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mhdiaries · 5 years ago

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Wave 3 Toralei Stripe Diary

July. Two. Five.

Ooh they’re telling math jokes now...

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?

A: Pumpkin Pi!

The math geeks I’m stuck on this bus with think that this is funny. So funny in fact, that the harpy sitting in front of me shoots milk out of her nose when she hears the punch line. I don’t think it’s funny at all. I’d rather be listening to the music I have stored on my iCoffin but two hours into our five-hour ride home my iCoffin gave up the ghost. It should have lasted the whole trip and then some except that one of my math camp roomies “accidentally” unplugged my iCoffin charger last night when she plugged in her fright light. I don’t even know why a ghost needs a fright light. What? Was she afraid she would trip over something and go “bump in the night?” I realized what happened when we woke up this morning but we had to leave first thing so I didn’t have time to put a full charge on it. At least I got enough battery life to block out the two hours dedicated to the singing of “X Number Bottles of Ghoul Juice on the Wall.” To add to the misery the seats on this bus only have room for two monsters and Meowlody and Purrsephone are of course sitting together which left me stuck in a seat next to a troll named Teala who had never been away from her bridge for more than a day until she came to math camp.She cried herself to sleep every night. Not that any other monster but me noticed but then again I notice everything. I also noticed Teala wasn’t laughing at any of the math jokes either. In fact she seemed to be more miserable than I was. Well now, here I was thinking she was missing her bridge but if that were the case why didn’t she seem excited about going home? “Dish,” I said. She turned and looked at me for a moment and then stared back ahead. “Okay - suit yourself then,” I said and then tried to curl up in the seat to take a cat nap which I had almost accomplished when she said; “My boy-fiend broke up with me...by text...the first night of math camp.” She still wasn’t looking at me but she wasn’t crying either. “He was my first real boyfriend and...and I don’t know why I’m telling you ‘cause you don’t seem to care about any monster besides yourself and you’ll probably figure out a way to use this to make me even more miserable.” I didn’t show it, but that really hurt. Just because I enjoy the chaos that a good practical joke brings doesn’t mean that I’m intentionally cruel does it? I don’t think it does and besides; where’s the fun of kicking some monster when they’re already down? It’s a lot more fun to see the surprise on a monster’s face when they think they’ve got it all together and you can “help them” see that they don’t. So I said, “Guess you better tell me the whole story then so I can do a thorough job.” That actually brought a ghost of a smile to her face. Teala told me that her ex boy-fiend was applying to colleges and that he decided he needed to keep his “options open” in case he might meet his “intellectual equal” at school. At first I didn’t believe he actually wrote that and then she showed me the text. “Does he really think he’s that smart,” I asked. She kind of shrugged and said, “He’s scary smart but not as good at math as I am, especially withy differential equations.” She told me he really wanted to get into this one school because his favorite mad scientist taught there. I’d never heard of the school but I knew who the mad scientist was because Mr. Hack made use watch a bunch of his videos in class. The videos were deadly boring but the mad scientist had this odd accent and strange speech pattern. I used to mimic his voice in class to make Mr. Hack jump. I’d wait until Mr. Hack’s back was turned and then scream, “Huhhacckkk - theeese stuuudannts reeelease youuu wuh-ill ah-yuat wa-unce!” It cost me several days in detention and a trip to Headless Headmistress Bloodgood’s office the last time I mimicked the mad scientist but even Mr. Hack admitted he couldn’t tell the difference between the scientist’s voice and my imitation of it. We talked about a few more things and then Teala finally fell asleep. I was able to finally fall asleep as well but not before having to hear another math joke followed by an explosion of milk from the seat in front of me.

July. Two. Eight.

