Better Late than Never: Pre Game post DC United vs Atlante FC
By: jon | July 15th, 2008I’m sitting in my office, after everyone has left. I just changed into my Quaranta jersey, and realized I have neglected my fair blog. So, in case you planned on checking this 3 hours before game time, here’s a little post action.
DC came off an unlucky 2-1 defeat at the hands of Chivas (but Chivas is very good). Two posts and a missed peno spells unlucky in any language. I’m not going to get into a recap of that game, cause it was a while ago, and it has been dissected already. I’ll only say Wells did pretty good, Simms did pretty bad, and all the rest of the players were eh. Oh, I forgot, Dyachenko sucks.
Atlante got spanked 4-0 by Houston, who if you remember, had a scoring problem earlier this year. Teams respond two ways after that kind of dismantling; they lick their wounds and come out flat the next game, or they get pissed and become very difficult to play against. I think they’re going to come out a lot better than they did on Saturday, and I see a 2-2 tie in the future. I hope I’m wrong.
Some quick and dirty links:
- Goff does an feature of Craig Thompson, who to me is a decent reserve, and nothing more. Some people are getting a little too hyped on this guy. Fighting Talker agrees.
- The Washington Times smelled the same story line, and also offered a profile of Thompson.
- The World Wide Leader (WWL henceforth) noticed that MLS teams are at a disadvantage in international competitions. Well, welcome to the party, boys.
- The MLS preview of tonight’s game.
- On the mainpage of the Offside, the discovery that MLS teams only split $125k of the winnings, and Mexican teams split the whole $1 million. Pathetic. I hope Eddie Pope and the Players Union stick it to MLS next offseason.
That’s it, back tomorrow with a recap and pictures.
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This game is making me sick. Now, I know that DC United is short-handed, but Wells is just not the keeper for success. First, he lets in too many easy chances. Second, he doesn’t make any, and I mean ANY, spectacular saves. The result is that you’ve got a guy who’s generally too pourous and can’t stop the key difficult shot when it counts. What the hell can he do? (Admittedly, the defense exposes him too much, but you’ve got to stop the easy shots and then pull out a few tough ones to be worthwhile. For chrissake, stop the bleeding.)
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