The one where we go out for ice cream

 

1: I’m not even going to bother calling out individual player performances here. I mean yes in the 19th minute Cubo had a great touch and turn and then once again, once he’s in the box he’s utterly useless and that continued throughout the match, as it does with Cubo. But this was an utter and total team collapse. Tho I will say Cubo continues to be employed with this club as a striker whose job it is to score goals and he continues to not fulfill those duties. In concept and on paper Cubo is great, in practice and on the pitch, not even close. 

 

2: Atlanta United right now are the case study in Murphy’s law. If it can go wrong, it will. Everything is working against us. I mean even Bello got injured towards the end which might put his Gold Cup call up into question. I guess you call that payback on Greggggggg for injuring Miles in 2019 😆. HonestlyI I absolutely hate it for him and I hope it’s just a light knock. If he can’t get success here I’d like to see him have a chance with the national team. Both for him personally and for us as a club when we eventually sell him. Player call ups, injuries, and lack of minutes from bench players are KILLING us. None of those things are really going to improve over the next month accept I guess minutes for bench players out of absolute necessity. The team is disjointed and out of sync. I mean my god, Miles Robinson didn’t step to Ignacio on the 2nd goal. He just let him shoot. It really does feel like the belief has gone out. 

 

3: We miss Hyndman like the city of Atlanta misses championships. We got beat centrally where dangerous attacking plays develop and caught us out. Neither Mo nor Tyler have seen any minutes this season so they can’t be expected to step in step so much that we don’t feel his absence. 

 

4: The introduction of Machop Chol was the most positive thing we saw all night. At least he was making dangerous runs into the box and even bringing a ball or two down and under control. He didn’t get anything on frame, but sheeeeit, he was doin more than Cubo. He certainly looked more threatening anyhow. He might actually be the man of the match. 

 

5: The transfer window won’t solve all the problems we have. This Heinze project just isn’t coming together. It’s really frustrating because it’s not entirely Heinze’s fault. To a certain degree he can only be as good as his available roster right? Yeah we were at full strength at the beginning of the season and yeah even the wins/results back then we would have liked to have been more dominate but at that early stage, the players were still learning the system. We just did not hire a coach that’s going to change the system, or simplify things because of circumstances, like at all. It’s just now, we have reached a point of seeing neither results nor performance and that’s a really big problem. The higher the expectation, the harder the fall. The goals and aspirations for this club were set high from the start, and they were met. We are experiencing back to back years of not meeting those standards. At some point, the people at the top, Carlos and Darren, are going to have to be held accountable for our shortcomings.