Brandon Vazquez arrived from the bank to end fc Cincinnati’s record drought, but the Orange and Blues left the area disappointed.
FC Cincinnati reduced a two-goal deficit against New York City FC with Vazquez’s 74th overall minute overall Saturday at the Red Bull Arena, but visitors can place the tie and lose 2-1.
The Oranges and Blues (2-6-3) now fall to thirteenth position in the 14-team East Conference, and the only consolation is to see a 556-minute goalless era at the end of the league. FC Cincinnati had several opportunities in the middle of the moment. , after a tactical repositioning of the formation after NYCFC scored its purpose for the time being, and Vazquez almost scored a moment-by-moment purpose after his first out-of-game declared so far.
Here are 3 things about the match:
1. Backward progression
FC Cincinnati desperately needed a purpose to give a safe point of confidence in the attack, but it still lacks that extra push at the start of the games and the result leaves the team without victories as the MLS organizational point is the Back Tournament.
It’s six games without a win and two defeats in a row, and the schedule is no less difficult until the next phase of games. MLS announced the team’s next 3 games on Friday, and FC Cincinnati will play two at the Red Bull Arena opposite the New York Red Bulls on September 19 and NYCFC on September 26.
On Saturday, Orange and Blue had a couple of opportunities near the beginning of taking their first lead since July 22, but Jurgen Locadia’s restless offside in the 16th minute and New York still controlled the game during the first half. An Alexander Ring shot near the penalty spot in the 39th minute. He tried to see if he was out of the game, but the replay showed that left-back Andrew Gutman kept him slightly in the playing position.
Antwan Tinnerholm doubled the lead in the 55th minute with a headbutt from a corner. It was only then that FC Cincinnati began to run more dangers by moving to 3-4-3 and showing resistance to respond with a goal, but not enough for a much-needed result.
“There is no happiness, ” said Stam. ” There’s disappointment. In the middle of the moment, you wait a little longer from the beginning. You can see the purpose of the moment in a stopped kick. The ball is returning to the edge of the field” Box. They can have an image and it’s coming in. It can’t happen, to be honest, and now you have to replace something. “
2. Vazquez helps keep his promises.
Vazquez seized his chance on Saturday, scoring his first goal for Cincinnati a minute after entering the game, when Haris Medunjanin gave him a pass in the penalty area, and bounced off on his own shot that had been stopped and drove the moment against New York’s purpose, Sean Johnson.
It was a relief to the team, however, to score a purpose and provoke several closer occasions behind, adding up its purpose in the 76th minute which was a restless offside and a headbutt of Kendall Waston’s big mouth that Johnson stored in the 79th minute. . FC Cincinnati finished with 14 shots. Six of them arrived from Locadia and 3 from Vazquez.
“I think it’s huge,” said Vázquez. Es seasoning we want, because I think in the last 20-25 minutes we got here as a team, we have to master that, run with it and keep doing it from the first minute of the next game. we demonstrate as an organization what we are able to do once we have left our lines. We want to do more. “
FC Cincinnati’s goalless 556 minutes are the fifth longest drought in MLS history, according to MLS Facts
Vazquez reached the Atlanta team through an industry, the Nashville Expansion Draft; However, his playing time decreased with Stam. The 21-year-old striker has played in 8 of the team’s 11 games (with only one start) this season, but has noticed that a few minutes since returning to national markets. To start Saturday’s game, he had played only 32 minutes in two games at this stage.
3. The tactic has paid off
Stam made some changes that played in the drive for a comeback in the second half, but that was worth it to give the team opportunities to return.
The replacement began with the replacement of midfielder Siem de Jong with Nick Hagglund and striker Yuya Kubo via midfielder Allan Cruz in the 65th minute. Hagglund became a central defender and led Mathieu Deplagne to a far-right role while Joe Gyau advanced. In the 73rd minute, Vazquez replaced Caleb Stanko as the third striker of the 3-4-3, a lineup Stam has not yet shown this season.
“You’re looking to replace it because you also need to have a little more spirit in front of you, in terms of running away and being that threat,” Stam said. “I don’t think we were harmful enough and you can see it helped. “. . . . You’re making it difficult for him. They can’t get into their speed of play, and you create some very clever opportunities, I think it’s a shame that we couldn’t get the tie out, I don’t even know if it was offside, that moment Brandon proposed (Vazquez), however, it’s complicated. It’s hard. “
FCC had limited features with his squad on Saturday due to absences from central defender Maikel van der Werff (groin injury), midfielder Frankie Amaya (yellow card accrual suspension) and striker Adrien Regattin, whose contract was resced at his request so he can just return. to his circle of relatives in France.
From now on, Deplagne will miss the next match after picking up his fifth yellow card on Saturday.