Swagger = back

Atlanta United 3-2 Orlando City
Only Atlanta can make a midweek match in May feel like a playoff game. After Jamal Thiare put in the winner for the Five Stripes yesterday, the crowd roared as if exercising the demons of the first half of the season. Apple TV color commentator Warren Barton said near the end of the game that he’d, “never heard a stadium like this,” in his almost 20 years working in and around MLS. 

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