Gamethread: Sounders at Marathon of Honduras
by Dave Clark on Aug 19, 2010 6:05 PM PDT
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PrintThe Seattle Sounders open up their Group Stage of the CONCACAF Champions League on the road. This is different from the other MLS teams that went 3-0-0 to start Round One, and it should not be overlooked. Over the past two season of the CCL, the Home advantage has been a massive 0.8125 goal advantage.
That means even a point tonight is huge. A win changes everything.
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The keys to this game are simple
1 - Use the Height Advantage. It doesn't matter if Nate Jaqua starts or not. Seattle will be the taller team. Score a header and force that defense into a more traditional 5-3-2. And I know that isn't very traditional, but its closer than a 3-4-1-2.
2 - Get the Other Winger Into the Game Early. Whoever takes the pitch in the place of Zakuani has to get involved early. Those touches can change how they feel about the game, about their teammates, and about themselves. Roger Levesque, Nate Jaqua or Miguel Montano all have distinct advantages. The one who starts must make an early declaration that they deserved it.
3 - Physicality doesn't Matter. Metapan tried it and it was laughable. Seattle is used to getting fouled. Don't focus on that. The refereeing will suck. It doesn't matter. Put shots on goal and move on.
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Tonight's beer pairing is Full Sail Brewing Limited #3. A classic pilsner. Likely margaritas later.
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Who would you like to see get the start on the other wing?
Jeremiah and I thought Roger Levesque when we did the game card.
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If its Roger, the wings will be considerably slower than they have been with Zak and Sanna running them.
That being said, I would prefer Montano, he brings the electricity to go with the kits.
He didn't go.
Montano, I agree
I think the Latin American playing experience possibly counts for more than we’re admitting. (As we saw last night.) He may be an early sub, but Montano could know how to play to the weaknesses of this Marathon side better than Levesque may.
Vamos a ver, no?
Wow
We got Levesque right, but a surprise Marshall start.
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Marshall needs to play sometime
and it might as well be in CCL matches
Still, a risk
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Easy drinking tonight
I’m getting some Rogue 21 over the weekend.
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Evening, folks. Mind if I join you tonight?
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Only
If you trade us Le Toux for Vaegnas
by MMAWrestling on Aug 19, 2010 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
How about Alejandro Moreno? Without Ljundberg, there’s a certain diving touch missing from the Sounders (I kid, I kid).
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So I'm watching this in Spanish again.
I think it’s a big step up over FSC broadcasting.
Now with more lemon bars!
I may have to learn spanish then
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I understand almost none of it.
But at least it doesn’t get on my nerves like FSC broadcasting does.
Now with more lemon bars!
Do you need to?
I mean, FSC is an abortion of a channel.
Nick Garcia is the Brian Russell of MLS but 10 times worse.
Thank god Versus is apparently interested in picking up FSC’s package.
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I'm waiting to see who the announcers would be
If it’s Harkes I will watch on mute.
Nick Garcia is the Brian Russell of MLS but 10 times worse.
I hate the electric yellow so, so much
We look gay. Not homosexual gay. Gay gay.
by lemonverbena on Aug 19, 2010 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I missed the Sounders bench
Who we got?
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Stupid FSC announcers don't even know that Saprissa put in new Turf
They should read Sounder at Heart
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What's up with the KIRO-FM commentary?
It’s all muffled for me.
Nick Garcia is the Brian Russell of MLS but 10 times worse.
FSC Seattle is NOT looking for a pairing with Marshall
Dammit man
Marshall hasn’t started in forever
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See what I mean?
At least when it’s in Spanish I have no idea what they are saying, so they can’t annoy me.
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by Fear on Aug 19, 2010 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
That might be Marshall's best play ever
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If I didn't have to report on this it'd be Spanish, baby. This is hell
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 19, 2010 7:15 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Bits and peices?
This is nearly the standard lineup
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If anything weird happens I need English
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 19, 2010 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Welcome to the two-name club.
Although sometimes I miss the old days.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 19, 2010 7:18 PM PDT up reply actions
No
We have just noticed that people take us more seriously when we do
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It's a rule on the regional sites and sports main pages, though.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 19, 2010 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, you are supposed to be serious
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I always use my full name as a username, anywhere I sign up. I dunno, I guess I’m not fun.
