Ok, first impression, really sucks to miss Olave.  His one knock is that he's prone to yellow cards and so getting suspended hurts.  Horst didn't have a howler, but he was obviously outclassed by The Mighty Hawaiian Forehead.  Russell looked good, not as good as Wingert/Joy, but much better than Beltran.  Borchers played well, but had to compensate too often for Horst.  I was actually generally impressed with Kenny Culter.  He's not our #1 choice at d-mid by any stretch of the imagination, but he's a decent replacement and a great role-player on the team.  I don't think he'll ever blossom into a regular starter in this league, but he's good enough for the spot he fills at RSL.  Movsisyan, his goal to lead off the match was good, but the mids didn't really do much after that to get the ball to the forwards.  Findley, excellent, his passing has been a very pleasant surprise.  It was great to see Deuchar finally ghet one.  The most improved player on the team in my opinion is Andy Williams.  He is playing like a man possessed.  He started the season in shape, something he has never really done his entire career, he's playing defense and doing a great job feeding balls to the forwards.  His shot that glanced off the defender for a corner was tremendous, something our mids do too little of.  Beckerman for some reason has lately become almost a non factor.  He has been playing good defense, but seems to be almost playing a defensive midfield role, and not pushing into the offense.  I cannot tell if this is a purposeful move by Kreis or what the root cause is, but I can say it is hurting RSL's attack (but is helping the defending, so I guess that's a good thing). 

Now to Clint Mathis.  There is no excuse for a PROFESSIONAL athlete to be that out of shape.  Clint was obviously gassed after the match, and he came in as a late sub.  Clint's man boobs and gut are obvious.  If he doesn't care enough to at least try to get into shape for what will probably be his last shot playing professionally, I don't know what can be done.  If Clint is not able to get into a shape other than round by the end of the season, I think this will spell the end of his career.

Really it sucks that the team played well except for the last 10 minutes of the first half.  Minus that let-down and
there would have been 3 points.

        

 

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