Of all the chatter surrounding FC Cincinnati's 5-0 drubbing at the hands of the surging Philadelphia Union on Wednesday night, the most illuminating quote came in the buildup to the match, when manager Pat Noonan was asked to take a stab at explaining his team's poor away form this season.
"I didn't realize, record-wise, how poor it was, because there's been games where I think we've been good, and maybe the results don't go our way," Noonan said. "But there's a lot of things this year that feel like they're out of the norm. One of them is our inability to have success on the road. I can't put a finger on it."
It was a strikingly honest moment from the fifth-year Cincy manager, one that suggested more pressing concerns than the variance-related issue of whether more wins came home or away.
And it foreshadowed one of the more troubling performances by the club since Noonan and sporting director Chris Albright took over the once-flailing outfit ahead of the 2022 season.
The lopsided result left Cincinnati with a 1W-6L-5D away record, but could be forgiven in isolation. Cincinnati played the hefty majority of the match a man down following Obinna Nwobodo's 16th-minute dismissal. And Philadelphia's high-pressing game model is exactly the kind that can exploit a man advantage once it gets a lead and forces its opponent to emerge from a low block.
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"I didn't realize, record-wise, how poor it was, because there's been games where I think we've been good, and maybe the results don't go our way," Noonan said. "But there's a lot of things this year that feel like they're out of the norm. One of them is our inability to have success on the road. I can't put a finger on it."
It was a strikingly honest moment from the fifth-year Cincy manager, one that suggested more pressing concerns than the variance-related issue of whether more wins came home or away.
And it foreshadowed one of the more troubling performances by the club since Noonan and sporting director Chris Albright took over the once-flailing outfit ahead of the 2022 season.
The lopsided result left Cincinnati with a 1W-6L-5D away record, but could be forgiven in isolation. Cincinnati played the hefty majority of the match a man down following Obinna Nwobodo's 16th-minute dismissal. And Philadelphia's high-pressing game model is exactly the kind that can exploit a man advantage once it gets a lead and forces its opponent to emerge from a low block.
#cincinnati #manager #season
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