The Seattle Sounders had a plethora of struggles against LAFC. Most of them began (and one of them ended) with Eduard Atuesta.
The young Colombian midfielder ran the show against the Sounders, most notably notching a goal, an assist, and two key passes, and less notably (but perhaps more importantly) completing 90% of a game-high 78 pass attempts.
Atuesta nominally acts as the lone pivot in LAFC’s three-man midfield, and often drops beneath Mark-Anthony Kaye and Latin Blessing to receive the ball from his defenders and transition his team forward. Against the Sounders, he completed every pass he attempted from his own half of the field, and troublingly, the majority of those passes went forward.