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  1. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 16 - Toronto (Home - YS)

    Game officials in all sports are inherently in a weak bargaining union position. I'm not aware of any strike or walkout by sports officials that was honored by players or fans. Players have too much to lose. Fans will attend and watch as long as the games count. Baseball umpires have fared...
  2. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 23 - Cincinnati (Away)

    I remember when this used to happen all the time. Then I remember when MLS changed things so teams had a choice between playing extra DGWs or playing through FIFA breaks and NYCFC always chose to avoid playing in breaks. Then they threw that away for Leagues Cup so now teams have multiple DGS...
  3. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 16 - Toronto (Home - YS)

    There were also moderate delays when Martins took a ball to the head, and when Bakrar was called offsides (or something), and about 90 seconds when Bakrar was elbowed in the head (and no foul was called). With all that I predicted 8.
  4. mgarbowski

    Ronny Deila Named NYCFC Head Coach / Deila Joins Standard Liège

    I get that it is a results business, expectations (esp. for big clubs in small to medium leagues) and all that. I'm also not all that sorry for Ronny. World soccer is an ongoing demonstration of the Peter Principle in action for both players and coaches and if anything I find it amusing when yet...
  5. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 23 - Cincinnati (Away)

    Club instagram says Ilenic was called.
  6. mgarbowski

    NYCFC Social Media Thread

    Another one. Still tagging @nycfc and linking to nycfc.com domain
  7. mgarbowski

    Ronny Deila Named NYCFC Head Coach / Deila Joins Standard Liège

    Club Brugge also led the league in both Goal Differential and xGoal Differential. Yet they lost more games than the three teams who finished ahead of them. Every loss was by one goal. If you think luck has minimal effect in one goal soccer results and rather that the coach has a significant...
  8. mgarbowski

    Ronny Deila Named NYCFC Head Coach / Deila Joins Standard Liège

    Lol they finished the season in 4th Place and are still alive in Europa League and they sacked him.
  9. mgarbowski

    NYCFC Social Media Thread

    adam?
  10. mgarbowski

    General MLS Discussion

    Last year on the MLS Gamecenter there was a graph that showed xG as a graph with time on the x axis and xG on the y. It was easy to track the xG for each shot and see when it went up a little or lot. I'm not seeing it this year. Am I obtuse or is it gone?
  11. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 16 - Toronto (Home - YS)

    Easily the most complete 90 minute performance this brief season and better than all but a handful last season. I think we might have dominated Portland over 30-40 minutes last week more than we did any stretch yesterday, but this was a more consistent beginning to end effort. The players are...
  12. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 16 - Toronto (Home - YS)

    The elbow thrown in the Montreal Chicago game was so subtle nobody saw it. Only the 2 players involved had any idea. Fans didn't see it. Announcers were clueless. VAR intervened and changed the game completely. Last week's conspiracy was the league refused to show replays. This week we saw...
  13. mgarbowski

    NYCFC Social Media Thread

    When NYCFC first made the "New York City FC" rebrand, they changed their Twitter/X name but not their handle. That changed recently. As a result, 10 years of tweets tagging @NYCFC are now tagging a dead end. Also, Fan Services is not only still under @NYCFCHelp, but their profile tags @NYCFC...
  14. mgarbowski

    Nick Cushing Named Interim Head Coach (July '22) / Head Coach (November '22)

    I think this brief clip might be very telling. While maybe Nick is just speaking self-interestedly, I think he's talking the company line. We have a very young team. His phrase is it's going to take a lot of hard work to become a mature winning team. What I hear is it is going to take time. I...
  15. mgarbowski

    On This Day in NYCFC History

    On this day in 2018 Ismael Tajouri-Shradi scored his first goal in his first start with NYCFC, and the team completed it's first and so far only 3-0-0 start with a 2-0 victory over Orlando at Yankee Stadium.
  16. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 16 - Toronto (Home - YS)

    I don't know why but I laughed.
  17. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 16 - Toronto (Home - YS)

    There should be plenty of available space in the official garages with no need to pre-order. You might want to look on Spot Hero, Park Whiz, or a similar service for options within a few blocks of the stadium that will generally cost much less.
  18. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 16 - Toronto (Home - YS)

    They have yet to concede a goal. OTOH their keeper is out, and I hear he's pretty good. They have only scored twice, which is exactly what their xG says they deserve. Return of the Elbow Back!
  19. mgarbowski

    On This Day in NYCFC History

    On this day in 2022 NYCFC had a ridiculous late collapse against Comunicaciones and barely escaped. In minute 69 of the second leg NYCFC led 5-2 on aggregate only to let Comunicaciones score 3 goals in less than 20 minutes. NYCFC advanced because of Away goals. Oh, and this was also the day...
  20. mgarbowski

    MLS - March 16 - Toronto (Home - YS)

    Last year all competitions excluding Toronto the NYCFC Goal Differential was -9. Goal Differential against Toronto was +7. NYCFC 2023 GD at Home all comps was +11. Toronto was responsible for +8 of that.