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Post by suborna913 on May 2, 2024 6:04:01 GMT
One of the most entertaining Union games of all time ended in 3-3 draw at 1am Monday morning. If last week’s 2-0 loss to Dallas was the Yin of Union potential in 2020, this Nigeria WhatsApp Number List match was the Yang. There are a few reasons why a match with so many similar “numbers” (on the road, across time zones, against a good team, early in the season, etc…) turned out so drastically different. Bravery: pressing HIGH The Union didn’t press every second of their match in LA on Sunday night. They did, however, pick their spots with real bravery. LAFC were eager to possess out the back, taking their goals kicks short and doing their best to bait the Union into the kind of lapses in tight spaces they showed in Dallas. If the Union were worried about a repeat performance, they certainly didn’t show it. For example, in a 2-2 match where plenty of road teams would have caught their bus and parked it 18 yards from their own goal mouth, the Union stayed high and pressed, matching LAFC man for man in their own half. This caused the Californians to play much more directly than they wanted to after their initial pass, resulting in interceptions left and right and Mark McKenzie and Jacob Glesnes earning a combined 17 clearances on the night. When a defense can force an offense into doing things it doesn’t want (even sometimes, considering the overwhelming statistical advantage LA had in both total passes and completed passes), they’ve started to succeed.
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