Your St. Louis CITY SC end a SEVENTH fixture in a draw—this one, sharing a point after a scoreless 90 minutes with the Dynamo.
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Match 10 of 34
- St. Louis: 2-1-7 (13 PTS)
- Houston: 4-1-5 (14 PTS)
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I’m starting to get seriously pissed off on behalf of our boys in red. A team that is strong defensively, has the best goalkeeper in the league, and sits at or near the top of the league in a few key statistics (xG/90, xGA/90, etc) cannot find a way to secure three points on a weekend.
To their credit, St. Louis played a decent road game in the heat tonight. They created some great quality chances including 7 corners, kept Houston at bay for much of the match, and were able to lean on some excellent play from Roman Bürki (my MOTM) when legs got tired. I expected and predicted pretty much everything I saw from this match aside from two things: some zombie in the flesh of Sam Adeniran, and a scoreless fixture.
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This could be one of the last times we see Samuel Adeniran representing the Arch. With the transfer of Teuchert all but confirmed and the issues between Sam and management, Adeniran got one last chance to prove his worth tonight and back up his arrogant attitude (as seen in his interviews this week). He came onto the pitch and performed a lackadaisical cardio routine, not willing to work hard off the ball. Time will tell what this may mean for his future.
Aside from Sam, I do not get why we decide to bunker down and abandon the high press that was creating chances for us around the 60th minute. We put in AZ, the press machine, and don’t use him. Something needs to change in STL’s camp. At the end of the day, draws are not good enough, and we need to score goals to win matches and secure points.
I’ll probably talk more on our situation this week.
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CITY (and yours truly) head back to the 314 for next weekend’s match against Chicago at CITY Park. For the sake of my sanity, let’s hope we can break this curse.
Vamos CITY!
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