Christian Ramirez was inserted by Adrian Heath to add attacking presence to the Loons who had been struggling to create real danger in the final third. The ill-advised infraction would later comeback to haunt Pires as he earned a second yellow card in the 38th minute and was dismissed leaving Atlanta to play a man down for the final 50 minutes.Īfter the dismissal, Atlanta sat numbers behind the ball and gave up possession to focus on defending and frustrating the Loons. Leandro Gonzalez Pires pulled down Nicholson to stop the attack and earned a yellow card inside the first minute. The Loons started the match with a lot of intensity, attacking and Sam Nicholson was nearly played in behind the Atlanta backline. The ball deflected out to Villalba, who rose above the defense to head the ball off the crossbar, deflect off of Francisco Calvo, and roll into the net. Miguel Almiron’s corner kick deflected and forced Matt Lampson to make a quick reaction save. Hector Villalba opened the scoring for the visitors, forcing an own goal in the third minute. Atlanta made the Loons pay for their early mistakes. The Loons struggled to take their chances, but held advantages over Atlanta in possession, shots, and number of passes complete.
While Minnesota United FC played the majority of the match with a man advantage, they couldn’t make it count, losing, 1-0, to Atlanta on an own goal. Atlanta United FC made their second trip to “the land of a thousand lakes”, and once again they returned home with all three points.
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