Atlanta - Postmatch - Eastern Conference Semifinals Leg 2
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You have to segment the data. As mgarbowski pointed out, there are 3 phases to the Dome reign. Part 1) continuation. Part 2) experimentation. Part 3) proposal.
I liked the way we set up positionally in the second half. It was ballsy, physical and technical. I think we are some cohesion and or one or two key signings away from producing Man City esque football.
Because he is not good at the thing we brought him in to do. Namely, competing for headers and being a target person.
Well I think you're giving him too much credit for the Philadelphia games because that was not a very good team.
And I'd ask you why we were terrible in the first half under Dome. Go check how many times we scored a first-half goal under Dome. It's almost never. He made halftime adjustments, but almost never had the team ready from the first kick.
I'm a pretty patient fan, I don't like to overreact, but I've run out of patience with the coaching. This was more than avoidable -- this was inconceivable just four months ago.
I feel you. I was there. I would say go back to the mgarbowski analysis in the "chasing a narrative thread". There is a clear difference between the last 10 and the first 9 games. The last 3 we played the same system as the first 9. And apart from a few defensive mistakes, we were dominant.
We were dominant without purpose, so we basically wasted a lot of time doing very little. The team had no soul and no purpose with how they wanted to play.
I think our 2-3-5 looked good. We kept the ball in their half and created overloads at will. Our counterpress was suffocating. I think that constitutes a plan, but we are getting into subjective things (cue dummyrun) so we may have to agree to disagree
Well we better be keeping possession and creating overloads with eight guys in attack.
I don't take much tactically from what we were doing in the panic situation of trying to save our season.
We played like reckless assholes for much of the first half, being way too aggressive attacking the players and not the ball. Sure, Escobar drew that penalty very smoothly, but if we hadn't been crunching into them for the whole previous 20 minutes, maybe Geiger calls it differently. I dunno.
Taty was embarrassing. His bullshit with Brad Guzan was just too revealing of how cynically we played this game. I don't want us to play like that.
If the club doesn't announce a stadium deal during the off-season, OR bring in a set of enormous star players, I think we know CFG might have lost some interest in this experiment. If they'd discovered Almirón they'd have sent him to Girona instead of us.
Taty was embarrassing. His bullshit with Brad Guzan was just too revealing of how cynically we played this game. I don't want us to play like that.
If the club doesn't announce a stadium deal during the off-season, OR bring in a set of enormous star players, I think we know CFG might have lost some interest in this experiment. If they'd discovered Almirón they'd have sent him to Girona instead of us.
Alternatively, they dominated us any time they needed to.
We never have danger men near to each other and near the goal. So the advanced stats can screw off. Getting the ball to “danger spots” when you’re 1 on 5 means nothing.
Twellman reported that during the lineup exchange someone from our coaching staff told the refs to watch out for Atlanta's diving, and then said that we wouldn't be diving.
You're right -- embarrassing that we played that way, and that's not the way I want us to play, either.
Everything that made me become a Eurosnob happened after NYCFC. CFG is a soul crushing entity here.
Taty was incredibly embarrassing. I think he showed lots of great things from an ability standpoint. And that shot he had that Guzan saved was great. But he was a fucking dick out there tonight.
I feel like we've either said that Philly was not good at all or they were one of the hottest teams in MLS in order to help whatever argument is trying to be made at the moment.
(Clarification: I'm really not sure what you specifically have said over the past several weeks on this, but I've seen this from across the forum)
Heading into the final part of the season, Philly was hot and playing with a lot of confidence. After seeing them in the two matches, it seemed to be more a result of their individual talent than necessarily coaching. They lost that last game because Trusty was mentally fragile and we exploited it, but we wouldn’t have been able to if Herrera wasn’t locking down the middle. Without him, they’d have beaten us as he was the reason we won the midfield battles - the forum couldn’t stop talking about how much of a difference an 80% Herrera was compared to the other soulless players we’ve used this year. Seriously, without Herrera, we get bounced.
Don't take what Araos said at face value. Sounds like he mistranslated something and blew it out of proportion because of his inferiority complex.
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