I mean listen, obviously we can focus on the defensive mistakes, of which Portland seemed to punish every single one, but my main question is about our attack. Why are we so predictable? When things aren't going well, we just seem to run out of ideas aside from give the ball to Matarrita, have him cross it, not win the cross, and rinse/repeat. Mata's a good offensive player, but why is he running our attack? And why is that our only idea for breaking teams down? We don't have a team that can win aerials, our only tall attacker flops every time he feels a breeze. What makes anyone think we're going to win that battle?
Hopefully only 3 weeks until the season resumes -- if it even does at all. MLB is proving that playing in home venues is incredibly tough in our country since our government doesn't seem to care to work on this pandemic, so who knows if MLS is even able to resume. Hopefully we'll get more soccer this season. If not, it was a very underwhelming tournament from NYCFC. We know it's within them, we're just not seeing it.