Matchnight: D.C. United-FC Dallas

So WHERE can I watch this game??

What bars in Arlington will be showing the game?

Really want these players to get healthy stay healthy. Especially Jakovic.

If Will Chang wants to make the fans happy, he will figure out how to make the fans happy. Listen up Garber, I want to watch a MLS game but I can't.

zizou1972 - try this link. I've no idea if it will work come kick off.

http://www.atdhe.net/

Ha - posting from an iPhone after a few beers is always fun. That should read " figure out how to get the game on TV."

Game Prediction :

DC 6 Dallas 1

4 Goals from Castillo, 1 Cristman, 1 Wallace.

Good to see McTavish start! Does Pena have a nagging injury?

Vamos United!

Hey Goff, How many people are in the stadium? I'm guessing like 70 tops...

I don't recall hearing about Pena getting injured again. This is probably a function of managing his minutes after playing on Wednesday.

ATDHE.net not working. ANyone have an alternative?

All hail the All Terrain Destructive High Explosives association and their fabulous website! Thanks for the reminder, TCBannon.

http://www.justin.tv/mlsworld#r=UrmHzvs~

ATDHE - no joy.

Justin saves the day. Thanks for the link redskinsux

Direct Kick does it again. Blacked out in my area. Why can't they coordinate with Comcast, which isn't showing it either?

ATDHE.net not working?

It's working for me. Are you guys using Macs of something? (I've got nothing against Macs, by the way)

DC starting pretty well tonight. Similar to the last few matches.

Goal DC United.

Nope - Called back for Offsides. Very close.

United great chance! Simms off the post! Cristman and Allsopp had a chance to break through!

OMG.

Beautiful play by DC. Lovely through ball then a flurry of shots, nothing goes in. Rebounds way out to Simms who unleashes a rocket. Rings off the side post.

holy s.

Yeh, using a Mac. Not sure why ADHE isn't working. All I get is the rainbow bar pattern like the channel isn't online.

and Clyde rings one off the goal post! We gotta score sooner or later, right?

What are those things in the seats at Pizza Hut park?

For Mac users, Safari won't work with ATDHE.net but the JustinTV link will. The ATDHE.net link will work with Firefox however. Good to know.

Point blank for Shea and he misses it.

Jordan Graye is the latest DCU victim of the hamstring.... Sigh.

Graye hurt, James coming in. Great.

Must be a Hammy. That is what we do.

grrrr

ah, for the love of pete...24th minute, Graye out with a hammy....

0-0 still, DCU looking the better of the 2 teams

1 Hammy
2 Hammies
3 Hammies
4
How many DC Hammies can get sore?

Nice to see Hamid coming out strong.

Castillo tends to serve up some of the weakest free kicks and crosses I have seen at this level.

Which is weird, considering his assists in the preseason.

Nice giveaway by Morsink.

I think more people were at the Freedom game.

Yeh, that was a build up killer.

I said this during the KC game on Wednesday - we need to score in the first 45.

Castillo does something well. Rats.

When Castillo cleans his act up teams may start to think twice about giving us direct free kicks that close to goal. Strong hit but right at Mr. Cat.

Come on Clyde. Damn

Simms should have finished.

0-0 at the half

Boyzz's technique is piss poor. Dude gives hustle but that's about it. Are you kidding me on that corner?

Castillo should take corners and free kicks, period.

Nils at the half and DC looked - whoa, nice hug fest there...yeah - where was I? Yeah, DC had some decent control of the game. we had more and the better chances and should be up, but hey these days - at least we're not down.

Very nice half by DC except for the lack of scoring and another injury, this time to Gray.

Castillo had a nice freekick but could be doing better. Dallas' right back Zack Loyd is the weak link we should be exploiting.

How many hammies do we rip on the daily?
Me say meeny moni, me say many many many.

Did I just hear Steve Jolley say "we have a good healthy crowd out here tonight..."?

I think that he meant that they are all up to date on their shots.

Castillo, dude, seriously? Common, son!

Score?

Score?

0-0 61st minute

We're lucky Cunningham is having a craptacular evening so far.

Emilio looks to be coming in.

Nah, we're still at nills, I was just angered by another Castillo flap cross/free kick or whatever that was supposed to be.

But James just saved our bacon on a Cunningham breakaway.

Enter Emilio. Welcome back Luciano. Now you know the deal, do the business!

What's the attendance?

I saw this coming. I'm not sure if it's the mid-field or the D, but they were slicing us up right down the gut. Here we go again.

How quickly does the second goal come? Almost 1 minute.

once again the failure to finish bites us in the butt

well they were knocking on the door; can't say that was a surprise. poor hamid is never going to get a clean sheet...

Crud. Blame me for calling out Cunningham. He scores after a nice setup from Ferreira following Heath Pearce's run.

And Dallas keeps pressure on forcing a reflex save by Hamid on Avila's shot.

It's the midfield and the D, both are failing

Ferrera and Avilla have uncorked our D. Maybe we need to burn the last sub on Pena?

I would lay the blame for that last goal on Boyzzz.

Goal Cunningham

moreno on for mctavish. 3 in the back for dc

Onalfo's putting all the meat on the grill bringing in Jaime for Devon McTavish in the 77'.

Still 1-0 Dallas.

Jaime in McT off for DC.

