If you didn’t know the final score and I were to tell you that both teams had a scoring to shots on target ratio of 50%, you might think that sounds pretty good, yes? You might also think this was a fairly exciting game.
Yeah, right.
Obviously, at 1-1 this was not what might be described as a barnstormer. Two shots on target each is, frankly, pitiful. And yes, that also means Atlanta had just one shot on target from open play. Even worse, the two teams managed to conspire for an aggregate xG of 1.4. And that was on the back of a late Josef Martínez penalty kick (Raúl Ruidíaz’ early goal was also on a set piece, of course, coming from a corner).