MLS 2017 Week 28 Continuous PBP Thread [Multiple R]

Discussion in 'MLS: News & Analysis' started by Knave, Sep 13, 2017.

  1. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    These assholes aren't going for 2.
     
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  2. jason1551

    jason1551 Member+

    Apr 9, 2003
    Columbus, GA
    Club:
    DC United
    Touchdown! PAT attempt is good!
     
  3. Autogolazo

    Autogolazo BigSoccer Supporter

    Feb 19, 2000
    Bombay Beach, CA
    Why did Cropper still take a goal kick (long, no less) with a hurt hammy? Is anyone coaching this team?
     
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  4. PhillyMLS

    PhillyMLS Member+

    Oct 24, 2000
    SE PA
  5. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    ******** Atlanta for ********ing it all up. ******** them.
     
  6. EvilTree

    EvilTree Member+

    Canadian S.C
    Canada
    Nov 20, 2007
    Frozen Swampland, Soviet Canuckistan
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
  7. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Game over. Stupid low-scoring NFL games. Falcons beat Patriots 7-0.
     
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  8. Darkwing McQuack

    Darkwing McQuack BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 11, 2011
    Morrisville, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Gah so close to a double comb.
     
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  9. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Look at the false eyelashes on the sideline reporter. Could they get any longer?
     
  10. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So the number of New England players finishing the game ended up being greater than the number of goals scored. Though it could easily have been 8-0 with 8 men on the field for New England, if Cropper had been forced off.
     
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  11. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Tuned in late. I only missed 6 goals and 2 sendings off.
     
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  12. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think we can say the MLS shorthanded advantage is well and truly dead this season. After years of man-down teams somehow slightly outscoring the teams with the man advantage, in 2017 the goal difference for the team with the extra man is something in the +60 range.
     
  13. ManiacalClown

    ManiacalClown Member+

    Jun 27, 2003
    South Jersey
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Imagine what information you could have had on tonight's referees if only someone had started this thread before I left for work. Shame on you all.
     
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  14. onefineesq

    onefineesq Member+

    Sep 16, 2003
    Laurel, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I am so very disappointed.
     
  15. BalanceUT

    BalanceUT RSL and THFC!

    Oct 8, 2006
    Appalachia
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And, bottle opener.
     
  16. Gamecock14

    Gamecock14 Member+

    May 27, 2010
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    So 28-3 .... on the soccer field.
     
  17. Initial B

    Initial B Member

    Jan 29, 2014
    Club:
    Ottawa Fury
    Is Heaps still going to be employed by the weekend? He prepared his team for the wrong kind of football. What we're the NER players thinking over the first half!? Shockingly poor discipline on their part.
     
  18. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So I notice history was just made in another way. New England just became the first team in MLS history to be held without a shot in a game.
     
  19. KCbus

    KCbus Moderator
    Staff Member

    United States
    Nov 26, 2000
    Reynoldsburg, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm not saying I don't believe this, but... I don't believe this.

    Really? Who said this? I have a hard time believing this never happened before. That's a bet I would have lost, for sure.
     
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  20. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I didn't start paying attention until last summer when Seattle narrowly avoided that fate with a last-minute shot. It was widely reported, both at the time of that game and again after the USMNT was held without a shot against Argentina not long afterward.

    I've at least glanced at the stat sheet for every MLS game played since then, and I would have noticed.
     
  21. KCbus

    KCbus Moderator
    Staff Member

    United States
    Nov 26, 2000
    Reynoldsburg, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Doesn't matter. The Laws say "denies an obvious goal scoring opportunity." Doesn't have to be a definite goal.

    Yellow isn't an option here. If it denied a goal or a goal-scoring chance, it's red.
     
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  22. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    BTW, zero-shot games are extremely rare even in complete mismatches. I wanted Klinsmann out from early 2015 onward, and for a BigSoccer argument after the Argentina match, I went and looked up just how rare they were. Seattle's narrow avoidance of MLS ignominy was widely reported, of course. I pulled up the stats for every USMNT shutout loss since January 1, 1994, and I would have gone farther if it didn't become increasingly hard to find stats going deeper into the 90s. I looked at every shutout loss suffered by the bottom teams of every Euro 2016 qualifying group. I even managed to dig up stats from American Samoa's historically awful 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign in which they lost 31-0 to Australia and lost every other game by 5 or more goals without scoring a single time. I didn't see a single team held without a shot, not even American Samoa.
     
  23. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    OK, you don't have to take my word for it any more, it's been officially reported. From the MLS recap:

    "AS BAD AS IT GETS: Not only were New England demolished on the scoreboard and not only were they on the wrong end of two Video Review decisions, but they also became the first team in MLS history to finish a game without registering a single shot. Going down to nine men in the first half obviously played a major role in that, but this was all in all a record-setting catastrophe for the Revolution."
     
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  24. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Vancouver 1-0 (Reyna)

    The goals are flying in tonight.
     
  25. Autogolazo

    Autogolazo BigSoccer Supporter

    Feb 19, 2000
    Bombay Beach, CA
    First touch from Reyna on that goal is just sick--40 yard ball DOA on his instep and set for the shot. Damn.
     

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