Nashville remains unbeaten in last five games

“I’m not going to get overly upset about it. I’ll be frustrated and disappointed tonight. But 13 points out of the last 15, five clean sheets, a side that looks very assertive, very assured, and in a good groove.” – Gary Smith (Nashville SC Twitter)

No offensive explosions. No counting down the ticker on which goal went to who. But that’s how it is some nights, especially after the second game in four days. Defensive showdown, pitchers duel, bats are quiet. Name a cliché. Not to sound like a broken record, but the refs walked away with the three points tonight (see below).

Nashville seemed to have a Coca Cola Corner kick every 15 seconds in the second half, but nothing to show for it. Bethlehem had two goal line clears in the dwindling moments of the game, with one having the Nashville faithful up in arms. As you can tell, that’s debatable. Was it called? Of course not. I was actually very surprised it wasn’t at least looked at.

After the 62′ mark, I didn’t even count one shot attempt by Bethlehem. Nashville’s offense just could not crack that last line of defense. I was actually worried that if Steel had gotten the ball over midfield any more than the few times that they did, Pickens might slip and actually allow a goal from un-use. But he didn’t, and got his 9th clean sheet of the season. Nashville has five consecutive shut outs.

One point is better than no points. Like Gary said, be disappointed – but you can’t be upset for how these guys are playing.

Beta Ray Greg is the Comic Critic for SoBros Network, the ‘Fangtastic 5K 2018 Mr. Irrelevant.’ The man has the single most impressive spreadsheet in existence that is used to document his historic collection. He’s a big time Spider-Verse guy. Follow on Twitter: @BetaRayGreg.

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