In the moments after the Union's 3-1 loss at New York City FC on Sunday, Alejandro Bedoya did not shy away from the most important reason his team had gotten run over.
"We struggled a little bit in the first half with their wingers getting tucked in, staying compact, and they caused some problems," he said. "We were struggling with our wingers and our outside backs. … We've just got to stay more compact in the middle and not let them play those easy balls between us, between the lines."
That was far more important than the exchange of shouts between Cory Burke and Borek Dockal at the end of the first half that was blown into a conflagration by a media corps looking for something to pounce on.