sounders win at home… about freaking time
i am up way early on my way to NYC tomorrow so i have to keep this on short tip.
sounders played their ass off, and there is no fault for effort anywhere on this team. it was the full 90 and even though i was ready to have a hear attack in the last ten minutes… as i was not ready to watch another game gifted away… credit to the boys who did the job that we were so used to last year.
i didn’t get to see replays of either zakuani’s goals… the first seemed a little sloppy (no complaints) and the second a result of a nice johnny legendriley cross. or do i have those mixed up. either way… both were a result of player taking his chances by being in the righ place at the right time. and let’s be honest… most of your goals should come from that. you can’t rely on crazy skill and wicked shooting for most goals, or you will lose more than you win. you should rely on people taking their chances and that is what he did.
some thoughts on the overall performance… and then i am off to bed.
- montero. i count this as the third game in a row where you didn’t sit on your ass and you ran it off instead. keep up the good work. if not for the sounders, or their fans, do it for yourself and your desired european move b/c you won’t get one unless you show that effort week in week out.
- nkufo. don’t shoot me… but he is still a little lost. and i don’t blame him. he is still figuring out what his teammates like/do and where they like to run/pass. i hold nothing against him. there is a lot to settle into in a new team/city/league. so time will tell, but today, he wasn’t quite there.
- parke…. you may not love seattle, but we love you. he was phenomenal tonight. we have him 1 or 2 more years? count them down b/c he likely won’t be here any longer.
- zakuani - add these types of goals to your somewhat regular breakaway goals?? you may be a 20 goal threat before you know it…. and i wouldn’t be too mad at that.
- nyassi - not sure i liked you on the left…. you didn’t do too much. please go back to the right.
- alonso - i have free weekends on 7/30, 8/14 and 8/21. let me know when you are available for our first date.
i was sitting next to a very nice guy tonight although he was a soccer newbie. he had 100 questions for me… which i was happy to answer, but i was able to shut him up after this one… “who is the best player”. i said “that is not answerable, but watch alonso as much as you can and watch him break up the plays all game long…” that shut him up from then on out and at the very end of the game he said… “wow, that was phenomenal. how can he not be the most important player on the pitch. he must have broken up 50 plays”.
i didn’t have any good logic to disagree with any of his logic.
- finally… thank god for keller and “that save”. due to that we would have been quite a bit more grumpy tonight.
KASEY KELLER CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP.
all in all… results this week were pretty darn good. LA and SJ drew, rsl drew, and houston lost.
i hope the sounders aren’t just stringing us along, but they sure are giving us hope by clawing their way back in…. whatcha think?
