1: We can lose, but we cannot lose like that. Tonight was unacceptable. Full stop. At least we dirtied their clean sheet but, good grief. This cannot happen. 

2: He’s a 10 but he’s not there. With missing a player like Almada we knew coming in that we might be lacking a little in the creative playmaking department. So the plan had to be force turnovers and errant passes early and often. We failed to do that. Columbus had the ball glued to their feet and we just simply couldn’t get it off them. In the rare instance where we did, we just gave the ball right back. 

3: With missing a player like Miles we knew we couldn’t afford to give the ball away in dangerous positions and yet, we gave it away like an obvious ending to a bad movie.  We were fortunate to get out of the first half at only 1-0 and then we just collapsed like SVB. 

4: Have we not paid our injury dues? I really hope we don’t see another cascading event like we did last year. Injuries do matter. It is a little curious for me how when we hang 5 on a very injury laden Portland the takes from some are “Well yeah, we should beat a team with that many injuries” So you’re saying that a team dealing with injuries to key players should lose? Ok….  Feels like Atlanta wasn’t given that same grace last year. We all agree we still should have performed better at times, even with the injuries, but they were a really big factor. 

5: The only positive we can take away from this game in Ohio is that we don’t have to stay there. I can speak with some authority on this, Ohio is a miserable place. Far and away the worst state in the union.