Alright, well I wasn't joking and I'm not a troll. Either you guys have only ever watched MLS soccer or you're too in love with the team to have any critical, unbiased opinions about the game.
I'd heard a lot of hype about mix, obviously, and have watched every game nyc has played so far. I actually thought mix looked more impressive the last game when he came in the second half.
He was involved yesterday, sure, and did score quite a beauty of a goal. But how many times, especially in the first half, did we put the ball on Saunders' feet? Because we couldn't move the ball up through the mid. I just expect more. Better offensive possesion. In the first half how many passes did mix get to the feet of our strikers? Honestly grabavoy had more impact on the attack, maybe throughout the whole game.
So easy on the name calling and insults there buddy. I'm an nyc fan, but I also expect good soccer.
You're welcome to your opinion, buddy. It's your right to be wrong. No one here can take that away.
I honestly only got into MLS about 2.5 years ago, so I've watched plenty of other leagues.
See, there is a balance to achieve, not even Messi picks the ball up at midfield and rips a through ball or takes on 5 defenders every time. If you were familiar with Kreis's style, he likes to control the tempo of games and one way to do that is possession in the middle of the park, controlled by (you may have guessed) a Midfielder! Quick one-two combos serve multiple purposes such as maintaining possession and also moving the defense, looking for openings but also making them chase a bit to wear them down physically.
Our plan will be to attack aggressively when we see an opening. We're not going to play extremely direct soccer like a South American squad. And we're damn sure not going to hoof and hope like it's the Championship either. That's not the Kreis way. We will hit some long balls when the risk/reward balance is in our favor. Otherwise, we'll try to have a quick, but controlled build-up. You want Mix to collect the ball in midfield and ping it long, but who the hell is he going to play it to? We have one guy big enough to be a target man on the team, and he certainly doesn't look like he's capable of holding up play, and Villa isnt exactly a burner who's going to get in behind very often.
I'd love to pick up 30 yards on every pass, but no team anywhere does that. Maybe you prefer 1990s EPL style, but the rest of the world has long given up those worthless tactics.
Eh. Re-read your post and get what you're saying in the second one and realize you're not advocating for bad tactics. But I just don't remember Mix playing a lot of balls back to Saunders. I feel like I would since I get nervous every time the ball is near Saunders.
The biggest issue we have going forward is we really are one quality midfielder short....got any leads where we might find one, Mr. EPL?
