Saturday, 17 October, 2009

What Toronto FC Can't Learn from Aston Villa

The great thing about following two football clubs is just as one is making you want to rip out your own insides from all the wasted chances, awful defending and lack of attacking spirit, the other comes from a goal down to Chelsea to win it 2-1 completely and utterly against the run of play thus throwing the Premier league intelligentsia (if you can call it that etc. etc.) into yet another tizzy about big fish getting eaten by little fish.

Villa did the deed, defending deep at the closing minutes with Heskey lumbering around like the donkey he is, off to collect the thumping clearances from, perhaps not coincidentally the goals-scorers, Richard Dunne and Jimmy Collins.

Note that Toronto, you have Nana Attakora but then you also have Nick Garcia. Apparently RSL is all crazy good on the wings or something so maybe your fullbacks can take care of that, I don't know. But don't do that. Don't defend deep and try to score on the break. Just pack that goddamn midfield and run at them like you're Avon and they're Marlo. This is no time to play Stringer Bell out there.

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