#AskVieira: Patrick, which one of the world class coaches you have played for taught you to take off all your offensive players and just add defenders with no shape or reason?
I thought TO did what they had to to beat us. Here is their successful passing in the 1st half:
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as expected, they didnt get anything up the middle and were forced to try to go up the wings. Unsuccessfully I might add. here is their missed passes, 1st half: (they were trying speculative long passes to no one.
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We really shut them down in the first half. Now both teams go to the locker room and make their adjustments, here is successful passing 2nd half for TO:
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How do they completely gain control of the midfield, and start abusing the right side of our defense? Not sure, but we had that game in our pocket in the first half.
Here is us in the first half:
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Looks very good to me, attacks coming from the middle and both wings, tons of possession in their half. Now lets look at the results of Patrick's tinkering: 2nd half NYC:
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No possession in their half. We allowed TO, with a full B team to do whatever they wanted. The answer was fresh attackers in the 2nd half. Tommy has not been good this year, was not good again last night, and to top it off was walking around exhausted. How the fuck do you put Lopez in for him? How do you take Maxi out, the one player who was doing anything offensively?
I agree with most of what was said here (herrera bad game, RJ bad on defense), but let me add some things I haven't heard: What was Johnson doing on goal #1? He was screened in front, but took his time moving to the side of the goal that the cross was going to. What was up with Jack? Great game 1v1, had some awesome moves with the ball, created space, then just wasted it. Every shot he took he had multiple open teammates calling for the ball.
I'm fucking pissed off at this game.