Five Takes On The Five Stripes

1: Early goals are a constant theme, and they completely change the dynamic of the game. Atlanta United has never been good at chasing the game. The really frustrating part is that the goals we give away are not from the build up in the run of play. They’re from bad mistakes and lackadaisical defending.

 

2: How in the world is that not a goal from Adam Jahn in the 18th?! And then again in the 57th! Also who knew Adam Jahn had that touch in him? Adam Jahn gets man of the match for me. I don’t know how much more he could have done to get a goal. Fire’s keeper stood on his head.

 

3: We started to wake up after that near goalazo from Adam Jahn. The belief and cohesion in the attack started to form. We won possession back quickly upon losing it with aggressive challenges and a high line. If we could just get that to click before conceding we’d be in a much different position. Don’t get me wrong we’d still be struggling, but we’d be higher in the table for sure.

 

4: The second goal was a back breaker. We had the ball. We were controlling things. We had the momentum and the back line had been performing well. We got undone against the run of play by a few touches and a moment of quality. Side note, I really hate when players look to the AR and raise their hands looking for the offside flag. Play. To. The. Whistle.

 

5: So many cheap give aways in the attacking half and the final third in the second half. We just couldn’t keep possession and put constant pressure on the Fire’s back line. The few times we had good quality chances we just couldn’t finish. Throughout the match it really did feel like it was there for us and we just couldn’t finish our chances.