The New York City FC vs Charlotte game mercifully is over, which can mean only one thing: It’s time to rate the NYCFC players after on a temperate night at Bank of America Field. The form will remain open until 9 am on Monday, May 8, and your ratings will be published later that day.
Feel strongly about the game tonight? The comments below are open.
• NYCFC give up three goals for the first time this year
• Set pieces remain a problem
• The quality just isn’t there
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Next week’s gonna be interesting… an NYCFC who can’t win away vs a Red Bulls team who can’t win at all
don’t think we’re gonna need whoppin’ 10 scales to rate the team. let’s go simpler: “trashy — mediocre — OK”, 3 is enough. the standard to the rating is an elite team—a team that fans feel like this team is good, winning more than losing. a team that other teams might not be comfortable to play. (and that standard is far from how the current team is if not all all)
i mean. i still patiently support Cushing’s effort to find the everyday roster for long run. i do understand it’s still relatively early in the season, allowing some rooms to test and fix stuffs. however on what problems lie there, let me re-iterate after this rating. from the top here:
• OK: Perreira (sorry for him, he might have been in better than OK, if the team’s supporting him better. but soccer is a team sports), Barraza, Thiago Martins
• Mediocre: Sands (sure he shines, but he’s a human. he can’t take it all. we saw how he’s slowed down yesterday. one day he’s getting injured or accumulated yellows, the team’s eff’d up.) Chanot (too old), Illenic (too young), Santi (up and down with not-even-close-to-a-DP. Cufre, O’toole, Keaton, Morales.
• Trashy: Magno (can’t hold a single ball for a short few second. no idea & no care where his teammates are playing. now with short temper), Santi (did i list him above? sorry it was my bad), Gray (sure we love this non-factor home boy. we are trying to be nice), Jasson (i’m not even sure he’d played a team soccer before he became NYCFC player). and anyone i forgot to rate today can easily fall in this cat. TRASHY.
stretching into a few more aways + weekday games like Open Cup & Leagues Cup. we’ve got a bigger problem than the individual incapabilities, here i’m listing.
1. team fouls: pretty sure we are highly up somewhere in the league in terms of yellow nums. good chance strating to see more than one players per game will be on suspension. 33.3% of them were not produced by the play but more from complaining and delaying stuffs. lack of a stronger presence of on-field captaincy shows.
2. depth: our best midfielder is more important CM backup in the team. and he’s high on yellow too. zero replacement when he’s out. Morales? Haak? how cute our positivity is. when Magno’s punished for flipping off the teammates, we start Andre Jasson. when our 18 yr old WB gets tired we got a 20min non-factor run-and-retire homeboy backup. Freese might be the one closely squared up to the number 1, but what’s the point anyway the team’s gonna concede every set piece played by the opponent? don’t even want to imagine when Martins or Chanot gets suspended or injured. remind yourselves pls both old boys were quite a while out for injuries last year respectively. we have only one Sands in the team. all in all, our depth is sh%t and worse than we try to ignore.
sure Cushing knows. i do see a couple more temp signings from NYCFC II before the summer window. our depth is sh#$t + we’ve got too many useless yellow cards from the previous games…
Tell us what you really think
what i really think is… the excessive lent for another a month or so. i’m ready to suffer and eat up a few more losings—draws at the best. let us be patient. when Cushing finally figure out the best 11—IMO the best 11 is not just those 11. a goto 11 that also doesn’t get broken with proper backups. this puzzles with what we’ve gotten in the pocket. ’til the summer transfer window open—pending the FOs real intention of recruiting the right pieces—Cushing’s approach should be ‘selective’ winning where smart prioritizing the attempt of winning & balancing it with giving ‘non-critical’ games up. yes, still risky approach when a single win/lose becomes really matters at the end. what can we do, tho, right? a longer lent, folks.
someone just twitted “medina > magno”. ouch
oh. and that unsung warm and considerate tradition of losing to the struggling teams. we are like the official encourager doormat for the bottom feeders. how nice ppl we are! can’t wait for the next week game w NJRB
what i really think is… the excessive lent for another a month or so. i’m ready to suffer and eat up a few more losings—draws at the best. let us be patient. when Cushing finally figure out the best 11—IMO the best 11 is not just those 11. a goto 11 that also doesn’t get broken with proper backups. this puzzles with what we’ve gotten in the pocket. ’til the summer transfer window open—pending the FOs real intention of recruiting the right pieces—Cushing’s approach should be ‘selective’ winning where smart prioritizing the attempt of winning & balancing it with giving ‘non-critical’ games up. yes, still risky approach when a single win/lose becomes really matters at the end. what can we do, tho, right? a longer lent, folks.