I love how in this scenario you just laid out, Ofori only had a good game because Mata sucks. Impressive.
Domènec Torrent Appointed NYCFC Head Coach (June '18) / Mutually Agree to Part Ways (November '19)
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Is that what I said, or did I say that Mata pushing up out of his position gave Ofori more time since the defender was occupied?
You are correct, you didn't say exactly that in just the post I quoted (below).
But I don't think I'm putting any words in your mouth.
You made a leap with what I said by taking it out of context. Mata can suck and still draw a defender away long enough to create hesitation on marking which possibly gave Ofori more time - he failed at his positional role and as a byproduct helped Ofori by overloading the area. I’m still not of the opinion Ofori was good, hence why he was replaced by a guy already having a nightmare of a match.
Not sure if anyone is aware, but one of Dome's assistant coaches has been writing about coaching...
https://www.soccertoday.com/author/albert-puig/
https://www.soccertoday.com/author/albert-puig/
Counterpoint: his lack of creativity, vision and ability to draw defenders to him or occupy spaces to free up the nominal forwards has severely hampered the attack.
And his underlying numbers can’t come close to what he’s done. He might as well be a CB heading in a corner 2/3 games early on. It’s complete and utter folly to assign any value to that when every valid metric points to it being entirely unsustainable.
ETA: probably most problematic is he’s just not that good technically; whether it’s on the ball or passing in the tight spaces encountered in the final third, his technical skill is pretty low for someone charged with major playmaking responsibilities.
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I don’t really think he can. Maybe he could. But do we want to give him 6-18 months to figure it out?
Oh wait. You did say in a pinch. I guess we’re in a pinch. And I guess that is true. Woe NYCFC. Poor little club struck down with rare injuries across all of their strikers. what’s that you say? It wasn’t an injury crisis and everyone knew we were spinning our wheels without a single CF on the roster? Bullshit. No one could run a team that incompetently and retain their job.
His writing wanders badly. I had to keep going back/rereading two different articles to make sure I was still reading the same one and it hadn’t scrolled in to a new article like some websites’ blog formats (like ESPN).
Read three paragraphs of one article. Not one reference to Pep. I’m out. Are we all farmers?
For what it's worth, my verbiage of "small n" was meant to convey my agreement with you that this is not likely to continue. Also, my preferred lineup has mitri, jlew and isi up top with ring playing the 8 and ofori on the bench. Just trying to offer a tiny glimmer of silver lining in an otherwise very bleak analysis of dome on these boards.
Appreciate it. A poll that kvschnitzer put out recently indicates that it might be a silent majority thing. Or could it be that the forums are highly selective?
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Appreciate it. A poll that kvschnitzer put out recently indicates that it might be a silent majority thing. Or could it be that the forums are highly selective?
Could be NJ & ORL fans happy we only have 3 points.
From my experience here since 2014, we're way grumpier than the casual fans.Appreciate it. A poll that kvschnitzer put out recently indicates that it might be a silent majority thing. Or could it be that the forums are highly selective?
By the look of the stands last match, there aren’t any casual fans left.
What's very interesting to note is specifically how he worded each answer, which has a big part to play in what everyone chose:Appreciate it. A poll that kvschnitzer put out recently indicates that it might be a silent majority thing. Or could it be that the forums are highly selective?
Happy
Kinda Happy
Miserable
Miserable and Sad
Note that there's no "Kinda Sad". If people are disappointed, but not "Miserable", then they'll choose Kinda Happy. I can almost guarantee that if there was a "Kinda Sad" option, we'd see a lot more of an even split
Framing like a champ
I also love how it’s Mata’s fault that Chanot needlessly gave the ball away while NYCFC was in a dominant spell of play.
So dominant, in fact, Callens wasn’t anywhere to be found. And Chanot could have literally just stepped up and played Vela off.
This...so much this.
