Atlanta United was lucky enough to have a week off from games this past weekend during international friendlies. For coaches and players this is a perfect time to reflect on the start of the season and to work out some issues that have occurred. Captain Michael Parkhurst went into detail on a few things they have been working on in training.
“Lots of individual and collective defending,” he said. “We are trying to do a better job of getting after the ball and winning it back when we lose it. The center backs were working on 1v1s in the box today so the more repetition's we get with that the better we get.