I went to MH today to pick up some pictures I left in the FearBook office. When I was done I went up to the belfry. It’s a good place to keep an eye on things without other eyes watching you. It’s also a good place to take a nap. Usually the hunchback who rings the bells...the bells...works up there but he was on summer vacation in France or somewhere so I had the place to myself; until Spectra came floating through that is. She thinks that she’s very stealthy but it’s almost impossible to sneak up on me and I heard the rattle of her chains long before she actually appeared. I pretended to be asleep for a moment then with my eyes still closed I said, “What do you want Spectra?” “Oh, hello Toralei. Did you hear the news?” Most monsters don’t trust anything they hear from Spectra. I know better. There’s always an element of truth in her “news”. You just need to know how to listen. Here’s an example; Spectra told me she heard that Nefera is moving back to town and will be taking over for Ms. Kindergruber in Home Ick. Not only that but Ms. Kindergruber is also going to quit teaching to become a roadie for her favorite rock and roll band. Now as much fun as it is to imagine Ms. K. climbing stacks of amps while wearing a sleeveless leather vest, bandana and steel toed boots it’s not going to happen. Although when compared to the thought of Nefera actually “lowering herself” to teach, it’s practically a done deal Ms K will be hitting the road. I’m pretty sure out of that confusing jumble of information the one true fact is that Nefera is moving back to town and probably sooner rather than later...now there’s a monster who enjoys kicking some body when it’s down.

July. Three. Zero.

Got an email today from Teala, the troll girl I sat with on the ride home from math camp. Apparently her ex boy-fiend told her that he got a call from the mad scientist he wanted to study under. The scientist told her ex that his test scores indicated a “skuhh-ill weeeakness in diffuhh-wrenntial eeeequay-shunns” and that her ex should find some monster that was intellectually superior and “geeet sah-ummm tuutorr-ing”. Her ex was certain it was the professor since “no monster could fake that voice.” He also apologized to Teala for being an arrogant jerk and asked if she would tutor him in differential equations. Teala told him that she would have to check her schedule. Sometimes it is just purrrecious the way things work out for the beast.

August. One. Three.

I bought a ball of dragon thread today for Sweet Fangs. It’s just about the only material that’s strong enough to survive more than one play session with her. I don’t know what I’m going to do when Sweet Fangs gets bigger because I’m probably going to need the whole dragon and I’m not sure mom and dad are gong to be good with that.

August. Two. Five.

M&P came over today. They’re like my sisters and I can’t imagine how boring unlife would be without them. We do just about everything together and some monsters even think we’re related but we’re not. Not that it matters since we don’t really care what other monsters think anyway. We are who we are and any monster or monsters that want to try and herd us better get ready for a long miserable day. Today we weren’t worried about being herded, today was a brainstorm session. Our mission, repay Cleo de Nile and her minions for not only ruining our perfectly planned graduation prank but also for taking away part of our valuable summer vacation by “arranging” our trip to math camp. Knowing that it was Cleo who got the better of us is almost as irritating as being wet or having my fur stroked the wrong way. I can’t believe that I actually helped her when she first wanted to be a part of the Fear Squad. Cleo didn’t even know how to do a cartwheel, much less a round off. So I took her under my claw and taught her everything I knew and since I’d been doing gymnastics from the time I was a kitten I knew a lot. I finally got Cleo to the point where she started to “get it” and instead of being a liability she started contributing. I figured that for all my hard work and leadership Nefera would make me the Fear Squad captain when she graduated. Only she didn’t - she passed it onto Cleo. I can still remember what Nefera said to me when I confronted her about it. “I didn’t want Cleo to succeed - I wanted her to be humiliated but since you helped her, you get to deal with the consequences.” Then Cleo acted as if she deserved to be the captain and that she automatically knew everything there was to know about leading the Fear Squad. She should have showed some humility and stepped aside. She didn’t so now it’s up to me to teach her some new lessons and I can’t wait for class to be back in session.

August. Three. One.

There’s a meteor shower tonight, which will give us the purrrfect opportunity to practice the three D’s. Divert. Design. Demure. First I divert attention away from myself - although tonight the meteor shower should do that for me, next I design a “surprise” for my intended victim student and then after the unexpected happens I demure - “Oh my, what happened here?” More later...

