WTF is happening lately?
WTF is happening lately?
Kinda of wish all you guys were here and I was at home
We did seem to mostly agree before the season started that there were going to be nights like this with so many young players. Six key injuries, hyped-up young player who hasn't been playing in over a year...
It is what it is. Maybe we buckle down and freak a point out of it.
Jayden Nelson is our Granit Xhaka when it comes to yellow cards.
Michael Singh to BB after tonight's game
"Kosi Thompson seemed to have a really great game...."
I think you're right but I personally think it's more that they are poorly developed, rather than coached. This is a problem within a Canadian culture that has come leaps and bounds in the last decade. But I see it in Petrasso, Priso, Nelson, Shaffelberg, Okello et al. They all have a bit of 'chicken with their heads cut off' in em. Talented certainly, but learning instinct while also learning tactics creates moments like Priso tonight.
What the hell was Bradley just doing? Ran right over the ball right on the edge of the box!
No call from the ref, foul on Nelson.
This guy doesn't like us much. I'm n ot faulting the red card which was terrible, but he's missed three calls in our favor by my count already, all on the left side.
Great defending there from McNaughton, does the job right.
Cincinnati has a winner in Obinna.
When Shane O'Neill is your defensive speedster.....
A lot of it is cultural, I believe. I grew up in England and moved here in my teens and there were so many good athletes here playing soccer, but none of them could read the game to save their lives beyond set zonal responsibilities.
They didn't grow up watching Match of the Day every week; it would be like kids here growing up without seeing hockey played at its highest level regularly until their teens, then expecting them to read picks and set plays and defensive shifts.
In football countries, it's the lifeblood. When a central defender ghosts to his right to pick someone up, they know someone should fill that hole. And the competitive nature from such an early age instills some real iron in them. here, kids get used to be in the elite on elite teams and rarely losing. There, you can go one town over and get your ass kicked by a bunch of kids from a school you never heard of.
Now that we're a man, a goal and six players down, we're enough of an underdog for Caldwell to feel justified rooting for Toronto.
That's a wee bit of Celtic guilt for you. If you're not suffering, it's because you're already dead.
Funny, but this new D mid they got...he's leaving a big fat hole in front of his d line.
Jesus is money
And BB still thinks the solution is playing the youth; ugh; why didn't we utilize our first window more effective; so far BB is not showing well in my books
Yeah I'm English born too. I often like to imagine how good a dude like Dero could have been if he was raised in a soccer culture. He was great and all but kinda the definition of a Canadian player to me. So much talent, so little nuance. But like I said, it's come leaps and bounds. Once we stop
needing the parent who's willing to coach we will see even more progress.
Maybe it’s me watching live but I don’t think Chung has a clue what he’s doing. Acosta is roasting him every time