I think most Fire fans understood that this season wasn’t going to be quite as good as last. With the roster changes, the extent to which league rivals upgraded and we didn’t, the niggling sense that our strong run last year might’ve been a fluke, all this added up to what could be described as healthy pessimism.
I suspect that few of us thought things would get this bad.
So this was definitely a polarizing lineup. A starting XI of kids and fringe players, featuring a forward line of Daniel Johnson, Elliot Collier, Jon Bakero (his first MLS start!