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Goals from three midfielders – homegrowns Daniel Edelman and Frankie Amaya (he got a brace), as well as Venezuelan international Cristian Casseres Jr. – were the difference in this blowout. And now, New York moved to 5W-0L-2D against Atlanta United across all competitions at Red Bull Arena. It’s a house of horrors for the Five Stripes.

What stood out, though, was the diversity through which the Red Bulls scored. Head coach Troy Lesesne explained.

“The goal with Cristian comes in a way that’s familiar to Red Bull,” Lesesne said. “We press, we win the ball up the field and he goes and he scored. Daniel’s is off a throw-in. Frankie, he gets two goals against a run of play and credit to all these guys for capitalizing on their opportunity.

“We were able to capitalize and be opportunistic on chances that aren’t necessarily always how you score goals and how we typically score goals. But you have matches like that and it’s great to finally feel that way and feel like any time you went forward, you had a chance to score.”

“I felt that they were better in the important moments, the transition moments,” head coach Gonzalo Pineda said postgame. “The transition moments against those types of teams, physical, direct, they are always willing to do the effort, press, counter-press, to cover for each other – they are all fast and strong, you have to be better on the ball. You have to be much better. Connect better passes, not too much dribbling but connecting better passes to progress the ball forward. And even though today we had more possession than them we were not progressing the best possible way.”

Atlanta’s unbeaten streak was snapped at seven matches (2W-0L-5D).