Orlando Postmatch
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100% comfortable saying you were not the biggest idiot in this scenario.
Jesus. Look at the stats. How do we lose? Joe Bendick won this game, Larin just scored the goals.
Sometimes managers play politics instead of focus on winning games. Benching Pirlo is a very bold move that is mostly politics, he should be benched, but the team still makes bank on his jersey sales so PV doesn't have the gravitas to bench him.
That's what I'm hoping anyway,
I'm not sure why one would hope that. It's a bad choice either way: (A) PV is a fool, or (2), PV is not in charge of his own lineup.
Are you kidding me?? For most people in NYC English IS their second language!! He should feel right at home! And I'm only half kidding......
That was a shitty game:
The ref sucked. Seriously, he called the game like he was bought. That reversal of the throw in was ridiculous since he was across the field and the asst Ref was right there. The disparity of cards. The number of calls that got a livid reaction from the crowd. The two hand balls in the box. Villa getting a phantom card. The number of dives Orlando took and drew a whistle. Just wasn't even close to being a fairly called game.
Pirlo was a non-factor and doesn't make a case for being out there. His distribution was no better than what the team was doing when he wasn't in. His defense was worse - Hererra won a ton of balls and has the height/mass to win aerial 50/50 challenges.
TMac is just not physically competent enough to be out there. Too slow to close down with the press, too slow tracking back, vertically challenged, and isn't able to worry the RB enough to keep him pinned back. In a professional league, being a nice guy with a high game IQ shouldn't be enough to get to the top of the pecking order.
The good:
Jack Harrison. He was playing like a man possessed. If only that rocket would've landed.... gave them fits every time he had the ball and was easily our most dangerous attacker.
Maxi looked really good today. He looked like the real DP compared to Pirlo. His free kick to Villa was so perfectly placed, and he was unlucky with his diving header and and that one shot.
Camargo & Herrera were impact subs & should both be starting and Stertzer served a purpose getting Pirlo off the field.
The ref sucked. Seriously, he called the game like he was bought. That reversal of the throw in was ridiculous since he was across the field and the asst Ref was right there. The disparity of cards. The number of calls that got a livid reaction from the crowd. The two hand balls in the box. Villa getting a phantom card. The number of dives Orlando took and drew a whistle. Just wasn't even close to being a fairly called game.
Pirlo was a non-factor and doesn't make a case for being out there. His distribution was no better than what the team was doing when he wasn't in. His defense was worse - Hererra won a ton of balls and has the height/mass to win aerial 50/50 challenges.
TMac is just not physically competent enough to be out there. Too slow to close down with the press, too slow tracking back, vertically challenged, and isn't able to worry the RB enough to keep him pinned back. In a professional league, being a nice guy with a high game IQ shouldn't be enough to get to the top of the pecking order.
The good:
Jack Harrison. He was playing like a man possessed. If only that rocket would've landed.... gave them fits every time he had the ball and was easily our most dangerous attacker.
Maxi looked really good today. He looked like the real DP compared to Pirlo. His free kick to Villa was so perfectly placed, and he was unlucky with his diving header and and that one shot.
Camargo & Herrera were impact subs & should both be starting and Stertzer served a purpose getting Pirlo off the field.
It is as if NYCFC is cursed against this effing team. Can somebody please start ringing scouts to buy Larin and send him to Europe in the summer window?
that's meaningfully different from the fool option? And regardless, a manager who's competent but not in charge of the team is not IMO any better. But we're arguing at the margins.
Paul it was great to meet you too! Also fun to meet
CatNYC
mgarbowski
Midas Mulligan Goodfella!! I really like the idea of trying to get a major forum meet planned when
NYCFC_Dan is at a match!!
With any of those three, unfortunately the only solution to the problem is a long term injury to the player in question. I don't wish an injury on anybody, but I want my team to win by correctly using the available talent and sometimes somebody is/has to be the fall guy.
Maxi and Harrison were both excellent. Wallace is wasted at LB. I thought TMac and Pirlo both had decent games but agree that having them both on at once sacrifices too much athleticism. It's one or the other - or maybe neither. I've been a Pirlo defender and think he was good today, but at the same time I don't think there's any denying we looked better after he came off.
Piling on the pressure and chasing the game after a after a lackluster first half felt like 2015 all over again. Bendik was huge for Orlando. I admire Larin but also hate him - I felt he was working the ref all game and the forearm on Wallace's neck was bullshit. On the one hand, no ref in this or probably any league will ever call that so Wallace has to be better - on the other hand its tough to take after watching him fall all over the place.
Piling on the pressure and chasing the game after a after a lackluster first half felt like 2015 all over again. Bendik was huge for Orlando. I admire Larin but also hate him - I felt he was working the ref all game and the forearm on Wallace's neck was bullshit. On the one hand, no ref in this or probably any league will ever call that so Wallace has to be better - on the other hand its tough to take after watching him fall all over the place.
So nice meeting you as well! Definitely must do it again. Had a great time!Paul it was great to meet you too! Also fun to meet
Maxi played that ball, didn't he?
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