Union Postmatch
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I do use Pirlo to give IF Villa and IF Giovinco full Chem and sub SIF Keita at kickoff.
Anyone else notice that Jack Harrison's goal celebration included a US salute?
5 years until citizenship. Just in time for the 2022 World Cup.
5 years until citizenship. Just in time for the 2022 World Cup.
I know how we settle this. Next person who sees Jack has to ask him how to say the word "lieutenant." If he says it in the obviously correct manner, then it's USA all the way!
Had the mom in town visiting for the weekend so of course I made sure to take her to the world famous Ryan's Daughter Friday night to watch the game.
I thought the first half probably should have ended 1-1. We gave Philly some good chances that they were poor with and I remembered we had a couple of good ones as well. It seemed they were marking Pirlo in the first half and he wasn't trying all that much to free himself. Second half we completely dominated and should have buried several more into the back of the net.
Agree with some others that Wallace had a somewhat poor game. I think he may need a little bit of rest, then bring him back into the starting XI at Columbus. Especially as they will have Afful at RB and we need some athleticism at LW to deal with him.
I'm not going to consider Villa's goal in my analysis of him, because that was just so ridiculous. Watching it live, I saw how high Blake had jumped and it seemed like he had the goal completely covered. I assumed the ball was going over, was so surprised to see it in the back of the net. But outside of that, I thought he had a good match (there's a but coming, don't worry). He was creative in his passing and was finding himself in some good space. But goddamn his finishing was atrocious. That wondergoal should have completed a hat trick.
No need to rehash what others have said on Ring and the CBs. They were so solid.
I thought Maxi had a poor game, and this is coming from a Maxi defender.
I understand what PV was doing with bringing on Khiry, but I hope that Camargo or JLew (once healthy) will be the ones to provide that late match outlet when needing to take pressure off later in the season.
Sean Johnson was fantastic. What a godsend.
I thought the first half probably should have ended 1-1. We gave Philly some good chances that they were poor with and I remembered we had a couple of good ones as well. It seemed they were marking Pirlo in the first half and he wasn't trying all that much to free himself. Second half we completely dominated and should have buried several more into the back of the net.
Agree with some others that Wallace had a somewhat poor game. I think he may need a little bit of rest, then bring him back into the starting XI at Columbus. Especially as they will have Afful at RB and we need some athleticism at LW to deal with him.
I'm not going to consider Villa's goal in my analysis of him, because that was just so ridiculous. Watching it live, I saw how high Blake had jumped and it seemed like he had the goal completely covered. I assumed the ball was going over, was so surprised to see it in the back of the net. But outside of that, I thought he had a good match (there's a but coming, don't worry). He was creative in his passing and was finding himself in some good space. But goddamn his finishing was atrocious. That wondergoal should have completed a hat trick.
No need to rehash what others have said on Ring and the CBs. They were so solid.
I thought Maxi had a poor game, and this is coming from a Maxi defender.
I understand what PV was doing with bringing on Khiry, but I hope that Camargo or JLew (once healthy) will be the ones to provide that late match outlet when needing to take pressure off later in the season.
Sean Johnson was fantastic. What a godsend.
I've seen a couple of comments on Pirlo being man marked in the first half and not trying all that hard to free himself. This seems like one of those Pirlo things that will strongly divide the pro/anti Pirlo camps based on the bias of the observer:
If you are anti Pirlo you see an old, slow, possibly lazy player being man marked and doing little about it. You notice spots where if he freed himself he could have relieved some pressure from our backline by taking a pass in space and starting the offense. Which as many in the anti-Pirlo camp will point to as "What he's in there to do."
If you are pro Pirlo you see him knowing he's not going to break free from a younger faster player and instead he chooses to occupy that player thus reducing the number of players available to press our backline. In the process you see subtle movement by Pirlo to drag his marker around to create pockets of space for either our defenders to carry the ball forward or for Ring/Maxi to drop into and receive a pass. The moment we have a player with the ball in that space is when Pirlo breaks the man mark because he stays close enough to force his man marker to choose between staying with him or going to stop the player with the ball in space. If the man marker leaves him to press the ball Pirlo typically moves to find space of his own and wants the pass.
At this point I still fall in the pro Pirlo group, but I can see both sides. Regardless this seems like a more interesting discussion topic than the endless he sucks at defense/he's not in there for defense argument.
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You've presented a balanced and well-reasoned argument for both positions on Pirlo that will leave neither side unhappy with what you've said. Your thoughts were clearly stated and backed with solid reasoning.
Obviously with this sort of attitude you don't belong here on the forum, of course.
Through Week 7, David Villa leads all players in the Audi Player Index. Chanot is 7th.
This reminds me of another thing that I love about our CBs, that I meant to mention earlier.
We've seen the ability from both Callens and Chanot to make solid passes, but one thing that has stood out to me, is both of them have the ability to take the ball to at or even past the midfield line when not challenged.
I think in the last match it was Chanot that made one of these runs, as he held the ball and was not challenged and not presented with any solid pass opportunities. Both him and Callens have the pace, and calmness on the ball to get upfield and create other options in the attack.
Clearly the reason we won this week was the return of our most important member of the team, Danny Laroche. Without our kitman last week we got destroyed. He comes back from his Equipment Managers meeting and NYCFC get a shutout and a win. Without him against DC, we get embarrassed. He's the one keeping Vieira sane and allows Villa to be fully at peace for the full 90 after squirting the water bottle on him as he has every game beforehand. Boom.
A video from the bathroom? Are we hooligans?
That makes sense. Which tells me he is a luxury in this league. It's great that he drags a defender away. But we don't have the other players to complement him doing that. Might as well play up the M-1 again then.
Well this answers the question why Shelton didn't do much vs. Union as he was subbed on.
http://www.nycfc.com/post/2017/04/17/shelton-miss-orlando-clash
Shelton will miss 4-6 with an hamstring injury. The exact medical diagnosis is undisclosed.
This would explain Khiry's snapchat story four hours ago of what we now know is a doctor's table.
http://www.nycfc.com/post/2017/04/17/shelton-miss-orlando-clash
Shelton will miss 4-6 with an hamstring injury. The exact medical diagnosis is undisclosed.
This would explain Khiry's snapchat story four hours ago of what we now know is a doctor's table.
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