It had been coming.
As the second half of the 4-1 win over Colorado Rapids began to develop into a rout, and little connections began to work all over the field, it was possible to see ghosts of touches from recent games — the flick that hadn’t quite come off last time but did today, the through balls that found the lanes instead of the roadblocks.
Seen in the light of an emphatic victory, all of those moments from previous games start to look less like minor frustrations, and more like tracer fire for an attack finding its range.