Armindo Sieb

It is nice for Denny Boanga to score his 16th goal of the season.

And then, uh, Javi would start making some moves, right? Chaff and Schwandayer would come on for Igor Jesus and Armindo Sieb.

And honestly, I didn't see a whole ton from Armindo Sieb that I loved in this match, and I saw even less from Igor Jesus that I loved in this match.

He just doesn't look 100% match fit yet, but they're trying to get him minutes and trying to get him out there.

And oh, by the way, designated player, Philly, Mirto Uzuni would sub on for Austin, and just like that, he would, uh, factor into this one.

Yeah, yeah.

Bouanga, Sonny, Seeb, Volta.

And Seeb and Volta, especially the latter, man.

[sighs]

Volta was the best player on the field last night.

Yeah

... uh, relative to, to who he is and, and where he's at in his career.

But 43rd minute here, this is where Armindo Sieb puts a ball right to the foot of Sergey Palencia inside that 18, and he just tries to redirect it with a one touch, but that gets blocked away by Brendan Heinze.

Uh, the first start for Sergio Vázquez, with Schwanyer in the midfield.

Shaf Razzaq, Armindo Sieb is now putting together, um, some starts.

So you have two new players there in the front six.

Then you have Cheva, Segura, Porteous, Palencia.

I like that.

I think three and a half is the right number.

Uh, let's look at, oh, let's throw our Mindo Seeb, even though he's played a little bit, but he's creating an identity.

I love his, the, the, the, the r- [laughs] the keg build, which he just throws his body around.

I think that's been the toughest part, right? That a bunch of this, a bunch of this kind of falls on the front office in terms of their roster makeup and what we have right now.

Look, we can question not being able to switch from four under-22s and two DPs to three and three.

We can question the roster makeup and the fact that we truly don't have a third striker, or at least we don't think we have one right now, if it's Leo Volta, if it's Taylon, if it's Armindo Siebe, who, by the way, had a pretty decent game if you look at the underlying numbers.

He did.

Maybe those guys all pan out.

This was a busy team in the summer window, mostly revamping that U22 season.

initiative or i should say revamping almost all of their u22 initiative slots here they did move guys out like nathan or does right was a homegrown forward for them traded to dc united then they jettisoned three u22s right this is a 2-4 build with buonga and sun as the two designated players i mean budri was transferred to hamarby i believe that's in sweden and artem smoliakov was loaned to kharkiv and then david martinez transferred to fc michelin and that was the big name going out from that group right but that was their three active u22s they turned around and brought in names like armindo sieb from bayern munich only a half million dollar fee there he's an attacking

player imagine half million dollar fees and i

He's not the average player you'd expect coming from a team with that type of name value.

We know what we have on our back line.

We know what we have on our front line now with Armindo Sieb and potentially Leo Volta helping out with the offensive attack.

I, I think it's that midfield, and I think that's what Xavi is going to spend these next six matches figuring out, or at least tinkering with, so that when, not if, but when we go into the playoffs, and I think we will go into the playoffs on a bit of a high note, that our midfield is sorted.

Because that's the part that worries me the most, and that's why I think it's going to be a 2-2 draw in this one.

Walto was already there, just hasn't played minutes.

And Armindo Sieb has obviously been playing minutes and scored a goal for us.

Uh, I haven't heard anything about Tillman's injury, but I do believe he'll probably be back before the end of the season, unless something goes wrong.

What do you guys think is a, a honest benchmark to be striving for? How do you feel about where we're going from here, and what do you expect?

Suddenly we're getting a glimpse of what some of these newer and younger pieces can do.

And then in that 72nd minute, Armindo Sieb unloads a scud deflection corner.

And now here we go.

Can LAFC get some kind of a set-piece goal? And while this goal that came through, not necessarily fully created by a set-piece.

All right.

Anyway, for me, it's got to be the Deutscher, Armindo Sieb, not because he's suddenly expected to impersonate Denny or Sonny, because obviously that's unfair.

It's because this is precisely why LAFC added attacking depth late in the season.

He arrives permanently from Bayern.

He's seventh in G-plus on their squad.

And while they won't have their two big forwards, Armindo Siebe, I believe I'm getting that right.

I'm kind of scared.

I'm not getting the approval I'm needing.