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Match Day 19 - TFC @ Cinci - Wed June 21 7:38pm - And I'll Give You My Analysis
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Have at It People
I associate "TFC away to Cincinnati" with a 5-0 scoreline.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Are you saying this game screams 5-0 Cincinnati?Originally Posted by ensco
Or 5-0 Toronto? If it were any other league then MLS I would know the answer to my question and not have to ask it. I don’t think we’ve had anything like 5 scored against us. The nil to us, okay especially since Nick Hagglund the titan is in their back 3….
Hagglund has been injured
Their defence is stingy but can be beaten - their offence finds a way to score 1 more goal. They are a team driven to work within the games states provided and do it efficiently - give them a chance, they will take it and if you don't take your chances, you will lose.
This has the look of a 3-1 loss to me - they are winning 1-0 at the half where we had chances but did not score. They run away with 2 more before 70 & we score 1 in the 80's.
Yeah. Without Patrick Mullins, I don't see us having a hope here.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Predicting a draw. All we do is Tie. At least in this miserable season, maybe we can set the Draws record
4-0 Cincy if Hedges and Johnson are out.
2-0 Cincy if only Johnson is out
Or...maybe 1-0 if Bob bunker us with five back. Given how quick they are on the break and how quickly they switch high to wingers, I suspect that might happen.
The US' first game isn't until June 24, so maybe we still have him for this one, but I suspect not, due to camp. So this might be either Gavran or Ranjitsingh.
Hedges might be back.
Cincinnati is defensively strong down the middle. We're not going to be given much, and without any sort of tangible offense consistently in our opponent's end, we will once again be relying on magic from Insigne to get anything.
I keep expecting us to get squashed one of these games but it hasn't happened yet. Top team in the east, brand new striker, home fans will be plenty hyped for that. 2nd backup keeper likely to make an appearance, no Osorio. Has to be the time our luck runs out, no?
But this is MLS and none of the gaps should be that large, particularly with our payroll. Also hearing our new Korean-Dutch signing, Park deBus will be making an apperance.
can't wait to spin the wheel of "bullshit reasons we concede a goal to lose/tie" this time
Inadvertently, you’ve given me hope. The often slightly absurd and unpredictable MLS result most weeks. I suppose what I should hope for it not a win but just that we play well. The thing is that if we played well the full 90 we would have won quite a few this year.
Minus the Philly debacle we've managed to anti-football most of our matches. I don't mean the old Rangers style either. I mean we just make both teams play ugly and force a boring, terrible match on viewers both home & away.
With that in mind I think we lose but it'll be a 2-1 loss or something like that.
You mean classic Mourinho style. Force the game into the midfield third and make everything tiresome for all involved, haha
It's possible. 18 is the record set by Nashville in 2021 and Chicago in 2014.
Going to get thumped without Johnson. A draw at best if Hedges returns.
This one has a big and glorious DRAW written all over it!
(How can all of you guys not seeing it?)
Ironic, a bit sad, isn't it? If TFC were a decent performing club, the next series of matches, is when I would have been suggesting draws to be the de facto fair outcome.
Because we're shit and Hedges is out.
If Hedges were back and Johnson... yeah, maybe. Cincy wins a lot of games by a single goal. But it also doesn't give up many and we're just not very good.
We’ll be missing Laryea too, no?.
If we tie this game and let in less than 3 goals I think we give Mabika a 10 year contract
I don't think it's possible we could manage a 3-3 draw. The only way would be the Own Goal Gods gracing us with a couple.
Without Johnson, Richie, Osorio, Hedges… that’s not sounding good. I guess we see how Mabika and Rosted do together. And our first look at our second keeper.
Last edited by los sonadores; 06-15-2023 at 12:03 PM.
Another very thin bench and no subs match. Maybe better to watch the first half only….
You’d think with the growth of the game MLS would be getting closer to respecting the international schedule.
But I guess the Vancouver’s and FCD’s of the world need an extra date or two in the summer so they can sell 3 tickets for $15 with a free hot dog and drink.
This is why we need to split the league into MLS Premiership and MLS Championship in the future. Let them go and enjoy the level they aspire to. Sure we'll be down there with them but through abject failure rather than extreme cheapness.
Totally fair when you think about it. If you aren’t going to invest in a SSS, in players, or into any of the other things that are supposed to make the league top class well you should either get the boot or have to play down a division when the inevitable happens.
Although maybe we shouldn’t be supporting this argument as TFC fans, haha
We'll be lucky if we get 5 opportunities, let alone shots on goal.
Yeah, I didn’t realize how many more we have out.
Yeah, I forgot about Laryea being out too.
I would have replied with Laryea in, that for our 2 Italian DP's it's enough 1-1 moment of briliance (and for the rest of the match to be mediocre) to end 2-2, but the whole match those 2 will be on an island in the middle of the Pacific.
That would be nice, but I'm still afraid will not happen, at least not in the next 20 years.
It makes one think... that if from the moment TFC joined MLS would have been that kind of setup, at least 3/4 of the time TFC would have played in the Championship.
Which would have been great, because MLSE might have sold the team (why stick to a team if we would have long-time average 15 k spectators), and maybe TFC could have had by now a serious football-oriented ownership.
Last edited by PizzaEatingYeti; 06-16-2023 at 04:12 AM.
Or end up with a Saputo and be mediocre & unstable forever.
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