Portland Timbers Players Ratings: DC united away edition

by Ryan Gates on Oct 20, 2011 2:29 PM PDT

It is that time again for the player ratings based on a 1 to 10 scale. 1 being bad and 10 being epic.

Rodney Wallace - 5 - Really thought he started out really well but faded as the game went on
Futty Danso - 7 - Without him and Brunner the Timbers would have lost
Eric Brunner - 6 - Got turned way too easily on the goal but saved another one
Eric Alexander - 6 - I really thought he relieved a ton of pressure and got out of tight spots, once he was taken off it was back to the kick and chase

James Marcelin - 7 - After Perkins he is my Man of the Match. He was everywhere and did everything he could. Only negative was his legs seemed to fail him

Diego Chara - 6 - Not his best game and looks like the 1 year of playing is getting to him

Jack Jewsbury - 5 - Just did not see a lot from Captain Jack

Lovel Palmer - 5 - Didn't help but didn't hurt the team

Kalif Alhassan - 4 - Had moments of positives but really gave up the ball a lot and rushed it times where the Timbers needed patience and a more dangerous ball

Kenny Cooper - 6 - He is now the leading scorer for this year, we just need him to produce 10 goals instead of 8 next year.

Troy Perkins - 9 - Kept what slim playoff chances Portland had were kept alive because of Perkins. Would have been a 10 if he would have been in a better position on the goal.

Mike Chabala - 6 - invigorated the attack but didn't help out much defensively

Bright Dike - 5 - Had a couple of chances to be the hero but his touch and shot let him down.

Brian Umony - 5 - He had his chance but couldn't find the open player or the net in those chances.

John Spencer - 7 - I thought he made the best subs he could with our lack of depth and I loved the change in formation

Agree or disagree with the Ratings? Tell me what you think.

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Disagree with Brunner

No way to defend DeRo’s goal any better than he did. I’d put him at 7 with Futty. Was disappointed with chara. He doesn’t share space well with Jack. When we played the flat MF they were both ineffective once we started playing more diamond Chara exploded. With both Jack and Chara ahead of Marcelin he looked lost. Communication?

by shrekpdx on Oct 20, 2011 6:01 PM PDT reply actions

I would swap Brunner and Futty

Futty was a boss in the air and made some good tackles, but gave up on plays late in the game and had, as he always does, a number of really bad clearances. Both of those issues lead to scoring chances for DC and it was only by the grace of Perkins and Brunner that they were cleaned up.

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by William Conwell on Oct 20, 2011 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Alhassan

I wonder if there are any stats for % of shots that off goal in a season. Amazing how many times he has miss-hit a shot this season. I know he is young, but he really faded from value the last 3rd of the season. Curious if we give our wings another year, so look elsewhere. Last night was another disappointment.

by Dharmabum on Oct 20, 2011 7:15 PM PDT reply actions

Spencer at 5 not 7

Not sure I would rate Spencer’s game as highly. Obviously he was dealing with a limited roster, but all season I feel like we should have been making our subs around minute 60. When players get tired, and start slowing down we have to sub. Too many times we’ve proven that we’ll give up late goals. You have to see that coming at this point and do something to address it, but I haven’t seen any change to try and deal with the problem.

Also I would have liked to see Dike in earlier. Yeah, he was a little wild but he brought energy when we needed it, and I am curious to see what might have happened if he had a little more time to settle into a playing rhythm.

by clearcutusa on Oct 20, 2011 8:38 PM PDT reply actions

2 points

1) Our first sub was in the 63rd minute, Umony on for Alexander.

2) With a lead Cooper is a better player at killing the game off than Dike will ever be and therefore Cooper stays. Of course once the goal was given up Dike came in around the 84th minute.

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by Ryan Gates on Oct 20, 2011 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions

I didn't have a problem with his subbing

but i would have rated him lower based on the idea I don’t believe in donig a bunch of new stuff in a must win game, after you have been playing fairly well. If you take out that houston game we had a pretty good run of games, yet he decides to go to a formation we haven’t done for months. Just seems like odd timing to me. At this point of the season we should be in our top form and also have a good feel for how we play. We shouldn’t be switching up the line up the formation in the 2nd to last game of the season when we have to win.

by Kazper on Oct 21, 2011 2:40 AM PDT up reply actions