Regardless of main for many of the recreation at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta United fell 2-1 to FC Cincinnati.
Identical to their convincing wins over Seattle Sounders and Nashville SC, Atlanta bought off to a robust begin at house vs Cincinnati with winger Edwin Mosquera discovering the opening aim and his first ever aim for the 5 Stripes.
However Atlanta shortly went right into a lull late within the first half, one thing that has been an issue in 2023. As to no soccer fan’s shock, these missed possibilities got here again to hang-out Atlanta, as Cincy’s electrical duo of MLS MVP candidate Luciano ‘Lucho’ Acosta and Brandon Vazquez scored a pair of late targets to raise their group to victory.
The 5 Stripes had been with out their head coach Gonzalo Pineda for the sport as he was serving a suspension for yellow card accumulation with Diego de la Torre stepping in for the evening.
“… we performed an excellent recreation and had management of the sport,” stated de la Torre. “I feel what occurred within the second half is we misplaced management of the sport. We had been taking part in in opposition to the first-place group within the League, they usually had been chasing and competing. I’ve to provide credit score to Cincinnati, as a result of they had been an excellent group…”
The assistant coach reiterated that going ahead, Atlanta has to determine learn how to management video games higher and on a extra constant foundation if they’re to expertise success.
“It’s a part of our recreation and we now have been taking part in like that every one season. Right now, within the second half, you noticed it extra as a result of we misplaced the management, and that as a result of we began doing issues that we by no means do. For me, that was the true drawback,” he added.
Atlanta, now in sixth place within the Japanese Convention standings with 41 factors from 27 video games performed, will journey out west to tackle FC Dallas on September 2 at Toyota Stadium.
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