A little over a month ago, after the monsoon game in Columbus, Atlanta United were sitting on 2 points through 4 games, and I was trying to forecast the rest of the 2019 season. I started stalling:
In order for the next 30 matches to look different from the first four, it’s going to really need to be the case that the team’s underlying performances to date were just not indicative of the team’s potential - that the team has faced headwinds that will not persist, that it was ill but will now recover, lost but will find its way.