So. Yeah. Could be a tough one.
It’s not impossible though. Let’s lay out a pathway for this…
Both sides regress to the mean
First and foremost, we have to talk about the diverging paths Atlanta and Miami took this year. Miami overperformed their underlying numbers by a historic amount even if you take Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez out of the picture. Atlanta United…did not do that.
Yes, Messi and Suárez are still going to have their moments. That’s inevitable. But,