Almost anything after the second-half against LAFC would’ve been welcome.
Compounding the difficulty to achieve improvement was a visit to Atlanta United, the league’s most in-form team...
But despite managing to mirror the previous week’s leakage of four second-half goals, this was in fact, a better performance. The team was set up well, played effectively to a soundly prepared plan, yet sadly still came up far short.
There was a rash of excuses, or attempts to justify why the outcome was undeserved, or “harsh”, from more than a couple of Impact players afterwards. Mainly the attempts to rationalize, included reference to conceding from a penalty-kick, and two exquisitely executed free-kicks over the wall giving Evan Bush little chance.