About that not-goal

By: Melissa | April 13th, 2008

“I’m definitely not going to be logging on to any blogs anytime soon, so please be nice — I’m sorry I missed,” said Salinas half-joking. “I really do feel bad. I feel like I cost the team a point, and I won’t miss again.” — Center Line Soccer

The end of that second half was pure drama. And when Salinas had his opportunity, the girl sitting next to me grabbed me and I swear we were holding onto each other like the world was about to end. But here’s the deal: he f*cking missed but damnit he was in position. Here’s a great quote from Yallop about our Kei Kamara and Juan Pablo Angel that I think sums it up best:

“People like [Juan Pablo] Angel are not dribblers or tricky,” said Yallop. “They just hold the ball for the team, lay it off to their team to support them, and then they’re the one that finishes the play. Kamara is no different. He needs to get to where his general play is decent. He doesn’t need to be fantastic; just hold the ball and get in good positions.”

Love it. This sh*t is not rocket science (although, did anyone actually pay that ginormous fee to attend Yuri’s Night last night? Bah! Total racket). When our Salinas finally made his appearance in that game, he immediately did the one thing that constantly eluded us in the first half – he put himself in a good position and whalla, he had an amazing opportunity.

So yeah, we lost but I’m feeling oddly optimistic about the whole thing. I’m ignoring the fact that I have a pretty lousy hangover today, that I spent much of last night in a bar being told I have a guilt complex, and that my flaky roommate is cooking something right now that smells absolutely disgusting. Maybe its all just this amazing weather talking. Either way, I say we need to work with that second half midfield line-up and our forwards need to get a little bit better at putting themselves in dangerous positions. Oh yeah, and I really don’t know how to explain it (yo, I’m a blogger not a coach), but since we seem to be good at keeping possession, we should perhaps use that to spread out our opponents a bit more so when our forwards do magically get themselves into good positions, they don’t have every defender and most of the midfield on top of them.

If I can get my crap together today, I’m gonna write a limerick for Shea. Check it. I totally rhymed. And to the supporters groups: quit arguing with each other. Its harshing my mellow. Time to get the hell outside and enjoy the sun.