Pre-match/match/postmatch thread: Dallas @ Tauro
match on CONCACAF TV: http://www.concacaftv.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Home
8PM Wednesday.
Cheering for Tauro.
If Tauro wins or if there is a tie, TFC needs to beat FC Dallas.
If Dallas wins, TFC needs to win and get at least 2 goals.
CCL preview here:
http://www.mlssoccer.com/ccl/news/ar...h-energy-tauro
Dallas tied Tauro 1-1 at home. Now they are playing them away while missing 4 starters. Tauro has nothing to play for but pride.
Last edited by Oldtimer; 09-28-2011 at 09:17 AM.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Lol this thread being stickied
“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
TFC's most important match of the season.Originally Posted by Yohan
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
You can't underestimate Tauro at home not only on their scoring chances but on how many suspensions Dallas will be pick up for their final game.
Prediction: Tauro takes it 2-1. 6 yellows for Dallas.
Shea is out on suspension tonight as well as 3 other Dallas players were left behind.
http://www.fcdallas.com/news/2011/09...c-vs-fc-dallas
Interesting to read that FC Dallas booked a charter and sold 50 seats to season ticket holders to fly down.
^ Good on there FO. That shows how serious they are about there support. Good for the leauge. Plus gives the players atleast the thought that they are playing infront of there fans and the added pressure to perform well. Hopefully they crack under the pressure.
Great to hear all their fans get to go.
if 50 people have that effect. then by that logic RPB causes far more pressure and a greater propensity to crack by existing.
is anyone else considering going? i may catch the 1:30 flight and am wondering if there will be any fellow reds.
Well done.
It's too bad Shea et al are suspended for this game. TFC needs all the help it can get against Dallas. Hopefully some more of their players pick up cards tonight.
I was waiting for someone to pick that up.
Maybe Shea will get hit by a car in Dallas prior to playing against us...
It's different when your coming from a half full stadium in Dallas to an away stadium where the support will be 2-3 times better than in Dallas. To atleast have some fans present and with the team on the flight as well it has an effect.if 50 people have that effect. then by that logic RPB causes far more pressure and a greater propensity to crack by existing.
That's a little harsh!!!!!
Yep, they are certainly alive still, although a daunting task to win their last game.
Either way, they still have something to play for and I expect them to give Dallas some trouble.
That would be hysterical, us and Tauro advancing.
Now that's hardcore.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
C'MON GUYS GET HIM OUTTA THERE!
FUCK IT'S BREK SHEA PUT HIM BACK.
Looking at this group going in and the struggles our club were (and often still are) having, especially defensively, I think if we would have asked ourselves back in July/August would we take having our destiny still in our hands going into the sixth game would we take it?
I know I certainly would have. I and many others said going into this group stage that we would need ten points to qualify and here we are, seven points in five games with one remaining.
After we hopefully kick the shit further out of the fucking Red Bulls playoffs chances on Saturday the boys have two weeks between that game and Philly away and then the big game in Texas. Lots of time to practice, watch game tape and generally be fresh and ready for Dallas.
Dallas has three games in the same stretch where TFC have two starting on October 1st and they of course have MLS playoffs and a shitty little run of form lately to worry about as well. And who knows... maybe Hyndman might just look at tonight in Panama and say fuck it and rest his best for Colorado on Saturday and take his chances on not losing straight up to TFC next month.
I for one am very very proud of my TFC today. Prouder than I have been all season actually.
C'MON GUYS GET HIM OUTTA THERE!
FUCK IT'S BREK SHEA PUT HIM BACK.
I haven't laughed that hard all season
I was drinking a coke, and it just went up my nose from laughingC'MON GUYS GET HIM OUTTA THERE!
FUCK IT'S BREK SHEA PUT HIM BACK.
For what its worth, Tauro is doing very well in league play this season. They're 19 points in 10 games, good for 3rd in the league with a game in hand.
http://www.futbolextremo.com/es/ligas.html
At home in league play, they're 3-1-1. They've beaten 2nd place San Francisco at home and drawn league-leading Sporting.
At home in their last 5, they're L-W-D-W-L <--- with the first loss coming to TFC and the draw against Pumas (figure that one out, eh?)
http://www.soccerway.com/teams/panama/tauro-fc/
This is the betting line at SportingBet.com:
Tauro 3.2 Draw 3.3 FCD 2.05
This could be swayed by American money going to FCD, making their odds seem better than they actually are, but, again, this is for what its worth.
http://www.sportingbet.com/sports-fo...0-102-410.html
The stadium is Barren
But the Bands rockin'
The audio is horrible on the CONCACAF stream yet again.
All I hear is Dallas fans... lol
There are like 65 people at the game, and Dallas brought 50 of them and the band!
true, tauro wins both games, they'll be tied with pumas on 8 and have the tiebreaker over pumas. then if tfc win, it'll be tfc with 10 and tauro in 2nd with 8.
where it could get interesting is if tauro win both and tfc/dallas tie. then everyone's got 8 points. for tfc's -3 gd to qualify, we'd need tauro to beat dallas by 4 and pumas by 9. that's how I want this to go down.
People complain about TFC attendance?
1-0 tauro. nice shot
“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
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