Columbus Crew vs. New York City FC
Saturday, August 6 7:30 PM PM ET
Lower.com Field
YES Network
Saturday, August 6 7:30 PM PM ET
Lower.com Field
YES Network
Montreal was the hardest of our 3-game Away stretch. I'm not sure which is the easiest. Columbus is better than Miami, but Miami is better at home, to the point where I think they are confident and just expect to win there. So on top of always focusing on the next game, I think this has to be where we get a necessary win.
I went into the 3 games thinking 3 points or lower is terrible, 4 is borderline acceptable, 5 is good, and 6 or more represents varying degrees of solid-excellent.
We weren't horrible, just frustrating. There were stretches where we actually played really well, especially early in the match. But after the first 10 minutes or so we just kind of lost it and spent the rest of the night scrambling. Missing some 'x-factor' stuff. Something intangible.Well glad I didn't blow off movie night with my non sports fan friends to watch this. I DVRed it but honestly will probably erase without watching. Just ugghh hopefully better next week.
Reports from Blue Balls on Twitter are a sprained MCL. So, should be alright. I've had that same injury myself and actually got it in a very similar way, someone rolling up on my leg. Came back from it fairly quickly without any problems, but it did take about 3-4 weeks (my strain was classified as mild).HUGE fingers crossed Callens is ok.
Reports from Blue Balls on Twitter are a sprained MCL. So, should be alright. I've had that same injury myself and actually got it in a very similar way, someone rolling up on my leg. Came back from it fairly quickly without any problems, but it did take about 3-4 weeks (my strain was classified as mild).
I'm sure they'll be okay. They're both talented, experienced pros. And from the looks of Tinnerholm tonight he's not far from full match fitness himself, which will help a lot.looks like martins and chanot are gonna have to learn communication skills very quickly.
Ditto. This one was more frustrating than anything else. One of those games we just couldn't grab by the throat. But I never felt we weren't the better team and we're not in a materially worse position now than we were going in.All in all, we played well and just lost to Zelarayan and Cucho. I can deal with that. Also got a lot of really good results from the teams around us in the East. We still have a game in hand and hold the tiebreaker over Philly.
I mostly agree with your post, but I have to say that I think NYCFC fans have a distorted view of Zelayaran. We basically remember his 2020 playoff run, and then all the goals he scores against us. The 2020 playoffs were almost certainly his best 4 games in MLS, and in 2021-22 he has scored 25% of his goals (5/20) against us. In 50 games in 2021-22 when he did not play NYCFC he scored 15 goals. It's not nothing but he doesn't really tear it up either, especially compared to the 5 goals in 5 games against us. So yeah, Zelayaran always torches us, but everyone? He's streaky.We got torched by Zelarayan and Cucho -- those guys torch everyone, and Zelarayan always torches us.
Agreed and makes it hard for me to decide on a take for this game. We were lucky to score 2. We were a bit unlucky not to have scored more. The 3 conceded was, in part, reverting to the mean because - as we've discussed - every shutout means you outperformed your xGA by definition. We were due for a defensive performance like this and of course it happened in Columbus (see below). And just after KevinJRogers and I discussed how some teams just decide to grab shots against us where they can regardless of quality, the Crew did that and, unlike most of our opponents, made them.We got lucky on 2 goals and Room kept the rest out. That's just how it goes sometimes.
It took 2-3 years for Taty to pan out into a Best XI player. Maybe that's the case with Talles, GP, Santi, etc.