Daniel Gazdag needed time to settle in. After playing a full season before joining a new team in a new country during a global pandemic, the former Hungarian Player of the Year had to make multiple adjustments on and off the field. And for a number 10, the hardest position on the field to adapt, with high expectations after becoming the club’s most expensive signing, a club that had won the regular season title in 2020 and was competing in an international competition for the first time, the pressure of meeting those expectations loomed.
Scoring four goals and dishing out three assists in his first 23 games, Gazdag’s production came in spurts: a goal and assist versus Toronto in August, a brace on the road against Minnesota in October.