Well Atlanta United became the best team to ever win MLS Cup and then draw their home opener to an expansion team with Corben Bone on the roster. The team might not have played their worst game under Frank de Boer, but it was far from what they’re capable of. Having a 1-0 lead at home just to give up a goal and dropping points on the only shot on target from the opposition is tough to take, especially against an expansion team, and especially because Atlanta should have had the game well in hand by then.
FdB’s post game comments when he said soccer was hard, evoked Toronto’s difficulties last year on the way to a 9th place finish, said something that was perhaps as blunt as it was out of context about spoiled fans, and then seemed to lack the self-awareness that while the fans were booing the team, that the blame for how the season is going mainly resides on the shoulders of the man charged with keeping the success the team has had going.