Superclasico Uno 2010

Edson Buddle and Landon Donovan need to just die. Drop dead. Get shot up. Drown. Suffocate. Get run over.

Chivas looks good this season. Nice touches and phenomenal ball controll all around. The boys look slightly more like a team than last year, but still no finishing touch. Like, at all. Way I see it, they need to get back to '07. We need the style of soccer that we had Preki's first years (you know, the speed of play, the attacking-minded one touch passing) and the discipline + new talent that Vasquez seems to hav brought with him. I just wished he hadn't cleaned house all this much... Atiba Harris and Carey Talley oughta still be here. Dunno if those were Vasquez decisions or not but still. It doesn't feel like Chivas anymore. The root of that lies in the loss of Panchito, Suarez, Marsch, Razov, and Nagamura over the recent years. Honestly, I teared up a bit when I heard Paulo was gone. Man, he was a rock in the midfield... Anyways, I really hope Chivas can get it together. Soon. I can't take much more of this, and I bet my boys can't either.

Speaking of my boys, Sacha played well; more so in the 2nd half but the effort was there throughout. I think Jonny is out of his element in the center... He's got no freedom to get up field and unlike Michael Parkhurst, he doesn't seem to be able to play the "brainy" defender and survive as a small dude in the middle. Jonny's a scrapper and he needs to be out wide to utilize his speed and willingness to run from endline to endline. Justin Braun is still in the lineup, much to my pleasure. I love him, but he seriously needs to raise his confidence level. And/or just play quicker into feet. He unfrotunatly tends toward the "dribble straight at the defender" side of play. Baby boy needs to learn some tricks. Perhaps from Galindo? Speaking of the Cuban, I soooooo love it when he's fit! Dude has one of the best touches out there. Plus great speed, which he suspiciously didn't show in tonight's Superclasico. You know who else has wicked ball skills, plus speed that he did show? Mariano Trujillo. I just LOVE him!! He may be little and look kinda like Mexican mafia with that slicked back hair but he's just so quick! Vasquez really needs to utilize that more. Maybe in place of one of those Brazilian stikers with shotty aim?

Ok, well I'm done complaining for the night. Oh, and here's a little love note for Landycakes:

Dear Landon,
I hope you read blogs regularly and happen to come across this one, because I wanted to let you know that I hate you. Really, it's nothing personal, I just really hate balding, self righteous, nasally, prancing, whining jerks.

Stay chill
hannah