DCU-Chivas, Part II

I'm pumped for the game.

Steve this blog is awesome. I think i'm going to get a "Goff" United jersey. Also how is there not a Steve Goff page on Wikipedia? Somebody has got to get on that.

Im getting puumped up guys. I have to listen to it over the internet so you guys with FSC have to keep me updated!

Vamos, Vamos United! Esta noche, tenemos que ganaaaaaar!!

La Barra Brava
La Barra Puta

Los que no sal-tan
Son hijos de puta!

(special thanks to barra-brava.com for those lyrics, me being a gringo i had no idea how to spell that stuff)

none the less.. VAMOS UNITED!

umm, yeah: some of those barra-brava lyrics aren't so lyrical in translation. all the same, let's go UNITED!! fingers crossed and eyes alternately closed and open, praying for a strong showing...

I for one am enormously proud of DC United. For us to go into Guadalajara and expect to compete against perhaps the most storied Mexican franchise is really quite remarkable.

Where can I listen online?.... the link isnt working on the united webpage

it should be working now tim.
myne is

anyone know is fred started? sounds like he didnt

yea it is now... it was a little touch and go there for a second

No Fred. Simms seems to be playing wide right. We've been controlling the ball pretty well. Ref has been on our side so far.

I'm listening to Tony Limarzi right now online, and i'm looking forward to hear him on 1160 when the MLS season starts.

Oh dear lord I wish I had FSC. The dcunited.com stream is horrid quality.

Here's the 'probable' starting line up, according to Chivas' web site.

CHIVAS

23.- L. Michel
2.- D. Martínez
3.- F. J. Rodríguez
4.- H. Reynoso
19.- J. Magallón
11.- R. Morales
20.- E. Mejía
7.- G. Pineda
1.- A. Bautista
21.- S. Santana
10.- A. Medina
DC UNITED

1.- Perkins
5.- Erpen
26.- Namoff
32.- Boswell
14.- Olsen
16.- B. Carroll
19.- Simms
17.- Gros
10.- Gómez
11.- Emilio
99.- Moreno
3 de abril del 2007

seems like we are dominating the play right now.. maybe its just my bias..

and yes.. terrible quality.. but announcer guy is not that bad

TROY PERKINS!

I agree with Kenny. Commentator is good. Great save by Perkins! PORTERO!

Fred is in! Gros got hurt. Hope he's ok.

I hate to lose Gros.. even if Fred is coming in.

Keep the comments coming. Thanks.

Fred's not in. Dyachenko is.

Im going on what the announcer said. sorry colm.

I've enjoyed the commentator (Tony Limarzi) for a few years now. I won't hear him as often this year, the deli I go to has Direct TV and FSC!.

*Josh was just taken out*

did gros have his wrist taped?

Yellow card to Chivas outside our box.

Did anyone see what happened to Gros?

What a goal!

Still 0-0 in the 35th minute.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!

Goal on a bicycle by Moreno!!!! 1-0 DC United!

JAIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MORENO!!!! Boy is that keeper an idiot or what?

Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Golazo from Moreno. That's our capitan!

Curse this audio feed for not showing me what my friend Max assures me was an incredible goal.

DC United made a pretty good move picking up Emilio.

the real Jaime is back!

Dyachenko isn't in either. DeRoux replaced Gros. Looked like a groin injury.

Oh my G... thanks for the updates. Please keep them coming!

my comments arent working any more.. test

damn. Chivas equalizes.

Crap, of course Erpen had a breakdown

Bautista scores on a long ball. Boswell apparently lost him, according to the internet commentator. 1-1.

Apparently Erpen lost his mark and Boswell started moving over to cover Erpen's man.

halftime. 1-1.

erpen is the worst defender in the history of dc united.

i wish stokes was back there

all and all.. 1 - 1 is solid.. 1 - 0 would be better.. but its a definite possiblity..

VAMOS UNITED

by the way, deroux came on for the injured gros.

and we look good!!

