Five Takes On The Five Stripes

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1: Jahn is tall but he’s not that tall lol. I’m loving the service that Jahn is getting in the box even if they are well over his head. We know his strengths and we’re playing to them. It looks like we’re finally figuring out how to be dangerous with what we have. Better late then never. 

2: I thought the back line looked really good in the first half. They held their line and played Orlando attackers offsides a number of times. I give big credit to Guzan for that organization. We had a number of really good take aways in our own third that lead to some great counter opportunities. 

3: Second half was very disjointed. Heavy legs seemed to set in. There weren’t too many absolutely horrid mistakes but it just looked like we were getting worn down a little so I’m pretty happy to walk away with a draw. 

4: Guzan gets MOTM. This was probably his best performance. His distribution and organization of the back line I thought was excellent and he had two massive game saving saves. 

5: We seemed to approach this match exactly the same way he approached the match against DC and not just with the line up. We kept trying to play down the flanks and cross balls into the box and it just wasn’t as effective. The match against DC had something like 26 crosses. I just felt like we weren’t really playing with what Orlando gave us. There was a lot of space in the middle to exploit and we didn’t really build up through it.