Atlanta United in 2019, may not be playing the free-flowing style of Tata Martino, but the more pragmatic Frank De Boer has found a winning formula.
It’s all about the ‘Fives’: five straight wins and five successive clean-sheets for The Five Stripes!
They frustrated the Whitecaps for most of the evening, but kept former Impact ‘keeper Max Crepeau busy on the the break, never moreso in the 59th minute, forcing the ‘keeper into a triple save in the 59th minute. The damage had already been done however, Whitecaps conceding their MLS-high 7th penalty of the season, converted by Josef Martinez on 29 for the game’s only goal.