Alan
…unlucky Del - No chance 😉
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Well, the perfect form at BofA ended last night, with an 0-1 loss to *sigh* New England.
Because football is cruel, allow me to paint this contextual picture. Imagine Jesse Marsch. Now make him even more pompous. And also worse tactically (and I say that with the general TWF opinion of Marsch in mind, not my own opinion). You get Caleb Porter, New England’s manager. He’s almost repulsive to me. Hate losing to him. And worse, the winning goal was scored by Carles Gil, who is every bit the stereotypical Spanish footballer; arrogant, selfish, acts as if he should have special rules applied for him… and in MLS, good enough to back up all the talk.
Icing on top: Pep Biel went off injured. Our attack went to pieces after that. Didn’t seem like a contact injury, so…
On the positive side, when Pep was still out there, we were fairly dominant. Created a ton of good chances, but, as we often have this season, we’d overcomplicate with one pass too many, or just punt the shot into the Upper Bowl.
Special shoutout to Zaha, who suddenly looked like his Crystal Palace self again. He is absolutely brilliant to watch when he’s on form. A different type of thrill to watching Adama but the levels are the same, if that makes sense.
Can’t be perfect forever, I suppose, and for as much as I think Caleb Porter is a giant bag of dildos, he’s recently switched NE to a 5-2-3 that’s made them really, really solid defensively. That also adds some positive value to cutting them open so often (with Pep), so no moral victories but encouraging nonetheless.
Because football is cruel, allow me to paint this contextual picture. Imagine Jesse Marsch. Now make him even more pompous. And also worse tactically (and I say that with the general TWF opinion of Marsch in mind, not my own opinion). You get Caleb Porter, New England’s manager. He’s almost repulsive to me. Hate losing to him. And worse, the winning goal was scored by Carles Gil, who is every bit the stereotypical Spanish footballer; arrogant, selfish, acts as if he should have special rules applied for him… and in MLS, good enough to back up all the talk.
Icing on top: Pep Biel went off injured. Our attack went to pieces after that. Didn’t seem like a contact injury, so…
On the positive side, when Pep was still out there, we were fairly dominant. Created a ton of good chances, but, as we often have this season, we’d overcomplicate with one pass too many, or just punt the shot into the Upper Bowl.
Special shoutout to Zaha, who suddenly looked like his Crystal Palace self again. He is absolutely brilliant to watch when he’s on form. A different type of thrill to watching Adama but the levels are the same, if that makes sense.
Can’t be perfect forever, I suppose, and for as much as I think Caleb Porter is a giant bag of dildos, he’s recently switched NE to a 5-2-3 that’s made them really, really solid defensively. That also adds some positive value to cutting them open so often (with Pep), so no moral victories but encouraging nonetheless.
