At least Taylor Twellman didn’t score
By: Tom | May 7th, 2007That’s all I can say about the Fire’s 3-1 defeat to the Revolution on Sunday night: at least Taylor bloody Twellman didn’t score. The Fire have been riding their luck somewhat this season, and as the tone of my game preview suggested, I had a sinking feeling about the game. I’m not very happy to be right.
The problem the Fire have is none of their central midfielders impose themselves on the game and dominate play. Whilst they have creativity from Chris Rolfe and Justin Mapp, neither of them runs the show from the middle of the park. And if they have to drop back to fetch the ball, that leaves Chad Barrett doing his Wayne-Rooney-chasing-the-ball-furiously routine alone with too little support.
This seems to lead to frustrating spells when the Fire cannot get anything going if the opposition is able to cut off the supply lines to those attackers. Rolfe and Mapp both looked dangerous in spells (very briefly for Mapp after he came in the 76th minute), but the Fire seemed to have a lot of possession that did not lead anywhere in particular. Maybe when Blanco arrives and plays his deep playmaker role this will improve.
Right now we look like a workmanlike team relying on a couple of individual sparks to squeeze out enough creative moments to shade games, rather than a team able to dominate the flow of the game and crush opposing teams. Temo, please save us from solid mediocrity!
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Sounds like you saw what I did. I’m almost wondering if there’s something Chicago can’t do between Cuauhtemoc’s arrival and today to improve – can’t say what that would be, but surely there’s a trade out there somewhere?
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The offensive troubles, as you stated, are nothing new and certainly didn’t suprise me. Say what you will about Herron and Jaqua, they at least seemed to make the opposition’s backline respect them. I don’t think Rolfe and Barrett scare anybody, just as the Chicago Bulls don’t scare any of the elite opposition in the NBA, despite excecuting quite effectively at other times.
Until this game, I was thinking that the Fire would at least be a team that didn’t give up much at the back, and would be hard to defeat. The three goals are somewhat troublesome, and hopefully this game will be an outlier.
I am very curious as to how many total minutes the Fire will carry a two goal lead this season.
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