Didn't say it wasn't a red card. Agree that it was a red. But he lost the control of the match within 20 minutes.
Was texting with someone during the match and they said "If we concede some people are going to have a cow over no subs until now lol" -- which they're totally right about. Except we didn't concede, and this is the one time that I think Ronny was right not too make too many subs. Besides for Sands, most of our players looked up to the task and didn't look tired. Why switch up something that was working so well? And thus we almost won the game off of a free kick in the late 90+.
Why bother drawing a line when he is clearly behind the ball? Behind the ball, the position of the last defender is not relevant.
When I was looking at that still, it looked to me like he was ahead of the ball. Until I put that line there. So my brain played some tricks on me, I figure I can't be the only one!
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That’s not the ball I was questioning. On The first ball to Kasper before he pushed it out wide i thought he was off. I figured the linesman just had his flag down because they are told to wait until the end of the play.
All well that ends well but Medina was terrible except for one chance, and bore a fair amount of responsibility for Gedion having to make the tackle that earned him the red. He was not making himself available to Sands in the first half and they had a lot of trouble playing out on the right side. After about 80’ I would have brought on Jasson for Medina just to waste some time and cause some chaos.
With all that said: This was a huge result. Coming back with 10 men was remarkable. The team showed a lot of grit. At the half I said I thought Parks was our MVP (and given how they play without him he is a strong contender) but Taty sealed his team MVP tonight. And running over to celebrate with that kid was just a great moment.
I am exactly with you. Me and my boys were discussing it in real time and thinking that we were dominating (quite incredibly) Philly a man down with those 10, and RD should keep them on without interruption for as long as possible. I think he got that right.
Yea i was yelling.
I still think he should've made the sub earlier on around the 70th minute. We did very well to start the second half and got a deserved goal through Taty to tie the game. However, I feel if we had made the sub to remove Santi/Medina for Gray, who then would push Sands to midfield, we may have been able to apply more pressure to Philly on the counter while also supporting our defense/midfield. Instead, we allowed Philly to gain a little more possession/presence for the final 20 minutes. Based on the below stats, taken from MLS' website;
