It’s perhaps not unusual that when a team plays two games separated by just a few days those two games end up being very different. That would be because the tight scheduling generally demands s...
The Legion seems to have spent the vast majority of this season on a mission to prove the validity of Jimmy Greaves’ infamous “game of two halves” quote. Last night’s contest with North Carolina FC wa...
One of the key moments in the Tulsa game this past weekend was, obviously enough, the handball called on Jackson Travis late in the first half. Late being, in this case, exactly 51 minutes, which was ...
My personal opinion on this game was that it was the best showing—two sloppy defensive errors notwithstanding—that the Legion has produced all season. Most notably, the team was playing in a way that ...
We haven’t done one of these in almost a month but this game deserves a closer look. In terms of the style of play it was very different from what we were expecting from a Mark Briggs team. Most...
Once again, apologies for getting this out late this week; with the Three Sparks having a 10-day stretch with no game we felt justified in being lazy. That being said, unlike most games where we dig i...
With a brand new head coach coming in this week you may wonder: why bother with an analysis of the tactical approach in the last game? Well, two reasons. First, it takes time for a coach to install hi...
The oddity in the initial formation was that Dawson McCartney was playing at left back. He is of course mostly used as a winger. I assume he was put in at fullback faute de mieux, as it were, gi...
OK, so this is rather late in the day, but bloggers have real lives too and most of you were on spring break this week… The past week was a crazy one for the Legion with three games being played...
There were at least four different problems evident in the Legion’s loss last Saturday, both old and new, and some just perplexing. Let’s go through them in particular order. Player availability...