Because signing a player that is 32 who's best asset is pace to a 3 year DP contract is absolutely peak stupidity. The rest of the league is trending towards youth in terms of DP signing and we are going the wrong direction.
But he’s a big name and we need big names to draw a crowd when we’re bottom of the league. Wait a minute...
Tonight was something else to see against what was really close to a 1st choice side. The burst of goals after half was all down to hard work and great transition between the lines. 6-2 was pretty accurate reflection on the match. We were vulnerable at corners. First look at Patino and Michel. Both are already miles ahead of where Mueller was at this point last season. Patino played central and was physically up to par. Probably should have had 2 goals but did get 1. Michel is everything we though Rivas was going to be when he arrived. He is going to run a lot of fullbacks into the ground when he comes on in the 70th minute of matches. Also should have scored tonight. Cam Lindley actually looked like he belonged compared to what we saw of him last season. Super confident on the ball and physical in defense. We might actually have some depth everywhere but at CB. Silva from OCB played there alongside Sane and looked solid. He loved a long diagonal ball into the forwards. Formation and tatically it seems that JOC is going to play a 442 and 433. The 442 is very fluid and played like a 343 or 532 at times. The 433 was pretty structured with one DM sitting behind the 2 CMs who played very wide at times.
Anything short of the Supporter Shield, MLS Cup, and US Open Cup will be disappointing. We already won the Orlando City Invitational which came with a pretry sweet plate.
No expectations for the season other than we will continue to live in the heads of Atlanta fans no matter where they go including the past two weeks in Costa Rica and at wrestling.
I hate Will Johnson. He’s the most useless utility player I’ve ever watched. Oh, and nothing matters. Why do we do this to ourselves?
Not surprised we got fucked by a person named after a shitty city in Ohio. There is 1 ref in the world that wouldn't call that especially after review and we had that asshole. The same asshole that called a handball against us back in 2016 when replay showed it our player in the chest. Thankfully the handball rule changes next season and this wouldn't even be left up to the ref to decide.
Stupid greedy pass instead of going to the corner, then lazy getting back to contest the cross, and end of investigation. Lock him in a shed for a few weeks.
That said putting Mueller in that situation was ridiculous. He has one speed and one mentality. It makes him dangerous when we need offense. But having him as a late game killer seems like a total misuse.
It doesn't matter what the playing style of the player. You are a 2nd year professional and should know by the high school level that you take the damn ball to the corner to kill off the final 30 seconds of a match. O'Neil is never put into that position if that happens. Or Mueller gets back to contest the ball before it is put into the box. Inexcusable was the right word to describe it.
Short notice but does anyone want to go to the match tomorrow? I got a spare. Only negative is you have to sit beside me and listen to me Boo Will Johnson and Nani while getting unreasonably angry at every shot from outside of the box.
I'd say the actual defending (when being attacked) looks ok but the play out of the back and midfield is so horrendous it just leads to terrible goals. That 2nd one today was awful. There's several other times of just bad steals from dribbling out of the back or just poor passes. Sasha giving everything away doesn't help either.
Rowe can row his boat back to where everywhere he came from but he cant because his arms will not reach the oars. O'Neil was clearly intoxicated and that is the only logical reason for playing that bad. Ascues more like Assclueless. Acosta must have a fear of being accosted if he crosses the halfway line. Ruan can run and well thats it. I believe that one of the Mendez brothers would have done more than Seba did today. Mueller is clearly a modern day Forest Gump without any of the luck. Sasha needs to retire to his life of serving overpriced coffee while the latest from Belle and Sebastian is played at a whole unacceptable volume. Nani is still suffering from PTSD from the 1-6. Its amazing that Dwyer has a kid and another on the way after he has shown that finishing is not a strong suit. They found out Will Johnson was concussed when he started talking about making forward passes. James O'Connor made willing subs that ended with a back 3 of an undersized defensive mid on the left, a converted defensive mid in the middle, and a undersized right back on the right. This is not Football Manager James. You can not save scum because you decided to try to be Pep. San Jose might as well send the Wooden Spoon to us now.
LMAO now we play at the Red Bulls and then get DC at home. O/U goals allowed in those 2 matches: 6.5 O/U goals scored .in those 2 matches: .5 Also MLS can do one with their respect campaign for the match against DC. There is 15 years worth of rage and hatred that is finally going to be unleashed for 2+ hours at a certain granny shagging shrek looking ginger carny for DC.
I’m mostly still a fan because I’m here for a good NK post-game rant. It’s the only thing we can depend on.
Getting it out of the way early tonight. Jansson can go back to making fucking horseshoes. Patino is homegrown. Homegrown shit. Clearly thought they were signing the other Moutinho. De John can go play for the Pride after playing like De Jane.
It's going to be a shame I will miss it for breaking the bullshit mls respect campaign the second that fat carny steps on the pitch.
I don't want to see Sasha start another match. Boring, useless. And fuck this 1 point in 3 games team at home. So few of these players have any redeemable ball skills.
Just changed the direction of my abuse from that carny to our group of failures. After Clueless lost possession for the 50th time of the night; I yelled about wishing his mother would have swallowed him. BTW the foul call on Dwyer on Rooney was correct. The ref let Dwyer off without a yellow for some reason.
the last 30mins or so of the DC game was the best this team has played since their winning streak last may I dont like mueller at all but he finally played well, and not shockingly they played their best with no sasha on the field