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CITY travels to the exotic paradise that is Bridgeview, Illinois tonight for an USOC matchup with the Fire - get ready with our Matchday Preview, featuring Chicago content creators CHGO, Feed the Fire, Men In Red 97, and Sad Bois FC.
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Let's look at Marcel Hartel's go-ahead goal last night next. The initial ball from Daniel Munie to Jack Jasinski played right into the CITY press, which was well upfield and in perfect defensive position to limit options with the ball.
As Munie made his pass, both Edelman and Totland push forward, making the flick from Jasinski to Niko Tsakiris a contested play as Tsakiris was unable to control the ball an Edelman's challenge popped the ball forward to Becher.
Becher, head up, sees Hartel breaking towards the top of the box and hits him in stride with a nice pass to keep Hartel between the ball and San Jose's #14 Ronaldo Vieira. Vieira got caught flat footed AND was behind Hartel and didn't see the Edelman deflection to Becher.
Unable to catch Hartel, CITY now had a 2v1 on Floriani with Córdova applying a bit of a screen and leaving the SJ defender in a helpless position. Floriani attempts to step to the ball, but Hartel curled it past Daniel for a 2-1 lead.
Very nice pressing positioning directly led to this chance, which Hartel made the most of.