Disappointing we let the lead slip, but much better than the last leg so far from DC. And the refs have been impartial so far. Who would have thought that!

It should be interesting to see (or read!) what adjustments the teams make at half-time. It sounds as though DC is playing well... maybe Soehn will talk his defenders into giving better coverage in the second half. Our midfield and attackers seem to be doing well

We controlled the mid-field in the first half but as usual, back line looking shakey. Erpen should be called the Heart Attack Kid.

Second half should see the arrival of Fred. Let's hope the altitude does not get to the Black and Red.

I thought we were looking tired at the end of the half. Gomez has gone very quiet. Other than the goal Moreno has not seemed to do a whole lot.

Let's see if we can hit them on the counter. Fred's fresh legs may be good for that. de Roux was an interesting choice in the first half for Gros.

I guess it's better than nothing, but the audio feed on dcunited.com is pretty poor.

Our defense is going to derail the season at the rate things are going.

NO!!! Perkins dropped a wet ball. Chivas 2 - DC 1.

Bloody Hell!

Ball slips through Perkins hands and into the goal. Let's hope he can quickly recover from it.

Has Emilio been playing? haven't heard his name mentioned... he should be in mid-season form though, right? should be an interesting 2nd half

We've looked beat this half, but c'mon perkins. You can't let that happen!

man, I thought that was the equalizer! These refs are totally on our side.

Emilio has been playing, he's been kinda silent since Jaime's goal. From what I'm hearing this doesn't sound good.

Deroux looks good

deroux's name has been called way too much for a sub... im surprised.. apparantly that cross in to gomez was nice

maybe just another great united player forming

They should have played fred from the begining. so far game is better than last time. we need fred, sooon.

I disagree. Fred coming in as a second half sub can give DC some spark (hopefully). We NEED an equalizer.

maybe Fred's arrival will spark Emilio... and Christian Gomez?!

who do you think should be subbed out for fred?

and moreno for walker? is that going to happen to add that speed up top?

Maybe Simms, I've heard Fred can play out wide too.

Comcast sportsnet just showed the three goals. Moreno's bike kick was great, but Perkins' error sucked.

i agree. fred comes in for simms. deroux seems to me making too much noise to sub him out.

guess i was wrong

Here comes Fred!

whatever it takes to strengthen our midfield with strong passing and ball control. we need attackers with good finish, although Moreno probably won't last the half. could be Walker. a strong midfield and speed on the flanks and up front could put Chivas on their back heel and take pressure off our defenders...

Fred in for deRoux?

fred is officially in the game, now. 67th minute. he's playing centrally. I think the commentator said Deroux went out. Anyone know?

deroux comes out for fred!?! That doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless deroux can't handle the altitude.

From what I'm listening to on the audio feed, I don't understand why DeRoux was subbed out, he seemed to be creating chances.

Why Deroux for Fred, he had fresh legs!
makes no sense!

Jaime creates a great chance, but Chivas blasts it out.

Olsen moves out wide leaving Carroll the lone DM. Fred moves centrally.

what happens if its a tie? Golden Goal? Penalties? or do away goals count? Come on DC!!!!!

they go OT.. and then penalties if that doesnt work

and NO away goals do not count

overtime and then if still tied PKs

74th Minute. Chivas seems to be defending assuredly. Fred wins a free kick outside the box.

Jaime out Jamil Walker in

what!? Jaime is out. Jamil Walker in. not looking good.

i predicted jamil to score..
come on babyyy

Limarzi said Jaime may be slightly injured.

Ben Olsen called for a heading foul and given a yellow card.

benny suspended. ugh. well atleast im confident we can take care of the rapids saturday

Benny just got carded. He will be suspended if DC advances.

if Chivas is packing it in then we need to pressure their goal with outside shots, win some corner kicks and try to capitalize with our taller players in front of their goal (i'm assuming that an eagle can sky higher than a goat)

Perkins saves a Chivas chance... 84th minute.

