Also, “missing impossible to miss chances”, there is often good defending in the mix on those plays, when forwards don’t have time to get something right.
If we had allowed three last night, I still would have felt the backline did well. This wasn’t Nashville. They were way overmatched in a tough situation (no practice, altitude, serious players with skill up front everywhere)
Based on no Mavinga, Bradley moving forward, and Auro and Zavaleta last year, I expected 5 or 6 goals against.
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"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
The winger spots are an open competition at this point I think, but Shaff did really well last night.
As for the mids I'd still have Poz over Bradley and Priso over Okello. Fraser meanwhile needs to go to a team where he'll actually have a chance at regular starts because it's obvious he won't get that here
We had some issues in building any offence even when we had good position, but that's somewhat to be expected with a new high press/middle block systems.
They had five players in their starting lineup, at least, who would be DPs in MLS. We did really well. If they'd dropped three or four on us it could've been done without embarrassment even being involved.
I couldn't be happier about this result. It feels so opposite from how disappointing our last go at this was. At least the crowd wanting us to concentrate on other competitions can't complain on waste of resources.
We did less than we were lucky to get this far.
FORMER FULL TIME KOOL-AID DRINKER
^I've been thinking, Wednesday night was the first time I properly "got into" a sports event since the pandemic started. I am grateful for that.
I was so sure we would get pounded that I didn't even buy the game until 7.55pm.
"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