Among the sensations felt in FC Cincinnati’s wardrobe after a goalless draw with the Philadelphia Union, frustration is definitely one.
The 0-0 draw at Nippert Stadium FC Cincinnati, the fourth goalless draw at home this season, is another example of how the club wins a point while there are definitely 3 available.
But, as Cincinnati head coach Jaap Stam put it, “I don’t come home and I’m very frustrated in the car and hit my head with the steering wheel. “
FC Cincinnati took advantage of the overdue quality opportunities and largely stopped Philadelphia’s tough attack on a game where frustration equates to the satisfaction of winning a point against one of Major League Soccer’s most productive clubs.
The draw saw FC Cincinnati 3-6-4 in 2020.
Union, which nearly won the attack in the 78th minute when Sergio Santos’ shot took off from the post, moved his record to 7-2-4.
“I wish I had 3 (points). I think we deserved to be 3 too,” Stam said later. “You look at the opportunities we’ve had, that we’ve created, but the vital thing is that you have to finish and you have to scoreArray . . . Don’t give up many opportunities, especially in the first half. One chance – a shot that was at the forefront of the purpose, but we created some very positive opportunities against its purpose from a close diversity and unfortunately We missed You know, it’s a disgrace because it’s a game you can win, or you can say you have to win but we didn’t.
“I am very proud of the team’s reaction after last week’s match. It’s not easy to play many matches in a short period of time. “
FC Cincinnati did not score a framed shot at Philadelphia goalkeeper Andre Blake so far injury time when Joseph-Claude Gyau forced Blake out of the way.
FC Cincinnati’s chance of night saw Jurgen Locadia fire a volley at close range in the 61st minute with a signal from downtown Allan Cruz.
Cruz threw the ball from the right flank at the time of the post after a few passes that led to the shot, but Locadia missed the frame.
Locadia won 4 of FC Cincinnati’s six shots in the game.
Kendall Waston nearly overtaken the FCC in the 89th minute with a headbutt of a corner of Haris Medunjanin to see the effort erased acrobatically across the Union.
The setting saw Medunjanin play against his former three-season club.
“It was great to see my old teammates, the coach (Jim Curtin),” Medunjanin said. “I knew they were going to squeeze me when they gave me the ballArray. I think we had more of the game, you know, so in soccer, if you don’t kill your chances, you can’t win. We had the most productive chances today. I think that today we were the best team. “
Cincinnati strikers arrived at the party later, but Philadelphia didn’t do much in the game, as Cincinnati was back physically powerful defensively.
The Union controlled only three shots. Santos’ try, which crashed into the FCC goalkeeper Spencer Richey’s momentum pole, the most productive of them.
“We feel pretty smart in the back. At least for me, I never felt it was dangerous,” middle gardener Tom Pettersson said in his call to the post-game convention. “Sometimes they had the ball in the middle, betting smart football still. didn’t create many opportunities, so it never bothered me. “
The resulting bleaching was the moment in so many parties in which he continued to take the position of Przemysaw Tyto, who will then move through pandemic protocols to his local Poland to deal with non-public affairs.
As the tie lost points, either club fell into the standings.
Philadelphia fell from the moment to third place in the East Conference and remained in five issues Columbus Crew SC, the convention leader with 30 issues.
At the opposite end of the playoff spectrum, FC Cincinnati fell below the playoffs’ cutoff line from the tenth and final to the eleventh.
FC Cincinnati, now with thirteen points, climbed to the most sensitive of the standings through Atlanta United FC, which they won to move to 4-7-2 (14 points).
While moving to the playoffs in 2020, not FC Cincinnati’s stated goal, the pandemic-shortened season, which includes an expanded playoffs at the East Conference, made the playoffs more achievable.
However, in the end goals and victories will be needed, and only 10 games remain in the normal season.
“As you say, we’ve been around for several games that we’ve done and we don’t,” Stam said, “and it creates a little frustration because then the table is very different when you do it (you win). “”