I felt like Spokane did decently, until Omaha started finding successful dribbles and attacks up the wings. That seemed to get Velocity all out of shape, to your point, and opened up the center attacking lanes for the Owls.
For Union Omaha's attack, take a look at Pedro Dolabella's average position. When he gets to stay in the opponent's half of the pitch, the Omaha attack reaches it's potential. When he's forced to stay at the midline or in the defensive half, Omaha's attack struggles. As his positioning goes, so seems to go the tactics you mentioned.
This is a really great point - think about that scoreless Fuego game where he barely gets a touch in the attacking half and is off at 45'. He's a wonderful player and so important to the bigger system.
John: Is your sense that MLS Next Pro is a step below USL League One? In this post where you discuss this, it wasn't clear if you meant USL Championship or League One.... Related, it seems USL C or L1 loans to MLS Next Pro seem rare, maybe because MLS NP teams tend not to have budgets independent of the affiliated MLS first team?
And "media capital of the world" --could be NYC, Wash. DC, or LA !!! Which do you mean?
Last but not least, this column got a shout-out from the BT90 Substack!
I felt like Spokane did decently, until Omaha started finding successful dribbles and attacks up the wings. That seemed to get Velocity all out of shape, to your point, and opened up the center attacking lanes for the Owls.
For Union Omaha's attack, take a look at Pedro Dolabella's average position. When he gets to stay in the opponent's half of the pitch, the Omaha attack reaches it's potential. When he's forced to stay at the midline or in the defensive half, Omaha's attack struggles. As his positioning goes, so seems to go the tactics you mentioned.
This is a really great point - think about that scoreless Fuego game where he barely gets a touch in the attacking half and is off at 45'. He's a wonderful player and so important to the bigger system.
John: Is your sense that MLS Next Pro is a step below USL League One? In this post where you discuss this, it wasn't clear if you meant USL Championship or League One.... Related, it seems USL C or L1 loans to MLS Next Pro seem rare, maybe because MLS NP teams tend not to have budgets independent of the affiliated MLS first team?
And "media capital of the world" --could be NYC, Wash. DC, or LA !!! Which do you mean?
Last but not least, this column got a shout-out from the BT90 Substack!
https://beyondthe90.substack.com/p/already-thriving-forward-madison