Ended up scraping the three D’s tonight, mostly because the meteor shower diverted me. I was supposed to meet M&P at this coffee shop down close to the beach - it’s the only time I go to the beach since sand + water + fur = unhappy werecat - but they were late so I grabbed a catnipuccino and waited. The owner turned down the lights of the shop so it was almost dark and then the sky was falling. The ghouls showed up just as somewhere down the beach a monster started playing guitar and I said, “Just because we’ve got nine lives doesn’t mean we need to rush through this one.” And we didn’t.

#monster high #monster high diary #toralei stripe #text post #wave 3

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imaginingyourfandom · 6 years ago

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Imagine You & Ezekiel decorating the Christmas tree

Fandom: The Librarians

Pairing: Ezekiel Jones x reader (sort of?)

Writer: scottmccallmeishmael

Summary: Imagine You & Ezekiel decorating the Christmas tree (this imagine)

Christmas was the least subtle holiday on the planet, considering decorations and music and everything were coming out of the woodwork before Halloween ever even arrived, but this year, it snuck up on you. You would have sworn it was only September, but now, surprise! December had arrived, and with it came snow, and the need to decorate and buy gifts.

Gifts were relatively easy for you. When you started as a Guardian, you had a slight concern that you were about to move into this place, and live with these people, but be completely alone. Now, almost a year after you arrived, you realized this was your family. You were closer to, and happier with, the people you had met in this job, than you thought you had ever been before with anyone. You and Jake talked about art and used the back door to visit a few places that you had never been before, or that you had only been to in a professional capacity. Conversations with Cassandra were mostly focused on physics or math, but even though neither had been your high point in school, you were still completely fascinated by everything she had to say. Eve sparred with you, a lot, to keep you on your toes constantly, and Flynn, well, Flynn was a whirlwind of information, whether he ever managed to make sense or not. Hell, you even forced some time with Jenkins, and he lightened up – as much as Jenkins ever did for anyone – enough to share some stories from his unbelievably long life. Your time with Jones, though, that was something else. You two watched movies and scoured the Library to see what crazy artifacts you could find without getting lost, and you even helped him figure out battle plans to break into exhibits (which you didn’t actually do, it was mostly for fun…for you, anyway. You had no idea what Jones did when he wasn’t with you, and that was completely fine by you).

So gifts were easy.

Decorations were…something else. You had spent a long time being the only person wanting to put up any kind of decoration for the holiday, and while you had enjoyed it, then, you had also resented it, and the older you got, the less you wanted anything to do with it.

This year was different.

This year, you had forcibly ignored the idea of decorating, until two weeks before Christmas, and you found yourself in the Annex, staring at a room that Christmas had almost definitely thrown up on.

“…what is happening?” you asked, baffled, peering around at the boxes and bags of lights, tinsel, garland, and ornaments around the room. Jake and Ezekiel grunted, finishing standing the tree upright along the wall, as Cassandra grinned, and bounded towards you with a silver garland in one hand, and a white and red striped cup in the other.

“Decorating! It’s almost Christmas! This is for you,” she said, handing you the cup, before wrapping the garland around your shoulders, and bouncing back to the table. You blinked at her, and then glanced down at the cocoa in your hand, before glancing back up, and smirking.

“No more coffee for Cassandra. I thought we already agreed on that.” She turned around, and stuck out her tongue, pulling a laugh from your throat as you sipped your cocoa. “Thank you, for this. Okay…so what can I help with?”

“You can help Jones decorate the tree – Cassie and I gotta go get wrapping paper and tape, so we can start wrapping gifts,” Stone answered, already pulling on his coat.

“I don’t need any, all my gifts are wrapped,” you told him, sipping your drink. You could feel them staring at you, and you lifted your eyes, shrugging. “What?”

“Already wrapped?” Cassandra asked.

“I get my Christmas shopping done through the year. I might not completely remember which package is which, but I do have a list of everything I’ve bought, and every package is marked with a name. So. My gifts are all wrapped.” Cassandra grinned, but nodded, and followed Jake out as you grabbed a box of ornaments, and shuffled towards Jones.

“So…” he started, staring at the tree. You smirked, rolling your eyes, as you put your cup down and grabbed a box of lights.

“I am not going to tell you what I got you, Jones, that would ruin the surprise.” He huffed, but you couldn’t help smiling as he helped you wrap the lights around the tree.

