You were likely at the Dynamo game last night or caught it on Fox Sports Houston.
The Dynamo drew 1-1 with the Montreal Impact and depending on the Columbus result today could find themselves in or out of a playoff position.
The Dynamo lead the league with 11 matches drawn which means they have left 22 points on the table. Now it is easy to go back and look at games that should have been the full three points and would have the Dynamo far more secure at this stage.
Fact is looking back right now does not matter. The Dynamo have two games to go with Philadelphia and Colorado.
They still remain in the fifth and final playoff spot after Columbus and Sporting tied 1-1 today.
Thoughts from last night:
1.) START: The Dynamo struggled to get it going against a pretty aggressive Montreal who needed to win on this evening. Montreal tried to win the ball higher up the field at times creating unforced errors on the ball.
The Dynamo did get the critical 44th minute goal from Will Bruin after Calen Carr got a quick step on Alessandro Nesta.
2.) PUSH OUT OF LOCKER ROOM The Dynamo did make a good push to start the second half. But Montreal found a tying goal via a brilliant Marco DiVaio pass that found Sanna Nyassi who was denied by Tally Hall yet he stuck in the rebound to the game.
3.) PLAYERS OF GAME
Houston: Tally Hall, Boniek Garcia
Montreal: Patrice Bernier,Marco DiVaio
4.) Who is NESTA?
The Italian World Cup winner and twice Champions league winner with AC Milan Nesta is called one of the great center backs in the history of the game yet few knew he even played last night for Montreal.
In the first half he was a study in positional play and calm distribution although he got beat by pace of Calen Carr who got cross in to Will Bruin for the lone goal.
5.) CHING OFFSIDE
The referee Chris Penso made the right decision calling the goal back.
When Cam Weaver made contact via the head Ching was in an offside position.
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Where there smoke there is a fire. The dynamo have been very inconsistent. That would suggest problems in the locker rm. I would also like to know where was Andrew and Camargo?
Well so far so good a 1-1 draw still leaves us an extra match to play. Its strange that the dynamo would play a big match without Andrew.
Thanks, Tinman! I have been wondering that also. What happened that Hainault is a sub or worse and Sarkodie starts? I do not think I am THAT impressed with SArkodie. Also, I think even though Weaver has missed on 2 goals that is no reason to not use him more He has a fire in the belly we are not seeing from others. I am not a big Bruin fan not Kandji. They get stripped/tripped/etc way too often but that seems to be a big problem for most of the players not just them. I want to pull my hair out during the first half of the games due to shaky/poor play. It seems like they have not played with each other for months every time they start the first half. I trust Kinnear to have good reasons for the absence of usual starters and methodology of subs. However, I do wish he would use the subs a little sooner though( as a fan in the stands and not a person with real knowledge of the players’ condition). So far the Dynamo are not playing like potential champions….that means consistent, skillfully reliable playmaking and the results to prove the caliber of the team. Dynamo are just too inconsistent. Still, who knows? We may get lucky ,get some breaks and then the fire is lit! Go Dynamo!!
We got 5 wins in a row with the 4-3-3 (that to me is more a 4-5-1 or even a 4-1-4-1) with Kandji and Carr producing on the wings. They have lost some fire but I think we should keep at it. To respectfully disagree with R.Sey I like Bruin better than Weaver (10x better). To me Weaver is our new Oduro. I do see the fight in him but it just doesn’t cut it, pay attention to the way he receives and controls the ball, too sloppy. I agree on the Sarkodie comment, He is good but not better than Hainault at this point. Camargo is m-e-h meh. He has provided some support and backup legs for our tired roster but he has not been the influential player we thought he was going to be.
I am worried. We have a good roster with the new additions but still are dropping too many points. The hype about being unbeaten at BBVA for so many games is a cruel lie if you look at how many games we tied. At home we have to win. Anything less than that is a loss. Plus if we move on don’t we have to play away the wild card spot? how about the conference final? It will be away since we are barely getting in.
They are dropping the season…
Didn’t we sign an Englishman that scored a cracker of a goal against FAS only to never been seen or heard from again?
Can someone explain why we have a Canadian National Team starter on the bench, while Kofi Sarkodie plays?
Can someone explain why we have a Jamaican international player who can’t find the field when we need an offensive spark, but we can sub on Warren Creavalle with 2 minutes to play against Montreal?
All these questions need to be answered by Dom Kinnear?
Who am I kidding? Our media people here in Houston won’t question Dom. He walks on the water!