I have a Yamane World Cup jersey, was so mad when he went to the Galaxy. Twellman said he'd never taken a penalty as a pro but that's incorrect, he scored one in a shootout at a cup final in Japan last season with the Galaxy GM watching in the stadium.
Once again the non-transitive property of soccer holds. Quakes > Chivas, LAG > Quakes, Chivas > Gals. I mean not in terms of who "won" necessarily but I think the Quakes played Chivas a lot tougher than LAG did. LAG was lucky that was a tie. Chivas was all over their goal.
Greg Vanney did his best to try to screw us over but alas it wasn’t to be. Hey let’s try a new formation in the back and sit our 2 best defenders! Hey let’s start our 22-year old Colombian who hasn’t played an MLS game yet? Hey let’s play rusty, slow Brugman, who hasn’t played in weeks(?), in center midfield! At one point it was something like 17 shots to 1. Don’t know how Chivas didn’t win that game.
Brugman has played CM a lot. They already qualified so they were trying some stuff out and resting guys. Reason? Why not. 22 year old Colombian is pretty damn good. Micocic had a stand on his head game. Ask yourself how we didnt lose to the Chivas.
Yamane and Yoshida are of my favorite players in the league. I also like the Koreans in Minnesota and Takaoa in Vancouver. Lots of talent in Asia, we need to explore.
Burgman had been out for a long time I think with injury. And he pretty much sucked last night. They called it out on the broadcast. I guess the Colombian guy is pretty good, but didn't they acquire him in April, and those were his first minutes with the team? Of course they were "trying stuff out" - that was my point. The idea that they were purposely trying to do in the Quakes was of course just tongue in cheek. Micocic did have a good game. How did we not lose to Chivas? We played pretty well, and they didn't have all their best players in the lineup and didn't play all that well.
I know he's one of their CM's. But he's been out injured for almost 2 months and 1/2 months, and his only previous game after injury was a few minutes against us last Wed.