The one where we don’t like Lucho mucho

1: Forget dripping in finesse Silva is drenched in it. Yeah he gets a little fortunate with the deflection on the pass to Mosquera but that controlled touch to set up the chance? The boy has real technically ability. If I have any criticism of him it’s that the boy wants to play with ball all the time and sometimes, you just need to boot it long or clear your lines rather than constantly trying to start an attacking sequence. 

 

2: So you’re telling there’s a chance but you’re also telling me that chance will be dealt with defensively? I can live with that. In the first half we did an excellent job of controlling the tempo and taking care of the ball. It’s why Cincy just didn’t have much. Hard to have much when you don’t have the ball. 

 

3: I’m really happy Mosquera scored but that does not take away the fact that he is not at the level needed. I’m sorry but when nobody is within 10 yards of you any direction, you gotta be able to take a ball down out of the sky. He scored a goal with an XG of 💯, and he scoffed 3-4 really good opportunities that I feel like Saba would’ve done more with. Unfortunately Saba never really got the opportunities that Mosquera did but i imagine we will in the future simply by starting over Edwin. 

 

4: The officiating was poor. But that’s not why we lost. We lost because we lost control of the ball from about min 60 onward. Cincy took advantage of that and just hit us with counter after counter until we conceded on a Goalazo +1. The goals didn’t feel like the soft goals we’ve seen so often, they came because we just stopped taking care of the ball. 

 

5: And because we lost control and didn’t take care of the ball, the attacking opportunities, via really good midfield combination play didn’t come and Saba never really got a chance to do much. It’s like we just sort of stopped doing what we had been doing so well. A couple of good subs from Cincy and maybe some tired legs from us and we just couldn’t handle it. We’re definitely playing better but we missed out on an opportunity to really make a statement tonight. But, Cincy is the best team in the league for a reason.