Pre/In/Post: Chicago Fire @ Houston Dynamo 7:30 PM CST July 3, 2012

Can't go to the game on Tuesday because I work so currently I am reselling my ticket on AXS. If anybody wants to directly buy the ticket from me I'll sell it for $15 and cancel my post from the AXS website. You can email me at cruz.eric16@gmail.com or text me at 832-576-8871 (I prefer text)

 

if Nyarko and Oduro play up top it will be interesting to see how we nuetralize their ability to get in behind defenses.

 

Short week, but we are starting to have some real depth. We will have to check the injury report, but we seem to have lots of options.

 

Indeed. It'll be really interesting now to see who starts and how Dom lines them up.

And, hopefully, we'll have fewer no-shows.

 

What do you guys think of Oduro?

Carr started very slowly with us but has really come on over the past few weeks playing right mid in a 4-4-2

 

anyone wanna bet on how many empty seats there will be?

 

I voted for the option marked: El Batallon, Brickwall, Texian Army and La Bateria work together to make a gigantic banner in support of gay rights, but a Section 8 member flicks it off. Nothing happens afterwards.

 

Chicago @ Dynamo, all-time:

05/20/06 HOU 0-1 CHI
04/29/07 HOU 0-1 CHI
08/31/08 HOU 1-2 CHI
08/09/09 HOU 3-2 CHI
08/21/10 HOU 4-3 CHI
10/01/11 HOU 1-1 CHI

That's 2-3-1 with 9 goals scored and 10 allowed. The Fire have scored in every game here in Houston so far.

 

EDIT: Chicago @ Dynamo, all-time:

05/20/06 HOU 0-1 CHI
04/29/07 HOU 0-1 CHI
08/31/08 HOU 2-1 CHI
08/09/09 HOU 3-2 CHI
08/21/10 HOU 4-3 CHI
10/01/11 HOU 1-1 CHI

That's 3-2-1 with 10 goals scored and 9 allowed. The Fire have scored in every game here in Houston so far.

 

The best goal ever against Chicago was the DeRo kick from past the half line against the wind, over the goalie's hand and just under the crossbar. I really remember very few goals, but I remember that one in Chicago very well.

 

Ortiz is tweeting some stuff about Dom apparently being concerned about some fitness issues. If that's the case, we may see even more interesting tinkering with the lineup than we might've expected with the short turn-around anyway.

 

someone's still butthurt

 

To me it didn't sound so much like concern but the need to be honest with him. Not to try to suck it up if they really are tired, but let him know instead. Not necessarily expecting it, but just being clear about it.

 

well a win Tuesday at the Oven puts let's pressure on us to have to get any points when we go to Bridgeview one last time.

 

Suddenly I'm shocked there's not a compilation of Oduro fail GIFs somewhere on the intertrons

 

Should be a sell out!

Prices for tickets for this game on stubhub are 2-3x higher than our saturday game

 

Canetti tweeted earlier today that they still had about 1,500 tickets available.

 

There is an email saying there are fewer than 1500 tickets left. How many empty seats, though, that's a better question.

 

joseph and i politely disagree:

 

Yea, ok, that was pretty good too. See, I'd forgotten that one. And I had forgotten how good he could be.

 

Corey Ashe cost us the match*






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