Mike Petke is a great coach — for Real Monarchs

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty ImagesWhile no one is publicly commenting on what finally happened to tip the scale and trigger the dismissal of Jeff Cassar, I believe it can be summed up rather succinctly by the following series of posts on twitter:

Or, he took it in December 2013. That's a deficit of about 0.3 xG per game, and 1 shot per game

— Kevin Minkus (@kevinminkus) March 20, 2017 To put it bluntly: If you do not put the ball in the back of the net more than your opponent you will not win games. And let’s include a side order of: If you fail to take shots, you will not score goals. While defense cannot be ignored, it is goals that wins games and puts rear ends in the seats. This brings us…