The Impact have sacked Garde and hired Willmer Cabrera
The Impact have sacked Garde and hired Willmer Cabrera
Crazy!Originally Posted by Areathrasher
That is a very good move
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
Cabrera is a good coach when he has time to prepare. He is NOT so good when he has to wing it.
He outmanouevered Vanney a few weeks ago.
Time to prepare
MLS Multiplex had this to say about Cabrera :
the consistency was off, his tactical tinkering infuriating, and he could not construct a consistently excellent side. In the end, it cost him his job.
https://mlsmultiplex.com/2019/08/21/...-not-like/amp/
Vela with an unbelievable goal in Beitashour derby last night.
https://twitter.com/sportscenter/sta...565049344?s=21
These LAFC games are mostly on in the middle of the night, so it's hard to keep up, but they are shredding all previous claims to best MLS team ever.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
What a goal!
... and Vela the best player ever. This is better than Giovinco's undressing of RBNY.
It seems like the best teams are solid overall but have at least one special player to put them over the top. Zlatan is that for the Galaxy. We don't have a player like that anymore.
Last edited by Oldtimer; 08-22-2019 at 12:52 PM.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
League doesn't have too many of these. Piatti comes to mind. Without him Mtl's history would be even worse
Perhaps why Jozy says we don’t have the quality ...
Yup. Vela is incredible.
In some ways, Vela is like Seba: a guy in a certain situation who comes here in the prime of his career and kills the league.
In Seba's case, he was seen as too small & had players in front of him at Juve & who wanted to play so he could be on the Italians NT.
In Vela's case, he has no interest what so ever in fame or glory or the Mexican NT - he just wants to play, be the man, and score goals & get paid a LOT of money.
These things are not reproducable.
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BTW...nice goal but the post hype from MLS on this is just getting nauseating.
Last edited by OgtheDim; 08-22-2019 at 12:25 PM.
Before we go all ga ga on this.
A) Seba's goal was better - and we bombed against Montreal that year
B) Zlatan's team didn't make the playoffs last year
C) Vela's LAFC last year fell at home in the first round to RSL
i.e. Beware the great man theory of MLS success
But what about Piatti? Oh wait, nevermind...
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Downplaying it works a little better when you’re not 16 points clear of second place.
I guess my point is good teams win with big stars - big stars don't win without good teams.
No argument there. Also think Seba’s goal was better
Probably need an LAFC discussion thread. Their stats are unreal
https://twitter.com/mattdoyle76/stat...920100353?s=21
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
LAFC's goal differential is +46 with 8 games left.
That's a really impressive stat. TFC was +37 for the 2017 Championship Season. I haven't seen any LAFC games this year but I imagine its a real joy watching them play.
LAFC have been fairly entertaining to watch, they always put on a high press for the ball and try to get the turnover by rushing them quickly and all as a team not one individual at at time. Their stadium seems like they have a great supporters and extremely loud in there. Curious to see how Toronto will fare against them next month when we travel to their stadium.
Just one weird thing on that supporter wall with LAFC.
They had a reporter in this week for the San Jose game - when people scored, she wanted to cheeer and got chided by people for stopping the singing.
i.e. We never stop singing more important then what happens on the field.
Weird and no so much. All depends where you want to take that supporters group and how well you want be known. I’ve been to Belgrade to watch red star play ( I have family that are massive Delije ). And with those guys if you stop chanting or singing when a chant is on you will be yelled at once. The second time you are being asked to leave with no choice for you You will be removed from there or you’re best to just leave on you’re own. They are right, there is more then half the stadium for you to sit on you’re hands and watch the game. But if you’re there to be a part of something then that’s youre job today. Win or lose! When I get a chance to sit in our supporters area I don’t even let my 5 year old stop chanting and singing. When we go to our seats we can sit and watch the game WE NEED TO BE UNITED AND LOUD TONIGHT!! Not 3 separate chants going at once. GO REDS If this is in wrong thread sorry but the post about reporter caught my attention
I'm calling it right now. LA will be MLS' Tampa Bay come playoff time. They aren't lifting the cup.
I love the passion but this is drivel.
Why? I don’t get where that level of certainty could come from..
I suppose Atlanta could beat them, though I wouldn’t call it likely.
Kinda feels like the league should just cancel the playoffs and let those two play a best of 7.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
No rhyme or reason. I just have a feeling. Things are going too well. #TooMuchOfAGoodThing
They are actually more dominant than the original NY Cosmos were in the original NASL, which didn't have a salary cap for most of its existence. The Cosmos won 65% of their matches, LAFC is ahead of that.
There is a difference between sitting on your hands and reacting to game events like scoring by switching from a chant to cheering. That was the point. Different styles.
Beating LAFC over 2 legs in the playoffs this year would seem quite the tall order... with it being single-game elimination now, other teams have a chance. They should still win the Cup though with this kind of season.
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