Kreis should be sacked
by wcnitz (2021-03-28 21:23:16)
Edited on 2021-03-28 21:28:53

In reply to: The C-list U23s not so much. *  posted by SavageDragon


The game management was just awful. They were low energy and absolutely without any movement through the middle of the field. Everything was going up the wings in the first half. It was all useless. Then, his big halftime change was...Saucedo. Nope. Then he keeps Ferreria on, who was invisible, and drops him back for Soto. Should have never taken Mihailovic off in the first place. And don't even get me started on dropping Yueill so deep when Perea was just fine as the deep mid the prior matches.

I feel for Ochoa, but that mistake should have never mattered. I don't care if this is a B/C team, they should have never been CONCACAF'd like that.


As an NYCFC fan who watched him in 2015
by irishlaw2010  (2021-03-29 16:58:01)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I can't really figure out why he keeps getting hired. He's basically been on a downward spiral since leaving RSL.


Can you explain how they were CONCACAF'd?
by NDBass  (2021-03-28 22:35:45)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I watched maybe 10 minutes of the match and realized I had seen enough. I really don't care about Olympic soccer, especially with it being a glorified U23 tournament.


Among other things:
by SavageDragon  (2021-03-28 23:27:42)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

* the first goal was pushed across the line by an arm. It was incidental -- he brought it down with his hip and it was going goalward, but he went to ground and ended up knocking it in with his arm -- but enough that it shouldn't have stood.

* the second best chance in the dying minutes would've been 1-on-goal in the box or a penalty, except that the ref inexplicably decided that Lewis "hooked" the defender, despite never initiating contact, at most doing some one-for-one hand fighting after the defender realized he was fucked.

* standard "oh, we're up a goal? Time to writhe on the ground for minutes at a time at any opportunity"

... but all that said, this is on Kreis and the players, not the ref.


All this, and
by wcnitz  (2021-03-29 08:21:03)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Let's not forget the big brain decision to host a tournament at 5000 feet when the temps would be in the upper 80s and 90s.


The call against Lewis was absolutely bogus, right out of
by G.K.Chesterton  (2021-03-29 00:41:17)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

the CONCACAF handbook for jobbing the USA, and as SD indicated, was in a very crucial part of the field.

On the other hand, the second goal for Honduras was on an absolutely atrocious and inexcusable clear-out by Ochoa.