Sorry, got this one posted a bit late.
Next match is against Chicago on Sunday 04/10 7 pm
Broadcast - Fox Sports 1
Next match is against Chicago on Sunday 04/10 7 pm
Broadcast - Fox Sports 1
Sure, but if we extrapolate our away record with the same parameters, we're going to be 17-0-0 and that's 51 points! I think with our increased speed and lacking height, we're actually built to play better away from home on larger fields.We have 2 points out of 9 from a three game home stretch so far, if we continue to drop points at home we'll quickly find ourselves out of the playoff race early.
Last year we were one of 2 teams to go below .500 at home. If we don't win this game then it's going to be a long April.
If Johansen doesn't get a start, I'm going to be pissed.
I predict that you'll be pissed, sadly.If Johansen doesn't get a start, I'm going to be pissed.
If we don't get three points, I'm going to be livid.
Regardless of the system I think Bravo has earnt his place due to his superior positioning and graft, and in spite of his poor passing.
Presumably the refs are afraid he'll tackle themIs Bravo paying off the officials? Is that how he has avoided being sent off so far?
Our defense has gotten a lot more organized and we seem to have Saunders-ized our desire to pass it out of the back.
Vieira said last game that the 343 was not working because Bunbury was abusing the 3 man back line since Mendoza and Taylor weren't tracking back. Since formations are usually described as the defensive shape, that means we are really playing a 541 or something. No wonder we can't get any offensive movement.
I still think most of the problems come from our inability to dribble out of the back. Saunders and hernandez have proven over 1+ years that they are skittish under pressure and make bad passes sometimes to the other team. You cannot ask your wingers to constantly move up the field and then sprint back to cover a shitty turnover and think they will have any energy to play offense.
New coach, but as long as hernandez and Saunders are scared to have the ball at their feet, same as the last coach.
If I was PV I would be looking at the position of Pirlo. To ask him to play the same role that he played for Juventus is wrong IMO. He had players like Pogba, Vidal & an Italian lad who's name escapes me lol around him.
I can't remember if I wrote this elsewhere or just thought it, but I agree that Pirlo here is not the same proposition as at Juve. In addition to the quality of the specific players you note, Juve had more talent than the vast majority of the teams they played against which is, pretty much by definition, never going to be true in MLS. It would be interesting to go back and see how he/they played in tough Champion's League matches.
I'm actually not sure what to do with him. There are matches where he is arguably the most important player on the pitch (Toronto and Orlando) and then others where his influence is relatively minimal (Chicago and NE) and one might think that we'd be better served by someone else for that match. I don't think this variation is attributable to him playing well or poorly as much as it is that there are certain matches where the overall flow is such that he cannot have the same impact.
I'm not smart enough to crack the code on how we create more of the former or whether it is even predictable pre-match as to which type it is going to be. In any event, he's going to start and play whenever healthy, so maybe it doesn't much matter.
This is the problem. He shouldn't be starting just because of who he is and what we are paying him. We either need to find a system that gets the best out of him 8/10 times or look to replace him with a player who can be more effective for us.