Monday, January 2, 2012
Okay, so how did Guille Franco and Oscar Perez's experience help today?
Guille Franco never scored a goal today in the 60 minutes that he played and he missed badly on his 3 shots (2 off his head and 1 he shot directly to the goalkeeper). With the exception of these 3 opportunities Guille struggled to find an opening and this was because Guille was too slow to separate and keep up with Vela and Dos Santos. Conejo Perez proved that he was too old to jump high enough and too short to get his hands on the goal by Siphiwe Tshabalala. If Conejo was just a little bit taller and younger he would have been able to jump high enough to block the shot. Too bad we don't have a goalkeeper to block that kind of shot--oh wait, we do? It's Guillermo Ochoa!!! So why did dumb Aguirre bench him! Costly mistake. Javier Hernandez moved faster in the box and was able to draw defenders off of Marquez when Guardado fired a cross to Marquez who made the goal. It may not have been a goal, but he did what Franco failed to do and that was draw and move the defense around allowing Marquez to get open. Vela should have never been taken out for Blanco as Blanco was ineffective, no surprise, and we lost speed towards the end of the game. We had speed and pressure with Vela only to lose it as the game progressedadn Blanco's legs began to give out. Daniel Brailovsky said it best on ESPN Deportes, "The only thing experience gives you are old and soft legs." Blanco, Perez, and Franco only proved his point today.
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