Terrible half. Delgado worst player on pitch once again.
Id like to see Laryea on the pitch and push Auro up if needed.
Terrible half. Delgado worst player on pitch once again.
Id like to see Laryea on the pitch and push Auro up if needed.
I don’t get the plaudits from the TSN crew for Zavaleta. He whiffed on that clearance which fell to Valeri. If Valeri has potted that VAR easily could have called it a goal (a la Hamilton / Chapman earlier this year). He’s also made a few other bumbling decisions but hasn’t been punished for them.
Now that said, I have some small amount of sympathy in that our defending from the fullbacks and mids has been awful (Bradley excepted).
What the hell was Auro doing at Tuiloma's goal. He's standing watching him have a free shot rather than putting the player under pressure. The guy is a complete waste of money. He couldnt defend if his life depended on it. I know he was signed more as a wingback in our previous 3-5-2 lineup, but even going forward he offers very little. Rather than hit the byline and put over a telling cross, nine times out of ten he turns back and plays the ball into the middle. It really bugs me watching Betashour perform week in week out for LAFC with the knowledge he could still be in our first team, providing some balance to the right side of our defence.
Also Hamilton has to do much better if he is to have a future with us. After his brilliant cameo in the last game today was his big chance to show he belongs in first team squad, but he's been invisible the entire first half. We really need substantial investment up front to replace Giovinvo or were going nowhere this season. Altidore just can't be relied upon to stay fit, and its clear Vanney doesnt rate Boyd? So why did we buy him? Just another another wasted salary from Ali Curtis who is rapidly proving he is not up to the task.
This should be three easy points today before a testing road trip. Portland have been abysmal this season yet were allowing them to run this game and on the first half alone look the better side out there. Its just not good enough for a side that really should be one of MLS top clubs right now. instead we are wallowing in mediocrity, something MLSE seem content with, with all their teams
Poz is playing everywhere, and the entire midfield are sleepwalking...that collision involving Bradley speaks volumes about how confused these players are. Hamilton cannot be the lone forward, his first touch is awful. He plays better when the defenders are concentrating on the better guy (Altidore). I predict A 3-2 loss
Bradley is just a janitor today, thank god he's playing because he's cleaned up so many bad giveaways on our part.
I swear to god if Delgado wasn’t a fringe USMNT player Vanney would have moved on a year ago.
Take off the beer goggles Greg!
Vanney must be blind. Get Delgado off.
Portland just a different class today. They are playing with so much speed on both sides of the ball. Toronto on the other hand is just walking the ball up the pitch and making alot of backward passes...
Also Delgado looks lost. So many bad giveaways in the middle of the park.
Getting out played by the second last place team and missing Jozy highlights the deficiencies in this team. We are missing creativeness, attacking energy down the wings. This is exactly what Ogthedim is talking about in the other thread.
Oso you have to play that to Pozuelo out wide man...
Honestly Vanney deserves that for his shit subs and willingness to play for a draw at home
I don't see us playing for a draw at all. We're just playing poorly, can't create anything meaningful.
FFS this is pathetic. Again Auro invisible as a rightback. What a complete and utter waste of money this guy has been. We are simply not putting enough pressure on the Portland players. Were standing off and giving them all the time and space in the world.
Again Vanney gets his subs wrong. Instead of pulling Hamilton (although he hasnt done much granted) he should have added an attacker and gone 4-3-3 rather than stay with a formation that clearly isn't working. Delgado has done nothing all afternoon and clearly the right sub was to pull him and put Akinola on in support of Hamilton. Even his second sub he leaves Delgado on and hooks DeLeon instead. Unbelievable. I'm starting to think Vanney has run his course and is rapidly losing the plot. Maybe it was Giovinco, Altidore and Bradley that won us the title in 2017 rather than brilliance form the coach
What we are watching, is pre Giovinco TFC. Without that dynamic, creative, constant threat, this team really has nothing. Altidore alone, is an Altidore waiting for an injury...he tries to hard. Poz needs decent players around him, and we simply don’t have that in our current complement. Aside from Osorio, Altidore, Bradley, Poz, Mavinga, and perhaps Morrow, all others are sub par MLS caliber
Put pressure on Manning and Curtis as they've seriously dropped the ball this off-season. No wingers, shaky defense and a thin offense once Altidore is out.
