This game just cements Velez's place on the first team and the captain's armband, as well as our primary penalty taker.
Post Match: Toronto FC vs. River Plate
This game just cements Velez's place on the first team and the captain's armband, as well as our primary penalty taker.
Gerba's penalty is one of the sweetest penalties I've seen. No run up. Just a powerful, well placed shot
Also demonstrates his quick shooting technique. Very nice
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
How did Gerba & Obrian White play tonight? I missed most of it.
gerba's PK was a monster one...
like... no run up, split second, top corner....
it was like an executioner chopping off the head, swift, smooth, simple cut, no bullshit kinda of PK.. lol
i did like Gerbas pk, just wonderin why our midfielders didnt take them before our defenders, im sorry but a defender really the only oppurtunity they have for a shot is during a corner, or penalty. But they shouldnt be ahead of midfield for pks
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Just a quick thanks to the FO for streaming the game on TFC:TV. Was nice to watch it.
Gomez: Inexperienced and it shows. Needs more poise and confidence if he's going to crack first team
Gala: showed a lot of hustle and decent positioning sense. still a little rough on the edge, but I think this is more due to lack of matches. has potential to contribute
White: long injury means he's still far from match fitness. will need a lot of practice and game mins before he's anywhere ready
Gerba: pretty much on same form since Gold Cup. got on end of chances which is good news. should be the penalty taker until he screws one up
Edwards: looked confident during the game. made that critical save when required. worst PK stopper ever. makes his move too early, so the taker shoots the other way. he doesn't dive, but more like dances to the side he picked
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
so given his performance during the game itself and all the missed chances, is it too soon to say Gerba is the new Barrett?
bite your tongueso given his performance during the game itself and all the missed chances, is it too soon to say Gerba is the new Barrett?
sheesh. it's just a friendly. dont read too much into it
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Towards the end when River stepped it up a notch, you could really tell the difference in quality of defenders that were on the field vs their forwards. They were toying with us.
With all those stupid sub ins and outs, Cummins couldn't have DeRo and Guevara on the pitch at full time? Dumb.
Gerba's shot was powerful and accurate, which is good, because shots like that are more predictable.
Because it's the players themselves who decides who wants to take a penalty. Garcia is a defender, yet when they were asking about who wanted to take the penalties you saw him stick his hand up straight away and he stuck it away without any problems.
If OBW or one of the midfielders had been desperate to take a penalty then they would have been up before Velez.
So no one scored in this game and it just went into PKs after regulation?
first 30 min into the game, yeah..so given his performance during the game itself and all the missed chances, is it too soon to say Gerba is the new Barrett?
but then, he's just getting used to the turf and warming up
second half.. pretty solid
may be the players decided to let velez take the PK and started a side bet with options of field goal, miss wide left, miss wide right, straight at GK
yes. game was pretty damn boring actually
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
say what you will about Garcia, but that man does not lack in confidence.
takes balls to step up to take a penalty, esp for a defender
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Thats partially a problem, it shouldnt be chosen upon by the players, it should be chosen by the coach, and allow those players to perfect on their PK's. I am a coach for my college soccer team and know that has worked perfectly. It will allow the players who are chosen to be comfortable. And thereforth, no distractions, except for the player and the net. Feel free to change the players so the other team doesnt know who your pk takers are. But i feel, thats the better way of going
Meh it's a friendly.
Fuck Velez since he's inept 99% of the time in all competition. The 1% is when he actually scores.
well, I didn't think Velez was any worse than other defenders tonight, playing on LB which isn't his natural position.
He also delivered a sweet cross to Gala that Gala barely missed with a header. off his weaker foot too
Seems to me that a lot of people are rather biased on certai players and unwilling to be fair and objective
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
I second this!
It does seem like the team is getting a better attitude.
Just got back - and I found I enjoyed myself immensely. Got to see lost of new players, an RP team that has tons of skill and a wicked shootout.
Noticable
Gala is quite small and really needs to imrove his conditioning. He was really dragging his feet by the end. Think he played the full 90
OBW seems quite powerful but a bit in over his head - maybe just a lot of rust. Didn't shy away from anything rough though..
Velez was Velez, cept for a sweet lf cross to Gala
Shirtless RP maniac who tried to invade 110 but got chanted out and then escorted out...only to re-appear in 120? where he got the same treatment.
Very impressive snare 'n bass drum combo in 112 who caught on quickly with the songs, added to the atmosphere, kept things going and most importantly TEMPO CONTROL! (btw what shirts were they wearing?)
RP I think were surpirsed by the support during the PKs - and they seemed really happy to win the trophy
Good times!
any River Plate players really stand out?
only guy I could think of was their captain who did ok in midfield
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Cummins did not coach this match. Nick Dasovic did.
i agree.
gerba's penalty= pure class
chad's was good as well
vitti on the other hand blew the shootout for the team
and for the capatains armband... it should go to dero or robinson
Cummins was in the box with Mo...
I was pretty impressed with gala he had some really solid crosses I'd like to see more of him in later games.
Gerba is still a bit out of shape showed some signs of being a monster, but sometimes seemed like pie eater samuel
Gomez was decent, needs some experienced.
Edwards was solid other than the PKs
River Plate was fairly weak, that wasn't their starting 11 right?
Just got back and I liked what I saw from most.....I still thought Gerba was good. created some chances and the keeper made a scramble leg save on him, or else TFC was up 1-0. Edwards looked good from my perspective, but was not extremely bust. I thought Gala should a lot of huslte and made quite a number of good crosses, but by the end he did look tired.
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