Quote Originally Posted by jloome View Post
Very much so; Defoe's very good with the close control, though, and his pace is wicked, so giving him a few more yards is fine. Besides, he'll find and make his own space to a certain degree.

What did you think of Osorio and DeRo? Both seemed trying to force it a bit.
I agree. Felt like Oso and DeRo kinda try to play similar role and got in each other's way. DeRo dropping back too deep, isolated Gilberto up front (and Gilberto wasn't making a lot of runs in the channel), so Columbus had no major trouble dealing with TFC attack through middle. On the other hand, attacks through the flanks weren't bad.

Not reading too much into this game... though there's going to be a lot of growing pain integrating Defoe into the system.