Halftime @ Toronto
September 15, 2007 by f4denz.
Wow, following what I believed to be the best RSL effort of the year on Wednesday at DC, we get what I think is probably the worst half of the season (or at least in the last 10 matches). Not only are we not attacking, we are having a very hard time connecting passes, dealing with the turf, and most of all countering the over the top long ball attack of Toronto FC.
We are getting out shot at the half 12-3, with RSL getting only one shot on goal. We again can thank Nick Rimando, the only player who is living up to expectations today, for a couple super saves in the first half. Chris Brown, Morales, Lancos, and Beckerman have all been non factors in the match so far. Fabian got a red card in the 35th minute of the match for an altercation with Marvell Wynne. Eddie Pope has played well on the back line, Wingert has been OK, Matias has been both great and horrible at moments of the match so far. Esky is putting for a lot of effort but has been ineffective and Talley has been playing the normal role of Chris Brown, you know the invisible man, talk about no impact so far. OK that is mean, he did clear out one of Toronto’s 4 corner kicks, another area where RSL is lacking behind Toronto 4-2.
OK back to the match
RSL gets another striker
September 15, 2007 by f4denz.
Breaking news today as RSL makes a trade with the KC Wizards to get Yura Movsisyan their 20 year old striker. Here are the details:
Update from team website (sounds like a good deal for RSL)
Yura’s wikipedia page (not a lot of info here)
Interview with Yura from KC just some quick questions with typical answers
In just under 700 minutes of playing time this year (5 starts) he has 32 shots, with 10 on goal and 5 finding the back of the net. This includes an game winning goal against the Goats watch the match highlights, Yura’s goal is at the end of the clip, a great goal.
Let’s hope that he can add some more scoring power to a RSL team that needed both punch and size and may have gotten a bit of both with this pick up.
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