There are arguments for this but I like the stronger team to face Dallas. #1 We don't want to walk away from a game in favor of another. #2 We need the experience and confidence by beating the better clubs.
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I saw that NYCFC/xGD article early this morning. The comments are hilarious.
The first topic is an extended debate on regular season vs playoffs, because this is MLS, even though it has nothing to do with the article. Somehow nobody brought up pro/rel.
There is also extended discussion of pro-NYC bias, because the people who invented xGD obviously did so to promote NYCFC, although they did so before the team existed. Then there is the criticism of xGD because it does not perfectly track W/L/D, which completely misses the point of xGD, and reads like a debate over baseball's Pythagorean theorem from 20 years ago. And of course our pitch size comes up. It is almost the perfect form of MLSoccer.com comments.
The xG article is fine. He basically just prints the stats and says, "this has happened." Ben likes NYCFC from what I can tell, and that's kind of his thing (that's why he's "The Research Bear").
I don't think Will was crowning a champion at all. I think he offered a pretty good damn take on what OCSC was doing to have success. But you're not one for subtlety these days, for whatever reason. Look beyond the headlines of those articles from Will and you'll see there's a lot of substantive, analytical meat.
If you don't like the headlines on the site, I get it. But I just think you're being unjustifiably harsh on the best soccer journalist on the whole site. It's absolutely the same on every sports site in every league. He may get stuck with shitty headlines because that's the deal, but his articles are balanced, well-researched, and well-written relative to most sportswriters.
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Take a passing comparison, blow it up into something controversial to drive traffic. That's how shit works these days. Choice for me is deal with it and read the content of writers I like or give up the internet.
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Settle down francis. I liked the article, your guy is great. It looked funny that they had a, this is the best team of the century headline, under their this is the best team of the century article.
I'm settled. Just like to distinguish between what I think is worthwhile reading and the shit that is most of the shit on MLS.
Watch NYCFC second unit play today and Lewis Stertzer and Okoli looked sharp. Camargo was okay and TMac missed a lot of chances.
I have no clue what we do against Dallas. Pirlo will get destroyed again. Pirlo is fine against RSL.
Maybe you go McNamara instead of Herrera. I was wrong about Ring. He can absolutely play the 6 if he has a partner who is committed to getting back.
Maybe you go McNamara instead of Herrera. I was wrong about Ring. He can absolutely play the 6 if he has a partner who is committed to getting back.
I think you can go with the usual suspects this game. Tinker vs. RSL because they're not doing anything out of the ordinary that needs us to adjust too much tactically. I think if you steal a point vs. Dallas, you can make any number of needed subs and get a point from RSL, but go for the jugular in Orlando with as much of the usual 11 as you can.
I'd like to see Okoli get some more run, along with Camargo and RJ. Starting them with Pirlo, Mac, Sterzer... they could find a goal in Sandy. But remember, we've seen our CBs play pretty consistently on short rest, and it wouldn't surprise me to see Callens or Chanot play all three. That said, there are much much worse backup CBs than Brillant in this league, so I wouldn't shy away from using him if need be.
I'd like to see Okoli get some more run, along with Camargo and RJ. Starting them with Pirlo, Mac, Sterzer... they could find a goal in Sandy. But remember, we've seen our CBs play pretty consistently on short rest, and it wouldn't surprise me to see Callens or Chanot play all three. That said, there are much much worse backup CBs than Brillant in this league, so I wouldn't shy away from using him if need be.
We were one Mendoza side-stepping the goalie away from beating Dallas last year...
Shout out to
The Toe for originally posting these tweets on the Atlanta post game thread:
No Alexi Lalas in Texas for our match. So things are promising. Eric Wynalda is a question mark.
The Toe for originally posting these tweets on the Atlanta post game thread:No Alexi Lalas in Texas for our match. So things are promising. Eric Wynalda is a question mark.
Shout out to
No Alexi Lalas in Texas for our match. So things are promising. Eric Wynalda is a question mark.
They have FC Dallas' regular TV announcer doing the play-by-play. With JP Dellacamara doing the Galaxy - Red Fools match, it makes you wonder where John Strong will be.
Looks like Strong and Holden are calling the Red Fool Leipzig - Bayern Munich game on Saturday morning on Big Fox. Not sure why they can't do that one and a Sunday MLS game as usual unless they are flying them to Germany.
Really wish we had JP. Best American soccer announcer in my book.
I don't know why I posted it in the Atlanta postgame thread, but thank you for saving me.Shout out to
No Alexi Lalas in Texas for our match. So things are promising. Eric Wynalda is a question mark.
“We are going to take 20 players to Dallas and the others will stay here (in New York),” said Vieira. “Then some of them will leave Dallas for New York while some of those that stayed home will fly directly to Salt Lake.”
Vieira suggested that there will be a player rotation in the starting group although it will not be dramatic.
Vieira suggested that there will be a player rotation in the starting group although it will not be dramatic.
http://sbisoccer.com/2017/05/nycfc-notes-finding-balance-herrera-departs-for-u-20-world-cup-and-more
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