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#1444603 Is Vanzeir a bust?

Posted by Arsenal14 on 24 March 2024 - 10:47 AM in MetroFanatic.com

In fact, look at Vanzier's shots during this game. He had wide open looks and probably should have had a hattrick but missed the net.

The team's xG was 1.23, they scored 4 non-Vanzeir goals, but he also "should have had a hat-trick?"

Like...come on man. Be serious.




#1444472 Is Vanzeir a bust?

Posted by Arsenal14 on 23 March 2024 - 02:28 PM in MetroFanatic.com

3 games, 5 assists.

Close the thread.



#1444365 USA Post-World Cup Thread

Posted by Arsenal14 on 21 March 2024 - 10:04 PM in MetroFanatic.com

Reyna made two nice passes to feed him.

It is ironic that Reyna saved Berhalter from all the haters by playing amazing in OT.


It's really the best of both worlds as a Berhalter skeptic.

The US won AND you get to shit on Gregg for being bad at his job.



#1444345 Random Player Name Thread 2024

Posted by Arsenal14 on 21 March 2024 - 09:06 AM in MetroFanatic.com

I would love this signing.

But my big hope is Radamel Falcao García.

His contract is up to in June. He's said he doesn't want to play in Colombia. I think Metro can swoop in and sign him. He'd be the striker we haven't had in NY since BWP

I get it for the nostalgia, but like...man's started one game in the last year.

 

If he wanted to play for $200,000, sure, sign him up.




#1444306 No MLS in 2024 Open Cup

Posted by Arsenal14 on 20 March 2024 - 07:48 AM in MetroFanatic.com

All 3 MLS Next Pro teams lost their opening matches on Tuesday against amateur opponents.

Good.



#1444295 Where are They Now? 2024 Edition

Posted by Arsenal14 on 19 March 2024 - 05:44 PM in MetroFanatic.com

Sacha Kljestan apparently playing for the Des Moines Menace in the USOC?


Like when McBride and friends played for Wembley FC in the FA Cup.



#1444271 Is Vanzeir a bust?

Posted by Arsenal14 on 18 March 2024 - 03:08 PM in MetroFanatic.com

Please stop it. We were all here to see klimala miss open shots. The coach can only do soo much but the player has to put it in the net. He struggled here and he struggled in Israel and will struggle at any decent league because he is not good.

Same thing goes for vanzier. He has not been able to get shots on frame. It's not a tactics issue. It is a technique issue. At this point, I would tell him not to worry about scoring; focus on your sot %.


The player has to put the ball in the net, but they're not going to very often if they aren't on the receiving end of good chances (or if they don't know how to generate those chances themselves).

Vanzeir, for example, didn't just forget how to shoot once he got here. His shots on target percentage was about half what it was in Belgium...and so was his xG/shot.

If the team generates better chances, all of a sudden, Vanzeir's going to look like a better shooter.



#1444245 NMR: Other MLS games

Posted by Arsenal14 on 17 March 2024 - 03:43 PM in MetroFanatic.com

Ending INSANE


Yeah I was there, can't say I've ever seen anything quite like it lol



#1444235 NMR: Other MLS games

Posted by Arsenal14 on 17 March 2024 - 01:56 PM in MetroFanatic.com

Anyone watch the CHI vs Mtl match? Did Barlow play as a back? 


Left wing, more or less. Positions were kind of out the window for the last 10 minutes of that one.



#1444228 Is Vanzeir a bust?

Posted by Arsenal14 on 17 March 2024 - 11:54 AM in MetroFanatic.com

The center forward in this system has to score a couple of dozen goals a season for the system to be great.

No one in MLS does that, much less someone in this system that is mediocre at creating regular high-quality scoring chances.

Bouanga and the Greek guy in Atlanta tied for the league lead in non-pen goals last season with 17. Asking for 24 from any one player is unrealistic - last time anyone did was 2019, when Vela and Zlatan both hit that mark.



#1444195 Metro - Columbus Game Thread

Posted by Arsenal14 on 16 March 2024 - 09:59 PM in MetroFanatic.com

Commentator said he hasn't played soccer for a while (I guess Norway is on the MLS schedule) so I'm tempted to give him a pass.  But I wasn't very impressed.


Last game was December 3, last start was November 17 with the Norway U20s.



#1444188 Metro - Columbus Game Thread

Posted by Arsenal14 on 16 March 2024 - 08:50 PM in MetroFanatic.com

This game looks like one team is an MLS Cup favorite and the other is a mid level playoff team, which based on the level of talent in each team is probably reality.


An MLS Cup favorite on short rest, too.

Columbus is really, really good, and is going to stay that way as long as Nancy remains their coach.



#1444054 NMR: Other MLS games

Posted by Arsenal14 on 12 March 2024 - 11:51 PM in MetroFanatic.com

Philly is getting spanked.

