Starters minus JFR, Melia, Pipe and Gerso went 60. Left 0-0. Dominated possession, guessing 65-35 with almost all of it in RSL’s half. RSL had not chances and we had 4 or 5 good moments that just didn’t come off. We pressed a ton when possession was lost, most I’ve seen since Dom was here. Might be a theme because Pulido and Kinda’s work rates are insane. They were everywhere. This team should be fun by May when they get their timing down.
So Swope Park plus John and Gerso beat PHX 1-0 over 60 mins then we subbed in our “first” 11 and PHX subbed in their puds and we went on to lose 2-1. Same shit we saw last year. Dominate 80% possession, pretend you’re Barca, never make a final pass, have someone on the back line (Ilie and Melia tonight) make an awful pass/touch and give up an easy goal to a nobody.
Fuck it. Sanchez has looked solid, Melia like last year..aka shitty. Ilie is done. Run Roger/Pipé as dual 6/8 with Kinda in front. Give Sanchez the goal. There’s too much attacking talent here to spend 80% of possession passing between Melia-Ilie-Besler-Melia-Borath.
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Hopefully they’re just being overly cautious with Felipe, was hoping he’d get some minutes today. Replace Ilie with him and this is looking like the first choice 11.
Kinda casually busted out a Rabona to chip the ball perfectly to Pulido, unfortunately he laid it off to Shelton who tripped over his feet.
Reid got about 15 minutes. A couple awful turnovers and committed a bad PK. Looked like it was his first time playing in 2 years.
#NeverForget. Julio told me that ball 100% went off his shin but he played it off like he meant to strike it.
I noticed this yesterday when I saw it wasn’t scheduled to record the match. If you have your DVR set to auto make sure you record automatically. Mine says it’s a 3 hour “Royals Postgame Live”
Really hope Johnny is on the right. In preseason when he played with Shelton they put him on the left side where he far less effective. Don’t trust Ilie at all. With Felipe out is rather see Busio and Roger drop deep.
They keep saying it’s a “minor bone bruise by his knee” he was training all preseason and all week but he didn’t play the last 3 preseason games and obviously isn’t dressing tonight. I don’t like how secretive they’re being.
Jake still rocking the man bun. Love the dedication. What I would give for a commentary duo of Callum and Benny though.