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Notice that no one is freaking out about Riley.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 19, 2010 7:17 PM PDT reply actions
You'll have to admit that tackle was solid
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There we go.
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You're way ahead of us.
You had that post up as the ball was entering the goal.
Oh, haha, I’ll be a bit slower going forward. Are you all watching on an HD feed (be it FSC or Galavision)? Cause Comcast doesn’t offer FSC in HD and SD feeds are usually a split second ahead of HD feeds — at least on cable.
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Wait...
Mark Cuban is the guy who made all that money off of HD TVs right?
Broadcast.com
He sold that for piles of money
by MMAWrestling on Aug 19, 2010 7:29 PM PDT up reply actions
He sold Broadcast.com for $5.9 billion in Yahoo! stock. Then he bought the Mavericks and started that weird HDNet channel (not necessarily in that order?).
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In case you were wondering...
Piles of money = $5.9 Billion
by MMAWrestling on Aug 19, 2010 7:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I think he’s a dick either way, but…
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WOOP WOOP
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
My favorite part about the Spanish channel:
GOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!
Now with more lemon bars!
That lazy bastard Montero didn't even try to score
If he had energy he would have shot rather than passed
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I'm happy I didn't say all those bad things about Levesque...
I’d sure look foolish right now.
Graham v Jeremiah on Saturday
Excellent
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We lost this fixture last year
Hilarious
by Graham MacAree on Aug 19, 2010 7:28 PM PDT up reply actions
dont give me yur pity
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by Jeremiah Oshan on Aug 19, 2010 7:54 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Stupid Question...
Is the group stage of this tournament determined by aggregate scoring?
Here are tiebreaker
1.Greater number of points earned in matches between the teams concerned
2.Greater goal difference in matches between the teams concerned
3.Greater number of goals scored away from home in matches between the teams concerned
4.Reapply first three criteria if two or more teams are still tied
5.Greater goal difference in all group matches
6.Greater number of goals scored in group matches
7.Greater number of goals scored away in all group matches
8.Drawing of lots
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Shit.
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That was a pretty great shot.
But ughhh our back line is playing terribly.
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"Nice Ball There..."
WTF? There was nobody else even on my screen near where that ball was played.
FSC's announcers are not the brightest
by Graham MacAree on Aug 19, 2010 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions
And they’re apparently doing this from a studio. So those two factors will give you pretty wonky results.
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Who the hell just said Alvaro is like Pat Noonan?
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Montero just played that guy into the foul
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Oh my. Count your lucky stars there.
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Kasey Keller is my hero
the backline has issues tonight
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I almost want a sub at halto bring Ianni on
because I like the way the line plays so much better with Patrick’s speed
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Seattle can’t wait to get to halftime.
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WOW.
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Good news
Sigi has should sub Marshall now
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I don’t know if Marshall even saw the guy?
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He had to have
He knew someone was there. No reason to rear back and try to friggin boot it. Just absolutely stupid.
Seriously?
You’re a cougar fan. Shouldn’t you be used to this sort of thing?
Thank you Marshall
You have officially made it that much easier to drop you below someone who can still play.
Terrible call.
But Marshall needs to play that better. On this turf he needs to know the ball isn’t going to run like it would at Qwest. Mostly just a terrible call though.
Well, look at it this way: at least it wasn’t a red card. Exact same thing has happened to the Union twice this year and it resulted in ejections both times.
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HIghway robbery
Apparently when you go on attack and get studs in the knee on the edge of the box, it’s nothing, but when a you run into a defender who is trying to clear, it goes on the spot.
what is the ref
suppose to do when defender make contact like that. It somewhat forces the the ref to make the decision.
I disagree
i just don’t like to see anything that forces the refs hand regardless if it was a good call or not.
and
you’ll see that regardless if its UEFA or Concacaf.
I think
Seattle is fortunately to not be behind by more than 1 goal.
Eh..
While we were definitely second best I don’t think Marathon had too many chances. I think a one goal differene is probably about right.
i'm bashing
that on the pressure Marathon put on Seattle and it almost resulted in a 2nd goal for them prior to the PK.
Sounders actually winning the ShOG battle
There’s a little bit of hope from that
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Perhaps
seattle can keep that up and possible tie it up and maybe if they are lucky take the lead again.
I'm happy I wasn't the ref...
