MLS - May 28 - Houston (YS)
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I imagine your feelings have changed.
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You really can’t beat a 3-0 loss in steady rain at YS when every decent remaining food option is closed. Perfect night all around.
I guess nobody got injured…
The first 25 minutes, we looked ready to blow them out. Then came the OG and all the spirit just evaporated. Pascal must be beside himself.
When we're brave, when we're daring, we're dangerous. When we clam up and play like we're afraid to make a mistake and just plod along, predictable and pedestrian, we're easy to defend and easy to defeat.
Pascal has said several times, we're a young team, and young teams are going to be inconsistent. But damn, do we have to be this inconsistent?
When we're brave, when we're daring, we're dangerous. When we clam up and play like we're afraid to make a mistake and just plod along, predictable and pedestrian, we're easy to defend and easy to defeat.
Pascal has said several times, we're a young team, and young teams are going to be inconsistent. But damn, do we have to be this inconsistent?
Maxi is 3rd in minutes played behind only Haak and Freese. He looked tired and slow tonight. If the miles are starting to catch up with him, we are in big trouble. Complete roster construction negligence on the part of Lee to leave the squad so reliant on a 38-year-old with no backup.
Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes, well, the bear eats you. - The Stranger
This is what we are going to get with this team. At times, we look like a squad that could make a run in the playoffs. Other times, we are wooden spoon contenders.
We didn't create much. Houston were compact and were very clinical. Sadly, when the subs went in, it was clear that the game was over.
Gabe Segal joins who else in the former Pigeons to score against us club? Patrick Mullins? Tubby Mac?
This is what we are going to get with this team. At times, we look like a squad that could make a run in the playoffs. Other times, we are wooden spoon contenders.
We didn't create much. Houston were compact and were very clinical. Sadly, when the subs went in, it was clear that the game was over.
Gabe Segal joins who else in the former Pigeons to score against us club? Patrick Mullins? Tubby Mac?
Ha yes, for heavily discounted PS seats late in the day - was still surprised I got anything for them with the weather forecast etc.
This is our problem. We're asking way too much of Maxi. It's downright cruel.
Questionable subs from my perspective. I would have liked to see Gray switched for Illenic and Ojeda on for Julian. Julian and Gray had a stinker of a night. I understand why we were resting Maxi and Wolf, but from a current game perspective it seemed like we were shooting ourselves in the foot. Cavallo is also not ready for the big leagues yet.
This game proved what I said the other day about offense being important. Sure our defense has been great up until now, but if the offense can't do shit because they just deer-in-headlights the moment they see the 18 yard box, it ain't gonna end well.
Also I had no clue Nico Lodeiro was playing until he was subbed off, and when they said "Goal scored by Gabe Segal" I was confused because I didn't know we let him go or sold him?? Wild!
Also I had no clue Nico Lodeiro was playing until he was subbed off, and when they said "Goal scored by Gabe Segal" I was confused because I didn't know we let him go or sold him?? Wild!
for anybody who was looking at our table position and think "maybe we are actually good?" --- tonight should show you that we are not. we're inconsistent and our wins have been due to gifts for the most part. how many of the goals we've scored this season have been due to actual good play? maybe half. the rest have been gifts or PKs.
our wingers suck. no word on jones coming back anytime soon so he's probably done for the season.
maxi is great but he's tired. oneil probably needs more time to get used to the squad.
we are where we are in the table because fortunately, other teams in this conference are also slipping up. but on the whole, we look terrible and it's a surprise when we actually look like a team with eyes on the prize.
sigh. and the worst part of the season is yet to come. how long until the summer transfer window starts? i'm sure Lee will wait until the last minute to sign a depth piece or some lame shit.
I haven't been so down on this team in awhile. The only highlights for me are Shore, Jansen, Haak, and Parks looking like he's back to his old self, at least when he's not too injured. Otherwise, it's been really hard to get excited to watch this team let alone dream of silverware.
our wingers suck. no word on jones coming back anytime soon so he's probably done for the season.
maxi is great but he's tired. oneil probably needs more time to get used to the squad.
we are where we are in the table because fortunately, other teams in this conference are also slipping up. but on the whole, we look terrible and it's a surprise when we actually look like a team with eyes on the prize.
sigh. and the worst part of the season is yet to come. how long until the summer transfer window starts? i'm sure Lee will wait until the last minute to sign a depth piece or some lame shit.
I haven't been so down on this team in awhile. The only highlights for me are Shore, Jansen, Haak, and Parks looking like he's back to his old self, at least when he's not too injured. Otherwise, it's been really hard to get excited to watch this team let alone dream of silverware.
I’m tired of all the negativity. Yes our team is not built right, yes our attack is not playing well, yes our primary transfer window was wasted. But I hate hearing about how we’ve been gifted goals. No we were not. The boys had to put the ball into the net. Gifts are only gifts when you take advantage of them. Remember Coronel with the bad back pass. Alonso had to be in the right position to scoop it up, maxi had to have the patients to out maneuver the defense and slot the ball into the net. And more importantly than being in the right position at the right time, being a pressing team means you’re trying to make the other team make mistakes and be sloppy or kick the ball long into a 50/50 situation so you can win the ball back. So forcing “gifts” and punishing the opponent on a quick counter is the style we are currently playing. So minimizing it takes away 3/4ths of our main strategy. With the 1/4th being play a line breaking pass to Alonso and hope he doesn’t kick it straight into the keeper.
That being said I agree that Julian needs to be upgraded and so does Maxi. Having better players will lift Alonso’s and Wolf’s play. I’m hoping that leaving Julian to finish out the game yesterday instead of resting him for the weekend meant we will be starting Ojeda on the right wing Saturday. And other than the “Golanso” tm , Martinez has been ice cold in front of goal recently. He’s gotten Spring Taty 2021 streaky. Hopefully like Taty he turns it around.
1 SOG (from 35 yards or so)
.7 xG
At home.
Against rotated Houston.
This sure felt like a we-suck-again match.
.7 xG
At home.
Against rotated Houston.
This sure felt like a we-suck-again match.
Yes but no. The problem is not that we don't deserve the gift goals we convert. The problem is we have almost no other way to score.
St. Louis won 9 of their first 14 games in 2023 because teams inexplicably kept giving them the ball near goal. Then that stopped and St. Louis has been terrible ever since.
In 2025, only 4 teams have been blanked more than NYCFC. Only 7 have scored fewer in total. We either get a gift, or sometimes a fast break, or we're very much punchless.
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Julian's horrible off-ball movement is killing the offense. The sequence that starts at 12:57 is a perfect example.
- Gray wins the header, and Maxi settles it
- Julian stops running and shows for the ball along the right sideline at midfield, even though Maxi has a multitude of better options, and Julian should be moving forward in the attack.
- Maxi turns and hits Oniell, charging forward through the channel
- The LB tucks in to help on Oniell, leaving a swath of wide-open space in front of Julian, but he's already behind the play.
- Instead of trying to recover and sprinting into the open space the LB just vacated, Julain jogs behind the play, leaving Oniell no options on the right
- Oniell then goes left to Wolf, who is forward in an attacking position
- Wolf Passes to Shore, who beats his guy and is now driving along the endline, looking for the cross
- Does Julian cut aggressively to the back post? Of course not, he walks to the penalty spot and stands there ball watching.
yea i don't understand why jansen keeps starting fernandez. this type of play seems to be the norm rather than the exception. if he's gonna be a non-threat, i'd rather have bakrar on there instead cause you know he's going to work his butt off. He should just move wolf to the right and start ojeda or bakrar (or even reid!) more.
