Nycfc V Dallas Postmatch
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Wingert and Grabavoy have been crap all year, but I don't think either of them were the problem tonight.
What this game showed me was the unsustainability of trying to carry the DPs we have. Midfields featuring Lampard and Gerrard never worked for England, and it doesn't look like our Lampard/Pirlo combination is working much either. Finding the right puzzle piece to fix that midfield is almost certainly going to require a DP spot that we don't have.
Just got home and took a look at the box score.
Thought the 4-1-4-1 looked surprisingly OK in the first half. It was actually buoying to see us respond to issues. We generally rely on width from our full backs but we get punished when we lose the ball with them pushed high up the pitch, so adding real width in misfield and allowing our full backs to stay at home wasn't a bad shout at all. We dealt with their pacy forwards quite well and dominated possession, but a soft couple of goals left us up shit creek and then Villa's departure at half time left us without the proverbial paddle.
I can't really figure out why Pirlo came off, as he was actually putting in a decent defensive shift and we were getting the ball through midfield. Lamps was looking a little ragged, but after they both went off it was essentially Route 1 football, which had an immediate impact via the penalty call but was never really going to get us the 3 points against a team that had a lead and the energy to defend it. Mix looked far more at home in the centre of the park, but Poku was completely lost. The only reason for the change that I can think of is that Kreis wanted to continue to make a point to his older players, but maybe I'm just seeing it that way because he's appeared to lurch into such pettiness and vindictiveness recently.
The only positive that comes to mind so far is that we don't have to wait too long for another chance to see the team in action, but it doesn't feel like we're closer to settling on a system or having any kind of fluency. With Villa possibly out next game, it's looking pretty dire.
I can't really figure out why Pirlo came off, as he was actually putting in a decent defensive shift and we were getting the ball through midfield. Lamps was looking a little ragged, but after they both went off it was essentially Route 1 football, which had an immediate impact via the penalty call but was never really going to get us the 3 points against a team that had a lead and the energy to defend it. Mix looked far more at home in the centre of the park, but Poku was completely lost. The only reason for the change that I can think of is that Kreis wanted to continue to make a point to his older players, but maybe I'm just seeing it that way because he's appeared to lurch into such pettiness and vindictiveness recently.
The only positive that comes to mind so far is that we don't have to wait too long for another chance to see the team in action, but it doesn't feel like we're closer to settling on a system or having any kind of fluency. With Villa possibly out next game, it's looking pretty dire.
Grabavoy was non-exisistent in the first half. I'll admit he was OK in the 2nd half, but what is the point of playing him over Poku, Mix or TMac? He is not an upgrade over any of those guys so how does that help us in either the short or the long term? It just doesn't make any sense.
You mean how Wingert was nowhere to be seen when Tesho had the ball on the left of our defense?
I stopped counting but grabavoy s first five touches were four turnovers and a handball
Kreis is doing a great job if his goal all along was to turn us into RSL's dumping ground.
The only explanation that comes to mind for the weird lineup (and the weird substitutions) is that we have another match in four days and another one three days after that.
I think it's fun to jump on the "older DPs can't hack MLS" bandwagon but I don't think this person sees football the way I do at all.
The team has lost its heart. I have given up or does the team starting with Kreiss has given up? I am going through the motion of watching the games because I don't want to feel like the rats that abandon a sinking ship. Some forum fans have been hard on Capitan Villa , however he has been the one carrying this team. win or loose on throughout the season. Tonight he had to leave with a hamstring injury and it was felt on the on the pitch...slowly the team disintegrated. Why put Lampard as the Captain? He has not demonstrated he deserved to carry the armband. It was Saunders, who deserved that merit.
I was honestly just hoping it was pitch invader in an NYCFC kit trying to take a free kick which would have impressed me more than most of our squad tonight
Idc about missing the playoffs anymore. I care about knowing what kind of team I'm rooting for, investing in and physically/emotionally supporting. If someone asked me what kind of team NYCFC is, besides crappy, I don't know. I honestly 100% have no friggin clue what Kries is trying to accomplish and what kind of game play he's trying to create. That's the most frustrating part to me. We not only suck but we even suck at sucking.
The pitch "invasion" was fantastic because, from where I was sitting, it looked like two 12 year old kids. Not sure I've ever seen that.
Some other observations from Dallas (why am I here???):
- Grabavoy was terrible in the first half. Completely out of the game. Particularly bad in terms of not covering from RJ when he went forward. Even if it isn't going to be Mix or Poku, that should have been McNamara starting there.
- RJ was pretty good on the whole. I still want to get Iraola sorted out for next year, but that injury is a blessing right now.
- Mullins works like an animal. It is fun to watch.
- I'd really like to has us have another center mid genuinely hold when Pirlo is playing. Our center backs are just not good enough to fend off repeated 2 on 2s when we turn the ball over. I really think that two of Mix, Lanpard and Poku are good enough to get the ball through the midfield such that Jacobson should be playing a genuine holding role, which he was after the subs.
- That goal off the corner felt like the low point of the season. I believe that is why the English have the word Shambolic. I almost didn't come back for the second half.
Some other observations from Dallas (why am I here???):
- Grabavoy was terrible in the first half. Completely out of the game. Particularly bad in terms of not covering from RJ when he went forward. Even if it isn't going to be Mix or Poku, that should have been McNamara starting there.
- RJ was pretty good on the whole. I still want to get Iraola sorted out for next year, but that injury is a blessing right now.
- Mullins works like an animal. It is fun to watch.
- I'd really like to has us have another center mid genuinely hold when Pirlo is playing. Our center backs are just not good enough to fend off repeated 2 on 2s when we turn the ball over. I really think that two of Mix, Lanpard and Poku are good enough to get the ball through the midfield such that Jacobson should be playing a genuine holding role, which he was after the subs.
- That goal off the corner felt like the low point of the season. I believe that is why the English have the word Shambolic. I almost didn't come back for the second half.
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