Jacob Shaffelburg

So I would love to see our boys get on the other end of some forward passes.

We saw an- another wonderful one from Jacob Shaffelburg.

It has been fun to watch over the last 45 minutes of soccer.

It's gonna be interesting to see how LAFC can do that on a smaller pitch.

We get Azzouni in.

On the other side, Shaffelburg and Choigne come in for Igor Jesus and Arm- Armindo Sie- uh, Seeb.

And in the 66th, you get LAFC working around the back, and Azzouni steps in front of this Aaron long pass, immediately slipping this one in behind for BV, creating a two on two, and he hits Vasquez in stride.

Brandon takes one quick touch to get the ball on his strong right foot and fires a shot between the two defenders trying to close him down, and beats Lloris at that near post.

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71st minute here.

It's Laurisse booting it long towards Denny Buanga, and he just gets up and nods it ahead over John Gallagher who's pretty helpless on his back, and that ball just rolls right into the path of Jacob Shaffelburg who's driving at Brandon Hinds like down that left side.

And then Shaffelburg plays this curling ball in behind a retreating Biru right to the foot of Sun.

We've seen Sieb on the right play as a wide midfielder.

We obviously know Shaffelburg can, can play out wide right.

And we talk about formations, and obviously they're, they're always fluid.

So there were a lot of times where they're building with three, and they're getting, you know, one of the fullbacks wide, and it...

And then you have Bolonga out to the left.

You have Son still as the nine with theoretically Walter to pass to him and do some 10 things.

And then it, it can be Shaffelburg, although I don't think he's as good on the right cutting into his left foot.

He just doesn't like it.

But Sun didn't look like the same player, um, that we saw there.

Shaffelburg was active, but again, not as sharp as I thought when he saw with Canada.

But I think that's part of it.

So the fact that you don't have all this time to train with a new manager who...

It could be talked about on, on days that you, you go into the video room and, and you talk about some of the things that you saw from the game against Vancouver and some of the things that you wanna see against Austin.

So you can start, you know, at least showing these kind of ideas to the players.

And, and I do think that some of those things can start with, like, how we wanna press as a team, right? If we wanna be a little bit more proactive, how, where do we squeeze? Where do we need a Denny Bolinga, a Sunny, a, a Armando Sead, um, a Shaffelburg, whatever.

Where do they need to start pressing? Where do the other, you know, responsibilities lie with the players underneath them? Because I do think that it's important, um, whether it's two days of build up, two or three days of build up against Austin, you need to start trying them, right? It doesn't mean that we're gonna be perfect in doing it, but the ideas need to be there.

They still got Hugo Lloris back there, who's still kind of doing his thing, but feels like Father Time is kind of catching up a little bit.

They got Jacob Shaffelburg as well in, uh, I believe at the beginning of the season.

Um, he's fine.

You know, he's a Canadian national teamer.

There should be a decent crowd, and it should be kind of a last big hurrah before the run into the end of the season, basically, of, like, home crowd, home turnout.

So if ever there was a time for them to take advantage of it, this would be it.

Also, Jacob Shaffelburg has scored three goals against NYC FC in his career, so-

Mm