1: Really poor goal keeping from Gudino on the first goal. It was clumsy to give away the penalty and then really poor on the penalty kick itself. It’s usually always 50/50 on PK’s but he was already well off his line and diving right before the ball was even struck. It was gifted. 

2: Almada was doing everything he could to win this game for Atlanta. Anytime we posed a threat it was generally off a through ball from him or some lovely piece of dribbling. Apart from that, the attack was disjointed at best. It will be interesting to see what the future holds for him. I’m sure the club would love to hang on to him for another season but big European clubs will undoubtedly be picking up the phone. 

3: Sosa had a good individual game but that’s been a consistent them this season. Individual standout performances but not a consistent team performance consistently enough. Still, I thought he was good in his play, connected most of his passes and was aggressive in his duels which overall was severely lacking throughout the rest of the team. 

4: With that Goalazo and his late season performances in general, Josef will give Pineda and the FO something to ponder. I disagree with Pineda’s choice not to start Josef today. For me, you play the hot hand. Josef has looked better and he’s coming off scoring for his country. You start him. It’s definitely a question that Pineda will face as far as why he didn’t. Josef made answering it that much more difficult. 

5: The more concerning thing for me over the course of this season has not been the amount of losses, but rather the performances that went along with them. I want to win as often as possible but I don’t have an issue with losing to a better team after a good performance. Too often our losses haw showcased a really really poor performance. Today was no different.