That'll be our first L Pod of the season as the Seattle Sounders bammed another own goal and lost 2-0 at Real Salt Lake. Go ahead and hit me with your questions, takes, observations and grievances right here and we'll talk about them on said L Pod.
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With this performance at ~4,000 feet and which seems to affect the players' performance. How would the elevation at around ~7,000 feet affect their performance? Which is more to blame the amount of minutes in a short amount of time or the elevation?
Nouhou is by far the most scrutinized player in Sounders history. We've seen really bad mistakes from both other center-backs this year, but they haven't seen nearly the same backlash. Is it fair to blame this game on Nouhou when our DPs ghosted the entire game and couldn't produce any offense?
Nah, if we had scored a goal, the argument would be stronger. Ragen again had some issues in this game too. Worried about a defensive regression, but less worried if we can routinely score 2 a match.
Because he's pretty awful at anything offensively which is a big part of being a wing/left back. Especially when your team is struggling to score. He gets propped up because he's usually a great defender. When he stops being a great defender he is a huge liability on both sides of the ball.
He's not even a wingback anymore, though. The team recognized that he couldn't play there effectively and changed formations. My point is more that Nouhou is held to unreasonable standards relative to the rest of the team, especially by some of the SaH writers and a large portion of the fanbase.
I mean exactly, if you change a two way position into a more defensive formation/shape for a player and then that player is not good defensively its not going to land well. He also has a pretty bad attitude. Case in point, he didn't own up to his mistake and instead tried to blame Frei.
Ragen was horrible too, and he's made multiple mistakes this year, but I don't see people calling for him to be benched. Yeimar passed to Antigua about 45 times in the first leg and scored an own goal against Charlotte, I don't see people calling for him to be benched.
We’ve heard a lot in the preseason about the Sounders’ floor being higher than ever. Maybe even the highest in the league. With the rotation we saw in this game and the poor result, does that change? Is the floor actually lower than we thought?
When it was obvious at halftime that they needed to bring 4 players on why was Brian so slow to make changes…is a deep kick from a goalkeeper so surprising that it is undefendable
My one take on this match that I found myself thinking over and over again was Rothrock does not look anywhere near as good as he did last season and I HOPE he finds his way back to the level he was at before his injury.
We can't ignore that the team doesn't seem to have enough stamina to be playing in CONCAF Champions Cup (and more) while hoping to do well MLS play. Last season we finally pulled it together for MLS play when we were eliminated from all other competitions.
At what point do we have to talk about the defensive problems. Goal #2 was more understandable because we were pushing, but Goal #1 (and so early) killed the entire vibe and likely contributed to why we looked so disjointed in the first half (given we had a couple decent looks before minute 7…)
On the road to RSL, with a big CCC game on Sunday, I think most of us can say we kind of expected this? Danny looked super sharp today and Wednesday - wonder if the plan is to just let him cook when Obed is gone
It's a compliment to be clear. Taking SAH Independent has gone well. You have broken a few league level stories like the GAM thing at the start of the season. Now you're having Doyle on the talk Western Conference.
Can the sounders constantly losing on 50/50 long kicks and second balls be explained away as altitude+midweek matches or is it something deeper within the squad or our tactics
4th came in 11 days, at altitude, rotating lines, in a stadium we always struggle in. Disjointed and sloppy is annoying but probably justifiable. How I feel about this is very dependent on how the Cruz Azul game goes.
The outcome of the Cruz Azul match is exactly where my head is at. Feels like it will tell us if this RSL match is the beginning of the unraveling, or whether the coaching staff can best utilize the depth to establish proper starting and rotational lineups.
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2. Did you see the Chicago Fire do absolutely embarrassingly Chicago Fire things this matchday?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MLS/s/XuBwIRy2ne
We're witnessing a soccer media glow up.
Felt like it took a good 6 months last season, and this year there are even more starting caliber players and tournaments.