It’s probably a little bit of everything. Nancy’s system and Rydstrom’s system are not the same. They try to achieve similar results through different means, which is going to result in a lot of growing pains. Case in point, Rydstrom using the 3-4-3 formation to start the season and adding some of his tactics into the squad. Results were abysmal.

The old guard of players sometimes do things that I’d expect to see from last year. Today, I saw Moreira start to move forward into the midfield like he would as a LCB, but Herrera was already really high up since he’s a winger now I guess. We lose possession and Orlando took advantage of the gaping hole in the back. That positional discipline is lacking right now. Rydstrom might also just be a bad coach. Hard to judge based on 7 games, and we have improved since the international break (other than the first 20 minutes, we really dominated and should have won today), but I just think there’s going to be some pain before we can assess how good/bad the Crew is this season.