Borek Dockal played his best game yet for the Union in Saturday’s 2-0 win over D.C. United. And that would be true even if he hadn’t scored his first goal in MLS.
Dockal was on the ball and did things with it all day, launching smart passes all over the field. The statisticians at Opta judged seven of them to be key passes, which means they helped create a scoring chance.
The key passes metric is helpful beyond quantifying chance creation: it’s a reminder that if Dockal sets up a teammate with a good pass, the teammate’s failure to do something with it isn’t Dockal’s fault.