Away - 3/24 New England

[Dansy]

Ring might be my favorite player I have ever watched, the way he anticipates EVERYTHING is astounding. He will definitely be missed this next game!

Now it's obvious what we lose in Ring, but I believe the #1 thing lose aside from his DEF knowledge/work-rate are those threaded passes from him to the front 3. I will be really interested to see if Chanot or Ofori can take over that role to keep our offensive transition as fast as it has been.

 

[dannd23]

Offensively I don't think we will see much falloff with Ofori it is defensively I am worried about. Excited to see what he can do in a full sample size, hopefully.

 

[Gotham Gator]

Lee Nguyen still hasn't seen the field for New England this year. Wonder if things change Saturday. He is probably their best player.

 

[adam]

Lee Nguyen still hasn't seen the field for New England this year. Wonder if things change Saturday. He is probably their best player.

Isn’t he in a contract dispute? And there were rumors he may end up in Chicago?

 

[EganSoccerWords]

Here's my setup. I don't think Berget makes the 18.

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Bench:
Stuver, Ibeagha, Saad, TMac, Awuha, Lewis, Sands

Obligatory Ofori on the left side post.

I think it would be interesting to see how PV deploys Herrera and Ofori. No clue really what type of player Ofori is? Does he just take rings spot in the single pivot?

 

[Christopher Jee]

Obligatory Ofori on the left side post.

I think it would be interesting to see how PV deploys Herrera and Ofori. No clue really what type of player Ofori is? Does he just take rings spot in the single pivot?

So hard to tell. From memory an AIK fan came on and had something to say about him, but I couldn't find the post or the username. Highlights make him look more like a deep lying playmaker than a destroyer, but that's YT highlights for ya. Based on the sub appearance against LAG, I didn't see Ring-like qualities.

 

[Kjbert]

Ofori was being recruited last year as more of an "8" than a "6".

I wonder if there is some structural change in how we play going forward in this game. We're also without Wallace wide left. I would not be surprised to see Ofori and Herrera both play a little deeper than we would like with MCNAMARA on the left.

 

[Christopher Jee]

Ofori was being recruited last year as more of an "8" than a "6".

I don't remember this coming up. Is this another one of those quasi-insider K Kjbert insights (that I ask about and never get a response to)?

 

[ZYanksRule]

Ofori was being recruited last year as more of an "8" than a "6".

I wonder if there is some structural change in how we play going forward in this game. We're also without Wallace wide left. I would not be surprised to see Ofori and Herrera both play a little deeper than we would like with MCNAMARA on the left.

I could see the following, which looks pretty similar to how we normally play:

Tajouri-Villa-Medina
--------Moralez-------
----Ofori-Herrera-----
Sweat-Callens-Chanot-SAS

 

[Midas Mulligan]

Why TMac instead of Berget? Injury?

Give me a sick unknown over Ucubed.

 

[Midas Mulligan]

are those threaded passes from him to the front 3

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

 

[Midas Mulligan]

I don't remember this coming up. Is this another one of those quasi-insider K Kjbert insights (that I ask about and never get a response to)?

Jaaaassssses

 

[SoupInNYC]

I wonder if there is some structural change in how we play going forward in this game. We're also without Wallace wide left. I would not be surprised to see Ofori and Herrera both play a little deeper than we would like with MCNAMARA on the left.

 

[EganSoccerWords]

No reason why tmac would start over tajouri.

 

[Ulrich]

No reason why tmac would start over tajouri.

No reason why TMac should start over anybody.

 

[dannd23]

No reason why TMac should start over anybody.

No reason TMac should sub in over anybody, either

 

[Christopher Jee]

No reason TMac should sub in over anybody, either

Maybe US Open Cup.

 

[dannd23]

Maybe US Open Cup.

Good point. But for regular season, if his appearances for the year are under 10, that means we had a very good season.

 

[Kjbert]

No reason why tmac would start over tajouri.

Of course not. But MCNAMARA doesn't go forward like our other options and has experience playing a defensive shift wide of the Striker. I'm not advocating for it, just reminding folks about our history.

The total football move would be to play Tajouri. Revs stink. PV just has a history with this shit.

 

[Kjbert]

I don't remember this coming up. Is this another one of those quasi-insider K Kjbert insights (that I ask about and never get a response to)?

Maybe.

#NotAnInsider