What do you mean by another 5 assist game, has someone done it before? Vanzeir had 4 assists earlier in a game, and we were wondering if that would tie a record? Anyway, Messi has now blown past that with the 5 assist game (against Vanzeir no less) and even added a goal along with 5 assists.
oops yeah thats what i meant, 1+5 a pretty good game huh
even with the copa this year, messi should take a good run at that assist record
It was a weekend where the team was celebrating their 50th anniversary as a club, and their Saturday match against Austin FC brought out fans in droves. A total of 32,465 fans packed BC Place to see their team play to a 0-0 draw. That is the most fans to ever attend a Whitecaps game in their MLS era.
[...] Sartini went on to say that this won’t be a longstanding record for the Whitecaps as a much larger crowd is expected to pack the stadium in about two weeks when Lionel Messi and Inter Miami CF come to the city for the first and only time this season on May 25.
lol yeah kind of funny to set a new record and then smash it again in 3 weeks. not sure what the max capacity is these days but i guess we're about to find out. should be 50-60k
What do you mean by another 5 assist game, has someone done it before? Vanzeir had 4 assists earlier in a game, and we were wondering if that would tie a record? Anyway, Messi has now blown past that with the 5 assist game (against Vanzeir no less) and even added a goal along with 5 assists. His overall #s are just silly:
8 matches (7 starts), 10 goals, 12 assists
He's had multiple goal contributions in all matches except 1 (only 1 goal in that 1) and he's had at least a goal and an assist in 6 of 8 matches. He also has an ongoing streak of at least 3! goal contributions in 3 straight matches.
He's already missed 4 matches though and they might start to rest him even more before the playoffs. The goals record for a season is 34 by Vela. That's probably out of reach, b/c Messi likes to set up others, but the assist record is 26 (by Valderrama in 2000), and that's a possibility. That's a record that's seemingly been out of reach as the next best tally is 20 assists, but if Messi gets close, I'm sure he could focus on setting up teammates more and break it.
i mean that was a pk at the end, but yeah overall they seemed to get more decisions than normal. or perhaps he was just letting them play because it's technically a derby
Inter Miami CF manager Gerardo "Tata" Martino defended the decision to rest Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Sergio Busquets for the game against the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday at BC Place,
hope any whitecaps fans going to this didn't fork out a lot of money in advance for tix
Sartini went on to say that this won’t be a longstanding record for the Whitecaps as a much larger crowd is expected to pack the stadium in about two weeks when Lionel Messi and Inter Miami CF come to the city for the first and only time this season on May 25.
My dad (who isn't a soccer fan) and 6 year old niece were up from North Carolina and came with my wife and 2 year old son.
On 9 minutes they stop the game for "storms in the area". Skies were clear, there was no rain. They made people leave their seats and pack the concourses in 98 degree heat. It was "fireworks night" so there were tons of families with small kids there (the stadium was still half full)
For 2 hours they had people crammed in the concourses with no visible lightning or fain. About 1:45 in there were some lightning very very off the distance with low rumbling thunder following after close to a minute.
In short, there was absolutely no reason to stop the game. By time the game resumed the game could have been finished.
I get lightning is a threat but they were way way way way too overcautious in this situation.
By comparison, Yankee Stadium, which was sold out and closer to the storm than RB Arena was able to finish their game uninterrupted. They were in the bottom of the 8th inning when Red Bull resumed.
Just an absolutely atrocious job by Red Bull or MLS (I'm guessing it's the latter bc I see delays all the time on tv, but this was the first one I experienced in person. Hopefully they're not all as unnecessary is this). It makes me never want to go to a game ever again, especially if there is even the smallest hint of weather in there.,
Add to this zero communication from Red Bull how long the delay was expected to last or when they expected to start. Kids lying in the middle of the concourse, families with small children sweating their asses off.
We eventually left after an hour and 15 minutes. That parking lot is a **** show so we sat in that traffic for an hour and 15 minutes. We weren't the only ones who packed it in having traveled 2 hours and waited another hour + to see 9 minutes of football under dry skies with zero lightning in sight.