-T-T Last meeting: 0-1 L @ Bonney Field on 4/23
Gold-plated opportunity to get level with both Vancouver and Colorado Springs at the top of the table, with Scum2 in a tough matchup tonight against OKC. Let's do this, lads!
He's really not in Kinnear's plans for this season at least, that's obvious. If he's not going to play TT with the Quakes he should be with Republic on a full season loan, not this limbo bouncing between the Quakes 18 as an unused sub and periodic Republic appearances.
Team and Bill Paterson tweet that Coach Buckle has flown to England to be with his ill father. Adam Smith managing tonight.
Kiffe on yellow card suspension and now Foran is listed as out with a hammy. The best defense is a good offense! Uh-oh.
Hopefully, that was just an inaccurate tweet from Paterson, as the team's twitter account only mentioned Klimenta as being out.
Tommy Thompson joins Republic tonight on loan from San Jose.@SacRepublicFC @USL https://t.co/Eou4v8Duvq— Bill Paterson (@SacBee_BillP) August 14, 2016 Daniel Trickett-Smith could see his first action since June 4.@SacRepublicFC https://t.co/bj6W4gNIeJ— Bill Paterson (@SacBee_BillP) August 14, 2016 Club did announce Foran's hammy
Starting XI:Newton; da Fonte, Christian, Rodriguez, Guzman; Barrera, LaGrassa, Hall, Koval; Thompson, Iwasa #STLvSAC pic.twitter.com/az2ZgajOkX— Sacramento Republic FC (@SacRepublicFC) August 14, 2016 Republic FC Bench: Jakubek, Motagalvan, Rivas, Williams, Alvarez, Pridham, Trickett-Smith #STLvSAC— Sacramento Republic FC (@SacRepublicFC) August 14, 2016
11th minute - great hustle from La Grassa and an assist to Iwasa, who kind of half-whiffs but still gets it by the keeper for 2-0.
By the way: re-watch the entire passing sequence on goal #3. 13 passes by 8 different players, starting with a goal kick, and almost all the passes were productive ones that cut defenders out of the play or pulled them out of position. The ball was moving quickly the whole time. We need more of that kind of passing and off-the-ball movement.
I thought we looked great in terms of movement and attack. One can't help but wonder if Buckle's absence let the players be more loose and go for it. Highest scoring game of the year and Buckle isn't there to manage it. Hmmmm...
If you e ever played the game you'd know the assistant would use the manager's absence as motivation and the players would want to show the manager how much they care for him by putting in a performance.