Sporting has been a decent team for awhile & have no clue what to do when wheels fall completely off. Plus there have been like 20 lineups bc of injuries/etc. Not to mention Zusi, Besler & Sinovic are showing their age. They remind me of KU bball last year. Great team on paper.Start the year promising & then everything that can go wrong does. Just happy for the season to be over and 1/3 of the team leaves.
Biggest issue imo. Vermes pressed Besler to get the squad to skip the off season. He wanted them 100% vs Toluca because being the first team to win CCL has always been his pipe dream. No one else had an MX opponent round one. So a team that was already old, already slow, now skipped their entire offseason (which was a violation with the league CBA). Guess what happened? A ton of injuries and a wasted season.
He had that sweet goal that one time though I actually don't mind Yohan. He isn't as good as his DP slot would indicate but I'm usually impressed by his work rate, which is more than I can say for most of the team.
Zelalem, Espinoza and Kuzain in with SPR tonight. Pipé-Busio-Ilie to start tomorrow would be my guess. Or start Ben and bring Busio in at the 60th.
A little different feel at practice when we don’t shut down our legs for a change. Z probably slides in right behind Ilie for best touch on the team.
Especially since he’s a free agent after this season and by all accounts loved “playing” here so if they thought something was there they can just bring him back next year.
Vermes recently said there is a player with our U15s that’s the best prospect he’s ever seen (our academy or others) but refused to say a name to keep the pressure off the kid. I wonder if this is him:
#NeverForget the time we won our first trophy in a decade because Puma completely mind fucked Alonso and Eddie Johnson:
Yes obviously a shit fucking match BUT I did try the mobile concession ordering for the first time. It was extremely bad ass. Just pulled up the app, pick out your food and drinks, pay on the phone. Continue watching the match. They text when everything’s ready (was like 3 or 4 minutes), and you just walk up and pick it up from the stand. They had the drinks in a carrier and all the food in to-go boxes and everything packed in a large paper to-go bag. Was back to my seat within 2 minutes.
Fontas has to go down as our worst signing ever. If it wasn’t for him Ike would still be here. A 3 CB trio of Matt, Ike, Barath would be fine. But Fontas got the huge paycheck, made Ike jealous. And ruined this team.
Haha, the bench is 3 defenders, 2 d midfielders, and Hurtado. Went through 2/3 the season with no healthy defenders now we have no healthy attackers. Wtf.
Wide open header givin to Dom at the 6 10 seconds after Busio gets muscled off the ball on the wing.....luckily it’s Dom so he shanked it. But why not Busio as a false nine and Jim on the wing?
That was an absolute failure. Either flip Busio-Jim or bring in Hurtado for Gian and get Jim out wide.
Orlando: 1 shot on goal. 1 goal. Sporting: 2 weak fucking outside the box slops that will never go in. Such an awful fucking match. Relegate anyone involved.
Sums up the entire year offensively. Add in 1 out of position CB and 2 slow full backs and you got a shit stew brewing:
Leave Wondo completely unmarked on a corner. Absolutely brilliant. Very curious if we keep this within 3 by half.