If we had there might have been an unfortunate ratio of NYC fans to Portland fans.Did you see a thermometer yesterday?
No way we open the upper deck.
If we had there might have been an unfortunate ratio of NYC fans to Portland fans.Did you see a thermometer yesterday?
No way we open the upper deck.
According to that logic, we might as well also not exist in a few years once our attendance drops to sub-20.It really is amazing how Atlanta embraces MLS so much and then we also have markets like Dallas, where a team might as well not exist.
Maybe MLS is better off folding teams like FC Dallas and give them an expansion team 3 years later.
Almiron and Martinez are fantastic players. But holy hell are unlikeable. Especially Almiron. He goes down super easy and milks it EVERY. TIME. He infuriates me. Really ruins the great part of his game.Same. Yes, they've been doing well and have been excellent off the filed too, but for some reason something about them is so hateable. Toronto last year, Seattle the year before, yes were great, but they still had likeable qualities to their teams. This ATL team for some reason just feels really hard to even be happy for winning.
Also, Powell just missed the chance to bring Portland back to 1.
Almiron and Martinez are fantastic players. But holy hell are unlikeable. Especially Almiron. He goes down super easy and milks it EVERY. TIME. He infuriates me. Really ruins the great part of his game.
According to that logic, we might as well also not exist in a few years once our attendance drops to sub-20.
Martinez is just as bad - he lunges into contact and then goes rolling. He, Almiron, and the rest of the team scream for fouls when they go down and plead/pray to the ref when they're involved in a bad take down. They got off the hook many times last night with questionable fouls that deserved cards. The amount they were protected compared to Valeri was nauseating - just wasn't even by any stretch. Would have liked to have seen Portland get the free kick right outside of the box when Valeri's feet were stepped on, but instead play went the other way ending in a free kick for Atlanta.... home cooking by the league.Almiron and Martinez are fantastic players. But holy hell are unlikeable. Especially Almiron. He goes down super easy and milks it EVERY. TIME. He infuriates me. Really ruins the great part of his game.
Powerful eyebrowsHis face is perfect for dramatics. Very animated.
Not really, I think if we make noise in the playoffs and new stadium, we should be ok.According to that logic, we might as well also not exist in a few years once our attendance drops to sub-20.
His face is perfect for dramatics. Very animated.
Powerful eyebrows
Wait, did he really do this or this is photoshop magic?
Wait, did he really do this or this is photoshop magic?
Martinez is just as bad - he lunges into contact and then goes rolling. He, Almiron, and the rest of the team scream for fouls when they go down and plead/pray to the ref when they're involved in a bad take down. They got off the hook many times last night with questionable fouls that deserved cards. The amount they were protected compared to Valeri was nauseating - just wasn't even by any stretch. Would have liked to have seen Portland get the free kick right outside of the box when Valeri's feet were stepped on, but instead play went the other way ending in a free kick for Atlanta.... home cooking by the league.
I’m gonna smile when he plays matches in 45deg rain and fullbacks crush him in the tackles. He was protected by Pro refs in MLS, but he’s a nobody when he gets to the EPL. And with no right foot, when he cuts across the box the defenses will push him high to be hit by the marauding DMid. Meet Kante and meet Matic and here’s Fernandinho.I’m going to smile when Almiron goes to Newcastle, flops like a fish rolling around and the ref and opposing players yell at him to get up.
After each team had played 6 games this year, NYCFC had a 73-59 lead on RBNY. 14 points clear. Then RBNY outdid NYCFC 62-40 over 28 games. They smoked us by 22 points over that period. Final 2-year tally 121-113.Oh and don’t forget folks. NJRB just clinched CCL for 2019 thanks to ATL winning the cup.
MLS CCL 2019 participants:
ATL
NJRB
SKC
HOU
Next year we go back to normal qualifying.
The numbers tell a bleak tale, but I'm still discounting the significance of the 10 game streak of experimentation in my forecast. Or at least trying to, for the sake of my emotional well-being.After each team had played 6 games this year, NYCFC had a 73-59 lead on RBNY. 14 points clear. Then RBNY outdid NYCFC 62-40 over 28 games. They smoked us by 22 points over that period. Final 2-year tally 121-113.
Also, here are the point totals over the final 28 games of the 7 teams I tracked for CCL purposes:
RBNY - 62
ATL - 56
SEA - 55
POR - 49
DAL - 45
CREW - 41
NYCFC - 40
People still don't think we're irrelevant in a current discussion of the MLS elite? We played ourselves into irrelevancy. We weren't even as good as the Crew after April 11. NYC had the same points as Montreal over the final 28 games, and less than DC or Philly. If the season consisted of the final 28 games NYCFC finishes 7th in the East. Out of the playoffs and behind Montreal on the first tiebreaker. Winning 5 of the first 6 salvaged 6.5 months of decidedly mediocre soccer.
Experimentation during a season is only valid if there’s a real probability of success and/or there’s nothing to lose, ie we’re gonna try something against this one opponent because we’ve not gotten it right in the past and continuing to play the same way is asking for a beatdown - that’s what Dome did against RB and it worked because RB wasn’t expecting it and it was just a small twist on the then current tactics. However, experimenting for 10 matches with no success is the same as driving a rudderless boat and expecting to work a slalom flawlessly - it’s wasteful and set up for failure, and at the end of the day didn’t advance the team or season at all.The numbers tell a bleak tale, but I'm still discounting the significance of the 10 game streak of experimentation in my forecast. Or at least trying to, for the sake of my emotional well-being.