In his on-field interview after the loss against last place FC Cincinnati, Chicago Fire captain Dax McCarty pointed out that they “just have to clean it up a bit in transition moments”. The comment got me thinking about how FC Cincinnati gets dangerous in transition moments and about why transition moments are an easily exploitable phase of play in general.
With the topic of transitions on my mind I went into the Columbus game with transitions as something to watch out for. McCarty didn’t seem impressed with those moments against Cincinnati, so I wanted to see how they dealt with those situations against a different team.