The one where late is still great

1: Moreno can probably dribble anyone off the pitch but he absolutely cannot shoot. He had a sitter of a shot in the 15th thanks to a lovely cutback ball from Lennon and he just whiffed. You CANNOT miss those. Forget putting it on frame, you gotta at least make contact with the ball. He doesn’t have his confidence and I don’t know how he gets it. 

 

2: Sossa showing just a little immaturity and that’s not a slight. It’s expected. He’s a skilled intelligent player but he has to avoid the cheap easy early yellows. 

 

3: We saw an Atlanta United that had a clear and effective plan and style of play.....for the first 20 minutes. After that it totally broke down. Montreal grew into the game and knocked us off of ours. This might start to develop into a pattern. We can’t be a team that is dependent on getting a goal early in the first half because we can’t be be consistent for 90. 

 

4: Passing was accurate. Also slow and meaningless. Moving the ball around and having a 85%+ passing success rate is great but it doesn’t mean a lot if the majority of those passes are safe and don’t lead to any chances or even a whiff of them. 

 

5: This was the first match Where we felt truly and continually disappointed. The disappointment is probably magnified because it was the first home match at the Benz at full capacity. It was the first match where the team and overall play felt unrecognizable . It felt like FDB was coaching over Zoom. But then we get the win at the last possible second from a player that I think a lot of us were screaming to have subbed off so honestly, we don’t know what the fuck to say now. 😝 Take the three points, and have some perspective that we are still learning and growing with new players, a new system and a new coach and we beat a side that is still top of the east. We should however expect and demand better than what we saw tonight for sure.