A draw with any team isn’t ideal at home. But a draw with your top rival at home is truly like kissing your sister. That is how FC Dallas should be feeling after their disappointing result on Saturday in the first leg of the Texas Derby in 2021. A 1-1 draw against the Houston Dynamo is really not acceptable these days.
Here are a few key takeaways that I got from the game on Saturday with some visual help to go alongside it.
The lack of touch costing Vargas
To me, this was a key moment in Saturday’s match that could have elevated Freddy Vargas to the next level like we thought we were seeing in preseason play out of him.