We were pleased to exchange questions with Sydney Hunte of Dirty South Soccer, SB Nation’s Atlanta United blog ahead of our meeting on Saturday.
1) Frank de Boer has seemed to settle in as manager, and finally his style seems to be working. What happened between then and now?
I think that it took a while for the team to really embrace the style of play that de Boer favors, which is a more defensive, possession-based style. After all, this was a group that scored 70 goals in each of its first two seasons, and some of that attacking prowess was always set to change in some form or fashion when Tata Martino left to coach Mexico.