Delighted to see San Jose eliminated. They are coached by Matias Almeyda who coached Chivas when they beat us in CCL. That loss still stings.
Delighted to see San Jose eliminated. They are coached by Matias Almeyda who coached Chivas when they beat us in CCL. That loss still stings.
5 games so far in these playoffs, and all 5 hosts went through to the next round.
Do you guys think it's just coincidence?
Need to add that all were "real" hosts, playing in their real home stadiums, not like TFC will do.
Officiating crew from the Orlando-NYC game will not ref any other games in the playoffs
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020/...t-work-another
Rapids Bench might be familiar
Clint Irwin
Drew Moor
Steven Beitsahour
Collen Warner
Nicolas Benezet
& 4 other guys not connected to TFC
And Robin Fraser
Benezet now on for the Rapids.
Respect to all our TFC alumni but Colorado has no business being in the playoffs.
Yes, the broadcast teams covering this league seem to have issue expressing an independent opinion. We all know that was a crappy outing but Moreno and Twellman offer little more than mealy mouth responses where they seem to acknowledge how wrong things went but can’t help but try and let the league off the hook in some small way.
Let’s just say what it was: a debacle and embarrassment for the league.
just watched that on youtube, what a shitshow, if that was in a movie about football you'd describe it as far fetched.The commentators on the link I watched, were nearly as bad as the ref, they kept showing the NY keeper save and said his foot is over the line, yes only one foot has to stay on the line, they didn't seem to fathom that and kept saying the save would be overturned.
All these matches being settled by penalties.. as a TFC fan the last reminder we needed was that you don't want to let it get there. Worst way to lose. I'd rather give up a counter attack goal in extra time knowing we were pushing to end than see some team fluke into a win like that again.
I feel a bit more confident going into penalties with Pozuelo, Piatti, Mullinho and Westberg on the team. I still would be paralyzed in fear though from past trauma.
As long as they don't hang him back for the 5th kick, like SJE did to Wondo & Orlando did to Nani.
You want Poz on #1 - set the tone.
Watched the Dallas v Portland PK's & the SKC vs SJE PK's.
Apart from Tim Melia being very adept at figuring out footing, the biggest difference between teams doing well in PK's & teams not is placement of the ball.
Guys I don't want anywhere near a PK?
Bradley, Delgado, Mavinga, Endoh
Guys I do want there
Mullins, Akinola, Jozy, Poz, Osorio, Piatti, DeLeon
Unlikely to have the first 3 because they are unlikely to finish a 120 minute game together.
No double for Philly this season
I was skeptical Tajon Buchanan was going to amount to much in this league but has this kid ever turned up the heat.
He’s going to be a real force if he can clean up his play in the box a bit.
Minnesota hosting NER is going to be not worth watching...
3 out of the top 4 seeds in the East already eliminated. This one and done play off system is garbage. Why even bother trying during the regular season? The moment your team is eliminated from the shield you might as well just start resting players.
Nashville doing the same thing to Columbus that they did to us - could very well be NE@Nash for the Eastern Conference Final - just as everyone predicted......
If a boring team wins this year, I suspect the Shield will become even more important, & the team who finishes first in the East & West during the season will get a new trophy created just for that occasion.
4 games & you win "the" star just doesn't feel right.
Columbus finally breaks through.....would prefer not to watch Nashville drag every game to extra time....at least if Columbus can win, they could prevent Seattle from potentially hosting MLS Cup again....now it’s 2-0....Amazing how much the game opens up all of a sudden once Columbus went ahead, so much more entertaining to watch.....
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Columbus is through.
Am I missing something on this Zardes goal? I paused my TV at the moment the ball is released and he’s a full body length offside. Not even close...
And yet, no VAR, it stands?