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There’s always something
Sporting KC has an excuse every week, and some are absolutely valid. But SKC simply haven’t been strong enough to overcome those issues every team faces.
Last week it was the refs. The week before it was just one missed chance that did them in. This week, it’s injuries.
There is always SOMETHING that gets in the way for Sporting KC. And to be fair.. sometimes they are absolutely valid excuses!
But this team simply hasn’t been good enough to overcome that something each week. The problem is that they’re the same issues every team in MLS faces. Everyone has injuries. Everyone gets screwed over by the refs in this league.
The difference is that the best teams are strong enough to overcome those issues to get the results they need.
That discussion leads the way on the latest Shade of Blue! It’s a deep, dark shade this week. Yes… our team has us drinking. Join us!
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In my mind, there were two missed golden opportunities: Johnny Russell in the first half and Erik Thommy in the second.
Johnny took a through ball from Salloi, his first touch bouncing the ball and going wider than intended. The bouncing causing his short to be a weak chip that went harmlessly wide.
The vision was there but the pass from Daniel caused Russell to have to slow down and take it in an off-stride. Either the pass was too slow coming (pace was good) or it didn’t lead enough. Those two points make me not hold Russell as accountable for the missed chance.
Erik Thommy’s potential interception from RSL in the second half: to me, Thommy was sprinting to intercept and stretched out his leading foot to touch the ball towards goal. It was his right foot, requiring and outside the foot touch to redirect it where he wanted. It also has just enough pace to require this attempt or he would miss it altogether. It looked like a complete flub, but really RSL got lucky that he wasn’t a half-step closer. He was really stretching and got just over the ball enough to roll it backwards underneath him.
Yeah the Thommy one was much worse. He needed to just take a very heavy touch towards goal. He had all the momentum and was the only one running that direction already. Just get the first touch in the general direction of the goal and he gets to it first by a mile.
Except the ball was going right to left. Had he been stretching with his left foot then he would have been gone, but you can’t change stride at a dead sprint easily. Hurt to see it.
So the summer transfer window doesn’t open till July 18th. That leaves 9 league games (starting July 20th) for a possible signing or two, to change the team.
Is Vermes banking on us picking up a few wins between now and then, then winning just about every game from July 20th and forward? Because that’s about the only way we’ll be able to sneak into the playoffs
We’ve got 14 games to go till the transfer window opens. We’re sitting on 11 points with 11 games played. Let’s be positive and say over the next 14 games we pick up a few more wins and get another 23 points (it’s not much out of 14 games, but we’re at 11 right now, so it’s not unrealistic), that puts us at 34 points 25 games in (not too good).
At that point we’d still have to win 4 of those remaining 9 just to BARELY get past where we ended last season (44 points in 2023).
I get that my take on the next 14 games is on the pessimistic side, but I don’t have any reason to think we’ll do better than that. I don’t care who we maybe bring in, I dont think they’re just flipping the team around and getting us to a point of domination, there too many other pieces that still have to be fixed. If we somehow do find someone who does that, why didn’t we get them in the off-season?