Thanks for all the updates. I was hoping to get home in time to watch the game, but alas work and traffic conspired against me.
You didn't miss much. It was an amphibian event as has been described. Canada just would not stay down and the end was where all the drama was. I think the swampy conditions may have helped keep the game slow and sloppy and probably benefitted the US in that Canada could not get their game going. The Canucks were one of the favorites.
Really lame defending on the game winner. The US looks like a bit of a mess, but I’m sure it’s a WIP at this point. Congrats on the W Gold Cup win!
If you want to feel better about our PK problems, go online and watch Osasuna’s Ante Budimir take the worst PK of all time.
what a brain-dead attempt, here is two versions of it below https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/39950216 https://streamin.one/v/299faa1b and here's one from a few years ago that rivals it
Lol! Budimir looks like he was trying to do a last-second fake-out, over-complicating the task to a point of failure. The second fail was much more excusable - his plant foot just slipped out from under him; probably a turf issue.
Best game DCL has had all season! Makes you wonder why the team can't play like how it did yesterday all the time.
Everyone stepped up and played well. Liverpool didn't match our intensity and their finishing was off, but they still managed to create plenty of good chances. Pickford made some big saves when they did break through. We won just about every ball in the air. I'm glad Harrison started on the right wing again instead of Young. Also, McNeil's service from set pieces was great (much better than Gomes in the NF game Saturday). Godfrey was great too, stepping in as the right back.
It was a blink and you’d miss it moment in the Burnley/Tottenham match, but caught an old school Galaxy baseball cap in the Burnley section.
Well, damn. I was holding out hope that maybe Marsh would you know, somehow, consider our situation. "Jesse Marsch has been named head coach of the Canadian men’s national team, the federation announced Monday. Marsch, who previously led MLS sides CF Montréal and New York Red Bulls, has taken over with immediate effect."
So you want a manager who has an even bigger history of failure than Vanney? His record at Montreal was 1.19 pts per game. He inherited a loaded Red Bull squad that after a supporters shield winning season, but lost to the Greg Berhalter coached Columbus Crew in the Eastern Conference semis. His record in 2016 was almost as good, but he lost in the first round of the playoffs to a Greg Vanney coached Toronto. Ditto 2017 where he again lost to Vanney and Toronto (who went on to win the MLS Cup). He got promoted/fired in mid-season 2018 when he went to RB Leipzig as an assistant coach. He had 2 very successful years in the comparatively minor league Austrian Bundesliga with RB Salzburg before being promoted to the main Red Bull team, RB Leipzig where he lasted half a season before being sacked. After a year off, he went to Leeds as a mid season replacement manager where his success was avoiding relegation. The next year his results were terrible, and he was fired mid-season.
Good question. The Athletic has a piece of Marsch and the Canada appointment. Jesse has been battling out in Europe where American coaches are few and far between and his doings there are not as dire or negative as some would lead you to believe. I can only imagine he has been living his own personal ted lasso story these past few years. But the man strikes me as capable and serious about succeeding wherever he is. That's what the Canucks like about him and he wasn't begging for a job, Marsch had offers to coach in Europe. I think Marsch here with Galaxy would be a step up from the muck we've been mired in for the last 4 years until this year and we all know why that's happened. Because with all the dazzle and confetti you want to throw at coach Vanney in his 2017 run with a stacked team... that was in 2017 with another team. What have all his accomplishments meant for team Galaxy and it's fans? Seriously, what? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5490691/2024/05/13/canada-jesse-marsch-head-coach-copa-america/
Okay, where was I inaccurate? Where did Marsch succeed or even do above average except RB Salzburg? Weren't the Red Bulls loaded with Thierry Henry, Shaun Wright-Phillips and a younger Sasha Kljestan among others?
More like leading and partly inaccurate but let's agree to disagree. I still can't believe I got you to say Vanney is a failure. Trying to process that. I need time.
It's probably fair to say at this point that...no one knows what you're getting with Marsch. He was out of his depth at Leeds, but I don't know if that proves he's a poor coach. He was a rising star that just hit a level that was a bit beyond him, but he lost a lot of stock from that failure (which is a little unfair). He's seen as a really inflexible "system" guy, though so if Vanney frustrates you, Marsch might as well.
Correction to my post above. Henry retired before March was hired. While Shaun Wright-Phillips was with the Red Bulls, the big star was his younger brother Bradley.
That's my opinion of Marsch. He has his system of play and he sticks to it (high press, try to create turnovers and turn them into goals quickly. It can leave his back line exposed if/when the press is broken). His stint in the premier league reminds me of Bradley's, two different systems for sure, but both chose their system when they probably needed to be pragmatic to stave off relegation. I'm not sure we have the right players for that system. I am looking forward to seeing what he can do with Canada, and think this should add a little extra something to the next game between the USMNT and Canada.