For Dallas? Let the route 1 - from anywhere to Cunningham take FULL effect!!

morsink off the crossbar. dang

Morsink off the bar!! United looking better after Emilio, then Moreno pulls off McTavish. Playing a 3-5-1 now.

Dallas-1
DC - 0
post/cross bar - 2

or a 3-5-2, depending on how much defense you get out of Lucho and Jaime

Jamie is not doing so well

I like the pressure of the 3-5-1 but what I hate is that when the team takes so long to create a chance we pull our faster players out of the position into the building attack. Then when our slower technical guys coughs it up, it's off to the races for Cunningham.

But Onalfo's gotta do what Onalfo's gotta do.

emilio has disappeared

Dang.

These desperately hopeful long balls are driving me nuts. And Boyzzz has looked gassed for a long time.

Did the edition of Emilio and Jamie do anything?

goodnight irene

That's it. Another 3 points dropped because we never put our chances away. Dallas gets into the game and they put one of their many chances away. Oh well, whatever.

We have no creative midfield plus our super subs are sub par.

edition? i'd say the 2006 edition did something. i'm not sure their addition tonight helped though.

Hartman was clownishly bad in the Open Cup qualifier at RFK last week but his 1st half performance tonight is the main reason Dallas was able to win.

Lots and lots of over-hit balls flying to Hartman, or over the line. It's like we're fielding Mark Mosley out there sometimes. Good lord.

Still a lack of urgency on the ball, and the team seems to almost always slow down the attack, never putting the D on their heels. Are people not making the runs? Not keeping up? Or is that just how our offense rolls?

Bright side: the play, while still not great, isn't as dismal as weeks past. It felt like a tie was possible. Then again, it never quite felt like a win was possible.

'10 DCU = '09 NYRB

My decision to pass on Direct Kick this year I think was correct.

Feel better about this loss than in the past. This didn't feel hopeless, DC felt like the better team, more passion there than in the first 5 losses. That being said, Dallas stinks, what are we going to do against a real team? We missed Najar out there tonight. (Never thought I'd be missing a 17 year old...)
Also, who did Cunningham get by? Looked to be Tally.
Man this is a long season...

We have subs, the super attribute? I wouldn't go that far. But we have subs.

'10 DCU = '09 NYRB Posted by: Konoha7

Silence! They'll be no singing, here.

We need to learn how to earn points on the road, at home, or on the playground with the team we hav., And we just won't buy into an 11 behind the ball philosophy. WHY? Points are points!

Plus injuries to Jakovic, Namoff, Tino, Najar, Pontius, Pena (?) limits our depth, to say the least.

Konoha,

no doubt DC has a won-loss record rivaling the worst teams in MLS but the team played pretty well in spite of being depleted by injury and looked like it could have won.

Of course, moral victories don't count for much in the standings.

*FATHER: Listen, lad. I've built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. An' that's what your gonna get, lad -- the strongest castle in these islands.

HERBERT: But I don't want any of that -- I'd rather--

FATHER: Rather what?!

HERBERT: I'd rather... just...
[music] ...sing!

FATHER: Stop that, stop that! You're not going to do a song while I'm here.

Yeah we didn't suck that much tonight, but then we must consider the opponent. If we play the MLS elite we get the business. But there are signs that this depleted team may not be as bad as we think. In fact we are 1 to 2 excellent additions away from having teams respect us a bit.

Hopefully Najar gets back quickly. Allsop and Christman make an effective tandem up top. Emilio and Jaime weren't the right choices for subs. James played very well after Graye came up lame. I would start Barklage instead of Khumalo. One spectacular save by Hamid!

this team is terrible. can't believe the smoke that was blown around this place in the preseason.

Did I just hear Steve Jolley say "we have a good healthy crowd out here tonight..."?

Posted by: Kosh2 | May 8, 2010 10:11 PM |

@Kosh2 I enjoy keeping up with the MLS attendance. I usually watch the highlights to see how empty PHP is. And it has its spots in the stands but for the most part looks bad. Jolley was right tonight. It wasn't full but it for the first time this season that it looked like a good atmosphere that these SSS can create when they don't sell out or get at 80% full. This crowd in RFK would look just a little fuller than this past Wednesday nights at RFK which wasn't to hot but it looked like a fun match to be at if you are a Dallas supporter:( I bet it was there biggest attendance of the season at PHP without even seeing the numbers yet. I heard that Castillo's presence was going to help bump their numbers and actually make some people make the 45 minute drive. Thanks Mr. Insider for your attendance reporting.

OT - NYRB is getting the business. Down 4 - zip to the Quakes. It should be 6 - nil to be honest. Wow!!

The West owns the east this year. Hands down.

Now you may resume your regular post whuppin' discussion and kumbaya sing-songing. :-)

Yeah. the loss sucked but it was nice watching NY get shellacked!

Now you may resume your regular post whuppin' discussion and kumbaya sing-songing. :-)

Posted by: Kosh2 | May 8, 2010 11:55 PM | Report abuse
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Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya;
Kum bay ya, the Lord, kum bay ya;
Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya,
O Lord, kum bay ya.

We need a mid field Lord, kum bay ya;
We need a mid field Lord, kum bay ya;
We need a mid field Lord, kum bay ya,
O Lord, kum bay ya.

All of these team getting blown out and we weren't one of them!

At this point I'm happy with a 1-0 loss. It could have been worse...much much worse.

Vamos United.. We will get them next week.