We were missing 6 starters (Mata, Chanot, White, Ring, Herrera, and Villa) so it's probably not a matter of our B team playing bad but rather being bad. With that many crucial people out this is entirely Maxi's team, and as soon as he got tired we became very poor.
RJ, Sweat, Shelton, TMac are what they are. Pirlo is a tiny fraction of the player he once was, and his free kick today was almost cruel, the way it reminded us of all that we had expected from him and didn't get. Rodney first touch is pretty atrocious too, but what saves him is his imagination for the last pass. But I would not consider him anything more than serviceable. I'm starting to wonder if Mata wasn't the main component in the successful partnership they had early in the season that made Rodney look so good.
No reason that anybody can see for Shelton being ahead of JLew. Sands very good on the ball, but losing physically against Colorado. BTW Colorado the most talentless team I have seen this season. RSL had at least 2 players (Savarino and the other DP) who had talent. Colorado maybe Gatt.
We are 50/50 to lose the 2nd place