Surf is doing a DA bio-banding event at Silverlakes that weekend I think. Don't know about the other three.Where are the strikers,surf,lagsd,
Golden state and few others
Galaxy not suprising at allhere's predicts vs actuals for this last weekend (1/26/20). home team is listed first.
predict: Arsenal 0 - LA Galaxy 3 / actuals: Arsenal 0 - LA Galaxy 1
note: a little surprised that LAG didn't put a stronger showing in here. ever since they beat LAFc last year at the beginning of the season, keep waiting for LAG's 05s to break out/become more dominant, but it seems like it's just not meant to be. The numbers on Arsenal are not great. This loss was their sixth shut-out loss in a row. The Arsenal defense is trending significantly in the wrong direction (although their last two matches - with better than expected defensive performances - may indicate an adjustment. This one was ripe for LAG to notch a decisive win, and yet, no.
JO has only played in five matches so far this season with only two goals (he was one of their leading scorers last year), presumably due to injury. JR (LAG's other leading scorer last year) is scoring at about half pace he had as last year, with .75 goals per match in 2018-19 vs .42 goals per match this season.
But, new academy director, new coach this season for LAG. It's reasonable for some adjustment time, but for how long?
any comment/insights on situation, either to this post or via DM?
predict: Barca 3 - FC Golden State 1 / actuals: Barca 2 - FC Golden State 0
note: fairly straightforward result, but per game report, it was closer than the score might suggest w/ Barca's getting both goals very late in the match. somewhat chippy match w/ four cards (Barca had one, FCG had three). also, bears noting, that it was an home game for Barca, and they are +20% better offensively and -65% better defensively playing at home.
one observation: have seen a couple of Barca matches over the season, and they seem to be consciously working on a specific style of play with lots of fast ball movement, sometimes at the cost of better results. not 100% certain of this, but that's what it looks like.
any comment/insights on this match, either to this post or via DM?
predict: Nomads 5 - Pateadores 3 / actuals: Nomads 2 - Pateadores 2
note: the algo thought Nomads had the edge here, but nope. per game report, looks like a fun, intense match to watch. Nomads scored first at the 21st minute but Pats tied it at the very end of the 1st half for 1-1 at half time. Pats went ahead 2-1 about 15 minutes into the second half with a goal at the 55th minute, but Nomads tied it at the very end for the 2-2 final result. Match was little chippy with double yellows (one to Nomads and one to Pats) given at the 26th minute and at the 80th minute.
Question: the game report says that the Nomads and Pats went 11v11 with no subs for the whole match. Is this correct? Saw this last season around this time for a couple matches, and am wondering if this is just a mistake by the ref, or something that USSDA is asking teams to do.
predict: San Diego Surf 2 - LAGSD 2 - actuals: pending
predict: TFA 1 - LAFC 5 / actuals: TFA 1 - LAFC 3
note: per the game report, LAFC was up 2-0 at halftime, and quickly logged another in the second half to make it 3-0 by the 48th minute. LAFC switched goalies at ht, and made four subs at the 54th minute. TFA got their one at the 57th minute.
Of note, DR was not rostered for the match vs TFA, presumably because he was rostered w/ LAFC's senior team - in front of a close to 20,000 person crowd - for the friendly against Penarol on Saturday night. (for the record, seems sorta silly to refer a player who is logging MLS first team minutes by their initials, but etiquette seems to dictate...) DR was subbed in at the 68th minute and put in 22 minutes to help maintain the 2-0 shutout for LAFC.
MG won’t be able to play against his former teamhere's predicts for this weekend (2/1/20). home team is listed first.
Albion 0 - LAFC 5 - could be a good weekend for LAFC to play the kids ...
Barca 2 - San Diego Surf
note: this one should be extra spicy.
MMG - one of the leading goal scorers in the country last year, left SD Surf in 2019-20 (along w/ most but not all of the SD Surf staring XI) for greener pastures. The departure were likely prompted by then SD Surf coach Benoit David leaving SD Surf for LAFC mid season last year.
In MMG's case - now just MG - he left for Barca along w/ two other SD Surf players. However, since about Thanksgiving, it looks like MG is back in SD.
And per the SD Surf/LAGSD game report, it looks like he put a full 80 in last weekend's 4-0 win over LAGSD (which by the way also has several 2018-19 SD Surf players).
Looking at Barca game reports, it looks like MMG was in tug of war for start spot/minutes w/ Barca's top goal scorer, YGG, who is averaging almost a goal a game.
(The caveat on YGG's output is he got seven of those eight in two games against LAUFA (5) and Albion (2). Albion btw, looks like it was MG's last wearing the Barca jersey.
Since MG left Barca, the Barca offense has definitely take a step down. And while MG didn't score against LAGSD, it looks like SD Surf has taken step above the pre-existing trend line.
One measure of whether or not which MG is a difference maker is that Barca - w/o MG - tied LAGSD 1-1 in late November. In contrast, SD Surf, w/ MG, beat LAGSD 4-0 last weekend.
In addition, SD Surf, after early troubles, has strong positive trend lines on both sides of the ball and look they're doing a very good job of recovering form. Barca, before MG left, had also been trending positive but that improvement has dropped off since Thanksgiving.
Anyway, bring the popcorn. Should be interesting. (and thanks Husky for bringing the personnel change to light!)
FC Golden State 2 - LAGSD 2
LA Galaxy 3 - Nomads 2 (may pop by to catch some of this match since we'll be in Carson on Saturday...)
Arsenal 0 - Pateadores 2
Strikers 2 - Real So Cal 3 - match to watch
note: these teams met twice in September DA Cup play. First match was a 1-1 tie, second match, Strikers got the better of RSC 5-1. Since then, RSC have added a key goal scorer, JR, who has scored three goals in the three games he's played.
A former LAFC forward, JR likely was the top goal scorer in the country, on a goals scored per 70 minutes played basis, back in 2017-18.
While he's got a nose for the goal, his defense needs work but RSC has D in spades (but didn't have goal scoring...).
Should be a fun match to watch.
yup, you're right. smart catch. forgot about the rule. have seen the rule selectively enforced but, in this instance, unlikely MG plays this match.MG won’t be able to play against his former team
DA rule
LAfc controlled possession, bigger & faster boys. Galaxy tried countering. Final score was 1-1OK, how did El Traffico U15 go?
As suspected, SJ Earthquakes defied the algo ….
Strikers 3 TFA 2
Strikers controlled the game ,should of been 6-0 easy ,but striker forwards r weak finishers
Galaxy 1-1 LAFC
Galaxy looked good compared to early games , missed an early PK in the first half by AR ,also had acouple chances as well as LAFC to win the game at the end
Strikers 3 TFA 2
Strikers controlled the game ,should of been 6-0 easy ,but striker forwards r weak finishers
I saw a different game. TFA had two clean opportunities in the first 4 minutes of the first half and had a few after ,
first half was back and forth with strikers having the better part. First goal from strikers was a deflection on a free kick. 2nd half Strikers dominated and had chances
until IG and FM came in for TFA then TFA was on them playing on their half including after tfa tied 2-2 TFA was playing on strikers half and had multiple chances to get a lead at that point the game got away from Strikers. 3rd goal was a counter when TFA was going for the win.
if we go by could of or would of should of
TFA could had won it at the end or ended with a tie
but team went for the win and it didnt work out.