Football is a team sport. As David Beckham and Landon Donovan so clearly illustrated with the Galaxy last season, a couple of superstars don't win championships in this sport.
Prior to last night, we were in the drivers seat of the Voyageurs Cup. All we needed was a point to win it. Just one. Now, after failing miserably, we need to beat the Montreal Impact by four goals on June 18 at the Stade Saputo. The last time we scored four? June 17, 2007, at home to FC Dallas. On that day, goals came from Maurica Edu, Danny Dichio, Carl Robinson, and Jeff Cunningham. Nearly two years on, the biggest win we've had is 3-1 (over Colorado last season, and New England this season). Great.
Basically, if we win 4-0 on the 18th, I'm going to walk outside my house expecting to see a pig fly by. Here's hoping though, right?...right.
Looking back on pretty much this entire season though, we'd be a couple more points to the good if Chad Barrett could put the ball in the net. Search him on youtube - you get a video of misses, not goals. Both of our 1-0 home wins earlier in the V-Cup could have been by more, and I think that Barrett's poor finishing is to blame for this. He had two semi-breakaways against the Whitecaps, and we all remember his embarrassing display going in one-on-one with Impact goalkeeper Matt Jordan. Let's say those three go in: after last night, we're 2-1-0, with 5 goals for, and 2 against.
I'll even mention an instance last night. From about 8 yards, Barrett had a free header that he put straight into the hands of Jay Nolly. The score would have been 1-1 if that had gone in, and it would have been a completely different game from then on.
I need to point out that at this point in time last season, Jeff Cunningham had scored three goals in regular season play, and he definitely did not start 12 games, and he definitely did not have 29 shots. Barrett has two in league play, and every single person in the GTA knows he should have more. Barrett is getting paid to score goals, and until he starts putting in these balls served up to him on a silver platter, he should wear the horns for our shortcomings. I don't care that he works his ass off. He has to put it in the net.
Prior to last night, we were in the drivers seat of the Voyageurs Cup. All we needed was a point to win it. Just one. Now, after failing miserably, we need to beat the Montreal Impact by four goals on June 18 at the Stade Saputo. The last time we scored four? June 17, 2007, at home to FC Dallas. On that day, goals came from Maurica Edu, Danny Dichio, Carl Robinson, and Jeff Cunningham. Nearly two years on, the biggest win we've had is 3-1 (over Colorado last season, and New England this season). Great.
Basically, if we win 4-0 on the 18th, I'm going to walk outside my house expecting to see a pig fly by. Here's hoping though, right?...right.
Looking back on pretty much this entire season though, we'd be a couple more points to the good if Chad Barrett could put the ball in the net. Search him on youtube - you get a video of misses, not goals. Both of our 1-0 home wins earlier in the V-Cup could have been by more, and I think that Barrett's poor finishing is to blame for this. He had two semi-breakaways against the Whitecaps, and we all remember his embarrassing display going in one-on-one with Impact goalkeeper Matt Jordan. Let's say those three go in: after last night, we're 2-1-0, with 5 goals for, and 2 against.
I'll even mention an instance last night. From about 8 yards, Barrett had a free header that he put straight into the hands of Jay Nolly. The score would have been 1-1 if that had gone in, and it would have been a completely different game from then on.
I need to point out that at this point in time last season, Jeff Cunningham had scored three goals in regular season play, and he definitely did not start 12 games, and he definitely did not have 29 shots. Barrett has two in league play, and every single person in the GTA knows he should have more. Barrett is getting paid to score goals, and until he starts putting in these balls served up to him on a silver platter, he should wear the horns for our shortcomings. I don't care that he works his ass off. He has to put it in the net.
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To blame Barrett for not scoring must also include Harmse for weak coverage that resulted in two goals. He lost Toure twice and it cost TFC.
Esky, Samuel, Ruiz, Cunny, Chad - wow we are cursed. Are there no forwards that can score and are willing to come to Toronto?
Very true Don.
All I'm saying though, is that if Barrett had scored all of his sitters, we very well could have this tournament wrapped up already - and if not, we wouldn't need to score 4 in Montreal.
Yes Barrett's lack of finishing will cost us the V Cup, as did Sutton's crap goalkeeping (which resulted in Toure's first goal). Brennan totally disappeared on that play, too and so he deserves a lot of the blame. Nothing to do with Harmse, at least not the first goal. He could have done better on the second--but so could several others including Sutton.
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