I suppose we need to have a game thread so we can all suffer together.... Except the good news is that I'll be moving my daughter out of her college apartment this Wednesday so I won't be able to watch the game live and will be watching much later that night - when the ability to fast-forward through any disastrous performance can be achieved. I think Cerrillo is suspended from yellow car accumulation, Paintsil is out and Pec is questionable. Well, the whole team is questionable at this point, but you know what I mean.... Let's Go Galaxy!
I didn't have the heart to watch the last game or even the "highlights", knowing the result. But I'm going to try to take @Benny Dargle 's attitude and watch out of interest for the little things. That said, I'll be out at a meeting Wednesday evening, so I'll be watching later. Maybe.
To be fair, with the way we’re playing, they can play without a GK, and we’d still find a way to lose.
A 19 year-old kid - Andrew Rick - will probably be playing in goal if Blake can't play. Rick's a promising young player who played the full 90 on Saturday as the Union tied the Crew 2-2.
No Pec, just in case you still had hope https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-player-status-report-matchday-13-wednesday-may-14 LA Galaxy Joseph Paintsil - Thigh (Out) Gabriel Pec - Hip (Out) Riqui Puig - Knee (Out) Philadelphia Union Ian Glavinovich - Knee (Out) Neil Pierre - Knee (Out) Andre Blake - Knee (Questionable)
In the words of Ed Sheeran, "If this is too end in fire,then we shall all burn together." A tell of two seasons indeed. I See Fire cover by "Boyce Avenue"
The only thing we have going for us is this is a huge trap game for Philly. And that’s really it. Game day!!!
Another positive - we probably won’t lose as badly as last game! Even if we lose 6-0 we can take it as evidence we are improving - I’m sure Vanney will!
If this is our lineup, it could be rough Looks like 5 in the back (Cuevas, Yamane, Garces, Yoshida, Nelson), Parente, Wynder, and Sanabria, and Fagundez and Reus I guess playing in the forward positions.
So little ability to make runs/ create space with speed with Reus and Fagundez. Oof. And if I’m Micovic and I can’t see the field on a midweek game after McCarthy let in 7 including one he passed to the other team, I’m on the phone to my agent because I know I’m never seeing the field again. But happy to see minutes for Cuevas and Aude. EDIT:make that just Cuevas.
Ruiz thinks Cuevas is playing wing, making it Vanney's traditional 4-3-3 (although with a bunch of players playing out of position) 1922784005688070221 is not a valid tweet id
This definitely has trap game written all over it. Who wouldn’t be confident playing us let alone given our relative positions.
Okay, what line-up would you use? The majority of last year's stating lineup: Dejan, Paintsil, Puig, Pec, Cerrillo, and Delgado are gone or not available. Fagundez and Rues were part time bench players last year and haven't played nearly as well this year.