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Jul 20, 2017
9:44:43am
Tokolosh All-American
Has RSL done enough recently to show that 1st half of the season was not real?
This has been a painful year to watch. Lots of transition pains with the coaching change but the frustrating thing has been not being able to really see the talent that this roster has. Waibel has assembled some serious talent but injuries, call-ups, weird suspensions, and coaching turmoil just hasn't allowed RSL to get in sync or play with their best 11.

We now have a few games where we have had close to first choice lineups. At LA was a thumping and you really started to see the dynamic abilities of Sava, Plata, and Rusnak. It is a tough attack for a back line to handle, especially now that Plata seems to have stoked the competitive flames that seemed doused by the coaching change. The match ended 6-2 for RSL. Then you had 30ish minutes against a warming up ManU. It was a friendly with all of the excuses that entails but RSL had the run of play for those 30 minutes of starter time. It was fun to watch. Now we have this Portland match. The ref tried to steal the show a bit but it was all RSL. Even though the 1st half was close on the score line you never really sensed that Portland was going to turn it around. RSL was out shooting and was getting on target. Passing was pretty crisp and there was good movement. The Timbers may have won the possession stat but it wasn't productive possession. Game ended 4-1.

It is nice to see things starting to come together. We may be in a hole deep enough that the playoffs are unlikely but this team is not who anybody is going to want to face going forward. Glad is doing his thing and Marcelo will hopefully make that a lock down duo. Our attack is learning how to finish again and is difficult to deal with because of the speed and accuracy. If Sunny continues his pre-face-break run of form and Kyle keeps the fire (rumors of retirement and being talked into returning) this is a top flight squad.
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