The one where it felt like we are always stuck in 2nd gear 🥺

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1: The Crew is so good in transition. If you don’t win the ball on the first or second pressure attempt, they’re gone. They take the initiative really well and just always looked primed and ready to take advantage. They invite pressure but get out of it. 

2: In the first half we decided our best defense would be defense. Absorbing and defending while showing virtually no interest in counter attacking wasn’t the best approach. That’s not football the ATL way. 

3: Find someone who loves you as much as Atlanta loves giving up a goal at the worst possible time. If we had been able to get out of the first half 0-0 we might’ve been able to carry on as we were. But one mistake against a very good Crew and that plan goes right into the trash. 

4: Perhaps it should’ve been trashed from the jump. I really think Pineda took us away from who we are and how we aspire to play. Subbing Muyumba at the half was about the only thing Pineda got right tonight. Can’t risk losing & losing him & face another match down a key player.

5: One Hernandez was very good. Another not so much. I don’t know what Ronald was thinking in that challenge. I also don’t know why he doesn’t come to the ball from Xande, poor as it was. He just looked out of sync. He hasn’t had the reps so that adds up.