The New York Red Bulls’ best, last chance to make something of their season went down in flames at Giants Stadium Wednesday night. Despite a positive 2-2 result from the first leg, and even though they took a 1-0 lead in the 19th minute of the return leg, the team just couldn’t get it done, imploding in characteristic fashion at the end of the first half. Skip right to the video interviews.

Probably not. If anything, the team is moving backwards–as hard as that may be to believe. Its newest acquisitions–Leo Krupnik, Bouna Kondoul and Ernst Oebster–do absolutely nothing to address the team’s various shortcomings. Its coach remains unwilling to budge on tactical or lineup strategies and continues to make decisions that boggle the mind.

Fans of the New York/New Jersey Major League Soccer franchise have certainly had their share of disappointments over the past 14 seasons. A procession of 11 coaches, six general managers and three ownership groups have passed through the vacuous confines of Giants Stadium, many arriving with great fanfare before succumbing to various degrees of failure. [...]

The Red Bulls are in shambles and calls for Juan Carlos Osorio’s head are nothing new. But patience is wearing thin with the team’s supporters, one of whom penned this letter to Red Bulls general manager Erik Stover. We reprinted it with his permission.

If there really is no place like home, the New York Red Bulls are in for an awfully long summer. With seven out of their next nine upcoming games on the road, the Red Bulls finished off a four game home stand with a whimper, dropping a 3-2 decision to the Colorado Rapids at Giants [...]

Calls for Juan Carlos Osorio’s head are nothing new, but are growing to a fever pitch. Now comes word from the Washington Post that Red Bulls brass are losing patience with the man they hired to replace Bruce Arena ahead of the 2008 season. Vote in the poll and debate the matter.

Head coach Juan Carlos Osorio is concerned over the health of the team’s star striker Juan Pablo Angel, who was removed early from Saturday’s game against Real Salt Lake. At issue appears to be a lingering hamstring injury that is not helped by the field turf at Giants Stadium.

With the team’s newly-signed players finally eligible to start Saturday, New York Red Bulls head coach Juan Carlos Osorio suddenly has options when it comes time to select a starting lineup. One sure thing is that Jon Conway will be back in goal for the Red Bulls after the end of his suspension dating to last season.

Led by a stellar performance by Macoumba Kandji, the New York Red Bulls were within stoppage time of defeating the New England Revolution for the first time in four years. Then, as it has so often in the history of the franchise, disaster struck. Match report and player ratings–it’s all here.

New York fans are assuredly accustomed to turnover by now. But the amount of new faces in town just four months after the long suffering club’s first MLS Cup Final appearance may be a bit of an eyebrow raiser to the outsider. However, Juan Carlos Osorio really hasn’t changed the team as drastically as it seems, replacing his failed corps of hand-picked Central American defenders with…different ones.