tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6202431216472879565.post5813880760270720278..comments2024-03-10T21:31:31.173-04:00Comments on Game Beckons: Indy Eleven vs Strikers - 02.20Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09042600014262648084noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6202431216472879565.post-79679482337256109822015-08-30T20:49:45.028-04:002015-08-30T20:49:45.028-04:00I admire your fortitude, Drew, in writing up this ...I admire your fortitude, Drew, in writing up this awful, awful game. I was out last night and learned the score before I had the opportunity to watch. Against my better judgment, I did watch this morning until the Strikers scored their third, at which point I couldn't stand it any more. <br /><br />This team is just baffling right now. Two things are clear: Norales needs to stop picking up red cards (with their automatic suspensions), and the team desperately misses Mares. As to the latter, good as Mares was until his injury, his absence shouldn't make *that* much of a difference--he's not Zidane, for goodness' sake. But whatever. Nothing is working right now. Night is dreadful (the way he froze and watched that third goal go in was pathetic, but not unprecedented for him); the defense is inept and prone to horrendous, goal-yielding lapses; the midfield has once again forgotten how to move the ball into the attacking area; and the attack is toothless (Richards' nice conversion of the gifted chance notwithstanding). I hate to be pessimistic, but I just don't see a way forward for this team.Jeff C.noreply@blogger.com