Ya'll get to decide what is which .....
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Have at It People
Ya'll get to decide what is which .....
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Have at It People
gonna need to steal some points here, but I think we can do it against San Jose.
Looking for a Reimer reference...
TFC can show a little pride in their last performance. Hope it continues.
Tempting.....I don't mind flying the Progress Pride flag...but not sure I wanted to reference that particular idiocy.
This will be a pretty ugly match. They're just always ugly and we're missing too many starters to be anything other than ugly so I am leaning draw but usually the best players make the difference in matches like these and Johnson & Bernadeschi are the best out there. Going to go 2-1 for us but 0-0 wouldn't shock me.
They were pretty dreadful against St. Louis' gegenpress. I still like our chances even with the missing players, but who knows? WE don't get to see the replacements in training, so who knows if they'll be fluid enough for our movement-heavy system.
All I know is Servania is one of the signings of the season. He had six successful dribbles against Miami, which for a guy known as a number eight is pretty handy.
How do we even line up for this? Assuming he wants tactical consistency, probably as a 4-2-3-1 again. Despite them having kaye as a twin six with bradley in all the lineup sheets the other night, he ended up being forward more than Servania.
I have no idea who he'll play at right back. O'Neill actually played there a few times when younger, so if his head pain is dealt with that's a possibility. We've seen JMR there in the past, surely he needs some playing time.
Maybe something like....
----------------Johnson----------------
JMR---Hedges---Rosted---Gutierrez
--------Servania---Bradley--------
Bernie----Vazquez----Petretta
----------Kerr
Bring Thompson in later for Vazquez and swing him over to the right, drop Bernadeschi in the hole.
Given that he was originally going to a Ukrainian Premier League team and has since proven himself well above most of the CPL, I'm sort of surprised we haven't tried to snag Osaze De Rosario yet.
Maybe getting fucked around incessantly by the Mo and Earls of the world has soured the family on TFC, or maybe they don't want to admit a kid they weren't high on has potential, but like Diayaeddin Abzi before him, he looks at least good enough to me to get some playing time at the MLS level.
San Jose looked slow and ponderous to cycle the ball against St. Louis. They really didn't handle the press well. But we're not very quick, so a different ball game.
I watched DeRo the younger a couple of times at ATO matches, but he didn't seem to be outplaying the opposition by a lot. I think TFC might be better looking at ATO's Ollie Basset for midfield.
Last edited by los sonadores; 03-20-2023 at 11:38 PM.
Me likes, agrees, coach. Welcome the tactical constancy probability part. These lads, with all that 'Gossip' have a 'Heavy Cross' to bear...
https://youtu.be/5mQVljB7JGw
I know 'he isn't/was never' supposed to be 'The Guy/That Guy'. Still hoping for some infectious magic and a whole lotta captioned mentions of...
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/ImmaGonnaWeen/status/1637247304045305856
Noticed discrepancies lately between published line-ups; Apple vs TFC vs other? Which line-up announcement is best to be believed? For instance, against IMCF...
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/TorontoFC/status/1637233514796969985
In this relevant highlight, right at the start, Apple seems to get some of the player's positions even wrong...
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/TorontoFC/status/1637469878234800128
Internet/Google MLS Standings/Match Line-Up...
https://www.google.com/search?client...fpf;ln;fp;1;;;
Last edited by Mr. Inbetween; 03-22-2023 at 09:26 AM.
Dude, TV never gets lineups or formations right. Just ignore it all and watch the game.
For edification, we settled defensively into a 4-2-1-3 but offensively we played a 4-1-1-1-3, basically, with the three central players positioning between the lines, one moving up in support of the forwards (usually Kaye, as Bernie's side was spearhearding and Richie was cheating up) and one sitting back all the time, usually Servania.
I would say Apple TV people are getting the same 2 days before access that TSN used to get wherein tactics & formations are discussed.
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This weeks TV crew
Chris Wittyngham - ex Inter Miami pbp - he is mostly known for not using a euphemism to describe the area a ball on a player - said area most men would use a euphemism for
My past experience of him is he is....steady & neutral.
Danielle Slaton - ex SJE colour
Always liked Slaton - good tactical mind - explayer but we shall see if she can make the bridge from team pbp to league focused more neutral - she's been doing non SJE games before this one.
(no Brit commentator this week)
Oh, and a reminder this is the stadium with the airport out the one end.... as seen in this picture from an open source video simulator
Last edited by OgtheDim; 03-22-2023 at 12:17 PM.
I can't fathom why someone would put a stadium, an entertainment experience, next to an airport. I mean, I assumed because it's the bay area it was the only affordable land, but... yeesh. Imagine watching a match during a busy evening of flights. The roar of planes taking off would be constant, you'd think? Or is a stadium naturally loud enough to drown it out?