It is the absolute worst time for my wife. With the spirit they have shown I am optimistic that draw is quite possible with a small chance at a win. Hopefully any weather that moves through the area tomorrow night is mild.
Win your home games, draw your away games is the recipe for success. Somehow SKC got 2 draws in what was an absolutely terrible 3 game stretch of away matches at Portland, STL and SD. We'll done KZ and team.
It seemed like a risky strategy. SD is known for their attack and ability to score, but KZ set the team up to lay back and stymie their attack. It didn’t make for action packed flowing soccer, but saved a point on a rough 3 game stretch. Some things: 1. Pulskamp, again came up big all night. 2. Miller and Voloder are the best defensive duo SKC has fielded in a long time. 3. Manu was solid all night 4. Shelton was not good. He stumbled and bumbled most of his shift. 5. Munoz has talent, but was mostly ignored all night with little service to him even when he was wide open for a pass on top of the box. 6. Lastly, the pitch was absolute garbage.
Agree with this. Would only add that Manu was more than solid. He does some really good things with the ball in tight space. He sees passes - and executes those passes - like we have not seen from and SKC mid in a long while. He seems like a really good find by Burns.
Miller keeps getting better, week after week. Keep this up and he will clearly not represent a position of concern. Bartlett and Shelton were the most obvious strugglers, I thought. Shelton up against Chucky was a potential nightmare, but the Voloder and Miller did a nice job of snuffing out that sort of thing. I am not seeing the sort of progress from Barlett that I am from Miller. Amn i wrong in that? Pulskamp is getting better and doing more things well. Manu is brilliant.
The thing with Bartlett is that he is 4 years younger than Miller still, he's still a teenager at this point.
The results from the last two games were huge. I can hardly believe we came back from two down in St Louis, and then just three days later went to San Diego - #3 in the West with 25 goals on the season - and managed a scoreless draw. Kerry Zavagnin is quietly being a pretty darn good interim coach.
This is a good point. I would think that what it means is that we really should be thinking about a new 6, someone to hold down the role while he has a chance to develop.
Or they're just going to let him to continue to play and develop. I mean it's not like we're going to make a run for anything this year. Making the playoffs at this point would be considered a successful season.
It used to be a rule for college players that they would hit a wall at about this point of a season, because it's such a high intensity situation, and there are so many games, and college kids really are not ready for the pro game. I don't know if that actually applies, but it might be a point that is worth considering with Bartlett. He's been making mental errors that he'd seemed to stop making. If that's the case, does continuing to play him actually help in his devleopment?
See I disagree on that, I thought he played quite well against San Diego and it was a rebound performance. And that rookie wall didn't hit 14 games into the season, usually it came around August when players had played more games than they did in a normal college season.
I was watching with my son who kept saying, Bartlett, stupid ball, again and again, so i might be a bit biased against this outing. Also, FTR, with preseason, Notre Dame played 19 games last season. With Preseason, SKC has played 20 something.
For the second straight week, Voloder named to the MLS team of the week. This week as a starter, last week as bench.