The plan was: 'we're playing a team of geriatric sea-level dwelling Europeans. Make those suckers run till they wanna hurl.' Let's unpack that a little. Backpass here to break it down and nerd it out.
The narrative in MLS amongst coaches is that Bruce Arena is a tactical genius, and that Pablo Mastroeni is some bumbling neophyte who couldn't come up with a plan if his job depended on it. Even though Pablo's job basically does depend on it.
The Galaxy, for all their strengths (experience, talent, speed on the wings), have a glaring weakness. They are absolutely a known quantity.