Cincinnati (Home) - Postmatch

[FredMertz]

My coachspeak takeaway for this game is: regardless of your opponent's quality, you can only defeat the team you're playing. And we did that convincingly.

 

[The Toe]

Heber: 711 minutes - 6 goals, 3 assists. Very efficient.

 

[mgarbowski]

Heber's finish on the second goal was a thing of beauty.

Anything that gives me an opportunity to hear Ian Joy say "silky" is OK by me.

 

[Kjbert]

Heber is our Bradley Wright Phillips

 

[ManhattanValley]

Crazy to think Heber was our third, fourth choice striker in the transfer window? I love him.

We play real nice.

 

[LionNYC]

Dome making the 7 goals jokes.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1137025435865419778

 

[mgarbowski]

Dome is all "Hello my good friend" and Pep is all "hey, a camera!"

https://twitter.com/x/status/1137009137743781888

 

[sbrylski]

Some thoughts:
- I think we need to keep trying to play maxi in the midfield. He gets all over the field anyway but when he is a winger and drops back to collect the ball and playmaking he leaves our other attackers more covered by an opposing team's defense and less able to get a chance off a long ball, having mitri, heber, and taty all up does wonders for creating opportunities, especially on the counter.
- Loved Isi in the midfield, getting a goal scoring threat coming in late who can actually hit a shot (a la lampard when he was at his best here) gives our wingbacks much more to work with when they have to cross into the box. We will have to see against tougher opponents but if playing in the midfield gets isi (our second highest goal scorer) on the field I think you do it.
- Really sucks that sands got his arm broken (by his own keeper ffs) but we got really lucky that we have the gold cup break giving him a good window to recover, but we are starting to see the extent of our CB depth and another homegrown signing could help fill the gaps (don't need a big name/expensive signing just someone for depth)
- Rocha had a good shift against a shit opponent but imagine if we signed a LB/LWB as good as Tinnerholm, we would be relentless, especially in the 3-4-3.
-Good to see HAAK get some time, definitely looked like a first pro-game type of performance but I hope he starts getting more minutes down the stretch and can make the James Sands jump next season.
-Pep seemed pretty pleased at the performance of his future team, I hope we didn't get extra motivation because of that as I want this to be the start of a real run.
-Even though we scored 5 (7 really) we were really sloppy in front of goal especially toward the end of each half, imagine that this isn't even us at our best.
- Parks deserves a start, I don't think he is the best super sub and I would like to see how he can get on from the beginning.

This 3-5-2 with two attacking mids could be fun to see more.

F | Mitrita, Heber | Castellanos
AM | Moralez, Tajouri-Shradi | Parks
DM | Ring | Ofori
WB | Matarrita, Tinnerholm | Sweat, Rocha
CB | Callens, Sands, Chanot | Ibeagha