I took a glance at the 10 page post game thread, but didn't see answer to this. First I thought he was injured, but he came in the second half. wha't up with that? using him as a super sub?
0 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses in first four games. I figure coach was mixing things up to find what works, as he did by changing formation and benching Jaime game before that. Emilio's been more productive than Jaime, but still was a good idea to mix things up.
As I know Emilio isn't only one who played previous 2 full games vs Crew and NER? Olsen, Boswell, Nameoff? It was important game after no win (3 losses) since the start of the season, and he's the best forward we got. Not the time to try different things benching the best forward we got IMO. Benching Moreno would been understandable. He must have shown some fatigue? Little bit worried. 3 games in 8 days, Don't many of the European players do that with all the Cup games, UEFA Cup, Champions League, etc...?
You're reading way too much into not very much. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/06/AR2007050600802.html Also, the idea seems to be to not let guys get fatigued, and give them the rest they'll need prior to hitting the wall.
Look at it this way, Jaime and Emilio basically split the amount of time on the field over the past 3 games. They both played 2 1/2 games. TS respects both of them.
I respect both of them, too. However what is also needed to be considered is that one is 28 and the other is 34? or is it 33?
1. Giving Emilio a break. Soehn has shown that he's serious about rotating players. 2. Wanted to give Kpene some PT for his work in practice (again, showing that if you do well in practice you earn PT in games) and for man management reasons, he had to start Moreno this match. 3. Emilio (after a great start) hasn't been as strong the past 2 matches. He's had no service and it's easy for a new striker then to fall into bad habits (not finishing runs, dropping back too deep). 4. Tactical concerns. Soehn started some people b/c it was Chivas and what he expected would work (or what he needed to counter). I'm guessing this means that he thought Kpene's speed would be a plus and Suarez would be able to neutralize Emilio's strengths in the air.
Soehn is really mixing it up early which I like. So far we've seen Moreno, Emilio, Erpen, Fred and Gros rotated through the bench. Once Simms is back to 100% I hope to see that rotation include Carroll and Olsen a bit more. Our defenders hopefully will also be rotated more once we sign someone new. All this is a result of last year's late season burn out. If anything this shows that Soehn refuses to have this happen again. Playing guys like Moose, De Roux, Casal, McTavish and Kpene now will only help us later in the season when we start our US Open Cup and Superliga campaigns.
And let's face it. Soehn is a big Dyachenko fan--we'd have seen him if he'd have been healthy. And Wilson is just getting back from his knee injury--he'll start getting some PT soon I suspect.
Must have been tired...nothing here. He looked great in the Champions Cup and a guy doesn't fall of the wagon so quickly. He'll be fine and will be starting/scoring soon enough. We just need to slow down and remember who we are! We're United and will win the 2007 season. NY sucks and will blow us soon enough...just like it always been.
If I remember right, this was an ongoing complaint with Nowak, IMO it was smart. We have offensive depth, lets use it.
Speak of threadjacks, I'm now seeing posts by RSL fans about how Freddy needs to learn to defend, stop dribbling at players. It's interesting how a lot of the talk about how once he got out from under a coach who hated him, teammates who wouldn't pass him the ball, and a system that allowed Freddy to be Freddy, how he'd flourish and we'd see his game "return" to what it once was--well, that talk seems to have mostly disappeared. I wish Freddy success and hope he develops into a great player but some of the unrealistic nonsense from the past seems to have quieted down a bit.
Absolutely. Third game in 8 days, the second game in 4 days, and a warm day game. Josh Gros had tired legs towards the end of the Chivas game, and if he's tuckered out, everyone else is, too. Now Addlery, Kpene, Moose, Casal, and DeRoux have some good minutes under their belts that'll help them out for when they're really needed.
This is the good and the bad. I'm not too concerned about it since it's early in the season, but at some point in the time, probably around the all-star break or so, the team needs to have a pretty established line up. It helps with team cohesion and makes it easier for players since they will be with a familiar bunch and can anticipate what their teammates will do better. this is not to say we play the same 11 every game and make no subs. We just need to be smart about this the closer we get to the end of the season. We can afford to make multiple changes from game to game right now but i would hope that the closer we get to the playoffs the less changes for the sake of change happen.