match-day-twenty--nine Stories - Sounder At Heart
Freddie Speaks UP
Sounders Swede Freddie Ljungberg has launched his own blog over the past week, and two of the posts are directly related to the last match. He LOVES the KC pitch. The actual grass that is. Also good words for Houston's Robertson Stadium. He also points out that he was trying to score directly off...
Size Matters
Sample size that is. In soccer statistics this shows up in several ways. 1 - there are so few significant events that the correlation and accuracy of the statistics will never be where they are for baseball, or really any of the American sports. It will ever only be close with correlations in the...
Playoffs?! Don't talk about playoffs! Are you kidding me?
Thank you Jim Mora. He was right. No team wants to talk about the Playoffs. They just want to win more games. Now, for the Sounders that includes a Playoff game, preferably at least three. This match was another where the Sounders played well enough to double their goal scoring total, and also...
Unfit for 90 in KC
Sometimes people pass things on that I have missed. In this case it isn't a minor detail, but a rather disturbing statement from the KC interim coach Peter Vermes. Thanks Leo. He admits in public that his team is unfit. "The thing that is hard for me to swallow is when we lose the game based on...
Keys to Sounders at Wizards - small update
Everyone that reads this site knows how important this match is for the Sounders and their ability to make the MLS Cup Playoffs. It is even more important for Kansas City, would be eliminated with a loss. KC was so poor early in the season that they fired their coach, and it hasn't really gotten...
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