It feels like this is the fifteenth time this year I’ve opened a training report like this, but...
The big news out of training today is that Josef Martinez will not be available for Saturday’s game due to injury.
Martinez picked up a foot contusion in the U.S. Open Cup match against Charleston Battery on June 14. It was Martinez’s first start since returning from a thigh injury he picked up almost 12 weeks earlier with the Venezuelan national team, and due to unforeseen injuries and substitutions the striker was unexpectedly forced to put in a 90-minute shift.