Wrong forum, but Pulisic isn't even close to clinical nor finisher.
I love him. But his goal instincts could use some work .could also use gtfo bvb .
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I love him. But his goal instincts could use some work .could also use gtfo bvb .
Tbf, if you ever saw Bobby play, I'm not sure he knew what tactics were then either .
You don’t find that sort of graphic obfuscating to the point that it tells you little to nothing regarding what happened?
Actually watching Croatia, I saw fullbacks carrying the ball forward a lot and keeping chalk on their boots to be passing options when the midfielders had it in the attacking third.
You wouldn’t be able to tell that here. This makes it look like they received the ball in safe positions and played it back and forth in the midfield.
I think it’s decent to show who passed the ball to whom, but it just doesn’t scream narrative basis to me.
Which is what it purports to do. But it's interesting to think about how we'll visualize off-ball positioning when we eventually get the tracking data to do it. How would we show the fullback movement you're talking about at a helpful level of abstraction?
Maybe you need two dots for each player, receive and distribute position. And you use the same line thickness (different colors) among the respective players’ dots to show dribbles.
Pls crdt if you want to build
. I’d build it, but I don’t have access to the raw data.ETA: we actually should build this and patent it or something.
The stupid average position and passing line thickness infuriates me with its misleading representations. (Sorry for adding after your rep)
That was a championship-caliber performance last night, and this is a championship-caliber team.
I'm not saying we're going to win the title because there are other championship-caliber teams in MLS this season, but we are really good.
Our home form this season is absolutely insane -- hell, for the last two years it's been incredible. YES had a stat the other day that we have two home losses since June of 2016, with something like a +50 goal differential. I mean, that's just insane.
We're seeing Medina blossom before our eyes the last couple weeks, and Lewis is becoming someone who it's going to be hard to keep him out of the lineup. Moralez is a monster this season, Callens is immense, and Sean Johnson is having the best season of his career.
Dome is also a hell of a coach, and is making me ask one question:
Patrick who?
I'm not saying we're going to win the title because there are other championship-caliber teams in MLS this season, but we are really good.
Our home form this season is absolutely insane -- hell, for the last two years it's been incredible. YES had a stat the other day that we have two home losses since June of 2016, with something like a +50 goal differential. I mean, that's just insane.
We're seeing Medina blossom before our eyes the last couple weeks, and Lewis is becoming someone who it's going to be hard to keep him out of the lineup. Moralez is a monster this season, Callens is immense, and Sean Johnson is having the best season of his career.
Dome is also a hell of a coach, and is making me ask one question:
Patrick who?
NYC lost to RSL on June 2, 2016. Since then the record is 27-2-7. 88 out of a possible 108 points. Goal differential of +51. Only losses were to Orlando last April and Portland in September.
2 of those 7 draws were played in Connecticut or Citi Field.
Even crazier is how sudden and extreme the switch was. Before this run started, in 2016 the team was 1-3-5 at home. The schedule was front-loaded with home games, and they dropped points like crazy. After the RSL game the PPG was 1.31 overall, and 45 projected points at season end. Lots of us thought they would not make the playoffs. Then they finished 7-0-1 at home, and finished with 54 points and 1.59 PG.
The combined 2015 Home record plus 2016 through RSL was 7-10-9 1.15 PPG and -7 GD. Then it switched to the record I noted above.
I remember very vividly all the articles coming out how yankee stadium was holding back nycfc and was making it impossible for them to gain any points... but that's about when the switch was made and we starting playing to YS's advantages instead of succumbing to them
Saturday night’s game was unusual. We started terribly and then slowly found the game, asserted ourselves and eventually won.
At the beginning, I was worried we would be boatraced. We couldn’t maintain possession and were slow to close down and eliminate options. Columbus had 7 shots in the first 20 minutes, and many of those were good chances. We had nothing positive. I was worried that we were just too tired to hold our own against a quality team like this one.
For the rest of the half, we settled down and began to even out the game. In the second half, we became more assertive and controlled stretches of play. Eventually, we got the first goal, which opened things up more and we won.
At the beginning, I was worried we would be boatraced. We couldn’t maintain possession and were slow to close down and eliminate options. Columbus had 7 shots in the first 20 minutes, and many of those were good chances. We had nothing positive. I was worried that we were just too tired to hold our own against a quality team like this one.
For the rest of the half, we settled down and began to even out the game. In the second half, we became more assertive and controlled stretches of play. Eventually, we got the first goal, which opened things up more and we won.
I love how all the players recognize Haak as Cavani, and at the end all the players looked so genuinely happy. 3 games 3 wins, and everyone is really excited! You can see the confidence in the players. This gives me so much hope.
