Thankfully Angelino might be one of the only players in the league that could possibly beat Oduro in a foot race.
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Thankfully Angelino might be one of the only players in the league that could possibly beat Oduro in a foot race.
Always been 2pm as far as I know. Were you ever traveling in the central time zone?
Yes I was... St Louis. Just got back last night. Nice catch! My NYCFC app must have been showing local time. See you all there!!!
If this is how it plays out, I'm going to have a heart attack in my early 20s. And you're paying for my medical bills.
They can't all be wrong. Saghini and Baer also picked Villa as their fantasy player of the week.
Lineup in the second half id like to see (4-3-2-1):
Iraola, mena, facey, angelino
Mix, pirlo, calle
Lampard, poku
Villa
Im ready!!
Ill take my chances with that lineup against anybody in MLS.
Ehh I'd probably move mix up a line to the left of Lampard and play a 5-2-3-1 but I like a more aggressive style.
But in all reality it does not matter because everyone who is not the center backs or David villa tend to float a lot. Even then you will occasionally see villa back near our third if shit is going down.
Playing with 12 is really aggressive. Still not sure if MLS will allow it.
Its like canadian football...err soccer
like kreis said almost every team has that one player who can punish you, and for montreal that is piatti. jacobson has to mark the shit out of him. You cut him off and you severely limit their chances of scoring. Oduro is a streaky player who relies heavily on speed, but our center backs facey and mena are pretty quick compared to other center backs and I can see them containing him pretty well.
I see them going with the same lineup they had in their previous match.
-------------------Oduro-----------------
-Duka----------------------------Romero
-------------------Piatti----------------
-------Mallace---------------Donadel
Toia---------------------------------Oyongo
----------Ciman----------Cabrera----------
-----------------Bush---------------
Their strongest area is definitely their defense, but if anyone can unlock them it is nycfc.
-----------------Villa---------------------
--Calle----------Mix---------------Poku-
---------Jacobson------Pirlo------------
Angelino------------------------------Iraola
-----------Mena---------Facey-----------
------------------Saunders-------------------
bench- johanson, hernandez, brovsky, mcnamara, lampard, ballouchy, mullins
on paper we surly are the stronger side hopefully we kick some french canadian ass again tomorrow.
I see them going with the same lineup they had in their previous match.
-------------------Oduro-----------------
-Duka----------------------------Romero
-------------------Piatti----------------
-------Mallace---------------Donadel
Toia---------------------------------Oyongo
----------Ciman----------Cabrera----------
-----------------Bush---------------
Their strongest area is definitely their defense, but if anyone can unlock them it is nycfc.
-----------------Villa---------------------
--Calle----------Mix---------------Poku-
---------Jacobson------Pirlo------------
Angelino------------------------------Iraola
-----------Mena---------Facey-----------
------------------Saunders-------------------
bench- johanson, hernandez, brovsky, mcnamara, lampard, ballouchy, mullins
on paper we surly are the stronger side hopefully we kick some french canadian ass again tomorrow.
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Not sure about jacobson but lets see. We have to defend better so I insist on the 4-3-2-1. We are talented upfront and will hve scoring opportunities. Lets shut some teams down and get the backs clicking. We have to play smart!
What's nice about Mix is that, even though he truly isn't a defensive mid, he can slide into that role and be effective. We've seen his defense this season and with the USMNT, and for the last 20-25mins of a game, I'm sure he'd do fine. I think that's one way Kreis will mitigate some of Pirlo's fitness/comfortability the next few weeks by bringing on Mac/Poku/Shelton/Ballouchy/Grabavoy for an all-out 15-25mins and slide Mix back deeper.
Darn you
Midas Mulligan, now you've got me adding up everyone's formation numbers to make sure they come out to 10!
Sorry. It's one of those things I think my brain does without me consciously thinking about it. It only sets off alarms if something seems off. The bells were chiming like crazy so I re-read and consciously did the math. Yep. TOO MANY!Darn you
So the "TOO MANY" is me being self-indulgent. One Christmas, my brothers and I had to get out of the folks' house, so we drove two hours to the casino to get drunk and gamble in honor of the birth of our Lord and Savior. There was this real bitch blackjack dealer who happened to be Vietnamese (large Viet. population on the coast). She was not funny, nor charming and was clearly herself an immigrant (eta: is first gen the right term?). She would rip those cards off that deck when you took a hit and invariably busted, and every damn time she would say in a very English-isn't-my-first language-but-I'm-also-fucking-with-you, taunting kind of way, "TOO MANY!". She obviously didn't quite understand the dynamic of her role and that she would make more if we won rather than lost, as she wasn't going to get a cut, but not to be deterred, we kept drinking and losing money and started joining her in saying it with every bust hand she dealt.
The night ended with us getting a shitty comped buffet at 4 in morning for which we effectively paid $500 per person. Since then, in my head anyway, I can only read or write the phrase "TOO MANY" in her voice.
As yet another side note, one of the most interesting forms of English, broken as it may be, that I've ever come across is spoken by many of first generation Vietnamese immigrants down there. Since my untrained ears don't do very well distinguishing among the accents of Asian languages, the best way I can describe it is imagine the last time you ordered take out (like before Seamless last time) across a difficult language barrier. Then imagine that the lady on the phone had learned English by listening to Jeff Foxworthy clips, everything from accent and enunciation to phrasing and terminology. When you get that in your mind, you'll get it.
I love it when I hear it, as it's so unexpected. It reminds me what a wonderfully eclectic cultural soup we have in the USA, even if how it's made is an ever-evolving recipe. And just as delightful to me are little reminders, such as this unusual and pocketed dialect, of how local color really exists and geography matters, regardless of what the "national", i.e., bi-coastal, media tells you.
Yeah, so now this is in a matchday thread. Sorry, not sorry. I said I was indulging myself.
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Anyone want a ticket to the game today. Section 103 row 4. Wife doesn't want to go.
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