“We literally have access to all this magic, and we’re decorating the old-fashioned way. I mean, they make trees pre-lit! Why the work?” You cocked your head, glancing at him, and shrugged a little.

“It’s supposed to be fun, and to help people feel close because they have to work together to decorate the tree.” Jones paused, slowly turning to see you, and you fought the laugh on your tongue as your shrugged. “Or some crap like that, I don’t know, I always decorate the tree alone.” He snorted, then, pushing his hair off his forehead.

The lights went on first, easily enough, but then you thrust a box of ornaments at Jones, grinning as he squawked.

“Stop staring at the tree like it’s offending you, and put the ornaments on…or no gift.”

“Decorating!” he promised, helping you hang things up. You snickered a little, plucking the little holiday-themed ornaments, as opposed to the simple orbs, out of your box to hang, not realizing Jones was glancing over at you as you both worked. “So…you always decorated alone?” You hesitated, eyes flickering towards him, before shrugging a little.

“Yeah…” You weren’t sure, really, if you had wanted to share a lot of your personal self with the LITs, or anyone else you were now living with, but this group of oddly matched beings, whether you admitted it much or not, were your family, and you knew it was probably important to share some things. “…when I was eight, a week before Christmas, I started asking about the tree, about decorations. I could…see them, in other people’s homes and windows…my dad finally gave me the box of stuff, and a little tree, and told me to knock myself out. It…was like that every year, after that. I was the only one who asked. So every year, I put up the tree, the lights, the ornaments, and I wrapped the gifts to go underneath…and every year, I pulled everything down and packed it away again.”

The box was heavy in your hands, even knowing you had been plucking the decorations out as you rounded the tree, and you knew that was in your head, the ridiculous weight of your Christmas story.

“Mom used to tell me, before their divorce, that…on Christmas, you were with the people you love. And no matter how far apart you were, when the tree went up, covered in lights and decorations, it was like a little beacon to the ones you love, if you couldn’t go be with them.”

Jones reached out, patting your arm, before pulling the conversation to a tale about some artifact he’d stolen during the holiday season before he stole from your museum, something that just made you laugh and lit up your features. But you just had a hard time pulling yourself back out of those thoughts, and how much you missed your mom, even once Stone and Cassandra had returned, wrapping paper and tape in their hands.

The tree was gorgeous, really, once you had come down from placing the star at the top. The four of you stood, admiring the glowing object in the corner, before Jones opened his arms to it.

“You know, Y/N, we have a magical door, can take you anywhere you want to go,” he pointed out, motioning over to it. “So this doesn’t just have to be a beacon for you. You should go on, be with the ones you love.” You were a little startled as you turned your attention to see him, but you could feel the blush burn at your face as you looked over at the door, and sighed. Yes, you missed your mom. Yes, you would love to see her. But, in a way you couldn’t figure out how to explain, you missed the mom you had when you were eight, nine, not the woman your mom had become in the years since. Instead, you shook your head, reaching over to nudge his shoulder.

“Ezekiel Jones, I don’t need to go anywhere. The ones I love…are right here.” Cassandra’s hug was immediate, and Jake hugged you lightly, but Ezekiel stood beside you, staring at you in mild surprise, before a smile tugged at his features.

“Well, of course you love us, we’re the best.” Leave it to Jones, to go for the joke. But he hooked an arm around your shoulders, peering up at the tree as you leaned into his side.

“Merry Christmas, Ezekiel Jones.”

“Merry Christmas, Y/N.”

#The Librarians #the librarians imagine #Ezekiel Jones #ezekiel jones imagine #ezekiel jones x reader #oneshot #imaginingyourfandom

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writerspink · 6 years ago

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Armchair Analyst: Josef's binge, NYCFC's Free 8s & more from Week 23

August 5, 201810:38PM EDT

No need for a lede this week, let’s just pour up and dive in:

Sunk Costs

Josef Martinez got two more goals this weekend, in what was ultimately a disappointing 2-2 home draw for Atlanta United against a visiting Toronto FC side that’s just about rounding into “uh oh, they’re back” form.

