FC Dallas plays a defensive road strategy against LAFC

With FC Dallas getting a draw away at LAFC in Banc of California Stadium, we learned more about this FC Dallas team and what its away strategies will likely be for the most part this year.

Tying is good on the road

FC Dallas approached this game defensively from a tactical standpoint. When FC Dallas scored to level the game, the team could have attempted to use the momentum to attack LAFC, but instead of doing that and giving up space to LAFC to attack, the team stepped back. Oscar Pareja then did defensive substitutions, like putting Ryan Hollingshead in for Roland Lamah.

Tying on the road is generally good if you can win at home. If a team were to win all of its home games and tie all of its…