1: Route One United. Robinson was like an overturned brinks truck dropping dimes. That ball to Moreno....with 3 defenders.....c’mon. Great finish from Moreno as well. He had another great direct ball to Mulraney as well. Route one hasn’t been a big part of our game but I like that we added it in this game. It gave Nashville big problems. Miles and Bello are the case studies for what our development system can do and produce. They will both move on this year or next for big sums to big clubs. That’s massively important for longevity of this club. 

2: Heinze has to be given a Ton of credit. He’s held firm. He’s been true to his philosophy and made minor adjustments along the way. IE the miles long ball we saw today. It’s fair to say that the FO has been a bit on the Chaotic side as of late with the Atheltic article and now the “mutually agreed” 🙄 departure of McDonough. Despite all of those issues and drama, the progress of this team has been steady and uninterrupted. Heinze gets all the credit in the world for that. 

3: Five Takes influences everything. The two players we’ve been asking more of deliver! The second goal came from a terrific run by Moreno and then a decent enough ball from Bello but it was nothing amazing. Eric Lopez was just able to sneak into the box and have a cheeky little finish. And Nashville let him. He just ran by the defenders. Lopez had a big leap forward today. 

4: Chance creation is still not to the level we want it or need it to be at. We’re talking about good quality chances and better service for Josef, not just balls over the top. We need more chances created from the build-up. Today was better in that regard. Now we just need it to continue. Besides set pieces, it’s what we need to work on the most. 

5: Terrible time to get a draw to the kings of the draw. Definitely feels like a loss. We had control. We got the 2nd goal, finally. We were going into the break with a big result against the best team in the league and a solid home win and we switched off for 5 minutes. Results like this worry me. They can get into players heads because now it’s like, well we know 1 goal sure as hell isn’t enough but then we get the second and we lose it at the end. Hopefully we shake it off and this doesn’t linger.