Post-match: Portland Timbers - San Jose Earthquakes (Wednesday, 9/20) postgame thread [R]

13 wins for Portland, 4 ties and 0 wins for San Jose over 17 trips to Portland. Unbelievable.

 

The team was actually interesting to watch the final 10 mins. Luchi has them playing so boring, it's tough to stay interested. He is supposed to be a youth whisperer but I havent seen any return on that. Give me ian russel please, diamonds arent boring at least.

 

step by step Quakes slide down the standings......

so pissed after watching this match....is it to much to ask to win in Portland at least one time in 17 tries.

 

if history has taught us one thing, it's that season after season (except for 2012) it won't matter who coaches this team, this organization are bottom feeders.

 

utterly pitiful.

 

time to go to youtube (Aftershock postgame) and commiserate with other frustrated fans....

 

If we’ve learned anything over these past 15 years, it’s that coaching isn’t the problem.

 

seems teams behind them are slowly moving up as quakes continue to slide down

 

Yes, I wish we had Messi too, but the coaching is a problem. Dallas fans pretty much told us his teams were boring and here we are. I also suspected he was getting too much credit for a ton of talent coming through the dallas academy at once. He hasnt improved cade and is playing vets like monteiro over exciting homegrowns like niko. Just not seeing any redeeming qualities beyond not being at the bottom like Almeyda had us.

 

Bullshit!! We’re in eighth place! Look at PPG, which is the Only way to count when teams have played different numbers of games.

EIGHTH PLACE! AND WE SUCK!!

Probably not much point in trying to watch the game, yeah? Did we get called for a PK? Or did VAR wave that off?

Go Quakesfans!!

 

If you still think we have a coaching problem after watching nine coaches achieve basically the same results over the past 15 years…I’m probably not changing your mind.

And there’s a fair bit of middle ground between Messi and Monteiro…

…we still haven’t found a GM with the smarts to make Fishball work.

But sure, Ian Russell is the answer to what ails us.

 

Last time we came to Portland we played a 3-5-2 and we were all over them, at least for the first 30 minutes. Evander's goal at 30' was completely against the run of play and he knew they were playing so badly up to that point he didn't even celebrate the goal. Of course then they could go into their low block / counter game and we gave up the dagger goal.

But why not go back to the 3-5-2 tonight when we know it worked so well last time in Portland? And furthermore, has the 3-5-2 looked anything but good or pretty good so far this season? Can we at least try it until we see that it goes badly one time?

We might have gone to something like a 3-5-2 late in the game, but when the Niko, Cade, and Trauco came in I think it played more like a 4-4-2, with Hoppe playing more of a withdrawn forward role. Or you could say he was a CAM I guess but he wasn't really playing like one.

 

Felt like a Portland home crew. They talked on and on about Portland and and didn't seem to know much about the Quakes except for Espinoza. At one point Hoppe was doing stuff and they just called him "the Quakes player". It was like the Washington Nationals against the Harlem Globetrotters or something.

 

Well, anyway, we played like crap in the 1st half, and we won't make the playoffs if we play like that for any significant duration the rest of the way. Gotta get right against Nashville.

 

4-games left.

Pretty sure we've seen the end of Benji and TT era in San Jose.

Quakes lose on decision day and fall out of a playoff spot.

 

I think the Quakes win on Decision Day but they may need some help to get in the playoffs and not sure they're going to get it. But I've been predicting all season long that it will come down to decision day.

 

Aftershock:

- Luchi says that he thought we had a "pretty good 1st half in terms of foundation, mid-block, pressure, possession... " Really? We had one shot and an xG of .02. Portland had 6 shots or so, a goal, and ~1.3xG. You're not going to win very many games like that.

- The Aftershock guys drive me nuts because they can't just ask a simple question. They'll just talk and talk and insert their own analysis and pile up 3 or 4 questions into one "question". After I think it was Alex Morgan asked one of those "questions" Hoppe just smiled and said something like "um, there's a lot to that question" or something like that. I think it was a bit of a "what are you guys doing" kind of thing . I think Luchi is used to it by now.

 

Were emulating the Dallas/Luchi era. Middle pack, late season truck wreck.

Are we better then last year? No, we have a goalkeeper whos saved our hide.

 

Yeah they played like crap in the game!

 

Exactly! Anybody that followed Dallas knows that this is Luchi's pattern, do middling during the season and then tank at the end of it.