hi all, besides cities and transportation networks I am also very interested in soccer. I'm a big DC United fan and their first game of the 2007 season (amazingly) is this wednesday against Olimpia of Honduras as part of the Concacaf Champions Cup. It's at 9:00 pm (eastern) on the Fox Soccer Channel. The game will be played in Tegucigalpa! Tegucigalpa means 'silver mountain' in Nahuatl. In honor of the first DC United game of the season, I'm going to post the line-up and formation I would like to see tomorrow. It'll be the much under-utilized 4-3-2-1, otherwise known as the bowling pin defense.--------------Emilio------
--------Gomez---Moreno---
---Simms--B. Carroll----Olsen
Gros---Erpen--Boswell---Namoff
Since the series against Olimpia is a two game, total goal series, with the second leg next week in DC we don't actually need to win tomorrow. That's why this formation is defensive in nature, with seven players defending, and waiting for the counter. Let's see Olimpia try to knock all ten down! If it doesn't work, it is easy to change back to the traditional 3-5-2 with Gros moving into midfield and Moreno going up top with Emilio.
If DC United wins with this formation, they can celebrate by taking a trip to Florida and staying in the Disney pop culture resort! Vamos post-modernist architecture!! Vamos United!!
1 comment:
No bowling pins, but at 4-1 you can't complain about that 3-5-2!!!
As for the bowling pins, I just don't see us using both Gomez and Moreno as attacking mids or holding forwards together. Gomez has shown he is best right in the middle of the park... however I guess with Emilio in the mix now they'll all just swarm around up top for a bit until we figure out how to make the service work with the wingers (whoever they are), Gomez, and Emilio all overlapping constantly.
Just some thoughts. Stumbled across your blog from Sports Bog.
LM
fellow UVA Planning, DCUnited fanatico
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