Thursday, April 5, 2007

Halftime in Pachuca

The Chivas-D.C. match was pretty even - the whole series was even - and if it wasn't for a goalkeeping error it really could have gone either way.

But Pachuca-Houston... well, this is a disaster in the making. Houston did not belong on the same field as Pachuca in the first 45 minutes, plain and simple.

Usually, I can expect Houston to work hard, play aggressively and physically and attack. I can expect Dwayne De Rosario to be a dangerous presence and Brian Ching to be a force in the box. But I see none of that, absolutely none of it thus far. Nothing.

I don't know what Houston can do at the break to turn the tide. This is one of those games where they need to capitalize on their set pieces because scoring in the run of play seems out of the question right now.

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