Gian-Luca Posted April 21, 2019 Author Share Posted April 21, 2019 MAK with the assist on Vela’s opening goal for LAFC vs Seattle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM3/MM2/MM Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 A perfect pass to set-up the goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 Make that 2 assists on the night for Kaye - still with 38 minutes left to play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_M Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Make it 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 This is what I want to see in MLS. I respect the new approach by Montreal. TFC, I call them "Team America"... last 3 games...7 Americans for 3 or 4 Canadians. Montreal Impact game before this one, 4 Canadians vs 2 Americans and the game before...3 Canadians vs 2 Americans. I don't get why TFC like this... Kadenge, Obinna and Chad_Impact 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bison44 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 11 minutes ago, Ansem said: This is what I want to see in MLS. I respect the new approach by Montreal. TFC, I call them "Team America"... last 3 games...7 Americans for 3 or 4 Canadians. Montreal Impact game before this one, 4 Canadians vs 2 Americans and the game before...3 Canadians vs 2 Americans. I don't get why TFC like this... American front office. Manning, Bez/Curtis, Vanney et al. gator 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 7 hours ago, Ansem said: This is what I want to see in MLS. I respect the new approach by Montreal. TFC, I call them "Team America"... last 3 games...7 Americans for 3 or 4 Canadians. Montreal Impact game before this one, 4 Canadians vs 2 Americans and the game before...3 Canadians vs 2 Americans. I don't get why TFC like this... I could be wrong but TFC have played Canadians for 1532 minutes this season ( 255 Canadian mins/g) vs the Impacts 1859 (206/g). TFC have played 3 less games. Whitecaps are at 1969 minutes (246/g). Things will obviously change as the year goes on, but the way Garde rotates the squad I expect to see less Canadian Action on Saturday (though hope AJH starts ahead of Urruti). baulderdash77 and Ruffian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolando Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 AJH is such a supersub....so good at taking those chances and burying them. Still would love to see him get enough minutes to have an actual breakthrough year in MLS. If not, I'd honestly like to see him try his hand in Europe. Could do some damage by starting small like Occean but needs a club or two to fully believe in him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, jordan said: I could be wrong but TFC have played Canadians for 1532 minutes this season ( 255 Canadian mins/g) vs the Impacts 1859 (206/g). TFC have played 3 less games. Whitecaps are at 1969 minutes (246/g). Things will obviously change as the year goes on, but the way Garde rotates the squad I expect to see less Canadian Action on Saturday (though hope AJH starts ahead of Urruti). TFC have 958 Canadian minutes from 6 MLS matches (and a further 121 if you count Akinola for some reason). They may in fact have 1532 if you include their CCL matches but then you have to change your denominator to get the correct per game number (in MLS it's 160/g or 180/g if you count Akinola). Piette does seem to be the only Canadian in Garde's first choice squad but some of yesterday's squad, especially ZBG and Bayiha, surely are forcing their way into the discussion. Edited April 25, 2019 by jonovision Club Linesman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 6 minutes ago, jonovision said: TFC have 958 Canadian minutes from 6 MLS matches (and a further 121 if you count Akinola for some reason). They may in fact have 1532 if you include their CCL matches but then you have to change your denominator to get the correct per game number (in MLS it's 160/g or 180/g if you count Akinola). Piette does seem to be the only Canadian in Garde's first choice squad but some of yesterday's squad, especially ZBG and Bayiha, surely are forcing their way into the discussion. That could be it, i was counting numbers from the team websites. I thought someone use to keep track of Canadian minutes, maybe Steven Sandor though couldn't find that while I looked. ZBG started the last Wednesday game i think, then Sagna started on the weekend. Statistically ZBG has done well so hopefully he does play more and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 5 minutes ago, jordan said: That could be it, i was counting numbers from the team websites. I thought someone use to keep track of Canadian minutes, maybe Steven Sandor though couldn't find that while I looked. ZBG started the last Wednesday game i think, then Sagna started on the weekend. Statistically ZBG has done well so hopefully he does play more and more. Sandor did it on his old site. I did it too but I haven't fired up the spreadsheet for 2019, but my impression this year was that TFC was more or less the same they had always been, Vancouver was significantly up, due largely to having a Canadian starting goalkeeper, and Montreal was only running with Piette until we had a few of these midweek games with the squad rotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey_twelve Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Here's a spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CFdqUX7joDNzbLJXJ076C70GPzb4Y6xUvPObWUUyLDI/edit?usp=sharing Feel free to let me know if I missed anyone. Montreal currently has ~double the Canadian minutes than Toronto but have of course played three more games. jordan and Kadenge 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 14 hours ago, Ansem said: This is what I want to see in MLS. I respect the new approach by Montreal. TFC, I call them "Team America"... last 3 games...7 Americans for 3 or 4 Canadians. Montreal Impact game before this one, 4 Canadians vs 2 Americans and the game before...3 Canadians vs 2 Americans. I'm puzzled as to why the nationality of the non-Canadians on each team are a big deal. Whether they're American, Nigerian or Martian, why does it matter? Instead of framing it as Canadians vs. Americans, why not Canadians vs. non-Canadians? Quite frankly, all three MLS teams can improve in that regard, so why worry about whether the rest of the team originates