MLS - August 18 - Philadelphia (Away)
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during the international break. there was a tweet about it somewhere.... it just wasn't advertised to supporters or anything
yea its normally behind close doors games , usually i see these tweets ( like when they played cosmos B, LI rough riders, FC Motown), so i guess i missed this one.
I'm sure we're all taking a lot of our frustrations of limited (quality) visibility of NYCFC matches out on YES Network...
2 minutes later...
I see a 4-3-3. Sands, Cacha, Santi midfield. Seems very defensive.
Acevedo in goal, Johnson at central mid, and Tinnerholm as striker.
Lol he checks Twitter during commercial breaks
i thought we had great combinations and attacking sequences. we just didn't put the ball in the net.
personally, i think we lost the midfield battle. while not having a particularly bad game, i think the physicality of tonight's match gave acevedo a lot of trouble.
philly took it to us and we broke at the weakest link tonight. malte was making mistakes all night and he finally got punished for one.
i'll feel better about losing points on the road if we go into RBA and crush the red bulls.
personally, i think we lost the midfield battle. while not having a particularly bad game, i think the physicality of tonight's match gave acevedo a lot of trouble.
philly took it to us and we broke at the weakest link tonight. malte was making mistakes all night and he finally got punished for one.
i'll feel better about losing points on the road if we go into RBA and crush the red bulls.
Taty just doesn't have that killer instinct -- when he's running at the goal 1-v-1 you hold your breath.
With Villa you'd already started throwing your beer in the air before he'd kicked it.
Yet another case of NYCFC looking good, having the majority of the chances, but can’t finish and PHI buries its one chance and wins.
An all too similar story for this team over the years.
An all too similar story for this team over the years.
No ones is villa but team convert wingers to 9’s. And it doesn’t always work out. As for 1v1 only isi has showed he can win those duels but again not consistently.
We had a lot of chances, but they sucked. Not one rated even as high as 9%. The Union had a 42, 35 (the Bedoya goal), and 14%, and very slightly higher xG overall.
Once again, the problem was not finishing, though it's fair to say we had tons of possession and did nothing creative in the final third to create a good chance.
I'm not sure resting Maxi and Parks in the same game was effective. This game was not in the least representative of how this team has played all year, both in what the team usually does well and what most often trips it up.
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