A piss poor performance yesterday. All the players need to take a good, long look in the mirror and get their act together before the season starts to become a write-off.
Overall Team Rating (based on yesterday's performance):
More face palms = lower rating
Team needs to regroup quickly. Wed is coming fast and furious.
Originally Posted by Ajax TFC
call me crazy,....maybe deluded,... but from what I saw of Eckersley he was out of position as much as Morgan and reckless as usual,....that is now being used against him, by incoming teams. What with all the criticism of Morga,n he IS the only player consistently making runs on the wings and always succeeding , then continuously getting the ball crossed into the forwards....he does need to get a little more 'air' on the ball, but last year no one could even cross on this team,...if he is making these runs and leaving the defense suspect,..he is only there because he does have the ability toget back catch just about anyone...and he takes shit from no one....compared with the cream puffs showing up on our team we are now going to critique desire to win?? No one attacked the SJ players when they were getting their goals off.....and that reminds me was JDG in the line-up,.didn't see or hear his name ,.......we need big strong stay at home defenders,....Morgan should be on the wing.........anyone can see he has the forward attack etched in him...bring back Stinson and Henry and as stsated all of last year play them!!!!
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Of course, as we all know, we can blame one Mr. Johnston for that one
baaahhhaha my dad just compared inters back line to tfcs after juve just scored
I say that because he's interviewed concacaf under 23 tv game site ,...build-up,...I took it that they would be continuous in their game flow...fool me
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.... and let's not forget that Paul Marriner is part of the management picture as well. Yes, he brought in Eckersley although, sadly, I can't say I've been impressed with Ecks thus far this year apart from starting the Johnson goal v Seattle by coming all the way from RB to LB to get the ball and send it up field while crashing into the sign hordings in Seattle. One will never be able to fault Ecks for lack of effort.
Who else though? Lambe is about it and the jury is certainly out on him.
JDG's contract runs through the end of the season.
Absolutely not.
Plata should be taking our set pieces now, he's no use out there trying to get on the end of them anyway, and he's pretty good at set pieces regardless.
Totally agreed. Why we are taking a 5 ft 11 player out of the penalty area and having a 5 ft 1 player instead is beyond me! Plata is the obvious choice for the corner taker, its not like he'e going to rise above a 6ft plus defender to score a smashing header!
I think again the liability in the back is Harden, he is constantly panicking and giving up the ball, even when he has space and time, he couldn't pass a ball if his life depended on it, there all done. let's put on a show on Wednesday Night, we need to and we need to be loud!!!
As I always say, I'm not a fan of Harden - but on Saturday you can't blame Harden for ANY of the 3 goals conceded.
We (the supporters) - need to stop blaming ONE player for TFC's woes. It's either Harden, or Iro, or Gargen - no matter who plays, TFC always seem to be awful in defense under Aron Winter! For what its worth, I haven't been impressed with Aceval so far either! And Morgan was the one making mistakes on Saturday. It definitely wasn't due to Harden this weekend!
It's quite apparent the Harden-hate is all about reputation now. He could have a solid game but if TFC lose it will somehow be on him. Me? I am not so inclined to rest my hopes of this team's success on the guy making 73k/year on a team with 3 DPs.
I agree that the defensive formation (or lack thereof) was the primary culprit on Saturday as opposed to any individual players.
I would assume that Winter and DeKlerk are knowledgeable enough to adjust their tactical approach moving forward, especially with the absence of Torsten Frings, considering how vulnerable the backline has been in the first two league matches.
I expected them to use Aceval for sweeper, as he has feet and vision, with Harden ( sigh ... ) and Emory as RCB/LCBs, at least until Frings recovers.
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When you play against inferior clubs, a win should be expected. It goes doubly when you play that inferior club with home pitch advantage. Obviously, I'd like nothing more than to win every match we play, but the reality is that there are some teams we're going to struggle with (and that's okay) and we can afford a few losses to. San Jose, however, should not be one of those teams.
Did the USA , of all countries, just fix soccer? - C. Ronaldo, May 27th commenting on the FBI-led investigations into fraud and corruption throughout FIFA.
it's not like San Jose was amazing, the game was rather competitive and I thought the wind played a big factor. but SJ made their chances count while TFC didn't. There were quite a few half chances and good scoring chances created. I want to chalk this off as freak condition result, but 6 goals given up in 2 games is not good.
And another ex TFC player crushes TFC (Cronin with two assists)
“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
It did look very disorganized from my view on television. I wish I could have taken a snapshot of where the players were on the field at certain points in play, it was a jumbled mess.
To you're first point about pushing up the fullbacks, I read something somewhere (probably on this forum but too lazy to find it) written by someone who was sitting behind the TFC bench. Their comment was that the coaching staff was consistently prodding both Morgan and Eckersley to get up the field. If true, that might color our perspective a little differently.
A little late with my opinion on the game, but here it is anyways. I was underwhelmed to say the least with the performance TFC put in. De Guzman was a non-factor, not really showing up and not looking match fit. I hope he takes this new found captaincy and starts to step up, beginning with Wednesday's game. I am still undecided on Lambe. I was shocked to see he was picked MOTM. I over heard someone comment that "they had to pick some one", and he was right. Morgan was impressive through most of the game, but needs to work on getting his crosses up in the air with some pace. Also, the long ball isn't working. Trying to send Koovermans a long ball isn't going to work; he just isn't fast enough. Koovermans can take the ball and make some space, but he simply isn't fast enough to beat the faster defenders to the ball.
I would also like to see Avila get to play; I feel he has the pace and skill set to work well with Silva, Plata and Johnson. I'd drop Lambe back to the bench, and bring him on as a sub if needed.
I'll keep hoping for a turnaround, and keep supporting TFC.
You are going to lose the majority of games you play with Ty Harden and Terry Dunfield starting on your team. Add to the fact that Torsten Frings is out and Koev didn't even bother to get in shape this year and it's a recipe for disaster.
I am not sure who is in better shape.Mista or Koev.
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