Fire 4-0 Revs: Wow.

By: Sean | April 4th, 2008

Sometimes it’s just your day, y’know? This thing was over when Frankowski toe-poked the second goal across the line. I’m just delighted that more than 15k showed up in a freezing cold rainstorm, and were given such a dominant showcase to talk up over the next week. Dale Fire!

Now, as much as I’d like to talk a bunch of smack about the win, I have a hard time justifying the red to Larentowicz. The tackle was pretty rough, but that’s a yellow card tackle in my book.

So I’ll just talk about the good stuff:

- HUGE kudos to Chad Barrett and Frankowski in a performance that was night-and-day superior to the opener. Their movement off the ball, especially Barrett’s intelligent runs (!?!!), gave the boys in red a cutting edge that was completely missing against RSL.

- Blanco, Blanco, Blanco has done it again. For nearly a year everyone who hopes for the Fire has said ‘Just wait until they get used to playing with him.’ Well, maybe that day is dawning.

- Is it me, or is the range of passing in MLS getting much better? Five years ago, I just don’t remember seeing that many teams who could reliably switch the point of attack with a single pass. After 180 minutes of Blanco and Beckham, it seems I saw it every 2 minutes.

- Now we know at least one way to protect the three-delantero midfield the Fire are using - play a team down a man. Rolfe and Mapp were not challenged to play much defense by the disorganized and demoralized Revs, and so they could run right at ‘em.

In short, the game was fun. But it’s one game. Let’s not start chilling that champagne just yet.



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  • David Martinez |  April 4th, 2008 at 6:24 am

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    See! You guys dont need Conde and/or Marmol! Just move forward to the championship!

    (self serving arguments rule)

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  • Dan |  April 4th, 2008 at 11:16 am

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    Luck and bad refereeing.

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  • Sean |  April 4th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

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    Look, it wasn’t luck that the Fire were frickin’ RAMPANT the from the first touch. And it wasn’t luck that Mansally and Mr. Goal-of-the-Week crashed to earth after the league had a chance to get a look at them.

    Your guys were missing Ralston terribly, to my eye. His reading of the game and passing were incredible in the opener.

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