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Devastating End Of Season Loss for Atlanta United

By Yakiri Thomas / October 11, 2022

In front of 43,312 fans Atlanta United fell 2-1 to New York City FC on Sunday afternoon at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the final match of the 2022 regular season.

In the ninth minute Gabriel Pereira opened the scoring effort with putting  NYCFC up 1-0.

In the 60th Héber doubled NYCFC’s advantage.

In the second half Andrew Gutman scored a goal for Atlanta, assisted by Luiz Araújo, marking his fourth goal of the season. While Araújo recorded his sixth assist of the season,

In the end Atlanta came close to tying the score behind Gutman , but a diving save from Sean Johnson kept NYCFC ahead and ultimately resulted in the win.

“Well, obviously, not a good season because we didn’t at least make playoffs, which for me should be a must for our franchise because our standard’s higher than just making playoffs. That’s for sure, so in that sense, it wasn’t a good year for us and for me personally as a coach.”said Pineda on how he would categorize this season for himself and for the team.

“This season was not a good season for all of us. We suffered a lot of injuries this year and that affected the team a lot, but we know that we have to work on a lot of things for next season.”said Forward Luiz Araújo on this season and his performance.

As far as the future of Josef Martínez?

Atlanta United Vice President and Technical Director Carlos Bocanegra, said Tuesday morning, in a end of season presser. “There’s been nothing decided. We’re still going to have discussions, we need to talk.”

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