Atlanta United let a really good opportunity to make history slip through its fingers on Sunday afternoon. In some ways it was a shocking capitulation by a team that has been dominant on the road against a Toronto FC team that has been awful all year. On the other, it was the inevitable conclusion of a regular season in which Atlanta United has failed to win in clutch occasions time and again.
Tata Martino spoke to the media after the game and he was his usual brutally honest, if slightly unrealistic and stubborn seeming, self.