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With injuries, absences and exhaustion I expect TFC to lose this one.
TFC ptsd starting to come back again.
Orlando is not as good as Dallas, but their home field support is formidable. I'd be happy with a tie at this point in the season. And it will be their 6th game in like 3 weeks. Nobody else in MLS has had as crazy a schedule as them over the last two months.
That said, I have a feeling that the players don't like the result from Dallas and will be looking to bounce back and give Orlando a loss in their new home.
The Snowbird match.
I need a win. And beers.
I'll be at Joe's for this one!
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We all knew July was going to be tricky to navigate through with the Gold Cup. We just need to stay within touching distance of the top of the table. I genuinely believe this group has the stones to come good and win the supporters shield. There is a different mindset to this group than previous TFC sides.
Let's remember that last July we were dropping points while up a man in multiple games, seemingly lost with players in and out of the lineup. By September we were the front runners for the shield and would have gone on to win it had switched to the 3-5-2 earlier and not lost Seba for that last month. We're in a much better position this year. The teams around us will start dropping points soon too.
That said I think this'll be an interesting match. Orlando don't typically attack down the wings, meanwhile that's easily where we're weakest right now. They certainly won't target it anywhere near as effectively and relentlessly as Dallas did. If we can put up a bit of a better fight on the wings this game I think we can get a point.
^ That's interesting, I wonder if TFC switches to the 4-4-2 diamond?
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...159420469.html
Iguana in the toilet is no match for Florida Man. what a perpetually evolving meme.
I hope the boys are pissed off after that last one. They had some decent time on the ball but nothing seemed to drop for them. With Vazquez back (he is back right?) our mid should be much more dangerous. Hopefully Ashtone and Alseth can step up their game and surprise with some width. Alseth looked great in a TFCII game, now time to convert it to the first team.
As long as we dont field morgan...
Morgan's fine.
Hope the Reds are having a wonderful 4th of July down in Orlando.
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Agreed, the team has improved so much that there's no real place for him...maybe when we're up 3-0 with 5 mins left.
Vasquez is back so that should set a spark through midfield and get Jozy and Seba some decent service since it won't be coming from the wingbacks anymore.
When you have to go to depth you have to be able to depend on that depth, just watching the replay of the game and I beg to differ, Mavinga got roasted on 2 of those goals, and Bono was too slow off his line on the first goal. Yes the service was not there from the wingbacks, but the service should have been through the middle. Just my opinion. That game was a loss by the whole team not Morgan. Talk to me when you have more than 72 posts and have been around longer than a year.
“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 would agree that Mavinga did not have a good game. With him it seems to be something in his head, because he has the pace and skill to be where he needs to be; it just seems sometimes like he doesn't choose to do it. Last game was reminiscent of his first start, and it sounds like Vanney was all over him after that. He really responded and was a different (and I would say very good) player for the last month (as you note in your post). Hopefully Vanney will read him the riot act again (or whatever he did the last time) and Mavinga 2.0 will reappear. With fewer offensive options because of injuries and absences, we need the D to be super-tight.
We ain't got nobody but Morgan, Endoh and Alseth for WB's. Maybe Delgado but he's so valuable as the shuttler. Like Mavinga, we are going to love the ones we are with.
On another note, this game is the last one for 2 weeks. I fully expect the guys to give it all for as long as they can in the 30+ degree heat its supposed to be at game time tomorrow night. Nobody is going to be rested from the start. There will need to be some subs. But anybody expecting a fast free flowing game is going to be disappointed.
No he wasn't. Bradley not really paying attention to what Dzemali was doing was a bigger contributing factor than Mavinga getting an unlucky bounce after his tackle.
Go watch it again https://twitter.com/FantasyXL_com/st...57176507973634
Lol... I have lurked here quite some time and only decided to sign up last year.
Anyways - If you watch Morgans track record of BEFORE his injury, he's never quite fit in with the play style of TFC. This is in MY very unprofessional opinion of course.
I know he hasn't had a hell of a lot of minutes to play with vasquez, bradley, gio, etc and having a solid team around him may change his play... Haven't written him off - I'm just not a fan.
I agree heavily with this. His first start (in reality, probably super nerve-wracking in a different league with a new team) was really mediocre, but he really quickly made a turn around and became an asset. Hopefully he gets his head back in it and we see the Mavinga we've seen for the last month again.
He's also had some MEAN life-saving slides in the last X games. That bounce in the MTL game was really unfortunate.
Last edited by samuraizero; 07-04-2017 at 04:09 PM.
No problem. Lots of passion behind this game we love. In all instances of anything I say - its always my own opinion, and goodness knows I'm often wrong. I'm just playing off the memories of watching Morgan several years ago and not being pleased with his play. Hasty comment by me, given he hasnt had minutes to be brought up to speed.
Just a personal opinion
In the grand scheme, a loss is a loss and its a team loss. It's never one guy. That play 30 meters up the field may be what put us in any given situation, and you're right. Mostly one person gets the blame - but it comes down to team 100% of the time.
Problem with Morgan is that he always feels half step behind reacting to the attacker when defending. His positioning and anticipation isn't very good. Lacking game mins last couple of years doesn't help either.
“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
Every time we've worried about the lads this year, Vanney has pulled some string or another and they've found a way to make us happy. No reason to doubt a result of some sort in Orlando...certainly a draw would be more than acceptable under the circumstances. Definitely am worried about the WB/FB position...boy was Beita under-appreciated. Anyways, we have our four DPs (the three actual and one that deserves to be) in the lineup, so when thats the case TFC should have a result against anyone IMO.
Also RE: Morgan: give the guy a chance! He's barely had any first team football in so long, obviously he is going to start out looking like shite. I actually started to like what I saw from him last time he was in real fitness whenever that was.
“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
With Vazquez back in the line up we should see a much different game from Saturday. I think for now a 4-4-2 makes more sense than a 3-5-2. We just don't have the proper WB's to pull off a 3-5-2 right now. A 4-4-2 diamond would allow Vazquez to push further up field and try to release either Seba or Jozy with his passes. I think 3 points is well within grasp in this game. The ref is Allen Kelly, which isn't the worst option.
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