Gotta let Dome know what he's getting himself into.You know, I was quite very pleased to hear the Chicken Bucket chant again- it's been a while since I've heard it
Toronto - Postmatch
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As much as it pains me to quote Doyle here, I agree with him that Bradley’s “Sunday jaunt” was part of the reason that Maxi could make that pass. You think Tyler Adams is jogging back like that?
What Doyle isn’t giving credit for is that Maxi&Co. made Toronto run themselves ragged all match chasing the ball being passed around, and it was in the heat. Toronto litterally was gassed from chasing. Even Tyler Adams would have lost the spring in his step running around all game.
As far as I've seen Doyle missed the tactical novelty of this game and wrote a lot of Alpharetta Dad noise about wanting it more or whatever.
Watch that clip again. The problem isn't that Bradley or Hagglund is lazy, it's that they both get caught toggling between NYCFC players because nobody knows how their assignments work in transition. Maxi creates space by pushing up against the CBs and then dropping to the ball, and Berget takes advantage of that space before Bradley and Hagglund can complete the handoff. Good use of a two-striker system. Toronto hadn't trained for this look.
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You mean a Plan B? What a novel concept that is......
Yeah, I gotta say, Doyle roasted that guy blaming Hagglund, but I thought Hagglund was as bad of a defender as I’ve seen in YS this year.
He was indecisive, unathletic, slow and unskilled.
Basically, he’s become Lord Kwame.
I have no stats to back this up - just my recollection. It seems as if, historically, when we've gone 4-2-4 when chasing a goal (Really more like 2-4-4), we dominate. Some of that may be the other team parking the bus. Some of that may be short timeframe we actually play that formation. But that's my recollection
Yeah I think you're right that it's a gamestate thing: as far as I know we've only ever brought on a fourth forward when the other team was sitting back to protect a lead. I was shocked to see Domè being that aggressive from the whistle.
Take out the skill of the individual players variable, and it’s sorta like a game of chicken to see who blinks first with the formation. Why wait to go 4 at the front only when the other team is sitting back? Go with a proverbial 424/244 from the start against a 352 and the other team litterally cannot mark up without changing their entire set of tactics, and this is where the skill variable comes in.... against just about any forward combination (2 forwards, not 3) in the league, I’d take Callens/Ibeagha or Callens/Chanot to mark them out of the game save for fluky counterattacks, and I’d take our front 4 to easily toy with a back three where they’d then have to drop the CDM and wingbacks to contain. Make them blink first, make them confused regarding assignments, and keep them in the back foot.
You need Sergio Busquets-level ball retention to keep them only as "flukey" if you line up that way.
Nonetheless, I'm all for balls out attack from kick off.
I am glad we got Toronto when we did. I have a feeling they're gonna string together a nice run in the second half once they are all healthy and solidify the 4th or 5th spot.
We get them again so IDK.... I think they’re more concerned with having to play us again.
I always wondered, considering it's MLS, most of the managers suck and many of the players blow, why some team didn't try just that? Drop their wang from the kickoff and just go all out. 2-4-4. We'll have 70% of the possession. Our CBs play a deep line to contain the counter.
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