Thanks to VAR, two penalty conversions from Miguel Almiron, and goals from Julian Gressel, Josef Martinez and Romario Williams, Atlanta United sidestepped initial disaster to cruise to a 5-0 thrashing of the team some* (*Matt Doyle literally two games in) had already deemed the best expansion team of all-time.
The game began with a terrifying opening minute that saw a Chris McCann red card reduced to a yellow thanks to our good friends from VAR.
The Fives Stripes took advantage of the even game state in the 17th minute when Almiron pushed the ball across the mouth of the goal.