from Ohio or Torino? BCM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad_Impact Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 I would expect to start seeing Shome, ZBG, Choiniere and Bahiya making the 11 more, they looked great against DC and the Revs yesterday Kadenge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bison44 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) 53 minutes ago, RS said: I'm puzzled as to why the nationality of the non-Canadians on each team are a big deal. Whether they're American, Nigerian or Martian, why does it matter? Instead of framing it as Canadians vs. Americans, why not Canadians vs. non-Canadians? Quite frankly, all three MLS teams can improve in that regard, so why worry about whether the rest of the team originates from Ohio or Torino? The whole league is set up for americans. There are 21 teams that put a premium on american talent, why should we (the 3 CDN clubs) do the same?? TFC currently have 2 international spots open, and a couple that are virtually wasted on Endoh and Bakero. I can see why american clubs stuff the roster with americans, but why do we?? Lets leave the CDN content out as are doing fairly well there (if Chapman, Hamilton and maybe Frasier can get minutes), although it would make me happy if we shitcanned some americans and replaced them with CDN. But we have americans on the roster that could be replaced with INT very easily. We could dump ZAV and Delgado, take the almost 500g of cap space and get better value for our money with a INT. Why bring in Boyd, when we could have gotten anyone, from anywhere?? WHy should we have "projects", ie develop players for the USMNT?? If they are not CDN and we have INT slots open..why the nasty habit of stockpiling americans?? Because thats the way the american coach and front office want it. Edited April 25, 2019 by Bison44 Stanley, red card and Ansem 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 3 hours ago, Bison44 said: The whole league is set up for americans. There are 21 teams that put a premium on american talent, why should we (the 3 CDN clubs) do the same?? TFC currently have 2 international spots open, and a couple that are virtually wasted on Endoh and Bakero. I can see why american clubs stuff the roster with americans, but why do we?? Lets leave the CDN content out as are doing fairly well there (if Chapman, Hamilton and maybe Frasier can get minutes), although it would make me happy if we shitcanned some americans and replaced them with CDN. But we have americans on the roster that could be replaced with INT very easily. We could dump ZAV and Delgado, take the almost 500g of cap space and get better value for our money with a INT. Why bring in Boyd, when we could have gotten anyone, from anywhere?? WHy should we have "projects", ie develop players for the USMNT?? If they are not CDN and we have INT slots open..why the nasty habit of stockpiling americans?? Because thats the way the american coach and front office want it. The post I was responding to was about Americans on the field vs. Canadians. Of the ones you named, only Delgado gets any real playing time, and he was integral to TFC's 2017 MLS Cup win (as was Zavaleta, but both have regressed since then). As you said yourself, the league is set up for Americans. That includes how they are counted on team's rosters vs. other internationals. That naturally means that even on the Cdn MLS teams there will be a few Yanks on the squads, unless they want to go the MTL route and trade away assets for more international spots (which hasn't exactly proven to work for IMFC as of yet). The difference of philosophy seems to be born out of a desire to not want to burn assets on international spots, as well as the respective front offices' knowledge base. You can argue whether TFC have used their domestic (and international spots) effectively, but that's a different discussion. At the end of the day IMFC is only regularly starting Piette and TFC is only regularly starting Osorio, which should be the bigger focus here. I honestly couldn't care less whether our MLS clubs are developing Americans, Ugandans or Argentines as long as Canadians are still lagging behind where they should be. BCM and Gian-Luca 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted April 28, 2019 Author Share Posted April 28, 2019 Tajon Buchanan gets the start for NE against KC and Brian Wright is on the bench Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saladroit Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 31 minutes ago, Gian-Luca said: Tajon Buchanan gets the start for NE against KC and Brian Wright is on the bench buchanan assist Obinna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_M Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 (edited) Revs score a third and the cross came from buchanan..bad defending and agudelo puts it away Edited April 28, 2019 by Big_M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 On April 27, 2019 at 8:47 PM, Gian-Luca said: Tajon Buchanan gets the start for NE against KC and Brian Wright is on the bench Same thing again on Star Wars Day game against the Union Bison44 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 (edited) Tajon Buchanan played the first 36 minutes for NE in a friendly against Chelsea (apparently he was injured) . Brian Wright played the 2nd half. This was the first game for the team under new head coach Bruce Arena. Edited May 16, 2019 by Gian-Luca Obinna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Good to see Buchanan make an impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted May 19, 2019 Author Share Posted May 19, 2019 Akindele with two in a 5-1 for Orlando over Cincinnati Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Crépeau, Henry, Kaye, Osorio and Piette are on the all-star game voting ballot. CanadaFan123 and maccaliam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted June 1, 2019 Author Share Posted June 1, 2019 (edited) Akindele strikes again for Orlando who lead Montreal 2-0 late in the first half. ZBG has just entered the game while Piette, AJH and Will Johnson also started. Shome & Miller are on the bench Edit - and now Will Johnson has scored for Orlando as well. 3-0, still in the first half Edited June 1, 2019 by Gian-Luca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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