Soccer is truly a fascinating sport. It is one in which everything changes and yet remarkably stays the same. The laws of the game are lightly tinkered with but the play bends and molds itself to new ideas and different ways of exploiting the zones of uncertainty that so often determine the result of games.
Atlanta United may be looking toward the future, but Wednesday night was all about the past as the Five Stripes won yet another dominant game. It was a match that had everything - a ton of shots for Atlanta, the visitors trying to open the game up but largely failing and paying the price for it, beautiful and sensual passing from Pity Martinez, Josef Martinez smiling, an attempted shot that turned into interpretative dance, an all together blissful experience for Atlanta United fans.