Remember in last week’s column when I was all like “New York might be playing their backups, so this is a really good chance for a road victory.”
Welp, New York played their backups, and their backups blew the Timbers out, 4-0.
1) I’ll get to the game in a bit, but I want to start with a big-picture observation.
Either preseason wasn’t long enough or Giovanni Savarese did a bad job of getting this team ready, because we don’t look like an organized team. We look like 11 individuals, all trying to play soccer in 11 different ways.