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Josef Martinez issues rallying cry for Atlanta United’s playoff hopes | MLSSoccer.com
It was a gut-punch of a defeat for an Atlanta workforce desperately attempting to climb above the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs line.
However Martinez’s aim, his a hundredth in an Atlanta shirt in 150 appearances – the quickest in MLS historical past to succeed in that milestone – was additionally a press release of intent. That there’s nonetheless battle within the 5 Stripes, that they’ll proceed to battle down the stretch drive of the common season.
“Merely we now have to maintain working. Sadly, we’ve misplaced a number of essential factors. However we’ve been struggling this because the first sport, it’s not the primary time,” Martinez stated after the match. “So we now have to maintain going, don’t lose hope. Final yr we had been in final place and ended up within the playoffs.
“We nonetheless have video games to play, we’ve performed much less video games, and we now have to battle till the top. If we will, we will, if not, hold working. Possibly for the youthful guys they’ve extra years however we now have to maintain going, hold working.”