If you’ve been wondering what’s up with Yura Movsisyan sitting on the bench, Joao Plata misfiring, and Real Salt Lake’s general goalscoring malaise, you’re not alone.
But RSL general manager Craig Waibel says it’s more about confidence and adjusting to change that’s affected Movsisyan and Plata — the latter of whom he says is really starting to fire on all cylinders.
In an interview on ESPN700 with commentator Bill Riley, Waibel talked about how change has affected his strikers in 2017.
Change affects everyone in very, very distinct ways. Attacking players are built on confidence as it is, and a coaching change is obviously going to have players re-evaluating their own role, and change begets change.