Posted on MaMaLeave a comment on Deja vu all over again for the Whitecaps Whitecaps in just another Winter’s Failįrom last night but with additional exasperations. Maybe he’s just a bad Champions League exit away from being shown the door? Gauld also looked to have picked up an injury but if the Whitevaps best player stopped buying what the coach is selling that’s a real problem. He looked thoroughly fed up with the situation in his post game comments last week and he cut a forlorn figure during that mess of a second half tonight. But it does speak to the inability of the team to manage a game.Ī penny too for the thoughts of Ryan Gauld. That’s probably harsh on a striker who has played less than forty-five minutes. A big man up front who will persuade the rest of the team to lump the ball forward and bypass the better players in the middle of the pitch. The problem is that the changes almost immediately made things worse.Īnd thus far in his brief Whitecaps career Sergio Cordova looks like the exact kind of forward the team don’t need. He needs to figure out why they aren’t listening to him.Īt least this week he reacted to the in game situation by making changes. In his post game media session Sartini said that he wanted his team to play in the same way as the first half. It’s tough to guess at what Sartini is saying to his players during the half time break, but the most likely answer is that he is telling them to stop passing the ball so crisply and to cut out those pesky attacks on the opponents goals. It wasn’t taken from them by San Jose, they simply allowed it to wander away because they are incapable of even the most basic of in game management. The bad news is that they’ve solved it by being awful in the second half instead.Īs with last week against RSL the Whitecaps were good for the first forty-five minutes and then allowed the game to drift away from them in the second. It was a problem that needed to be solved. Last season the Vancouver Whitecaps were awful in the first hall of every game and it cost them a bucket load of points. Posted on MaLeave a comment on Vancouver Whitecaps are the real deal Deja vu all over again for the Whitecapsįrom last night but with additional sighs of desperation. Time for the Soccer Shorts player ratings! Now they need to do that on a regular basis. One swallow does not make a summer and one win does not make a season.īut the Whitecaps have shown they can create and finish chances. Ngando wasn’t given much time to show his worth but he has a likeable swagger of arrogance about him when he’s on the ball. This was Dajome’s best game for about a season and a half and probably the first game in that length of time that he’s genuinely looked like he wanted the ball. All lumbering runs and bad first touches. Raposo did more than enough to win back the left back role for Saturday’s game.īlackmon may not be the most reliable defender at all times but he’s by far the best man to bring the ball out of the back and offer Vancouver the opportunity to disrupt the shape of an opponent.Ĭordova did not look like a DP forward in this game. Give Gauld players running in front of him and he will find them with a pass. It’s hard to imagine that even the Whitecaps can blow a 5-0 lead in the second leg. The first half was fine but, in the second, as the Hondurans wilted the Whitecaps finally found the ability to punish a team when they were there to be punished. Let’s not pretend that Real Espana are the greatest team in the world, but the Whitecaps have lost to worse teams than that in the past.
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