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Massive Notebook: Crew SC’s struggles without the ball

... pervious.

A word the SB Nation spellcheck doesn’t even recognize. (Yes, it’s a real word.) It’s the opposite of impervious, a word you (and spellcheck) may be more familiar with.

Pervious is defined as: admitting passage, permeable.

This was less a failing of one particular player and more a team defensive effort that wasn’t good enough.

Here is New York’s shot chart:

It doesn’t take an advanced degree to understand what you’re looking at: of NYCFC’s 10 shots on Saturday, nine of them came from inside the box, and eight of them from extremely high-rate positions.