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The MLS giveth and the MLS taketh away. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see us demolish Chicago for some reason.
White is the 4th Center Back.
Hopefully, Chanot plays. After all, he went 90' on Wednesday with the same issue (presumably).
Hopefully, Chanot plays. After all, he went 90' on Wednesday with the same issue (presumably).
We're going to get destroyed. Nobody will be able to keep up with Accam's pace. We're going to be living and dying on the offside calls tomorrow.
Signs all point to NYCFC getting manhandled (heat, injuries, matchups...) which means in MLS that they win like 4-1 or something.
We can only hope.
We can only hope.
Did my own research
Homegrown Player James Sands is also out of contention to play as he picked up an R ASIS apophysitis injury in training and will be treated by medical staff for the next five weeks.
Homegrown Player James Sands is also out of contention to play as he picked up an R ASIS apophysitis injury in training and will be treated by medical staff for the next five weeks.
Nothing he's done on D has made it seem plausible but when we signed Sweat they said he could play both LB and CB. I don't want to see if but I bet the CB depth chart is:
Chanot
Callens
Brillant
White
Sweat
Also I doubt they'd be willing to take him out of the midfield but a long shot would be Herrera at CB, I wouldn't be surprised if he's our 3rd best CB.
Accam has never really done much to us for some reason. His only goals are the Meara fuck-up in Chicago the first season and from the spot in the opener last year. Granted he has a better midfield this year, we've historically been able to keep him contained.
It's already 82 degrees. Fuck.
How nice that we have two games in four days, both played in swamp ass heat conditions (including the second one in the middle of the day, not at night) and the team that we play second didn't have a midweek game?
Thanks, schedule and weather for doing us a solid here. Ugh.
How nice that we have two games in four days, both played in swamp ass heat conditions (including the second one in the middle of the day, not at night) and the team that we play second didn't have a midweek game?
Thanks, schedule and weather for doing us a solid here. Ugh.
That'll be good for us, but it's still gonna be a bitch for the players. Just got back from my run and was ready for an IV. PV better get the subs right today because there will be a lot of heavy legs.
Supposed to be every 30min if the heat index is above 90 (I think that's the number). I'd swear Wednesday night it was above that and they got zilch.
Looked it up: Wet bulb heat index of 32deg Celsius which equals 89.6 F
It's based on a reading of temperature and humidity, wind, cloud cover and other factors. It's called Wet Bulb Globe Temperature. So it's not just the simple heat and humidity readings. So it may be hotter in one game and not get called, while a slightly cooler day it could be called based on the other factors.
Pretty much a collateral issue, but I think there are two plausible reasons why we don't talk about this as much: (1) Early goals suck, but we generally manage to level on them and late goals are fresher on our minds so by the end of the match we're not focused on the early goal quite as much in discussion; (2) Seems like the early goals are just harder to talk about. We have an explicable problem with late goals—PV's sub game—but what do you say about early goals? The players need to be "tougher mentally"? That's an essentially insubstantial statement—could mean anything or nothing at all. I guess we can analyze each goal to see if there's a root problem (not marking the back post?); off the top of my head I'm not sure what, if anything, that would actually be.
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