Quick Match Day #10 Review

The Fire took on the Timbers in Portland on Sunday night. Those of us that witnessed this match can attest to the minutes of great play that the Fire demonstrated and the rest of the game that the Fire demonstrated how not to play. The eventual out come of the game was a 2-1 victory for the Timbers who scored on 2 corners, their first corner conversions of the season. The Fire had only one reply when late in the first half Pappa appeared to shot from long distance and the worm burner that he produced found its way to the feet of Anibaba who calmly put it in the back of the net. Other than that the Fire's midfield were ineffective, Oduro had nothing, and the defense could not clear anything and gave up 11 corners to the Timbers. One thing that I noticed is that the Fire midfield cannot play a physical game. Every time that Grazzini and even Oduro for that matter felt any contact they went down in a heap looking for a call. When are they going to realize this doesn't work all the time and it actually hurts the team more than anything. My final thoughts are that if the Fire cannot get max points from Dallad on Wednesday and C-bus on Saturday than this team is in trouble. There are alot of things that are not working right now for the Fire. Some people might say " Hey its working they tied RSL and beat SKC". My answer to that would be that RSL rested key starters realizing the big game that they had on the following Saturday against Seattle. And in response to the SKC win is that they played a large portion of that game against a team down to 10 players and the Fire didn't look dominating in the majority of that game until SKC were reduced to 10 men. Well here's to the FIre actually showing that either they can be a playoff contender or another pretender.