Josef now has 26 goals on the season, is a mortal lock to eclipse the single-season mark of 27 goals (shared jointly between Roy Lassiter, Chris Wondolowski and Bradley Wright-Phillips), is averaging 1.16 goals per 90 (best in league history), has netted each of the last eight goals his team has scored (a league record), and 11 of the last 12 they’ve scored.

All of that is “wow.” But yeah… there’s a kernel of worry there, because Atlanta have left points on the board time and again via their lack of finishing from other sources. Miguel Almiron has vastly underperformed his expected goals numbers, and Tito Villalba hasn’t been the same kind of threat he was last year. If you bunker against this team and do it well (i.e., if you keep track of Josef), you can snag a result even as the Five Stripes control the entire game.

Do it poorly, though, and you end up with a furious ‘keeper:

Am I right to call this a worry for Atlanta? On the year they’re just 2-3-5 against what I consider to be “good” teams, and have struggled against the likes of Portland and Seattle when those particular sides have parked the bus.

Tata Martino, for one, is unconcerned. He lit up when asked about why only Martinez is scoring.

“On the second goal, was he taking a ball from the air, fighting off an entire defense and got a goal? No! There’s ball circulation that ends with [Villalba] waiting for the move, playing a cross, then Josef’s goal. I would be worried if we lump the ball in and let Josef manage himself alone, but this is not the case. Our right wing has eight assists, our left has 10 assists,” he said.

“Look at Josef´s 26 goals getting 24 assists – analyze that.”

All of that is true, even if Tata’s math is slightly off. You can see in the video above that Atlanta weren’t hoping to break down the bunker; they were specifically targeting certain parts of the bunker and forcing the TFC players to come play the ball instead of staying the zone. This was planned, and you’d be dumb not to plan to create chances for the most lethal goalscorer in league history, right?

“Truth is, he has big virtues, but there’s also a play circuit that allows Josef to find empty spaces. Otherwise our opponents only would have to keep him away from getting chances. That would be too easy, so they have to move to fill the gaps he is creating for his teammates. Those gaps are created with our ball circulation,” Tata continued.

“Sincerely I don’t mind and I mean it – he won´t stop making goals. There’s no way to neutralize a No. 9 when you have a team that supports our style of play. You look at FC Barcelona—you can’t keep [Lionel] Messi from making 40 goals per season, because there’s a style of play that allows Messi or [Luis] Suárez to finish in best conditions.”

This is a really good answer to an entirely fair question, and it does the right thing in putting the onus on the opposition to go to the film, unwind Atlanta’s sequences of play, and figure out how to stop putting the ball on Martinez’s head in the six-yard box. You want to stop them, you’ve got to stop him.

BTW. pic.twitter.com/LJ1IJ5FJYp

— Ben Baer (@BenBaer89) August 5, 2018

But it also dodges the issue: Atlanta keep dropping results when they’re the better team, and it’s because if the chance falls to someone not named Josef Martinez, it’s not going in the back of the net.

Off Brand

It was a good weekend for dropped points in the Eastern Conference. Ten teams played, and only one – RBNY – walked out with the full three points.

That includes a 2-2 Vancouver draw at NYCFC in one of the more unexpected outcomes of the year (but, because this is MLS, not even the most unexpected of the week). It’s fair to say that NYCFC have missed David Villa, and it’s also fair to say that his absence isn’t the sum total of what I will lightly term their “struggles.” They lost last week during a brutal stretch, played poorly in a win at Orlando before that, and then surrendered a home result for only the second time all season.

For a team as good as the one from the Bronx, that is “struggling.”

Let’s unpack how and why that happened against a ‘Caps team that had only 27 percent of possession on the day, and played a lineup comprising mostly reserves, and were outshot 22-8.

First, here is NYCFC head coach Dome Torrent’s postgame money quote:

“We found [Ismael Tajouri-Shradi] many, many times on the left side, we played free and this is our intention,” he offered. “Play with the wingers wide and they cross all the time inside. The best way for me to attack is our wingers wide.”

