Gamethread: Match Day 3 Sounders at Real Salt Lake
by Dave Clark on Apr 10, 2010 5:15 PM PDT
in Sounders: MLS Regular Season
Email
Print
There's a party over there with ~150 traveling Sounders supporters. There's a party right here with many of you hanging out at the Elysian Fields watching with me, Jeremiah, Carlos, and Steve Clare of ProstAmerika.
We've previewed the match for you. Denz has answered three questions concerning Salt Lake. We are geared up and ready to go, a pint in hand with a Quick Reference Card as well.
Real Salt Lake is in the process of celebrating winning the MLS Cup last year.
Instant Analsys in the comments section as always
Lineups aren't out yet, but i fully expect Noonan to be the starter. We'll see what happens.
132 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
And its official Noonan gets the start
We should all expect to see at least one of Fucito/Levesque
I am not a Supporter | I am not a Fan | I am a Sounder
Sounder At Heart
I've been happy with the commentary.
White does a nice job informing the audience. He clearly does his homework on the other teams and his commentary is informative but blatantly obvious.
by magistermilitum on Apr 10, 2010 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions
BayAreaRefugee here, Andrew Winner here
The Wise in my pint glass
I am not a Supporter | I am not a Fan | I am a Sounder
Sounder At Heart
Online stream:
Anyone looking for a stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/local-sounders-fc
Marshall with a nice series of passes to the opposition
sure he kept winning the ball back, but that’s some poor passing
I am not a Supporter | I am not a Fan | I am a Sounder
Sounder At Heart
Beckerman gifts the Sounders a turnover
That corner could have been dangerous, but instead nothing.
I am not a Supporter | I am not a Fan | I am a Sounder
Sounder At Heart
one on one and Zakuani takes advantage
that was all about the pass really. Montero won that for him. Zakuani just finished.
I am not a Supporter | I am not a Fan | I am a Sounder
Sounder At Heart
Yep
Montero served up on a platter for Zakuani! Great finish by Stevey Z.
by seattle_since_81 on Apr 10, 2010 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
The Human Cat can't quite stop it
And we’re on the board again after being blanked last match.
That was a little scary.
Hate those bouncing balls in the box.
by seattle_since_81 on Apr 10, 2010 6:24 PM PDT reply actions
It's clear Sigi needs to add more corner defense into practice
Those were some pretty sad “clearances”.
Man injured on the side.
Should be back in the game soon I would think.
by seattle_since_81 on Apr 10, 2010 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Not sure what Ljungberg's thinking was there
Montero looked wide open for a shot.
Totally looked like he should have laid it off to Montero.
Lots of space for Montero to take a shot.
by seattle_since_81 on Apr 10, 2010 6:55 PM PDT up reply actions
The two Freddie's are not happy with each other
A couple times earlier in the game Montero ignored Ljungberg making some nice runs… I saw that one as payback. Mostly I think we still have Montero holding the ball too often and looking toomuch to create for himself.
First Half performances feature Zakuani and Montero
Clearly the two best performers.
Montero has been great both on defense and offense, and this may be his most complete half yet.
I am not a Supporter | I am not a Fan | I am a Sounder
Sounder At Heart
Why is Keller so passive on corners
Seems like he is really rooted to the line this year on corners.
Has he ever really come out?
I don’t recall him ever being much of a force in the air, even back to his European/Nat days.
I don't expect the 18 from him
But he is staying back on crosses on the six.
Back for the second half
Hopefully the storied high altitude factor doesn’t sink the Sounders.
Leo must be hurt
Because Wahl for Gonzalez isn’t a rational change to make.
Head = hand for this ref apparently
Corners are very frustrating.
That pass should have gone to Ljungberg
He scores that opportunity if he gets the ball.
The game has devolved into randomness
Not much focus from either team. This might be a good time for another sub.
Apparently our players believe their teammates are the Flash
Because there was no chance anyone was getting to that pass from Montero.
And Marshall justifies his existence
We’ve been needing that.
Good set piece.
Lovely service from Ljuneberg and great finish by Tyrone.
by seattle_since_81 on Apr 10, 2010 7:38 PM PDT reply actions
It looked like Marshall got it, I agree Brian.
by seattle_since_81 on Apr 10, 2010 7:41 PM PDT up reply actions
One of the things that I have noticed all game is that the Sounders are playing the ball out more than usual
I think this is an intentional way of slowing the game down and getting short rests
Sigi takes another hit on the crack pipe
Sturgis for Montero? Really? There’s still a lot of time left to start defending full time.