I agree TedR. Eagles should fly higher thans goats. But damn, their defenders are like sequoyahs.

not much time left... it may come down to an outstanding DC individual effort for us to advance

oh man! freakin corner cicks

DC corner and shots blocked. So close! 89th minute.

ref blows the wistle. DC came close, but fell 2-1.

Final whistle. Chivas 2- DCU 1

Shoot. Can't blame the bloody refs today.

Saw very little of fred there.

'night.

umm, any update? i believe all the way til the end... has the game ended?

what a painful way to lose

Oh well.

Must say though, hell of an in game comment. It was a pleasure my friends. Drive home safely and please remember to tip your waitress.

thanks all. yeah, could have been better. DC should be improved as the MLS season gets going. for now... come on Houston!

You could see our defenders were dragging in the last minutes.

Troy is going to beat himself up on that second goal. Basic mistake. He was already thinking of were to release instead of securing the ball.

I think Goff called it correctly at the top of the blog! Hope Houston makes it through so we can have one MLS representative. (But put my money on the Goats to take the Championship)

We played so much better then the first leg, how come this result hurts so much more?

Well, at least we looked like we belong out there and hopefully this erases the taste of that five nil pasting by Pumas. You gotta wonder how things would have turned out if Gross hadn't had to come out in the first half. Oh well, could ah, should ah, would ah....

Maybe next year they'll hold this tournament in the fall.

All I have to say is, "MLS, you all are on notice. United is back!"

oh man, dc united is the greatest team in the U.S.
even thought we lost... I still love dc united ..can't wait to see dc this season
Moreno you rule!!!!!!!!! 10+ gracias hermano

DC looked really good in the first half, then tired in the second half. Strange subs, positioning by Soehn. Why was Fred playing in the middle when the space was on the wings? Why take off Deroux when he looked fresher and quicker than Olsen and Simms? Watching Erpen is like watching the three seconds before a train wreck... for 90 minutes. Emilio is a huge pickup... but the lack of speed overall is worrying me. Better than the beating we took against Pumas.

hey perkins and defense, you blow.

fred and emilio also weren't that impressive.

We didn't look sharp for most of the game (not just Erpen) and the lack of attacking offensive flow was concerning. We needed a great game to beat Chivas and this wasn't it (the soft goals didn't help).

It was a tough situation to put Fred in, but the performance was not much. I hope he can get more settled somewhere once the season starts. Maybe it's just that he was playing in the middle and didn't seem to link up well with Gomez (who was often missing in action).

I may sound too negative, but we almost sneaked away with the win -- we didn't almost deservedly win.

Watched the game on FSC @ Temperance Bar and boy was I surprised at how even we looked. Jamie's soft bicycle may be the prettiest goal we see all year from the red and black. On the first Chivas goal Erpen got smoked on the footie equivalent of a simple backdoor cut, but the real culprit was Boswell, who, as the Chivas player was coming at the goal along the touchline with no angle to do anything, took two steps toward him, leaving his own man unmarked at the 6. Simple pass, simple finish, bad defending. The second Chivas goal was rec-league keeping by Perkins. Long blast from way outside the box, saw it all the way, just didn't watch the ball into his hands -- lost focus. Painful, painful way to lose. It's too bad, 'cause Perkins made two outstanding saves from the ground and generally looked back on form.

DeRoux looked pretty good to me. Speedy, agressive. Simms looked like poo, awful awful crosses. Gomez was pretty invisible for the most part. Fred's 15 minutes were pretty unremarkable. Caroll had some bad moments and some really clumsy-looking tackles. Jamil Walker ran around a lot and accomplished nothing (I see him as the Eddie Johnson of DCU).

On the whole, it was pretty much a 50/50 game. We blew two very good chances, and had a ball off the post in a mad scramble at the very end. Take away the Perkins gaffe, and it could have easily been our night. But it's a game of inches... oh wait, that's baseball... If nothing else we've shown that the days of going in and getting pasted by Mexican clubs are probably a thing of the past.

Am I the only one who thinks that Max Bretos is starting to sound a little like Jiminy Glick?