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De’s Nuggets: Breaking down the double bus

Neither manager pulled their punches when describing the Colorado Rapids following a 1-0 Atlanta United victory last weekend at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

“They park two busses in front of their own goal,” said Frank de Boer, channeling his inner Mourinho to deliver a pithy post-match quote about his opponent. Rapids manager Anthony Hudson, meanwhile, described his own team as one “fighting at the bottom with a bottom group of players.”

Ouch. Hope his players don’t read newspapers, social media, or texts from their friends and family!

Here are a few more nuggets from De Boer:

“You always need two teams to try and play football, but tonight there was only one.