Slide Rule Pass does an excellent job breaking down matches with a keen eye for tactics and skills displayed by each team.

Sometimes winning the 2nd ball is more important, and this was one of these occasions. Wallace was never likely to win the header – he’d have to go through Montero to do that – and the ball was drifting away from goal slightly anyway, meaning that the best Montero could do was flick in on. Had Wallace challenged and not fouled Montero, he’d have left the Seattle wide open down the right wing.

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