Atlanta United and Orlando City played to a spirited and controversial 1-1 draw on Sunday afternoon at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. After some questionable shenanigans led to the visitors taking a first half lead, the Five Stripes put together their most impressive 45 minutes in quite some time to secure a point and were very unlucky to not grab a win. Here are a few thoughts on an encouraging draw against the Lions.
- Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way since I know 95% of the comments will be pertaining to the officiating. As you hopefully know by now, I absolutely hate the post-match narrative of complaining or blaming referees for results.