I recall there being one at the inaugural season opener. I believeView attachment 9208 View attachment 9209 Well thanks to the Loons and the Minnesota Corn Growers Association I finally got something that at least (barely) resembles a matchday program 4 years in.
I recall there being one at the inaugural season opener. I believeFalastur purchased and was surprised by the price. ($20?)
Regarding Amagat.... he didn’t do anything badly, but he also wasn’t impressive. He has a predisposition to slow play down with extra touches and either go backwards or play to people in the same areas - many times he failed to look up or across the field to the wide open outlet player.Obviously a gut punch of a match, but I was mostly mad about the refereeing. The no-call for the penalty looked bad to me, but I lost count of the number of times Minnesota were awarded soft calls after going in studs up on our players.
After the Fire match I was ready to say we were about to go on a run, but it seems that injuries and turf circumstances forced us to play a completely reconfigured front 5, so it was almost like going back a few matches and seeing the same problems. Our build-up was solid, but there was no familiarity in the last 30 yards and we were bound to get countered. Berget looked like a deer on ice whenever the ball came his way, and in general our hesitation in forward areas made it hard to find gaps in Minnesota's defense. If Berget buried that header instead of bouncing it over the crossbar, and the penalty call goes our way, I think we feel very differently about this match.
On the bright side, Amagat had an almost flawless game. He's no Herrera but he found his own way to reclaim the ball in the center, and he showed good ability to turn and get the ball into forward space. Will this performance start to turn people around on him? I doubt it. Our fans have a tendency to scapegoat new players and stick to it. Ofori made just one error but also found some verticality to his passing and was defensively very good. Ring isn't the best option as a #10 due to the lack of quality in his final ball.
I'm excited to have Medina back. Even Rodney caused problems when he came on.
There's nothing to say about Sweat on the second goal. On the first, it was pretty typical. He's nowhere near enough to Ibarra. Problem is, when he's close he gets turned easily because of his high center of gravity. Ibeagha got caught between two players because Ofori let his man go. Rewind that play a bit more and you see Tinny released up the line in space. However his distribution is poor, which has been his norm lately, and we lose the ball with our RB egregiously out of position. I wonder whether Tinny's issues lately are more related to the shuffling of the lineup up front than anything else. Makes it hard to find his passes.
For me, it's becoming clearer that the root of our failure is our inability to connect in attacking areas. Given injuries and international breaks, I'm not sure we could have done a better job of maintaining or building cohesion - I'd have to look at our rosters and lineups week by week. That plus a bad call and a couple of flubbed chances means that I'm still hopeful we can put a run together with the right players in the front 5.
I think I see what you see with Amagat but he's still on an upward trajectory. It's also his style - he likes to get in areas, draw players and release others. It's helpful. He's not the type to receive and spread the play (a la Sands / Ring / Maxi). It's funny, some posters on here are killing us for playing wide too often, yet the one main guy who helped us move the ball forward through the center last night gets stick for not spreading it often enough.Regarding Amagat.... he didn’t do anything badly, but he also wasn’t impressive. He has a predisposition to slow play down with extra touches and either go backwards or play to people in the same areas - many times he failed to look up or across the field to the wide open outlet player.
Ofori played maybe his best game as a DMid - he cleaned up A LOT of mistakes from Amagat and others. It’s frustrating he has no right foot, but he’s working much better with the parameters of spinning on the ball to get a clear left foot pass.
Tinny is just a shell of his former self. His linkup play with the wing is bad and his crosses worse.
Regarding Amagat.... he didn’t do anything badly, but he also wasn’t impressive. He has a predisposition to slow play down with extra touches and either go backwards or play to people in the same areas - many times he failed to look up or across the field to the wide open outlet player.
When we disagree with Doyle and Araos they're idiots. When they see what we are seeing it's confirmation.
I see his point. We are fine (ok fine ish) until the final 20-30 yards. My only concern is that he doesn't seem to be directly addressing this. If he said that consistency would help, or that he has to work with the team in those areas during training I would feel a bit better. He seems just a little complacent about it tho.Dome is in love with possession and not for the right reasons.
When we disagree with Doyle and Araos they're idiots. When they see what we are seeing it's confirmation.
There's a name for that.
Araos is 99% of the time a guy that pushes buttons with misguided takes. The other 1% of the time he says the obvious. His tweet wasn’t an opinion, just that Dome couldn’t explain his rationale.When we disagree with Doyle and Araos they're idiots. When they see what we are seeing it's confirmation.
There's a name for that.
It's just not obvious to me.Araos is 99% of the time a guy that pushes buttons with misguided takes. The other 1% of the time he says the obvious. His tweet wasn’t an opinion, just that Dome couldn’t explain his rationale.
Doyle is more a 50/50 guy. If he keeps it simple while not looking to make a theoretical deep dive, he’s good at stating the obvious. His tweet was just that. The liking of his tweet is nothing more than an affirmation of the obvious - Not an affirmation of Doyle.
Unless NYCFC makes the immediate crossfield pass, it takes them 4-5 passes to do it, LB-CB-DMid-CB-RB or a variation there of, and at that point the opposition has already reset. Ring and Isi tried through balls, but far too often the ball carrier didn’t look up to see Berget or Taty having already gotten a step on their defender ready to run on to a through ball.Between amagat going sideways, Ofori going sideways, miscasting a CDM (Ring) to play an advanced role, no wonder NYCFC had no verticality.
At least MNU knew what they wanted to do - get the ball in space and quickly move it forward. Win the ball and bang, forward pass.
NYCFC wins the ball, passes sideways to Amagat, back to Ofori, to the wing, to a outside back overlap.
Don’t look at it existentially.It's just not obvious to me.
For me, it's becoming clearer that the root of our failure is our inability to connect in attacking areas.
Maybe we have different understandings of what existential means but I'm not sure what you mean by this.Don’t look at it existentially.
Suggests they win because people underestimate them and / or won't play their valuable assets on what amounts to a turf billboard?