Copa America: Canada vs Peru - Tuesday, June 25th - 6pm Eastern / 3pm Pacific - Kansas City, Kansas

[The Beaver 2.0]

Guys, stop thinking we are even close to being the finished product. Young team with a brand new manager, totally new CB pairing, no more Atiba...Why are we expecting to be world beaters when our program has only just started showing signs of quality?

We need  many more games like this. Maybe not in the heat, but real battles that test us, force us to grow, force us to learn about ourselves.

We started out better in the second half, perhaps because we shored up the center of the pitch by moving Kone out. Oso, old legs and all, was solid. And it gave Staq the support he needs to run things. Stag played a monster of a second half. Keep in mind this is a guy who has not had a ton of playing time for most of the past season.

Still a fuck ton to learn. Bombito is growing but is still super naive in a lot of ways. Kone has to take his game up a notch. He's capable of it. But this team needs more experience, plain and simple. Oso and David and Staq played with the most composure as the game got a bit loopy at the end.

Crepeau is the man! The Man! L'homme! We're okay without Borjan (but thankyou for your service.)

David is probably our smartest player. What a finish!

Shaff was incredible.

[frattinator]

6 minutes ago, anthony7 said:

We ain’t beating Chile. This was embarrassing.

What kind of a fan is this pissed after winning, even winning ugly?

[jonovision]

1 minute ago, frattinator said:

What kind of a fan is this pissed after winning, even winning ugly?

Not a fan.

[spitfire]

In the end I really think the heat did us in the first half we came out strong in the first 20 mins and then we just dropped off. The heat killed the legs in the midfield...

So honest hand up changes needed to be made and JM had the balls to do them. Right changes.

Shaff and OSO did really well. Tami looked promising... what a finish for David

 

 

Edited June 26 by spitfire

[Ruud]

2 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

Why?

Any Argentina win or even a draw  today gives us the quarter finals if we don't lose to Chile. Simple. 

Unless Peru beat up Argentina last day or something weird. 

If Argentina win tonight you can be assured a very different starting 11 in the final game for Argentina 

[Mihairokov]

1 minute ago, frattinator said:

What kind of a fan is this pissed after winning, even winning ugly?

The fan who saw Osorio take the pitch at half

[Stanley]

10 minutes ago, anthony7 said:

This team is not good enough to advance to the next round. We looked down the man. Chile probably beats us.

Fuck Chile.

[The Beaver 2.0]

1 minute ago, frattinator said:

What kind of a fan is this pissed after winning, even winning ugly?

Can we just dump this guy? He's clearly just trolling. 

[Stanley]

9 minutes ago, kacbru said:

FS1 ripping the Canada performance, lack of composure, lack of ideas, lack of experience.  Saying Peru dominated and if not for the card, would not have been close.

Fuck FS1.

 

[Hawkguy]

9 minutes ago, kacbru said:

FS1 ripping the Canada performance, lack of composure, lack of ideas, lack of experience.  Saying Peru dominated and if not for the card, would not have been close.

edit: When we beat Chile they can eat it.  It is like they are saying only certain teams are allowed to win ugly.

I mean that's just... wrong. We didn't play well. But it was close. It was tied for like 60 minutes before the card lol 

[CanadaFan123]

27 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

Why was Johnston joining the attack clogging Tajon's space m 80 in a 1-0 must win game? Can't he read what the in-game situation is?

Johnston didn’t make many good decisions tonight. 

[Kingston]

Great to get the win!

My Spanish is poor - does Lopez translate as “diver” or “cheater”?

[WestHamCanadianinOxford]

If there was no red card....

If my auntie had wheels she'd be a bike.

 

 

The red was deserved, it is part of the rules.  

[Cheeta]

5 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

Colombia!

And full marks for the win.

Good times.

[Fullback]

Was Peru too Streetwise or did we match it? Questions for Javi

[Joe MacCarthy]

The good: Crepeau, Shaffelburg, three points

The bad: We looked like we were playing in wet sand, we had a hard time against a team with ten men

Takeaway:  I don't think we could play worse, good teams win when not at their best

[spitfire]

Just now, CanadaFan123 said:

Johnston didn’t make many good decisions tonight. 

didn't seem to want to play that ball down the line in either half..

[Unnamed Trialist]

3 minutes ago, Ruud said:

If Argentina win tonight you can be assured a very different starting 11 in the final game for Argentina 

Different enough to lose to Peru? Don't think so. 

[dyslexic nam]

1 minute ago, Kingston said:

Great to get the win!

My Spanish is poor - does Lopez translate as “diver” or “cheater”?

I believe it is Spanish for a women’s hygiene product.  

[Mihairokov]

1 minute ago, CanadaFan123 said:

Johnston didn’t make many good decisions tonight. 

Johnston, Laryea, and Koné were all poor and we scraped a win. When was the last time that happened?

[The Beaver 2.0]

1 minute ago, WestHamCanadianinOxford said:

If there was no red card....

If my auntie had wheels she'd be a bike.

 

 

The red was deserved, it is part of the rules.  

Carbonara!

[Fullback]

15 minutes ago, anthony7 said:

This team is not good enough to advance to the next round. We looked down the man. Chile probably beats us.

Eat crow bud. Oso looked composed. Maybe we could have played better but a win against a Latin American team in a scrappy game is fine no matter what you think.

Enjoy cheering for Chile 👋 

 

[Watchmen]

8 minutes ago, jonovision said:

Peru did not score a single goal before or after the red card.

And did not score in game one. And has only 1 goal in 6 WCQ games.

[DeRo_Is_King]

1 minute ago, dyslexic nam said:

2 minutes ago, Kingston said:

Great to get the win!

My Spanish is poor - does Lopez translate as “diver” or “cheater”?

I believe it is Spanish for a women’s hygiene product

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Unnamed Trialist]

1 minute ago, Kingston said:

Great to get the win!

My Spanish is poor - does Lopez translate as “diver” or “cheater”?

There's actually no proper term for "diver" in Spanish, funnily enough. Just the gesture or the noun, "piscinazo" to jump in a pool. 

They didn't actually dive that much and this game was far less of a shit show than their first against Chile.