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Nashville SC head coach Gary Smith stated that his team proved they belong in MLS in the first two matches of the 2020 season. Despite losing both, his positive outlook is justified.
We may only be two games into the new Major League Soccer season, but that does not mean that coaches cannot draw tentative conclusions from what they saw. Play was suspended in mid-March due to the coronavirus. It is not expected to return until mid-to-late June at the earliest, and even once it does, it will look and feel extremely different.