After four long months of waiting and dreaming about how our Hometown Heroes in red and black stripes would return to the field and humiliate the long-hated New York Red Bulls with a 5-0 win... well, that’s not what happened.
In fact, it was the opposite of that — a 0-1 loss. A Josef Martinez-less Atlanta United was like a eunuch in a brothel — chances aplenty, but just couldn’t score.
The match couldn’t have started much worse for Atlanta. Red Bulls grabbed the opener in just the 5th minute when Kaku played a superb pass in to Florian Valot, who’d glided behind Fernando Meza.