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After suffering through that I still ask the same question I’ve been asking most of this year, WHY doesn’t Lewis start? We can’t finish, we can’t pass, we can’t cross, we can barely throw the ball in without conceding. If his only knock is that he can’t defend then please sit the majority of our defense as well.
The players and Dome seem out of ideas. It doesn’t look good and the results are showing.
No Ring next match.
 
The sub of Amagat was terrible. He has no business In this league.

Matarrita had an 8.5 or 9 rating for me. He was everywhere, doing everything. We have an 8, finally. Too bad we now have nothing else.

Ring was terrible. Maxi and Villa bordered on same.

Sweat was Sweat. He cannot deliver a good ball. He cannot add much other than occupy space and occasionally a lane (from which he doesn’t get back)

We suck. Season is a formality at this point. Our coach has been exposed, and I was wrong to think he had a clue.

Either that, or he’s one sand bagging mf’er. More likely I was wrong I’d guess.

Shout out to Sands. Good work from him.

Double shout out to PRO for not giving us a clear PK and also not giving NER yellows that were clearly deserved early on.
 
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Lewis has to fucking start. FFS

But I’m gonna take our shot advantage and general domination as a positive. If we play like that the rest of the way the odds will favor us.

And we need Medina and Chanot and Isi healthy. After tonight Rodney is clearly extraneous when we have those guys back. So is Amagat. Mata and Sands and Lewis are all superior.
 
After suffering through that I still ask the same question I’ve been asking most of this year, WHY doesn’t Lewis start? We can’t finish, we can’t pass, we can’t cross, we can barely throw the ball in without conceding. If his only knock is that he can’t defend then please sit the majority of our defense as well.
The players and Dome seem out of ideas. It doesn’t look good and the results are showing.
No Ring next match.
Agree with all of this.

And not sure that no ring is a bad thing.

He’s been quietly terrible since he got the last suspension. I think it’s not at all in small part due to Dome making him play as an 8 in some stupid homage to Pep, whom our coach can’t complete a sentence without mentioning.

Guess what,
Dome?
We ain’t got debruyne or Silva and they ain’t showing up tomorrow. Get your head out of your ass and coach the players we have,
Starting by putting the best ones in their best positions.
 
Positives first:
James Sands!!! good for him to get a start and actually play well enough that I know we are all going to be bitching about him not starting for the rest of the season
Mata as an 8!! holy crap such a different player, able to cover for sweat, lay off some KILLER passes (too bad we can't finish) and has his defensive liabilities mostly nullified
Creating chances! we actually did create quite a bit (20+ shots has to have some positive to it)

Negatives:
Amagat's sub was STUPID! dude sucks and taking away an attacker, then going down is not good looks
The defense was not together, back to Callens bonehead stuff, and we should have stopped the attack leading to the goal much sooner (only negative for sands because he wasn't aggressive enough at the top of the box I think..?
I get the logic for not starting Lewis, but 1 he needs a chance and 2, if he is subbed in he needs more than 15 minutes, so unfair to judge him from so little time and expecting him to break the game open every time
David Villa (and Taty to an extent) was SOOOOOO selfish this game people needed to make that one last pass for an easy goal but no villa tries to pull some magic out of his ass and wastes many good attacks. Really want Berget to get better soon.
Goddamn, we should not have lost this game, we can't take the playoffs for granted at this point (Dallas much) something needs to change, fire dome, or start Lewis, or do something. We have so few games left before the playoffs and we need to turn this around or we are going down in flames entering the playoffs and will be easy fodder for a surging team just making the playoffs.
 
That game is much more about finishing than coaching. Our finishing poise is abysmal. Gross. We should have won 5 or 6 nothing. I put that on the players. Dome wasn’t blameless but that’s a whole lot of poor execution.
 
I didn’t watch.

What happened with Ring?

How did we lose?

How was Sands? Give me a rating based on reality. 6? 7? Serviceable? Replacement level?

What was the deal with Matarrita?

What was our formation?
 
That game is much more about finishing than coaching. Our finishing poise is abysmal. Gross. We should have won 5 or 6 nothing. I put that on the players. Dome wasn’t blameless but that’s a whole lot of poor execution.
The sub led directly to the attack that led to the goal. Taty had gotten to that ball all night .Villa couldn't .they turned it around and got a goal. Proximate cause test met for me .
 
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I didn’t watch.

What happened with Ring?

How did we lose?

How was Sands? Give me a rating based on reality. 6? 7? Serviceable? Replacement level?

What was the deal with Matarrita?

What was our formation?
I am often vocal about my dissatisfaction with Mata, and have to say that he was great tonight, maybe our best player.
 
I didn’t watch.

What happened with Ring?

How did we lose?

How was Sands? Give me a rating based on reality. 6? 7? Serviceable? Replacement level?

What was the deal with Matarrita?

What was our formation?
Mata played as an 8 along with ring .sands was the 6 .

Sands was a 6 or so, so pretty good for a debut.

Mata put in what was one of the finest midfield performances I've ever seen for the club .He was everything, all the time .Hard to see where he put a foot wrong .

Ring is just worthless in the final .third, so what's the point of sending him barreling up there .