Chicago postmatch

[LostAnvil]

On the BTS video, at the 18:00 mark Villa walks through the dugout on the way to the clubhouse, and at the top of the stairs, Jon Patricof is there to greet him and gives him a big hug. I really like that bit, showing how much this meant to the entire organization.

I wish someone would look at me like Patricof looks at Villa

 

[LionNYC]

Pains me to write this but if would have beaten TFC and everything else from the weekend stood we would have been first in the East right now.

NYCFC 39 Points, 12-5-3, 14 GD 21 GP
Toronto 39 Points, 11-4-6, 14 GD 21 GP
Chicago 38 Points, 11-4-5-, 17 GD 20 GP

So we would be ahead on the first tiebreaker, wins.

 

[Ulrich]

Pains me to write this but if would have beaten TFC and everything else from the weekend stood we would have been first in the East right now.

NYCFC 39 Points, 12-5-3, 14 GD 21 GP
Toronto 39 Points, 11-4-6, 14 GD 21 GP
Chicago 38 Points, 11-4-5-, 17 GD 20 GP

So we would be ahead on the first tiebreaker, wins.

It is a painful pill to swallow, but getting to play them again this weekend means we can be in first place after that game provided Chicago loses to SKC (a real possibility but tougher without Dwyer)

 

[SoupInNYC]

It is a painful pill to swallow, but getting to play them again this weekend means we can be in first place after that game provided Chicago loses to SKC (a real possibility but tougher without Dwyer)

SKC are at home where they are 6-0-4. Chicago is 2-4-4 on the road. I'd be surprised if Chicago got a win out of this trip. If we get a win and Chicago draws, we'll still be ahead of them on the table (though they'd have a game in hand still).

I know we just beat Chicago short-handed, but I won't get close to writing them off based on that. They do probably get Dax back for this one as I guess he doesn't play too many minutes in the Gold Cup Final.

 

[Joseph Bianco]

It sucks after the way things played out but I'm pretty sure before we played those 2 games everyone would have been more than happy to take 4 points from last week

 

[Falastur]

Falastur , as our resident PL expert, are there any other matches you can think of that were such monumental wins in the face of such long odds? PL games don't have the weather conditions that compare to the heat drain on the body from Saturday's Sauna, but surely teams have won after being down for 80min coupled with horrendous officiating, no? Or was this the gutsiest performance you've watched?

There aren't many I can think of, to be sure. Most of the games that I can think of re: long odds are ones where the team down a man has gone bus-parking defensive and won through a massive rearguard performance. Certainly I am struggling to think of many games where a team has gone down a man and then gone on the attack and taken the win, though I will say that there is an axiom that losing a man can paradoxically make teams harder to beat.

That said it would be remiss of me not to mention a certain FA Cup match...

 

[Midas Mulligan]

There aren't many I can think of, to be sure. Most of the games that I can think of re: long odds are ones where the team down a man has gone bus-parking defensive and won through a massive rearguard performance. Certainly I am struggling to think of many games where a team has gone down a man and then gone on the attack and taken the win, though I will say that there is an axiom that losing a man can paradoxically make teams harder to beat.

That said it would be remiss of me not to mention a certain FA Cup match...

Auto-rep anything embarrassing to that club.

 

[Gotham Gator]

http://www.espnfc.com/blog/five-asi...ial-showing-vs-chicago-tops-audi-player-index

 

[Jack]

Surprised Jack wasn't there today.

First absence of the year and will miss Derby on 08/06 too . Double vaca is screwing my NYCFC schedule. See you 08/20 & 09/01 for USMNT.