Every Atlanta United fan was thrilled to see — an hour before Atlanta United kicked off against CF Montreal at Mercedes Benz Stadium Saturday — the inclusion of both Saba Lobjanidze and Xande Silva on the wings in Gonzalo Pineda’s starting XI. Remarkably, through all this time with the players at the club, for one reason or another they had yet to play with each other (along with Thiago Almada and Giorgos Giakoumakis in attack) for any substantial period of time (if literally at all).
Overall, the results were dominant. Atlanta more than doubled Montreal’s xG output 2.