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Ken Garner's avatar

Silly me; I thought Messi’s return might disrupt the team’s rhythm. Happy to be wrong.

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Alex Windley's avatar

Haha! If anything the team is on another level with him on the pitch.

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Gina Sigillito's avatar

Also Drake is a king. What a game for him too.

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Alex Windley's avatar

100%! His saves were incredible!

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Gina Sigillito's avatar

Mostly amazing. Both Suarez and Messi magic as usual. We do make a lot of careless mistakes in defense but what an exciting game!

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Brad Parsons's avatar

A lot of bad tempo soft passes in front of the goal became problems for Callender and he handled them all well. Noah Allen needed to have the awareness like Messi to have just jump over Callender. Noah's injury kind of looked like Tua's, a bent neck. I think Noah might have gotten a concussion from that. Callender though fixed a lot of bad passes.

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Cathy Silveira's avatar

A bunch of “what was that?” moments in front of the goal. Lots of good stuff, but can’t have exposure in the mid leading to counter attack. Messi and Suarez aren’t going to defend so tighten it up a bit especially near end of match. Sure there were great saves but why did it get to that?

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Alex Windley's avatar

Lack of balance in the middle! Thought starting Yannick Bright would fix that! Luckily Tata brought him on!

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