This is somewhat unusual in the modern game, one in which wingers are mostly inverted and fullbacks mostly overlap. But this is not unusual for City Football Group, and the system Torrent’s describing is the same one that Pep Guardiola mostly used at Manchester City last year.

1. The wingers stay wide instead of being inverted, effectively spreading out the entire opposing backline instead of letting them stay compact

2. The fullbacks push up usually in support – as a platform for distribution – rather than as pure overlappers. When they do push into the attack, it’s as often as not to be underlappers, i.e. playing inside the winger rather than outside the winger

3. The midfield has a back point and two playmakers. Kevin De Bruyne called the role a “free 8,” but really they’re just modern No. 10s who have to defend a little bit

4. Because the wingers are wide and the fullbacks are supporting possession, the Free 8s push forward to attack inside channels while the No. 9 occupies central defenders. Simple spacing – the wingers are pulling the backline apart by staying wide, remember – gives them more room to get into dangerous spots

5. That’s how Jesus Medina gets goals like this:

Tajouri-Shradi is the wide winger, Anton Tinnerholm is the underlapping right back, and Medina is the Free 8. This is literally ripped from the Man City playbook.

The problem with this approach is simple: It throws a lot of numbers forward and exposes the hell out of you on the counter. And if your Free 8s aren’t able to put in the requisite defensive work – and neither Medina nor Maxi Moralez did in this one – then you will give up goals on the counter by losing the ball in central midfield and why don’t I just show you the clip?

This is a very different way of approaching the game from what this team did under Patrick Vieira. I respect Torrent’s attempt to put his own mark on the team (even if I think many of his personnel choices are bad), and I still think NYCFC are much more good than bad. I still think they’re one of the three or four best teams in MLS.

But here’s a note my colleague Bobby Warshaw sent me, and I agree with every word:

NYCFC has been great at times – MTL and Columbus wins – but also really bad at times. If they click, they could be the best team in the league; but I’m worried they are tinkering so much and it makes whether they click on a given day random and unpredictable/untrustworthy.

A few more things to ponder…

9. The actual most shocking result of the weekend came in Frisco, where San Jose picked up just their third win of the year – and their first over anybody but Minnesota United – with a 3-1 result over FC Dallas. It marked FCD’s first loss at home this season.

San Jose did well to capitalize on a couple of bad errors from Jesse Gonzalez, and got probably their best central midfield performance of the season. Both Luis Felipe and Anibal Godoy (who I have been vocally down on) were clean on the ball and active off it, and that allowed the Quakes to be both solid and dangerous. It was a nice change, and a much-needed win.

For FCD… don’t look now, but they’re just 4-4-1 across all competitions since Mauro Diaz left.

8. No Zlatan, no party. The Galaxy went to Colorado without their star striker and left with a 2-1 loss, snapping their nine-game unbeaten run. LA aren’t/weren’t really able to control games with the ball, which means their defense has to scramble and make plays. As we’ve seen all season, that’s not, uh, their forte. And David Bingham has done them few favors in net.

Colorado did well to only field three center backs instead of their usual four or five. Bobby will have a nice long look at their new 4-4-2 diamond – and how it’s reviving Kellyn Acosta – this week.

7. Our Face of the Week goes to Seattle head coach Brian Schmetzer, who was super duper pleased with Will Bruin’s stoppage time goal for a come-from-behind 2-1 win at Minnesota:

We feel you, Coach! pic.twitter.com/yucFMrkgaD

— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) August 5, 2018

This was all born of a switch to the 4-4-2, which allowed Bruin and Raul Ruidiaz to play off of each other for a few minutes. It’s looked very, very promising thus far in limited minutes.

If I was a MNUFC fan I’d probably be asking questions as to why Michael Boxall didn’t contest the long-ball that led to Bruin’s goal, and why Francisco Calvo didn’t track Bruin at all.

Of note: Adrian Heath benched Christian Ramirez in this one, and there are credible whispers he’s being shopped. A number of teams out there could use a goalscoring No. 9.

