It was certainly nice to leave C-bus with 3 points. Nine points in a week certainly turns things around, and now we're near the top of the conference.
I can't say much about the quality of our play. Our passing was poor and we had very little possession. In the second half, the guys looked exhausted and the quality dropped even more. It's exactly the opposite situation from the month of May, where we looked sharp yet would lose the game. Given that it was an afternoon game, a good plane ride away from home, and following two matches in a week, you gotta give the guys a pass.
Great irony that the two scorers were Ngwenya and Moreno, both tallying goals against their previous clubs. Moreno had a better game than I can recall him ever having with Dynamo. He skied through the air in the box to head in his goal, took on defenders, made crosses, and suffered the usual fouls. But my favorite Crewman was Marshall, who scored us the winning goal. After he slid to prevent Gray's cross (Gray serving as the primary A-Mid this afternoon) from getting to Ngwenya, I was thinking how I would've liked to see NGWENYA making the slide. It would make it look like, you know, he was hungry to score, rather than just being hopeful the ball would come to him. We need hunger up front. Even though the result wasn't what Marshall wanted, at least he was throwing his body into his effort. I'm just thankful that his effort helped the score along.
Ngwenya: beautiful header on the corner kick, and who would've thought you'd claim 3 goals this week. Props to you! Now lets see some more hunger in front of goal.
I'm just cranky because it's Sunday night and the workweek looms. Bear with me.
Other MLS Thoughts
Can't say I'm sad to see LA's decline. The MLS probably benefits with strong clubs in LA and NY, and Beckham definitely benefits from a strong LA. I still can't root for LA though; I leave it to them to solve their problems. I have faith that Frank Yallop can do so, but will it be too late to salvage the season? And do I care? Heck, if Beckham helps his team improve, but they still miss the playoffs, Becks will probably call it a successful building season and be glad for the rest.
Who would've thought that (1) Ben Olson would get a hat trick, and (2) DC could parlay a 2-1 lead into a 4-2 victory with only 10 men versus Captain America, JP Angel and RBNY? I didn't.
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So we went from playing good (or at least not bad) and loosing to playing bad and winning?
I will take a win regardless of the circumstances, but in the long teams that play good tend to win more games and the teams that play bad tend to loose more games.
Hopefully we can play good and win in the future (preferably in the play offs).
If you will excuse me, will not put a lot of attention to your blog and the Dynamo, the orange clockwork can survive one less fan for a week, I will concentrate on the Athletic Bilbao this weekend, last game of the season of La Liga, and Athletic needs to win to avoid relegation (they can loose and not get relegated but better to do the job yourself), it is getting harder and harder to play in that league without using foreigners or Spaniards (only Basques, and taking into consideration less than 3 million people live in the Basque Country), specially with 3 teams getting relegated each year, but I prefer the team playing in 2nd division than hiring Spaniards and/or foreigners, using only Basques is what makes us different and who we are.
Thanks for the good wishes on the blog, we can use all of the karma we can get, so feel free to send your positive thoughts on Sunday around 10 A.M. Houston time, and feel free to shout Gora Athletic, Aupa Athletic.
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