Pozo spinning around in a circle looking for someone to pass to just about sums up the game for me, or maybe Boyd doing his best Big Ben Spencer / Bambi impression. Are we sure he’s actually a professional footballer? He could just be a Boyd impersonator who also slept on Vanney’s couch.
Mavinga has been good today.
Ssh since 2016.
Worst game at BMO I've been to.
Boring.
I have talked to many people that were early years ssh that no longer have season seats. If the soccer was like this before I can see why
This had a Mariner feel to this game.
Flashback to torsten friends and Danny koeverman
ffs Auro. There actually is a time to just cross the ball into the mixer and it's right there, when you have 6 guys in the box and nobody with you making any kind of supporting run. Cross the fucking ball instead of standing there staring at your man and then inviting pressure with a back pass.
wtf Chapman? That is basic soccer.
We need a Seba replacement. We need 2 speedy, quality wingers. We need 2 steady defenders.
Boyd is absolutely useless. Hey Ali sign some players!
Zavaleta hasn't even been terrible.
4-2-3-1 doesn't make sense with 0 wingers. DeLeon isn't a winger. Osorio is being wasted on the wing.
This game is absolute trash. The CPL game today was 100x better than this shit.
Oso, wtf?
It's taken a few more games than expected; but Altidore is made of glass check; Ciman was just a charity signing check; and if management has no clear plans for new personnel its only going to harder to watch check and checkmate
I love Justin Morrow as a defensive fullback but if you have no true wide threat on the left side you are sunk.
It looks like a training drill watching him taking 3-4 touches every time trying to figure out what he’s going to do
Everyone who thought we just need a CB and the goals will come needs to rethink that assumption.
We’re a set of glass hamstrings away from being a below average team unfortunately
We've been exposed today.
We're not very good at this point.
We need more players
The crazy thing is we could have won if you take back those two plays by Portland.
That shows how shit this league is
All 3 subs came on and looked terrible. Can't believe Akinola didn't put his head on that perfect cross.
Deserved loss for sure. So lethargic in attack compared to our other games this season and no coincidence this was the one where we were missing Altidore. Delgado, DeLeon and Auro were poor in attack and it killed our ability to build up play.
Bradley was great today, we concede two more without him. Westberg also was good, keep playing him.
I can only say it so many times, this team is sunk without Moor starting.
We also keep subbing Chapman in at right wing because there's no one else. He sucks there. Our lack of quality wing play was exposed again today as without the Altidore-Pozo combination in the middle we have no way to break down a bunkering team, which they became after taking the lead. The one chance we created was due to Pozuelo drifting out wide to actually get on the ball facing forward and make a play. Altidore probably scores on that cross too...
Fuck waiting for summer signings, the needs of this team are already beyond clear. TAM winger and CB. It's that simple.
With better execution of simple things and a bit of urgency the team we started should have been able to easily beat that Timbers side.
Will say it again, and again....this was the type of game we were stealing in 2017 because of a moment or two, of Seba brilliance. Take him, and Altidore out of the equation, and we stink. Poz is going to get injured the way MLS hacks are targeting him, and then the slide to last place will be guaranteed.
Agreed with all of this.
Too add: what on earth is Vanney doing continuing to field Osorio and Chapman and all these other guys as wide players? That’s not where they play and they’re horribly ineffective in those spots.
Should have gone 4-2-3-1 with Osorio-Poz-DeLeon as the “3” intentionally playing narrow. And we shouldn’t have waited until we were down a goal to add a second striker or release our fullbacks.
Edit: heck for how bad DeLeon looks at times and how incapable he seems to playing simple combinations I might even consider dropping him for Chapman there.