Eduard Atuesta

And then Sands drops it off to Jonathan Shore at the top of the box.

Close-ish to the top of the box was Edward Atuesta, but was he near an opponent correctly? What would you think, knowing about Edward Atuesta's defensive prowess, would you think he was near a defensive opponent? He was not.

No.

He was not near a defensive opponent.

Yes, they will get Luis Otavio back from his yellow card suspension.

And Dave, some would say I'm being a jerk by saying good news.

Edward Atuesta suspended for the next match.

I don't have anything against Edward as a person.

know,

the first, you know, just going to something as simple as the first goal, I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that if we had Taifi, back there and start defending that instead of Atuesta, that goal doesn't happen.

Or I bet you if we're playing with three center backs, that goal doesn't happen.

The thing that drives me crazy about this manager, and I know we really don't talk tactics on the show, but the thing that drives me crazy is you look at Angulo's heat map from Wednesday.

You look at Atuesta's heat map from Wednesday.

Atuesta's not a defender.

He's not.

He is an attacking eight, and that showed Saturday with the two goals that he was where he was on the field.

So he made it very easier for them to not only attack, but also come back.

And also, it was good to see Atuesta with a closer role Like he did in LAFC because he is more a player that will help you in the attack, not on defending.

Believe it or not, Otavio had a really good game.

I mean, I know that fought mob and suffer score had like, had him at a, like a seven or like a 6.9. i think he had um he had a great game and then obviously when um once orlando has the ball then you see cartagena going back forward the back four you know is maintained essentially and everybody goes back into their spot and so you see you saw that at least i did not only on the first half But also, as David said, in the second half with Joran Gerbet, and the reason why, and I guess I want to touch on this too, Cartagena, I saw him kind of limping, and I know a lot of the media saw him limping, and I have a feeling that he's probably with a, hopefully not with a big knock, but we'll see.

Or with Otavio, more often what it is with him is as soon as he gets the ball, he's looking quickly to spring the ball.

He's not looking to hold on to it for a longer amount of time.

So the other thing, too, that we have to start thinking about and talking about is Atuesta has been playing on the right-hand side as a right winger.

I put that in quotes because he's not really.

And yeah, it was just, it was like Angulo kept going forward.

So Atuesta kept dropping back.

And I was thinking the whole time, every time I saw that happen, I was like, this is not a good thing.

This is not, this is not going to end well.

And in the 27th minute, it didn't end well because Atuesta had one guy anywhere near him to defend.

And instead he just thought, you know what? That's a pretty nice cross coming in.

I'm just going to stand here and admire that.

You know what I'm used to is like, oh, Luis Muriel with the dummy.