With the altitude, Montero might have been sucking air
Plus, Montero is not know for his workrate
Good thought about the altitude
I’m personally happy with playing more defense. It happens to us often enough, and we’re on the road.
by magistermilitum on Apr 10, 2010 7:44 PM PDT up reply actions
It's not Montero coming off, it's Sturgis going in
We needed to keep up the attacking pressure.
That is the complete opposite of my post.
I don’t think we should keep up the attacking nearly so much. Play for possession and prevent them from countering. If Lundberg gets any more breakaways, sure go for it, but we’re on the road in an environ we aren’t used to and have a great chance to add 3 points.
by magistermilitum on Apr 10, 2010 7:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I've lost all faith in Levesque.
Not a huge fan of this move.
by magistermilitum on Apr 10, 2010 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Levesque needs to grow his hair out more.
That’s what he’s missing this year. It would help him keep his head down.
by seattle_since_81 on Apr 10, 2010 7:45 PM PDT reply actions
Consensus in the room that Noonan has been unimpressive
Colin says “I’m not impressed”.
He's been off and on tonight.
A little more off then on, but he had some good passes.
by seattle_since_81 on Apr 10, 2010 7:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd be more curious what your thoughts are about his performance tonight
versus the few minutes he played last week.
by magistermilitum on Apr 10, 2010 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions
MY LORD!!!
What the hell kind of a pass was that?
I wonder if playing on the grass is effecting the passing.
Slowing down the passes and what not?
by seattle_since_81 on Apr 10, 2010 7:54 PM PDT reply actions
I'd like to think that
But I think the Sounders just don’t pass very well.
Yeah, lots of corner defense in practice
That was quite lame.
Arlo says a point on the road
Colin says two points lost.
Again
Why isn’t Keller claiming that ball. That cross was onto the top of the 6.
My question is the corner that Keller caught they called him out of bounds
and that lead to the scoring corner. Was he really out of bounds
"Would have, should have"
They were given the corner and they scored. In the end it doesn’t matter because the result doesn’t change.
by magistermilitum on Apr 10, 2010 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions
The main thing is we're really disorganized on corners
That’s got to change or we’re going to see a lot of disappointing results.
Evans needs to go. horrible
I fucking hate you Mariners
by kentroyals5 on Apr 10, 2010 8:03 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
On the plus side, this is MLS
So it doesn’t really matter. All we have to do is be eighth and have four good games. It worked for RSL last year.
Sigi's substitutions were puzzling to say the least
Montero and Zakuani were the spark in the first half. We definitely felt the lack.
Well it didn’t help that they had to use a sub at half. I have seen it happen 3 times where Seattle forced to use a sub had an some what of an effect later on. Like unable to sub in fuicto for example.
We were wondering about that actually
Why didn’t they sub Gonzalez at the half instead of after a couple minutes.
No Gonzalez was out on the field for a couple minutes before he came off
Which we thought was weird.
He was? How come it had zero mention about the sub until halftime. I wasn’t watching the game. Either way i stand my case force to use a sub earlier than what the team played doesn’t help at all.
This is the 3rd time that happen and it ended up being a draw.
Not really. Gonzalez was feeling sick, but he was hoping that during halftime it would calm down
He went out, the sickness came back and he subbed out. Arlo explained it during the broadcast
Ah, it was loud here so I must have missed that.
Still, it was bad that we had to use a sub for that.
Agreed and it did affect the game play from a tactical point of view. I was expecting Fuicto to sub-in in today’s game.
Which i do think Seattle needs practice on in reserve games being sub out early then work on with only 2 subs left from a tactical POV.
It did. But RSL had to sub out early twice.
So the advantage was to Seattle
It really unfortunate Seattle let it slip away on two corner kicks… I thought over all both teams played decently well. Or course with a few slip ups here and there. Although we probably should have come away with 3 points I can’t say I’m going to complain with getting only one. Hopefully we can go get a win next week against KC.
On a side note, think I need to watch the KC game to see how good they really played, because I’m sure someone is going to hail them as being the greatest things since sliced bread (like they did with NY this week).
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
