I'm still semi-rooting for Messi to play 120 minutes Wednesday and not even travel, so the team has egg on their face.
Issue #1 detected. The first game ops email by the club: When your club promotes the Goat, but next day says you cant wear the Goat's colors....
To be fair, that's been on signs in the Cauldron itself for years. And it's the right call to do it for the Supporters' section at Arrowhead even if it's not an "enclosed" section like the Cauldron is at CMP.
Im familiar with the rule as posted a CMP. (But please, tell that to my seven year old for a game at Arrowhead). Im perfectly fine with the rule, but enforcing this rule at Arrowhead makes considerably LESS practical sense than enforcing it at CMP. One reason being the fact that the area is ill defined and has multiple points of ingress/egress. And the rule makes even less sense when the club promotes the visiting player over its own club, such as the case here. Pick a lane SKC. Stay in it. Thats my point. Also, and this should've been obvious, but the rule lacks clarity. Is wearing an Argentina Messi shirt against this rule? What about an Argentina plain shirt. SKC does do a lot of fan engagement stuff very well, but this is straight dumb *uckery. PS-I should've noted that the email came from fanexperience@chiefs.com not sporting KC, but its clearly a branded club message.
Argentina jerseys at other mls sites have been classified as opposing team colors from what I recall. Will depend on the signage in the stadium and security at the top of each section.
So Messi (and Suarez and Busquets) played 90 minutes yesterday in Monterrey. I'm not sure he starts at this point. But for Miami given how we've played is probably better for Miami.
Some records I expect to fall tomorrow: Largest attended competitive home game for SKC: 32,867 9/27/07 (Beckhamless Beckham game) Largest attended soccer game in KC history: 52,424 7/25/10 (Man U game) Largest attended soccer game in MO history 54,184 8/10/13 (Madrid-Inter The Dome at America's Center STL) And another record that could fall if the reports of 70K attendance are correct. Largest attended game (home or away) in SKC history: 67,523 2/27/22 at Atlanta
Been a while since I have attended a game at Arrowhead with that many. Back in college my Uncle had tickets to a Monday Night Football game. San Diego as I recall and Chiefs won it late on a kick off return. Gonna have fun whether or not Lionel shows up.
i don't know about you all, but I am wearing an old 90s/early 2000s jersey because being back at Arrowhead with it just feels right.
At this point; as long as we win, I don’t care. That said, if the attendance today causes the team to say ‘maybe we should spend more to bring in talent’ in might be worth it.
Great game so far! Hopefully some of the casual fans see the quality and come watch at Children's Mercy.
I think we got a boost from the ManU game, hoping for something similar here. But you're probably right.
The drop in quality from Walter to Hernandez is like a cliff. Hernandez slow to everything. When did Pulido become terrible? Invisible. Salloi, PVs golden child....totally useless but no other LW can ever play a single minute.
Pulido and Salloi were absolutely garbage tonight. But was PV ever going to sub them out? No, just use two subs for injuries. Brilliant.
Needed to bring off Alan for JFR at the 60th because he was already out of gas Needed to replace Salloi once it was noticed that he was apparently abducted prior to the game Needed to build/develop a deeper roster so he trusts at least a few people to bring on Agree with the comment about the dropoff from Walter to FH. Was Memo injured? Was surprised we didn't see him instead. Not sure it would have mattered. We really needed to have Shelton available to really lock it down. Once we have a full toolbox things will improve I'm sure.
So PV admits he made a mistake in 2012 and did not rotate his squad enough and supposedly this is one of the valuable lessons he says he learned and yet tonight he makes 2 subs, based on injuries, not based on tactics. Also it was clear that Miami has a team mentality and that they like to mix their play up. SKC looked disjointed with no anticipation for play options and predictable and yet again showed weakness when under pressure. Basically same old same old from PV.
Might have been our worst game this year. Agada the only forward asking questions. Johnny should have been brought on 20 mins earlier for Pulido (and re-configure the midfield). Pulido is not at a professional level right now. He’s terrible. His contract is an anvil. Fat and slow and he slides to space which his teammates already have covered. Really bad.
I agree with all the comments so far. It is a shame that on the biggest stage that SKC has ever performed on, they ended the game looking like an amateur team. I don't know if SKC won over any new fans last night playing like they did. When is PV going to get this team playing a full 90 minutes? Besides Thommy's golazo in the 58th minute, the second half was rife with bad passes, bad decisions and overall lethargic play. Even the announcer made a comment of how differential they were in the last 20 minutes of the game when only a goal down. To reiterate what others saw: 1. losing Walter hurt a lot 2. Pulido was awful. Couldn't move, couldn't hold the ball, fell down more than Busquets, practically invisible 3. Salloi looked like he played scared all night, also mostly invisible. 4. Felipe was in over his head. Left Messi wide open to score his goal. 5. Agada is strong, aggressive and gave the back line fits, until it came to scoring. 6. Thommy was a lion last night. He went toe to toe with one of the best fullbacks in the world and scored two goals. He was the only reason SKC stayed in the game. I guess the big positive is SKC sold a lot of jerseys and made bank on the gate. Moving the game to Arrowhead was a good decision in the short team for SKC monetarily, but did nothing for their image nationally or locally as a top MLS team.
The broadcast said PV was something like the sixth or seventh longest tenured coach IN THE WORLD. The club has limited ambition. The product on the field reflects that. This roster is good enough to make the playoffs. That's not saying much. As for the product on the field, we have Thommy, Walter, Rosero, Radoja, Agada, and Davis who almost always play at high levels. Include JFR when healthy. Everyone else sucks.