Salomon Rondon dropping a hat-trick on you 5 years after he went to play in China is a special kind of embarrassing.

His last hat-trick was against Bob Bradley's Swansea lol



#1443989 NMR: Other MLS games

Posted by Arsenal14 on 10 March 2024 - 10:42 AM in MetroFanatic.com

Lol on the texting thing

Insigne apparently is intense and has strong ideas - bad fit with Bradley
Heardmsn says he has forgotten more about soccer than I know

I remember Bradley getting raked over the coals in England (/Wales) for being insultingly rudimentary with his Swansea players, basically treating them like U20s in terms of tactical instruction and training drills.

If he hasn't learned from that, I can see how players like Insigne and Bernardeschi would bristle at it.



#1443988 MLS TV moves to Apple

Posted by Arsenal14 on 10 March 2024 - 10:37 AM in MetroFanatic.com

I don't remember them showing a good angle on Burke's offside call, or a good angle of the Dallas goal going through our wall.  It's just a question of how much money Apple wants to put into the production, and it looks like they want to show these games on the cheap.  I also don't like the commentator, can they find someone with a little personality and a sense of humor?  Give me more Lloyd Sam, or bring back Shep.


MLS is in charge of the production, so blame the owners, per usual.

Lloyd Sam's kicking around - he was on the Columbus - Chicago game last night.



#1443987 Metro - Dallas Game Thread

Posted by Arsenal14 on 10 March 2024 - 10:34 AM in MetroFanatic.com

A loss at Columbus should restore the natural order around here


"Even Chicago almost got a draw there, what's wrong with us???"



#1443865 Is Vanzeir a bust?

Posted by Arsenal14 on 08 March 2024 - 04:17 PM in MetroFanatic.com

How many headers has Dante scored?


For us, one. In his career, eight.



#1443858 Is Vanzeir a bust?

Posted by Arsenal14 on 08 March 2024 - 09:39 AM in MetroFanatic.com

V's got that Millenial softness and entitlement.


We've moved on to the Zoomers now, Millennials are getting into their 40s.



#1443806 Random Player Name Thread 2024

Posted by Arsenal14 on 05 March 2024 - 01:34 PM in MetroFanatic.com

Marco Reus is looking to come to MLS.  He's 34, and has been injured a lot lately.  I think he's more of a goalscorer than Forsberg, although he's not an out and out striker.  I guess you could put him up top with Vanzeir or Manoel, or he could drop into midfield depending on substitutions and injuries or whatever.

 

If he's healthy and would take a two year deal, he would be a good pickup.  Although ideally I'd rather get someone who is younger.

Yeah, let someone else make that mistake.

 

Can't be signing expensive players who aren't available - that's a death knell in this league.

 

Though Reus has been mostly injury-free for the last year or so.  Too risky.




#1443790 NMR: Other MLS games

Posted by Arsenal14 on 05 March 2024 - 02:03 AM in MetroFanatic.com

Pissed away the best team in MLS history (at the time) and has been an objective failure everywhere else he's been. Tinpot manager.


He did a very good job of turning around a D-II program.

Maybe he should try that level out again.



#1443715 Metro - Houston Game Thread

Posted by Arsenal14 on 03 March 2024 - 03:18 PM in MetroFanatic.com

Why didn't Forsberg get a secondary assist on the Manoel goal?

Did MLS quietly drop the secondary assist?


RSL had a pretty textbook throughball -> cross -> goal yesterday and only one player got credited for an assist on it.




#1443477 2024 Jersey

Posted by Arsenal14 on 02 March 2024 - 10:37 AM in MetroFanatic.com

Jerseys look good alone but the shorts make them look awful.


I'm not sure I've ever had that opinion before, but holy hell is it the right one about this get-up.



#1443467 Ngoma hurt again

Posted by Arsenal14 on 01 March 2024 - 03:29 PM in MetroFanatic.com

How do you know we have poor rehab staff?  

The combined absences of Morgan, Ngoma, and Vanzeir over the past year are a pretty strong indicator that the team's medical staff doesn't know what they're doing.




#1443413 Metro - Houston Game Thread

Posted by Arsenal14 on 29 February 2024 - 02:22 PM in MetroFanatic.com

I haven't watched a single game of the tournament this year since every game seems to be on FS2. Not paying extra to watch these games, especially when we aren't even in it.

A bunch have been free on Tubi.




#1443404 No MLS in 2024 Open Cup

Posted by Arsenal14 on 29 February 2024 - 12:08 PM in MetroFanatic.com

It's funny how MLS is crying about "congestion" but avg about 38 games a season and then many teams dont play games for almost 4 months.

And a whole bunch also get a weeks-long break in the middle of the summer when they get dumped out of Leagues Cup.

It's all a load of bullshit.