It was always hard for me to make calls like that. When I knew for sure there was no intent.
It would
also be a hard call for me to make if i was ref.
If it's close, always better to just knock it out as a Keeper.
I have no problem with Keller’s decision to play it safe.
Now with more lemon bars!
by Fear on Aug 19, 2010 8:06 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Danget.
This Randy Diamond guy is starting to annoy…
The ref is bad.
Pretty sure we knew this was likely to be the case going into the game.
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I came into
watching the game that seattle would be very fortunate to come with a draw but not a win.
Marathon seems to finesse those plays much better
While our players just run into them.
by lemonverbena on Aug 19, 2010 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions
'It sounds like a medical report when you list out all those names and injuries'
Possibly because a list of injuries is a medical report
by Graham MacAree on Aug 19, 2010 8:10 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I'm really glad that Sturgis is still taking flat corners
I miss FL10
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really? Flopping and time wasting already?
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If you say it five times
maybe a magical Ianni will appear
by agtk on Aug 19, 2010 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
We'll have to get the team to hire you to go to all away matches
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 19, 2010 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
More crowd than it looks like
Nobody sitting in the first few rows.
by lemonverbena on Aug 19, 2010 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I hear Columbia is quite beautiful.
When you arn’t getting shot at anyway.
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Actually I'm not.
I heard it has some beautiful mountain ranges. According to you, I heard wrong.
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Columbia is not in Central America
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 19, 2010 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Seriously
my geography is pretty much amazing. I have no idea why I thought Colombia was in Central America.
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Whats next?
You’re going to tell us that Portugal is in Europe or something!!!
If we want to be competitive in CONCACAF...
…then we really need to improve our falling down ability.
by mistuhp on Aug 19, 2010 8:27 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I really could handle a Seamon for Sturgis move
and then a Fucito for Levesque
But as long as Sturgis isn’t passing left, why bother putting more speed to the left?
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There really is no good reason to watch the FSC broadcast
by lemonverbena on Aug 19, 2010 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
All the quality HD?
somewhere not here
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It
seems we got to keep bugging comcast about it.
HD would be the good reason
FSC still in standard def here in San Diego.
by lemonverbena on Aug 19, 2010 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Huh?
I no longer understand Sigi
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I don't think he's looked very good today
by Graham MacAree on Aug 19, 2010 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions
And they
probably don’t want to risk him getting hurt.
Not Bad Sturgis...
Assuming that was actually Sturgis.
I could deal with not Sturgis
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final sub
we’d still have an offense that ignores the left
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Anyone else think a trainer with the initial as RN
is funny?
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Who trains people in the Royal Navy?
Ludicrous!
by Graham MacAree on Aug 19, 2010 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Because MLS is the pinnacle of the footballing world, right?
by Graham MacAree on Aug 19, 2010 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I
don’t expect Seattle to score any from corners.
Ok
hearing Rooney Flooneys or whatever his name is, in Spanish, is amazing.
Now with more lemon bars!
Yes
Sturgis could try to go left
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WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF PAT NOONAN
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 19, 2010 8:50 PM PDT reply actions
It's probably good I did not have the money to go to this...
Between the “ignore marathon fouls in the box” referee and the “let’s draw up a lineup drunk and sub like I’ve had a few more” Sigi performance, what a complete waste of everybody’s time.
this was nearly a standard lineup
we’ve seen much crazier before
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Now if only the FSC broadcasters would do the same
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 19, 2010 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Who watches FSC?
I prefer Spanish that I can’t understand any day over useless drivel that actively gets on my nerves.
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Seattle
really needs to take better corners.
Well if we lose in Saprissa we are fucked.
Lets hope we can at least get a draw with Monterrey on Wed.
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I don't
expect seattle to have much of a chance.
Home crowd a hopefully healthy Zak, an avaliable Nyassi. I think we have fair chances.
Also, a lineup without Marshall.
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Seattle
needs to convert those corners to have a actually chance imo. We aren’t going to get those goals off of opponent mistakes or the perfect back pass to a open place that can put it in the net.
You were saying these same things
just before the Sounders went 6 straight in League play without losing.
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Call me Pollyanna, but I just think it’s damn cool to see the Sounders playing in Honduras, Mexico, and Costa Rica.. winners or not.
by Kohflot on Aug 19, 2010 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
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