We’re playing for the bye. We’d have 20 days off after reg season to rest up. Even Sands can heal by then.
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We’re playing for the bye. We’d have 20 days off after reg season to rest up. Even Sands can heal by then.
fair point. it will come down to how the player feels in the end, as you said. yellow cards or not, if he's not in condition to play then that's that. Knowing Dome, he's not gonna rotate. He'll field the best players available. In fact, as I type this, I recall him saying that he would not rotate going into the end of the season.
Flip side is a lot of rustiness can develop in three weeks. I still want the bye, but look at college football and how many teams play their bowl game after a long break and are rusty and incompetent - it’s very typical.
BTW, the first line of what you quoted was a remnant of an abandoned post I neglected to clear properly. Doesn't really affect anything.
Flip it right back at you. Even w/o bye you have 17 days off. And your opponent is traveling to you on 3 days rest. Also could have picked up a red/injury to a player in previous match.
time to set up a friendly with a liga MX club? though probably would be too risky for injuries and such.
i agree 3 weeks is a long time. we'll just have to find a way to manage. maybe a friendly vs a USL club?
I had the same thought this morning. If we clinch 1st, we'll want to have a scrimmage at some point, especially as we get guys back from injury and back to match fitness
Fun little analysis. What happens if we end the season how we started?
If we tie our last 4 then we clinch 1st if Phi and Atl each drop 1 more point in their other games.
Interesting way of looking at it which I had not thought of, but I think it's better to say "if Phi and Atl each drop any more points" rather than "drop 1 more point." Because 1 more only gets us to 7 (4 from 4 draws, 2 from PHI and ATL each dropping 2 when they draw us, plus 1 =7). But you can't drop 1 point. You can only drop 2 or 3, so any added drop gets the 8 we need for the Union (ATL just needs 7).
We're 16-4-4 since then for 2.17 PPG over 24 games. LAFC is at 2.13 over 30 games. Too bad about our first six games, but maintaining that pace even for 24 games is impressive. For perspective, only 4 teams besides NYCFC have a Home PPG over 14-16 games to date that is that good or better. NYC did it for 24 games,
I don't think it was just Heber that flipped the switch either. Lots of people noticed that Torrent changed his approach at roughly the same time, and after a visit from Manchester possibly put the fear of being fired in him.
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doubtful. he's been on the side training by himself since last week. we won't see him get some fitness minutes in actual games until he's doing full training with the team. he's still doing strength exercises to slowly rehab his quad.
i think DOme was spot on to say the earliest we may see him is against Philly. and that's as a cameo appearance. sadly, doesn't look like we'll have a full match fitness/sharp heber for the playoffs but if we make a long run, he should be fully sharp by the cup final?
Looks like they put their best out @ Seattle tonight. Hopefully they have to rotate at home vs us after a cross country trip on short rest.
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They have to fight for every point available. I don't think they can afford to rotate unless they have to. I think we are more likely to benefit from fatigue, if anything, than rotation.
Watched the first half of the Dallas game and I think we are a really tough matchup for Dallas. It was a tough to tell from tv but it looks like they put 6-7 players very high into their high press. If they use that tactic they are going to be very vulnerable to the long diagonals to the wings we favor in our attack and we should have a lot of opportunities for counterattacks. On the flip side, they don't seem to have much bite in their attack. Barrios as the 9 is less effective than Maxi as our 9.
The extra rest and preparation is going to help us. Hopefully we can get a couple of early goals and put the game to bed quickly.
The extra rest and preparation is going to help us. Hopefully we can get a couple of early goals and put the game to bed quickly.
I wonder if Scally will be getting any time or be a part of the trip down to Dallas. Saw in an Instagram post from NYCFC (and/or Taty) that he was part of the training squad that won the intrasquad scrimmage at the end of practice. If he's playing in those scrimmages at the end of practice I would presume he is well on the mend and possibly ready for game time. I hope he gets a few minutes in one or two of the remaining regular season games so we can see him play and also give Tinny a rest heading into the playoffs.
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