Last week I, and many others I’m sure, thought it’d be smart to keep excitement and expectations tempered for Atlanta United going into a Costa Rican CONCACAF Champions League away leg with a new head coach and rebuilt team. But man, after seeing a mostly 10 man squad fight for a huge 1-0 result, being introduced to players like Santiago Sosa and watching Rocco Rios Novo become suddenly thrown into the status of cult legend, that became a whole lot harder to do.
Now that team returns to Atlanta (well, the metro area at least) for a more formal introduction to us, looking to take full advantage of the first leg result and send the club into a third straight appearance in the CCL Quarterfinals.