"Seven Reasons Why You Cannot Miss the Match Against Orlando City SC"
"7. Both clubs were expansions teams last year and have now developed a rivalry. Both teams played each other on three separate occasions, resulting in one win, one loss and a draw for NYCFC. All three matches were heated."
Orlando is not a rival. Toronto is more of a rival than Orlando. NYCFC, stop making Garber's rivalry wishes come true. We don't like Orlando. That doesn't make it a rivalry.
http://www.nycfc.com/post/2016/03/15/seven-reasons-why-you-cannot-miss-match-against-orlando-city-sc
The biggest reason you cannot miss this game live at Yankee Stadium is that listening to Unimas English language commentators is living hell.
We all, as a collective league, are paying for some sort of past sins through the commentary of Ramses Sandoval.
I'm very excited for this one. It was refreshing to see how PV set up the team, which engaged me on a completely different level trying to figure out everyone's role in his system. Rather than being adversely affected by the pitch's dimensions, he's trying to use it to his advantage with formations that best make use of the space. I think Pirlo's defensive aggressiveness was excellent to see last week. A big finger to those who were ragging on him for not giving a damn. That said, he
does have his limitations in that department, and it's a misuse of his talents to put him in those situations too often. That's why I liked Bravo in there with him. I think if Pirlo and Bravo can really work out an understanding of movement in relation to one another, it can help avert situations in which someone has to give up the cheap foul in a dangerous area. Additionally, if Bravo can work on his distribution a bit to either spring the counter himself or set up Pirlo to do so/recycle possession positively, I think he'll be very good.
Without Kaka, I'm not sure who the go-to guy is on Orlando, but we have to really boss the midfield to keep Larin starved. He can hurt you, but I don't think he's as mercurial as Giovinco in the way that he can hurt you in a dozen ways from a dozen different places on the pitch. This isn't to say he's not dangerous, but perhaps more containable in a traditional sense.
And as a side note: I really don't like Orlando. It has nothing to do with Uncle Don's invent-a-rivalry, or even past NYCFC games. I've seen some of their players get chippy, and my online interactions with their fans have been
insufferable. I would like very much to get the W. Here's hoping.
thesauerchise covered one of the preseason games on rabble.
