Why Does the KC Wizards goaltender look like Fava Flav’s old Danish girlfriend, and why momentum is a fleeting thing? And I make a fearless prediction for tomorrow’s game. COmments are always welcomed.
I take a look at Toronto FC’s season a third of the way through the MLS schedule, compare it to where the club was at the same point in 2009 and draw some conclusions from the data, including an overall grade on the results so far.
In this video blog I talk about a cocky Chad Barrett, a strong TFC away win, an empty netter and of course the upcoming Voyageurs Cup game against the Whitecaps.
Comments always welcome
Watching the game on Saturday got me thinking about how a team like Toronto FC that is on paper much weaker than 2009, with its three best players (DeRo, JDG and Attakora) out of the lineup, still managed to gut out a 1-0 win over the New England Revolution. The only conclusion I can come up with is that for the first time in the history of Toronto FC, we actually have a coach. And make no mistake about it, this is not Mo’s team anymore, this is Preki’s team.
So TFC gets home and I immediately leave town. I am off camping this weekend and won’t be blogging on all things TFC until Monday and of course I won’t be in my usual south end perch. But before checking out and hitting the road this evening I want to quickly touch on the New England match tomorrow.
Happy Friday one and all!
I want to comment upon a few new developments from today’s news.
– TFC’s announcement of plans for a new training facility
– Club Academy Program – a great development
– Two Leeds United Players linked to TFC are released
– TFC are out west to play the best team so far this season in MLS on Saturday night
In this video I talk about the Montreal match in detail, why this game will likely me representative of what TFC looks like for the rest of the season, why Mo Johnston should still not be let off the hook just yet and PANINI time is here!
Comments always welcome.
Momentum in sports is a very important thing and a team like Toronto FC with so many new players on it needs to know tangibly that they have the ability to go away from home and win a game. They can be told and told and told they can do it until Preki turns blue in the face, but unless they see it for themselves away wins can only be discussed in the abstract.
…The fixture list for Toronto FC is way too crowded for Preki to settle upon a starting XI and run them into the ground at this point. At some stage, either sooner or later, that amount of games will catch up with a club that does not rest players from time to time. Furthermore there has to be, even though the fan in me does not like it from an emotional sense, more of an emphasis placed on League versus Cup play. And the draw between Vancouver and Montreal last week out west helps make this doable…
