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Have at It People
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Have at It People
I mean, it's not impossible. Despite our dreadful performance, that's not a very good team. They had a couple of fast, skilled attacking players but little cohesion.
It's more like Seba's back next season, and that's not likely.
Minus 5 with snow might help
I am going to be interested in watching any yutes who play in this game. Too bad we got none on the back line.
Will anyone who misssed the first leg be available for selection next week?
I hope people don’t turn on Boyd. I think he had one touch in the run of play. (It was nifty btw). He got zero service.
That miss was bad. We saw how Aketxe fell apart because he didn’t get a break. (If there is a silver lining, it’s that the missed PK probably doesn’t matter and won’t be remembered.)
He needs us behind him. He isn’t management and doesn’t own any of the history.
"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
Nope. Sorry, but he has done nothing to earn support yet. Boyd had more than one touch last night and turned it over a couple of times in the midfield. You don't just support blindly, it has to be directed at those who deserve it, to reinforce to the others the type of player we are looking for.
With service in the preseason he did alright, last night was on Vanney's set up. Brutal spot kick though
Really glad this happened actually.
1) It puts TFC management behind the 8 ball to make moves.
2) It sets the tone to let the players know we are light years away from the 16 months ago.
3) It happened in a tourney that we can't possibly win and on which we shouldn't waste resources.
Just consider this another pre-season match and don't get worked up over it.
The messaging from TFC after last season was that they wouldn't take the CCL so seriously so that it threatens their season this year. That being said, I don't think they expected to be 4-0 behind.
This will be a very poorly attended match for sure.
The lineup change priority is that Bono has to sit. This is absolutely imperative. Our back line problem flows from the GK position. You don’t play with confidence when you think your keeper never bails you out.
He has been a positional mess for a year (jloome pointed this out elsewhere). It was always an issue with him but then it bit us hard in last year's CCL, Alex knows it - he never recovered from that floater that got over him vs Chivas.
He has no confidence, and the team has no confidence in him.
Patterson-Sewell (or the new guy, if you think he will play in Philly) needs to start this game, so that he is ready for the opener in Philly.
I feel bad for Alex, he is a hero here, but our season is at stake. Frankly he needs to go down to USL for a couple of months.
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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
"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
Not sure how you blame that all on Bono. While I agree he needs to sit, the problems are way deeper than just him. Auro shouldn't be starting, he just has zero defensive awareness. Mavinga and Ciman were awful. Part of that stems from being a new pairing - please Vanney, at least keep the two of them together so they can develop the their positional understanding they need as a pair. But I really worry about Ciman. Bradely could use a good fast, tackling DM beside him. The whole setup has issues really.
^Bono allowed a bunch of goals he should have had last year. To come out and have zero saves on 4 shots, against a semipro team, and have at least two be because of positioning... for me the back line issues can be addressed in training. But the GK, no way, that is fatal.
I also disagree (somewhat) re Auro. I think he can be good defensively ( we have seen it, but not often)
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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
I'd just like to say that with any goalkeeper, they have to have confidence in their backline so they can choose to make the less risky play. Look at the games in Vegas and Panama - after the first two goals, Bono started rushing out to block because he didn't have confidence that the backline would be able to stop the attack. It's a lose-lose situation for them.
I’d rather see Bono in goal and focus on building greater awareness and consistency in our backline than take a chance playing Patterson-Sewell, Who has very little experience at this level for a 31 year old.
The system and thinking behind our defensive formation needs a bit of a rethink. In possession, The 4-3-3 with inverted wing backs gives us a numerical advantage across the middle. We saw this a fair bit last night, with Morgan and Auro taking up some decent positions.
Without the ball, or against a counterpress, it fell apart. The amount of space we gave up last night was scary. Any overlap, or diagonal pass looked like it could catch us out of position at any moment.
I like this guy
https://twitter.com/tboyd91/status/1...163366913?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
The responses to that tweet from Ciman & Mavinga are heartening.
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Ciman is very offensive for a CB. needs a stay at home CB with him. Great on the ball but it was almost like he was trying to play CDM at times
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Weather forecast for Tuesday
High of -5 30% chance of snow 32km NW winds
Rain this weekend with a high of 9 on Sunday should wash away a lot of snow
If I were to hazard a guess, a very bitter cold dry night with wind whipping around.
The chances of a decent pitch & decent watching soccer are probably minimal.
To be honest, I think if TFC wants to qualify in the next round, they can beat this Panama team by 5 goals in the 2nd leg, even with the available players.
The whole question is: "They want to advance or not?"
The first 20 minutes of the game will be very telling.
If they won't go in "pedal to the metal", they have zero chance to advance.
I agree. If they treat this game like their lives depend on it, they might do it.
Of course, they also might just give up more goals on the counter and fuck themselves even more ...
Someone needs to step up and grab the game by the balls and boss things around, and the only two who could maybe do it are Jozy or Oso.