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For sure. And then PV will most likely bench him anyway.
We should have a Doghouse Testimonial.... all of the players that have been frozen out get to come back and play one last game. I can see it now:
Mena intercepts the ball and passes to Pirlo... Pirlo then does his shimmy move and sends a through ball behind the defense to a racing Mix... Mix collects the ball and rounds the keeper to send a centering pass across the box to....... a streaking Nemec who one-times it into the back of the net.....
I had too much free time to spend on the forums if that makes sense. I'd end up watching Netflix, going or, begrudgingly assembling IKEA furniture.
This post prompted me to start a "most maligned 11" in NYCFC history, evaluating each player based on a combination of how much he sucked and how much he played (e.g., my CB pairing was Jason Hernandez because he wasn't very good and played a ton (only Villa has logged more outfield minutes for us) and Kwame Watson-Siriboe because he did not play that much, but absolutely sucked).
However, I quickly realized it was basically our 2015 starting lineup ex Villa. So, not as fun as I thought it would be.
GREAT topic. Let me play. I am lining our guys up in a 4-2-3-1 formation:
GK: Josh Saunders
CB: Kwame Watson-Siriboe
CB: Chris Wingert
LB: Jeb Brovsky
RB: Josh Williams
CM: Andrea Pirlo
CM: Mikey Lopez
RM: Mix Diskerud
CAM: Ned Grabavoy
LM: Pablo Alvarez
F: Adam Nemec
That 2015 team was so bad on so many levels....
But short of making a blanket designation for that team, I do think there are definitely players that qualify as being in the dog house and suffered lost playing time. Hernandez wouldn't be one because he got minutes (whether deserved or not). Neither would Grabavoy nor Wingert as they were only left off for injury, and sometimes not even then.
Which didn't stop Kreis from featuring him for a half in the 2015 finale as a final FU to the team and its fans.
I am proud that I will forever be able to claim having seen KWS's lone NYCFC goal live! What a moment.
That was also the game where Calle fell down in the box and played an Orlando player (Larin?) onside.
I'd leave off Grabavoy, wingert, Lopez, KWS, and Saunders because with the exception of KWS, the others all got a lot of playing time and never found themselves black-listed/banished; KWS never really got the playing time to begin with, so after his 1-2 chances, he just went back to the norm of being out the outside of the 18. Everybody else on your list (jury is still out on Pirlo) played regularly and were then permanently banished.
New York City v Minnesota United
Yankee Stadium (7:30pm ET)
REF: ARMANDO VILLARREAL
AR1: Peter Manikowski
AR2: Brian Dunn
4TH: Mark Kadlecik
Villarreal refereed our 3-1 loss to Atlanta where 5 yellow cards where shown (3 Atlanta, 2 NYCFC).
He also refereed our 4-3 win at Chicago in 2016 where 4 yellow cards where 4 yellows were shown (2 Chicago, 2 NYCFC) and he referred 3-1 win at Montreal where 5 yellows were shown (3 Montreal, 2 NYCFC)
Yankee Stadium (7:30pm ET)
REF: ARMANDO VILLARREAL
AR1: Peter Manikowski
AR2: Brian Dunn
4TH: Mark Kadlecik
Villarreal refereed our 3-1 loss to Atlanta where 5 yellow cards where shown (3 Atlanta, 2 NYCFC).
He also refereed our 4-3 win at Chicago in 2016 where 4 yellow cards where 4 yellows were shown (2 Chicago, 2 NYCFC) and he referred 3-1 win at Montreal where 5 yellows were shown (3 Montreal, 2 NYCFC)
MLSsoccer.com's Projected 11
- Suspended: None
- Int’l Duty: GK Sean Johnson (USA)
- Injury Report: OUT – F Khiry Shelton (hamstring injury); QUESTIONABLE – M Maxi Moralez (calf injury)
Mata isn't injured and isn't on international duty. That's good to see!
We haven't listed our injury report yet. But if Wallace is listed that means Mata isn't travelling either yet.
I just tried unsuccessfully to find a Facebook message I had sent to a Red Bulls fan friend telling him how excited I was to watch a young star in the making like Andres Beauty Mendoza succeed in New York.
My god 2014/15 was such an odd year.
EDIT: And in hindsight a complete clusterfuck.
EDIT: And in hindsight a complete clusterfuck.
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shouldn't you be telling us?
Maxi running in the training video, but his calf was heavily taped. Brandi Chastain also still looking pretty good.
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