Official LA Galaxy @ DC United PRE Match & PBP/Live Thread [R]

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I always try to play up the middle. And about the width, you also need length.

Yea I know, I'm a classy guy.

 

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It always has been there for me too.

 

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This is something to play for. I hate LA because we always seem to play so damn poorly against them (except for MLS Cups!).

 

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I'm not gonna boo Tino. When he touches the ball I will yell "OOOOOOOO!" in his honor.



Seriously, best of luck to Tino and his career. Just not against us.


We should have some Open Cup fatigue in our advantage. Nowak rested some key players, while the Galaxy played more starters, went 120 minutes AND has to fly across country. Just to add injury to insult, Cornell Glen got hurt and may be out for the rest of the season.

http://la.galaxy.mlsnet.com/MLS/new...ent_id=70205&vkey=news_lag&fext=.jsp&team=lag

Scoring Summary:
COL -- Clint Mathis 1 (Kyle Beckerman ) 3
LA -- Quavas Kirk 1 (Nathan Sturgis 1, Chris Albright 1) 45
LA -- Landon Donovan 1 (Quavas Kirk ) 93
LA -- Landon Donovan 2 (Peter Vagenas 1, Troy Roberts 1) 115


Colorado Rapids -- Matt Jordan, Eric Denton (Aitor Karanka 62), Dan Gargan, Mike Petke, Hunter Freeman, Clint Mathis (Nicolas Hernandez 84), Kyle Beckerman, Daniel Wasson, Fabrice Noel (Jacob Peterson 70), Colin Clark, Jovan Kirovski (Thiago Martins 61).

Substitutes Not Used: Bouna Coundoul, Luchi Gonzalez, Pablo Mastroeni

Los Angeles Galaxy -- Kevin Hartman, Chris Albright, Ugo Ihemelu, Troy Roberts, Ante Jazic, Quavas Kirk (Tyrone Marshall 11), Nathan Sturgis, Peter Vagenas, Santino Quaranta (Cobi Jones 67), Cornell Glen (Landon Donovan 37), Herculez Gomez (Alan Gordon 77).

Substitutes Not Used: Steve Cronin, Josh Gardner, Paulo Nagamura

 

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The Gals didn't rest many of their players on Wednesday either. Peter Vaginas went all 120 minutes of their extra time USOC match, and Landycakes went nearly 90 minutes himself. I say we should be able to run them ragged.

 

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Something doesn't add up here, I'll guess it is supposed to be a sub in the 77th minute ....... and I thought he played for Columbus

 

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Over 18,000 tickets already sold for this match? I'm actually having problems buying tickets in the bottom sections in advance.

With walk-ups attendance should be well over 20,000.

Should be a good attmosphere...DC better produce a win! No more ties!

 

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Not only that, but how does Kirk come off and then assist on the Donovan goal in the 93rd minute?

The box score says Kirk came off in the 106th for Marshall. That seems to make more sense, but I don't know how they got "11"

 

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If I recall from listening to the match, Tyrone Marshall came in in the 111th minute.

 

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Ah, a truncation problem. Figures. Can we truncate the whole franchise?

 

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Tina said he was going to score on us......we cannot allow this to happen. It must not.

 

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He cut his hair so I am not sure that we should call him 'Tina'...
I was thinking Fredo. Your nothing to me now!

 

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Don't be so harsh. Let's meet him halfway. He can score for us.

 

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If he could do that we wouldn't have traded him.

 

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Zing!

 

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Given his name, and that he now plays for the Galaxy, I'm more in favor of giving him the Sonny treatment.

 

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He was sonny to me when he was here! (James Caan is much cooler than the mouth breather that played Fredo)
Now he is dead to me...ie. he has become Fredo instead.

edit: Wait... did you mean that you were going to beat his sister in Baltimore and wait for him to stop at the tool booth and then whack him? Because if so Kudos sir!

 

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Well, I certainly wouldn't cheer for him, but a polite smattering of applause when he's introduced, followed by 90 minutes of "reject", then a polite smattering of applause when he leaves the field.

That is until he does something heinous, like yell at fatbastard (oh, wait....), or kiss his flaming carrot, or score and rub DC's nose in it.

 

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Usually talking about Cobi when you say that...

 

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"I never thought you were a bad consiglieri, Tom. I thought Santino was a bad (striker), rest in peace."

Don Corleone talks to Rongen

 

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I didn't know Cobi was a "chupacabra"!



There must be something in the water in La-La land!

 

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To win this match we have to swarm Donovan and make Quaranta play defense. He can play defense but he doesn't like to do it, and he knows he is expected to be an attacker with LA, not a defender.

And can we just shoot the ball, instead of finessing it into the net?

 

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Not yell at Santino? He's been one of LA's best players since getting sent there, and he's one of the easiest players to get in the head of. Hell, he even stopped, mid-game, during an Open Cup match a few years ago at the Soccerplex to yell at DC UNITED fans.

Everyone talks about getting in Donovans head, but some of his best performances in MLS (and against DCU) have been when fans have taunted him excessively. I still remember a few years ago as Donovan was coming to the tunnel at halftime and someone gave him a few good lines about his sister. Landon just stopped and stared at the guy for about 15 seconds straight, eyes throbbing and veins popping out on his face. He came out in the second half and the guy taunted him some more, to which Donovan said "this half is for you" and went on to score two of the best goals I've ever seen at RFK.

Meanwhile, Quaranta hasn't had a good game at RFK in who knows how long and will be putting even more effort into this game to try and prove himself.

If there's someone to try and get in the head of, it's definitely Santino.

 

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Tino and Landon won't matter in the game's outcome if they don't have the ball and exhaust themselves trying to get it.
I think if we attack the LA midfield and deny service to Tino/Landon up top then they will cease to be a part of the game. Landon will come farther back to win the ball but Tino will stay up top, which will strand Tino and eventually tire out Landon. Hercules would be the X-factor here, but he doesn't seem to have the ball skills to make a play, only to finish one. It would seem like a good idea to pinch the middle with Olsen/Carroll and defy LA to beat us on the sides; I don't think they can do that, and outside of set pieces their defense will have to do a lot of running all game to hang with Gros/Adu if we do use the width of the field well. And Gros/Adu's defense will be key here, so that we can attack their midfield and keep possessions from getting started. We have the personnel to run them off the field, and if Gomez is hurt then we can put Moreno in the middle, Walker up top with Esky, and keep on going. We learned on Wednesday's game that our depth can be effective if given time to hit a groove, so hopefully Nowak will use Dyachenko, Mediate, et al in the second half and keep building their familiarity with our attack.
Over 90 minutes, if we hold our focus, I like our chances; if we lose our focus and our organization, which we are prone to do, then we are vulnerable to a quick goal.
This would be a sweet win for us and is a great opportunity to bear down and reassert ourselves in the league.