MATCHDAY GUIDE | Revs at Orlando City SC (September 14, 2024) Jeff Lemieux posted: Monday, Sep 9, 2024, 04:20 PM The march towards elimination continues...
Are you saying that the fat lady is starting to warm up her throat? Not taking the full 3 vs. St. Louis makes it a LOT harder. As it is, we need to take some points on the road against stronger teams, and that was under the assumption that we would win our home games, especially vs. dead-in-the-water teams like St. Louis.
Oh, she's warming up alright. Even if the Revs win the remaining 3 home games, and Miami clinches the Shield and play their B team on Decision Day and the Revs manage to win that one, that leaves them at 39 points. Philly is heating up, so I expect them to take the 8-seed. ATL (31 pts) and TOR (33 pts) both have 4 home games left. It would take a big collapse for both of them to fail to reach 40.
The Revs usually put his post game press conference video on their web site. For some reason, they didn't do that this week.
Something needs to be done to end the bad karma we've been getting when it comes to referee decisions. It's been going on for 2 complete seasons. Maybe Porter's epic rant will turn that around. I'm not sure what his financial situation is but $20g plus a game to tee off on the refs, Garber and co seems a fair exchange. Just don't let Peay run the Orlando game - more bad karma there.
I was thinking the same thing. We've seen it in other sports where the coaches go off on a rant and then the next week, seemingly the calls go in their favor, as if the refs heard what was said and try and "fix" the issue.
FWIW it doesn't look like Yusuf played in either of Nigeria's games last week so its possible he sees a few minutes
Yes, it might be a punishment worth serving and money well spent. Now if Kraft agrees with Caleb perhaps can do the right thing and give him an arbitrary bonus to cancel it.
Porter confirmed in his presser that Moreira will be the acting head coach. Yusuf arrived Thursday and will travel with team to Orlando, but probably won't play beyond a cameo. Sounds like the long term plan is Polster at the six, and Yusuf the eight. Sands got hurt in practice and probably won't play. Bye not quite ready. I assume that means Lima starts.
I wonder what needs to happen for Polster not to start. He's better than Kaye, but that's a pretty low bar.
Polster wore the armband for games when Gil was out, so he seems to be in Porter's favor. Maybe he's well-respected as a leader by the other players, but he's not the answer. I hope our new guy can make a difference, but by the time he plays a whole game it might be too little, too late.
Preview | Revolution travel to Orlando for crucial faceoff in playoff hunt Nick Boonstra posted: Friday, Sep 13, 2024, 10:16 AM
What a crap team. Get rid of everyone over 20 years of age and start over. And by everybody I mean coaching staff, front office and ownership along with the players.
why the hell does it take this team so long to onboard players? Yusuf signed a god damn month ago, and he gets his first cameo appearance today, after the season is over? Organization sucks, team sucks, coach sucks, refs suck, mayor wu sucks for blocking the stadium because she’s a petty tyrant. What a total disaster.
The good: Esmir looked fantastic, and Yusef seems like a great addition. The bad: Everything else. Gil had what might have been his worse game as a Rev. Ditto Borrero. Miller had a rough one, too - though it's tough to blame a kid when there's so much rot around him. Things are broken. Higginbotham had it figured out on the broadcast, noting that we never get numbers forward, and the first two passes after wining possession are always lateral (or backwards). There's also little to no leadership on this team, is there? I've said before that Gil is a better leader in the good times than in the bad, and that seems more evident with every passing game. And around him, I don't see anyone picking guys up and pushing people forward. They're consistently outhustled, and they seem to walk onto the field expecting to lose. And lastly, a note on roster construction- Porter should be getting more out of this team. The roster isn't this bad. But compare our squad to Orlando's, and it's pretty scary. Their attackers were dangerous from the start, and then they bring on Muriel, Lodeiro, and McGuire. Some MLS teams have figured out how to build genuinely deep squads even with the strict salary rules. We...have not.
Carles has been pretty poor recently - given his level. He did however have one of our best attempts at goal tonight. The club is absolutely under achieving for the amount of talent it has. Can we find a way to get McGuire here? I think he'd solve a lot of our attacking issues.
An injury, apparently. The whole post was spot on, but I'm quoting this because I was thinking the exact same thing, even before the hand ball. And while the free kick was great, from the camera behind the net it looked like if Gallese hadn't saved it, it would have hit the post. Orlando had more goals than the Revs had shots on goal. The Revs gave up yet another goal in stoppage time (I believe their 10th of the season). To make things worse, NSH, MON, and CHI all won, dropping the Revs back to the bottom of the East. Results aside, I just don't like the way this team plays under Porter. They go down a goal, and they are mentally defeated. The body language shows a team that is not on the same page. Maybe by next spring they will have learned Porter's system...
I got home just as the second half started. My only comment was going to be on Orlando, where in the 55th minute blocked a shot in the box, passed the ball out of the box, and then hit a great cross-field pass to the halfway line and the break was on. I thought that you were supposed to pass that ball back to the goalie, who then passes it to the CB, who then passes it to the goalie, who then passes it to the other CB, and then maybe passes it to the wing.
A part of the delay is getting the visa paperwork done and then he went back as an international and was gone last weekend as well.