Does RBNY even remember what it is like to pick a back line on form rather than fitness?
After back-to-back shutouts, it was starting to feel like the New York Red Bulls had finally found the starting center back pairing they have been looking for since a combination of injuries and ineptitude pitched the team into crisis at the start of the season.
No one expected Chris Duvall and Aurelien Collin - respectively, a right back and a guy who only joined the team at the end of April - to be the answer to RBNY's defensive problems (and they aren't, entirely; tactical adjustments also have a role in the recent improvement in form), but a crisis is the opportunity for the unexpected and overlooked to assert their claims.