It’s in the title, folks. Every week during the MLS season, Backheeled is here to dive into the biggest Winners and Losers from around the league. Let’s get right to it.
Winner: Atlanta United’s broken streaks
Hamburg SV used to have a clock. Please don’t leave, I’m going somewhere with this. Anyways, as I was saying, Hamburg SV used to have a clock in their stadium that counted exactly how long the club had been in the Bundesliga without getting relegated.
They’ve since been relegated and ditched the clock. Atlanta United didn’t get relegated last year, they won’t this year, and they probably never will, so, hey, they’ve got that going for them. But en route to nearly claiming the Wooden Spoon last season, the Five Stripes sure did manage to start some lengthy streaks of their own. Most notable among them? Emmanuel Latte Lath’s scoreless streak and Atlanta’s own home winless streak. Heading into Saturday afternoon’s clash with the Philadelphia Union, both of those streaks were well over 200 days — Latte Lath’s MLS goal drought stretched 238 days and Atlanta’s winless run at the Benz went back to an even further 290 days.
But after a 3-1 victory over the Union, you could say Atlanta United pulled a sort of reverse-Hamburg because both of those streaks are now broken.