6. Real Salt Lake gave themselves a “gotta have it” 2-1 win over visiting Chicago on Saturday night in Sandy.

Midfielder Damir Kreilach – playing a box-to-box role in this one – got both goals for the hosts, and while his defensive deficiencies are always lurking, it’s been fun to watch him figure out this league and his teammates over the course of a season. For example, he knows that RSL center forward Corey Baird only rarely hits the “A gap” between the central defenders, and instead prefers to drift to the back post. That opens up the A gap for a late, Frank Lampard-esque run out of midfield, which is exactly how Kreilach got the game’s first goal.

Chicago are now down to 10th in the East and are under 1 ppg. They have completely failed to build off of a strong 2017 season.

5. Few teams in league history have been able to grind as well as this year’s Timbers. They weren’t great in Saturday’s 3-0 win over a short-handed Philadelphia side:

I hope the Timbers don’t fall for the fool’s gold that was last night’s 3-0 win. A Union B+ team that had no business taking points off any MLS side on the road likely would’ve earned at least a point if they didn’t make egregiously dumb mistakes in the second half. #RCTID

— Chris Rifer (@ChrisRifer) August 5, 2018

But they’re now unbeaten in 15, and picked up just their second multi-goal win of the year. They make you earn every inch, and the Union weren’t good enough to make a dent.

4. Orlando City came back from two goals down, and then came back from one goal down to steal a 3-3 home draw against the Revs thanks to a goal in second-half stoppage.

This game was entirely bonkers, and an entirely bad result for both teams. The Lions already have a bunch of nails in their coffin, and this is very obviously one more. But the Revs… the Revs had this, but once again their inability to defend in their own 18 just destroyed their hopes of creating any sort of breathing room between them and the hunting pack.

New England are now winless in five, have one win in eight, and are 4-6-7 since April 14. Only Orlando, San Jose, Colorado and D.C. United have fewer points since then.

3. Speaking of D.C., they went to Montreal and got a very useful point via a 1-1 draw thanks to a Yamil Asad goal (and how much would Atlanta give to have him back right now?), which canceled out Matteo Mancosu’s opener.

United shifted out of their usual 4-1-4-1 for more of a 4-2-3-1 with Russell Canouse and Junior Moreno on the “2” line, effectively shielding what’s usually a pretty vulnerable backline. Given that, the Impact were kind of flummoxed when it came to consistent chance generation. And given their inability to press, they couldn’t just turn defense into offense.

This was a bad, bad result for Montreal, who are still technically above the playoff line but are actually seventh in the East on PPG, and have a mostly pretty tough schedule remaining. If the miss the playoffs by a point or two, this is the game they should point at.

2. LAFC are suddenly sliding. Following Sunday’s 2-1 loss at RBNY they’re winless in four and have just one win in their last six. Teams have limited their ability to build triangles up and down the pitch – everybody’s got tape to dissect now – and that means Adama Diomande isn’t getting anymore tap-ins, and nobody’s really picking up the slack.

On the defensive side, it’s simple: Mistakes are getting punished. Tyler Miller’s spill led to the first New York goal, and a simple ball over the top led to the second. The season is a grind, and exhaustion leads to both lapses in concentration and physical failures. Expect a different-looking lineup for Wednesday’s U.S. Open Cup semifinal against Houston.

For RBNY, they’re back to 2 ppg, tied with Atlanta for best in the league, and their +21 goal differential is second-best.

1. And finally, our Pass of the Week goes to Sporting KC’s 16-year-old playmaker Gianluca Busio, who got the game-winning assist in his side’s 1-0 win at Houston:

Great pass, and a good interview as well. As he said, he was able to “drift” into Zone 14, and Houston have had trouble tracking movement through there all season in Juan David Cabezas’ absence.

Houston lost their minds in this one, with three players seeing red and head coach Wilmer Cabrera also being dismissed. Given how far they are from the playoff line, how poor they are on the road and how the rest of their schedule looks, it seems quite likely their hopes of a return trip to the playoffs are just about fried.

Which makes Wednesday’s Open Cup semifinal that much bigger. Win there, and they have a shot at at least salvaging something from an otherwise colossally disappointing 2018.

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