First off, have you noticed that my colleagues in sports are all blogging like crazy these days. An excellent development.
Anyway, a couple quick thoughts about the scoreless tie between the Galaxy and D.C. United.
1) That’s the first we’ve seen that D.C. United lineup this season — arguably the strongest one it can put out. Jaime Moreno and Chris Pontius merit consideration, obviously, but their inclusion either way hasn’t been the difference maker, as least based on my examination of every first eleven DCU has used thus far in the regular season.
2) Chad Ashton had a phone on the bench to talk with sick Tom Soehn, and he said it was used a couple times.
3) David Beckham appears to have a hard time finding a middle gear. Despite the danger he is when he’s got the ball, too often there’s too much or not enough.
4) The night’s best play: when Jovan Kirovski and Bryan Namoff got tangled on a long ball late in the first half, and Namoff more or less body-slammed Kirovski, who wasn’t happy about it, at all. Gregg Berhalter appeared to get away with his own share at the other end.
5) Will leave you with this from Santino Quaranta: “We had eleven guys put in a positive performance tonight. Anytime you can do that – we’re going to win games if we play like that. It’s the older guys still trying to keep the younger guys knowing that it’s such a long season, if we get on a roll here, three, four or five games, there’s 15 points in the bag. We’ll be fine, and the guys understand, if we keep playing like that, we’ll be alright.”
